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This is HybridLogic, the online collection of words, thoughts, data logs, and other accoutrements of Luke Lanchester. Since 2005, this site has acted as my personal online playground. See the books I've published, roads I've run, photos taken, and much much more.
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Blog
Shiny Yaks
I've been diving deeper into 'claws. OpenClaw, NanoClaw, PiClaw or just about any Claw. I see the dream. I had the same dream once. But I just don't think that, in this current state, they're going to work.
Finger Clickin' Good
Tin Can Phone — love the whole idea of this.
Warranty Void If Regenerated — what a beautiful little story about the potential life ahead.
Okmain — really like this way of extracting dominant colours from an image. We use this in a few places at $WORK and the results are never great normally.
Details that make interfaces feel better — I love lots of little bits in this. As always, devil is in the details.
AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That’s Now Wrong — I've had to dive back into a legacy project on AWS recently and it's always a surprise what they've changed.
Updates
I always forget how busy the first train of the day is on a Sunday.
I don’t even row, why am I up so early?!
Back into review for Blocks. Fourth time lucky?
I love my job :) Get to hang out with the best people in the best city.
Muddled up my topics and actions doing some push notifications. Took a while to figure out as nothing errors, just silently eats it.
Listening
Moon Taxi - Hideaway
2 hours ago
Karliene - Become the Beast
2 hours ago
Saint PHNX - Violence and Spiders
2 hours ago
DIAMANTE - Iris
2 hours ago
DJ Blyatman - Instababe
2 hours ago
Biorhythm
| datum |
|---|
| health |
| peace |
| spark |
| energy |
| balance |
| steps |
| 29th | 30th | 31st | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | 21st | 22nd | 23rd | 24th | 25th | 26th |
Quotes
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat.
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
Writing
“The pods are safe. Last I heard, there was a failure for every hundred million hours of use. And if there is an issue the failsafe is just to wake you up. Honestly? I’m safer in the pod than I am walking around inspecting the jump core.”
or maybe try…
Programming
Bulk Buffer
Tool to send CSVs to buffer.com. Processed over a billion updates so far. Single PHP file.
GPS Heatmaps
Convert a list of lat/long co-ordinates to a heatmap. All in-browser.
Pik or Pak
A simple tool for cataloging things in boxes. Used for our loft and garage, and open to all.
Ox Coming soon
A data platform that is still deep in progress.
Super Flow Charts Coming soon
Borne from a D3 library I made, a super quick way to create and share flow charts.
Super Org Charts Coming soon
Similarly to flow charts, why not let people make org charts too. Freebie love.
Blogroll
I follow a random collection of others on the web. Maybe check them out? († = met in person)