Alex Dixon

@dixonary.co.uk

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Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Warwick 🏳‍🌈 {they,he} Interests: Functional programming; theoretical computer science; Indie games; Gamedev; TTRPGs; Doctor Who (I made whodle! 📺)

Deep Space Communication Relay
Map of the UK, divided laterally into northern (around Manchester), midlands (around Birmingham) and southern (around Bournemouth); and longitudinally into good (around Wales), neutral (around Birmingham), and evil (around Cambridge).
Email from ELEGOO UK titled "Grab your vibe. Literally."
Broken glass in a cupboard
BBC: "Starmer seen for first time today on visit to college"
Me 2 weeks ago: "sticking a bit of money onto UK markets today so good luck everyone"
Popplio
Three solitaire games tagged as "realistic"
future utopia
A screenshot from SteamDB showing Slay the Spire II, with 430,000 concurrent players and "Technologies: Godot Engine".
Milk with a label written in the font Comic Sans
Portion of Microsoft Excel top bar with column AI highlighted
"[...] this week would be 3:30pm tomorrow" Copilot suggests that would be followed by "morning".
... "Then your eyes fall on the ground" ...
crisps
BIG NICK
A screenshot from the Railways Bill link. Emphasis: "Once GBR becomes the central rail retailer, it will combine the 14 rail operator websites and apps into one."
Cyberman
"footway closed ahead" followed by "footway closed" one foot later
Silhouette in mirror
Instructions: pre-heat your oven to 1750C. etc.
universal paperclips https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html but with the "make paperclip" button replaced with "delete email"
ENG vs ESP
magic 8 ball, the original llm
more AI bollocks
A screenshot of Google Gemini. It says there are two 'i's in "AI".
A TUI reimplementation of Balatro, written in Haskell
Polish polish
A dog that looks a bit like Graham Norton pulling a face
simon
David Tennant in The Satan Pit (Doctor Who)
Happy sad people looking out of bus windows. Out of both windows is the text "the capitalist system I live under is eating itself"
the website "computer.science" doesn't support SSL properly and therefore doesn't work
Product dimensions: 1x1x1 cm; 210 g
One HONK Two Furious: A Goose-based TTRPG Made £50,797 on Kickstarter in March 2025
Muted words: maga, tesla, elon, musk, trump
everything.exe (file search application)
News posting title: France rejects backdoor mandate
The Guardian: Reeves to raise spectre of Liz Truss to persuade Labour MPs to accept cuts
"You may work with robots... but you can't take a bullet like one!"
Squaredle: "The March 9th puzzle was released on March 8th due to a rift in the Squaredle space-time continuum."
Screenshot from upcoming RPG supplement: "It ways 501 lbs."
Github's landing page which includes "Join the world's most widely adopted AI-powered developer platform"
Microscopic violin
a baby plover
A gumball machine full of mini eggs
A bouba shape and a kiki shape
A Twitter post by Matty_Doncaster that reads: "A labour government could end world hunger and people would find something wrong with it." The post has 180 views and 2 likes. Below this tweet is a reply by Bradley @BradleyAVFC_ that reads: "because they would do it by increasing taxes?"
Screenshot from Tesco Clubcard Wrapped stating most chosen meal deal snack is a boiled egg
Kaiba Vs Yugi meme. Frame 1 is the quoted tweet. Frame 3 is the question "why?" AI, Facebook, Meta, Instagram, Threads
Celebi ex
19.3 hours playtime, 1 achievement unlocked
Screenshot from the guardian 2024-12-14 with highlighted text: "The US ambassador to the People’s Republic of Korea"
A screenshot from Whodle 2024-12-05, which is an audio game. The audio description reads: "Sonic zap, followed by a high pitched whine, which dissolves away to a long silence."
If built, a 4,000km cable buried in trenches along the seabed would carry [electricity from] Morocco’s Tantan province to the Devon coast in under a second.