Oli Hawkins

@olihawkins

Editorial data scientist working on computational investigations for the visual and data journalism team at the Financial Times. 🌐 olihawkins.com

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Oli Hawkins@olihawkins· Jul 19

Alex Honnold!

Oli Hawkins@olihawkins· Jul 19

At Yonder, watching some amazing climbers doing the highball.

A woman climber tops out on the highball at Yonder, a super-high 8.5 metre bolder which requires a massive inflated crash mat for falls.

Oli Hawkins@olihawkins· Jul 11

Nobody is using it anymore.

A chart showing total monthly questions asked on Stack Overflow. The number rises rapidly from 2010 to 2014, peaking at around 200,000 questions a month before going into sharp decline after the release of ChatGPT in 2022. By mid 2026 the number has plummeted to essentially zero.

Oli Hawkins@olihawkins· Jun 25

Having some much needed time off work and started pencil sketching as a completely non-digital hobby. This is my first sketch since art lessons in school. (May delete later.)

A pencil sketch of my left hand. The fingers are folded over the palm and the thumb is resting along the edge of the index finger.

Oli Hawkins@olihawkins· May 30

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Oli Hawkins@olihawkins· May 27

Take your time ChatGPT 5.5

The image shows the text output from ChatGPT 5.5's chain of thought in response to a question about filesystem functions in the Python standard library.

It shows the model prevaricating for 31 seconds before providing an answer that it could have produced instantly without "reasoning".

Full text ...

Pro thinking
Deciding if browsing is needed for this question

It seems like I could answer without browsing, since Python’s standard libraries are stable. But the rule suggests I should browse for something that might have updates, like software libraries. Still, for simple Python questions, there may be no need to go this far, and I can stick to standard details.

Thought for 31s
Done

Oli Hawkins@olihawkins· Mar 21

Amazing cherry blossom in my neighbourhood at this time of year.

Bright pink cherry blossom against a blue sky.

Oli Hawkins@olihawkins· Mar 21

Old and new climbing shoes. Unparallel Up Rise VCS on the right (old) and Scarpa Vapor V on the left (new). Not as different as you might expect. The Vapor V has a slightly more aggressive toe (which is what I switched for) but otherwise they feel quite similar out of the box.

A side-by-side comparison of the Scarpa Vapor V and Unparallel Up Rise VCS climbing shoes shot from above.

A side-by-side comparison of the Scarpa Vapor V and Unparallel Up Rise VCS climbing shoes shot from the side.

Oli Hawkins@olihawkins· Feb 15

Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen. bsky.app/profile/rsim...

The album cover for Underworld’s Second Toughest in the Infants.

Oli Hawkins@olihawkins· Feb 15

Just discovered a 23GB Slack cache on my machine!

A screenshot from the Mac application DaisyDisk showing the contents of the Application Support folder in my home directory. Slack is using 23.2GB.

Oli Hawkins@olihawkins· Dec 25

Merry Christmas from North Wales, which is bracingly cold but beautiful.