announcing claude ope-us for the US midwest

a special treat for @jcsalterego.bsky.social, because he's been good

got a lil surprise this morning

the European counterplan to the garbage US peace plan is, in fact, also garbage this timeline continues to be so bad

i nearly failed out of college because i was hooked on a text-based MUD (BattleTech 3056) and spent all day in the computer lab instead of class i really liked scripting macros and i realized i should learn programming instead of failing out of mechanical engineering

Ok Bluesky, let’s give this a go: I found this postcard in the back of a photo frame I bought at a London thrift shop. It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!). I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?

dotnet has been open source for over a decade and is actually really good but it suffers from understandable but misplaced anti-microsoft bias

Shot + chaser

entering my 1 week long between-jobs era and it feels good, damn good

BREAKING: Cheney's corpse has escaped the coffin again and is now attempting to waterboard Laura Bush

new pics from the preliminary report on UPS 2976 😲

tech debt: when you sacrifice a little maintainability for short term expediency tech suffering: when you pascal case your postgres objects because you didn't know better and have to put quotes around every column and table name in every query for eternity

(drawing conclusions after briefly skimming the cloudflare outage report) see this is why you don't limit your file sizes

IF YOU ARE RUNNING YOUR OWN PDS I am sorry but I am about to make a change to our docker compose.yaml to switch to a fork of the watchtower service that handles updates -- see github.com/bluesky-soci... unfortunately, upstream is now unmaintained and we can't push this out any more cleanly. thanks!

past me ftw

1980: the internet routing system provides a virtually unlimited number of paths between any two machines to ensure maximum connectivity and resiliency 2025: can't flush the toilet because AWS East is down

same

It’s more important than ever to keep this thing going. Throw a little their way if you can. donate.wikipedia25.org #Wikipedia25

my bambu is doing vibration calibration and these are the noises that atari used to call music

an under appreciated superpower you gain when you turn middle aged is the ability to end trends just by becoming aware of them

i repeat this 20 times like a rosary every time i disagree with @pfrazee.com

just got a check for 26 bucks for being on facebook in 2015 so come at me zuck

i was raised to believe self promotion is cringe which is why i don't start every conversation with "hi i'm tim, some friends and i pulled a college prank that became famous enough to be a jeopardy clue"

despite my stated desire to never ever touch production code, I am pleased to say that our AT CLI tool, goat github.com/bluesky-soci..., is now included in our PDS docker image github.com/bluesky-soci... as of about an hour ago. and I wrote new prod hosting recs to match! atproto.com/guides/going...

ironic that she probably wouldn't have caught a ban if she had quoted the song correctly that's all i'll say about it

entering my 3d printing era

beginning the day right with the familiar comfort of a hot cup of coffee and an azure outage

replying to unrelated bsky staff posts with whatever mod action you're mad about is antisocial and just fuckin rude and its an instablock from me

happy 40th to those who celebrate the Johnny B Goode time paradox

happy dotnet day to those who celebrate #dotnetConf

i check the obits back home occasionally because i'm weird like that and i saw this random dude the other day that i'm still thinking about just pic and name alone, this man was peak New Orleans (complimentary)

we've fallen so far

proof once again that Dems are allergic to Ws we live in a waking nightmare anyway happy Monday!

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Pluribus is excellent and Rhea Seehorn is a master of her craft

the way this goes from reasonable to what the fuck in five distinct, equally spaced increments is pure poetry

a new Chvrches album would fix me

going through interviews again, finding comfort in the familiar sense of disappointment in the broken methodology of most software dev interviews

in this paper my colleagues and i will describe a novel combination of AI and VR which, under controlled lab conditions, is able to generate a Morrissey that is capable of canceling fewer than 20% of its tour dates

huge protocol news: @jazco.dev face reveal!

this is your annual reminder that if you run docker on a stock debian/ubuntu-flavored VPS, it's bypassing your firewall rules and your ports are exposed 😊

lol

man's day went from boring to not in two seconds

Looks like X is juicing web visit numbers by opening a browser WebView in the background whether the user visits the link or not. They've re-invented pop-under fraud (allegedly). news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580...

about to attempt to relocate my PDS to a new server so... see you all in either 10 minutes or a week

it's a big day for the domain i forgot to cancel isdickcheneydead.com

your periodic roundup of currently available domains: internet.dental sushi.pics head.cleaning egg.toys dubaielectricians.com