Mike Moran, software engineer, dad and baldie


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Looking for Bobby but found Paris instead

Go to any local attraction and you'll see people taking selfies with statues, towers, all sorts of sights. Once, walking past tourists taking pictures of Greyfriars Bobby in Edinburgh, I reckoned that some of those will be posted on Twitter. I should be able to find these, and similar pictures, automatically. How difficult could it be?

Problem: Porn.

Project 365

Back in June 18, 2010, I started taking a photo a day, as part of the Project365 flickr group. I did manage to almost always take one photo per day, but it wasn't until 2013 that I actually fiddled with and uploaded them all.

L Systems

I first encountered LSystems during university; this was in the mid-90s when fractals were becoming mainstream. However, it was only in 2009/2010, when I needed a toy problem to learn Scala and JAX-RS with, that I started writing renderers.

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