$man bot: homage to Thompson and Ritchie and the Linux man pages
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ross spencer :: exponentialdecay.digipres :: blog
Digital preservation analyst, researcher, and software developer

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The visualization tells me that the first publication from my Twitter bot, created to dynamically update my avatars daily was 20 December 2012. My bot was a simple Python script that generated images in binary to represent the day of the month.

Why?
Well, doesn’t it get a little boring looking at the same thing every day?
Lets look at the details below.
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2005 saw the completion of my Master of Arts in Digital Culture and Technology. My specialization within the School of Digital Humanities at Kings College London was Material Culture and Technology, writing about what we could learn from comic books, how we could preserve them and at the same time remain faithful to the material culture surrounding them.
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