Since I was 7 years old, I’ve always known my own personal Ai assistant would be called “Eve”. Today, roughly 35 years later, the first conversation took place (see screenshot). It felt significant so I thought I’d share. Would appreciate any recommendations of models to try. Reckon I’ll reserve Eve 1.0 for when we can self-host an actual AGI. #ai #eve #llm

A little story…. In the last two days I have moved my newsletter email list of 7000 people away from Aweber, a service similar to Mailchimp. They decided to match Mailchimp’s prices so my monthly bill jumped from $50/month to $130/month. That’s 160% increase, literally overnight!! After a full rage quit, I briefly considered paying MailChimp, but its way too expensive, I don’t need any of the extra “features”, and the constant upselling is painful. So I decided to try and build something myself and eventually landed on Sendy, which I paid around $60 for, as a one-off licence payment. After two days work, I now have a Sendy instance setup on my website subdomain and it sends the emails via AWS SES. I send about 3 email newsletters out per month, each one around 7000 emails. The first went out last night and the bill from AWS was $0.32. So my total monthly cost will be about $1, and I’m not paying for the number of ‘subscribers’. Compared to $130, that is a 99.23% saving!! Literally insane. Proof of work and hosting your own shit wins again. It’s also a good example of where technology can be used for extortionate levels of value extraction, but also massive value gains if you do it yourself. I also pray for the day when self-hosting a cloud becomes much easier and more reliable so I’m not relying on Amazon (email) and Google (website, via an intermediary) to make this setup work. #proofofwork #sendy #photography #value

The patterns of a winter morning. There’s beauty out there. #photography #winter #beauty

This year I intend to publish my second book. I’m just putting that up here to hold myself to account because it’s easy to procrastinate and not get it done. This photograph will be featured along with roughly one hundred and twenty others. It’s the writing I’m having trouble with. #landscapephotography #picstr #photostr #mountains #photography #yorkshire #sunset #moors #nature #books

Advice for 2025: Make photographs, instead of taking snapshots. #landscapephotography #picstr #photostr #mountains #photography #lakedistrict #sunset #nature

For the past 12 months I’ve been out there chasing down that perfect shot, but what I found went way beyond just a pretty picture. So in today’s video I’m gonna to take you out onto the hill and share the lessons I’ve learned from one year of landscape photography.

A Year in the Life of a Pro Landscape Photographer – First Man Photography

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We’re moving into my favourite time of the year for landscape photography. Magical scenes, winter wonderlands, snowy adventures…….. and I always have the whole place to myself because all the normies stay indoors. #landscapephotography  #picstr #photostr #mountains #photography #yorkshire #snow #winter #nature

A stunning morning in the mountains of the Lake District, UK #landscapephotography #picstr #photostr #mountains #photography #lakedistrict #reflection #nature

The bitcoiner virtue signalling is painful. What’s wrong with being a degenerate fuck who stacks sats? Rebels (and creative people) are full of flaws.

Standing alone. Ice cold, no mistakes. #landscapephotography #picstr #photostr #lonetree #photography #yorkshire #nature

Just know there is a whole world out there, and it’s beautiful and it’s amazing. We just have to go out there and find it. #landscapephotography #picstr #photostr #mountains #photography #scotland #highlands #nature

Morning. I hope your days are filled with beautiful sunrises and cloud inversions on the hill. #landscapephotography #picstr #photostr #artstr #photography#peakdistrict #nature #cloudinversion

The weird and wonderful world of water drop photography. I made this “award winning” photograph around 15 years ago and have never been able to achieve anything like it since. Sometimes things are just meant to be. #photography #macro #waterdrop