Spun up a webpage to recruit people for the band we've started. Includes some clips. If you play bass or something less common (synth, viola, sax, whatever), we'd love to hear from you.

The MBTA is hiring DevOps engineers. As far as on-site office jobs in Boston go, "sorry I'm late, I took the T" probably means a high turnover in managers who are sick hearing that every day.

Because I just have to monitor everything. www.blakecarpenter.dev/observabilit...

Ah, November. This means I try to learn Rust again so that I can use it in the Advent of Code in December. After I give up on the Advent of Code around day 12, I start an actual project. Come January, I remember we don't use Rust at work and promptly forget it again.

Sam Altman has said any workers who are displaced by OpenAI will be given free transportation to the nearest culling facility where they will be summarily slaughtered and converted into a nutritious paste meant to be consumed by busy tech executives who don’t have time for regular meals.

I heard there's more Twitter people coming over here

I saw Nextcloud was in EPEL on EL10 and was curious why I couldn't find any documentation about using it that way, as opposed to manually deploying the tarball. I messed with it a bit and decided to write it down. Tested on RHEL and AlmaLinux. www.blakecarpenter.dev/nextcloud-on...

The marketing page for Lenovo's new handheld shows a guy playing at the bar and clearly I blacked out and attended their consumer test panel.

Silksong was always a lie.

Seeking an instrument, maybe keyboards, viola, trumpet, or other things less common in a rock band, to play instrumental rock in Framingham. We can sit on the floor and drink cider while we rock.

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

Excited to be off work at 5 so I can start building.

I really don't want to reactivate Instagram, but the lack of chow-chow accounts on BlueSky has left a horrible hole in my life and my condo association won't let me adopt one. More danger floofs please.

Urgent plea to every company with optional office work: Toilet paper costs are at a record low since only 1/4 of your staff came back. Please upgrade from Scott to Charmin.

Philadelphia: "America was born here! Here's where they signed the Declaration of Independence, here's Betsy Ross's house..." Boston: "America was born here! WELCOME TO THE VIOLENCE TOUR!"

Oxxy Oxalate has retired from my kidney and made room for Stent Reznor to move in.

I keep seeing news about how James Gunn's immigrant comment pissed off the right people and made them call it "woke." Because of this, none of them saw it, so no one is complaining about the core plot. Highlight: Guy flips over tanks with giant middle fingers.

The new Superman has made me like comic book movies again.

To people complaining that the new Superman movie doesn't explain who the characters are, I have good news! There's something called a comic book shop. Go in, tell them you're new to DC, and they'll help you out.

I already view AI as something for people either too lazy to read the manual or too cheap to hire an artist, but this Grok going full-Nazi scandal is really lending credence to the played out/hacky Skynet jokes.

Got the most metal Jesus flyer ever left on my car, twice. Cool, I get to keep one and send the other in.

Frankensurfer is done once I add the strap buttons. Plays great now. Might upgrade the bridge too. • Warmoth swamp ash body • Warmoth 24.75" scale birdseye maple neck • Stonewall Fat Jazzmaster Pickups • Hipshot locking tuners • 1M pots • Kinda crappy adjustable Mustang bridge

I need cable to watch the hot dog eating contest? My ESPN+ subscription doesn't include it? THE FOUNDING FATHERS WOULD NOT STAND FOR THIS!

Dearest PS5, We have spent 4 wonderful years together with you placed horizontally on a shelf. Please do not leak. Thanks, Blake PS, I will finish Expedition 33 soon, I promise.

Nah, Oxxy Osbourne the Oxalate Baby is too good of a name to pass up. Although I believe we're extracting him next week. You could say Oxxy is having his final performance this weekend.

I've been trying to think of the right cock-rock pun to name my kidney stone since it has been with me for over a month. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to Kidni Sixx. Since it's technically unborn, we can still discuss this.

Idea for a band: crust punk covers of Rolling Stones songs. The Kidney Stones. This post brought to you by a 6mm kidney stone and pain medication.

Regarding Northeast US Heatmageddon 2025, not to discredit the unhoused persons who could die in this heat, but noting that it's this hot in Iran for about 4 months straight. For cooling that many homes, if only there were power options that produced fewer carbon emissions than fossil- oh wait...

Since LinkedIn users are obsessed with AI and don't know how to use paragraphs, I asked AI to explain it. We're all doomed.

Stop whining about "return to office" at the bar. They have to show up for work AND put up with you, and you're mad that you have to show up and sit down for $150k. Keep that pity party on LinkedIn where it belongs.

The plastic the record store had this in said "plays with some noise." Having now played the record, I'm assuming they hadn't heard it before. Even the CD sounds like shit. So stoked I found this.

The Globe gets this city.

The Wikipedia app for Android bugs out in the best ways sometimes.

Going to DC for the first time this weekend to catch Deftones and I feel kinda bummed that all the tourist things will suck until at least 2029. Well, I'll do a half-smoke at least. I didn't stop being a fat American just because I'm mad at America.

I have not posted video/pictures of the completed guitar because I injured my tendons building it and haven't been able to play. Praise be to IBUProfen and varieties of wrist braces.

I have a bunch of Amazon Echoes free to a good home. Put one by your toilet to help train their AI. I'm replacing them with light switches and an alarm clock.

BlueSky is the nicotine patch of social media; it gives you just enough of it to feel satisfied but not enough to count as being on it.

CC'ing the press when taking military action Congress didn't approve, and other actually good ideas.

691 unique IP addresses from around the world relentlessly attempting to POST to xmlrpc.php on my dad's website since 8am this morning. Remember kids, 403 that shit off the internet.

Just noticed my blog's new theme auto-appended social share buttons, so I fixed some of the links.

Not sure which side of this joke I exist on, but damn I sound like this.

This dude has a street team that put his "Looking for the Perfect Woman" crap up in major cities everywhere. I felt like it lacked truth in advertising, so I fixed it. I am not a great artist.

Starting a Jazzmaster build. Warmoth parts with Stonewall pickups.

Raise a glass to the heroes whose Monday morning report just says "Grimes" or "your mom."

I just know one of these 19 year old DOGE coders are going to get catfished into leaking government secrets by an ig profile with "northeastern '28 🌸🫶😜" in the bio

The wfh crowd when they make an office appearance: "yeah this is really just a social gathering." Me: "I see 10 people in the break room, I'm going back to my desk."

2013: "Such wow!" Haha, maybe my aunt will enjoy this. 2025: it seems I have contributed materially to the downfall of American democracy

Did Deepseek really steal OpenAI’s data?

We just wanted to know if Alexa still acknowledged certain cultural celebrations and asked our Echo this last night. It's still saying 2032 today. Maybe I don't need smart speakers.

Anyone hoarding eggs to boil, freeze, leave around the yard in April and not eat, don't deserve nice things.