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Working at lightbug.io on IoT things as Head of Clouds, after back from sailing “the world” aboard sailinghannahpenn.co.uk.

Previously a staff software engineer working for Wikimedia Deutschland on various projects including Wikibase, Wikidata and MediaWiki.

I use the username “addshore” in most places, such as GitHub, Mastodon, Twitter, Keybase & Wikimedia. Hence, the name of this site.

My side projects are numerous, and you can read about them on a dedicated page. Have a look at my latest posts or various projects. You can also get in touch with me using my contact page.

Latest Posts

• Wikidata deletion request trends (RFDs)
  Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that anyone can edit. It is a sister project of Wikipedia and serves as a central repository for structured data, so rather than paving pages with text, it stores data in a structured format that can be queried and reused across different platforms. One of the key features of Wikidata is its ability to handle deletion requests, which are known as RFDs (Requests for Deletion), a similar process happens on Wikipedia. These … Read more
• Where Do I Spotify?
  I’ve been a Spotify user for a long time, and like a lot of people I have Google Timeline enabled on my phone, quietly logging where I’ve been over the years. And at some point earlier this year I downloaded my Spotify listen data, and it occurred to me that Spotify plays + location information could be an interesting thing to look at… Do I listen to the same stuff at work as I do at home? What about when … Read more
• GitHub Copilot is moving to AI credits (after accidently burning billions?)
  Last month I wrote a history of AI agentic coding, from my perspective, which heavily leaned on GitHub Copilot. One of the things that I have really appreciated over the years was the packaged cost of Copilot in comparison to the apparent cost of using per token prices APIs directly, or even the other packaged deals. However at the end of this month GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing, and they now have a Copilot Billing Preview tool to … Read more
• A first look at Docker AI Sandboxes for GitHub Copilot
  With local AI agents increasingly writing and executing code autonomously, giving them unrestricted access to your machine is becoming a massive security risk. This is one of the primary reasons that agentic flows have so many flavors of approval that may need to happen throughout an agents course of action, though others include review points and being able to keep the agent on track. I have been very much enjoying my increased use of GitHub Cloud Agents in my work … Read more
• Editing wikibase.world (a MediaWiki site), with Jules (an AI agent)
  I recently decided to run an experiment on wikibase.world: what happens when you give an AI agent the keys to a live MediaWiki instance and ask it to do some targetting gardening, including edits to Wikibase? Meet the Jules free tier, though i’m sure you could use any agent. Over the course of a few hours, I tasked Jules with editing wikibase.world, moving from simple API edits, querying SPARQL, browsing external websites, and even learning how to properly participate in … Read more
• Late to “AI” assisted development?
  Earlier this week, someone asked me if they were perhaps late to making use of AI-assisted development, as they dove into it in the past 2 months (using GitHub Copilot) and are already seeing large gains in a small team in terms of leverage of time. I thought for a second and responded that they might have seen comparably worthwhile gains roughly a year ago. In this post, I’m going to take a look back over the past years to … Read more