Do I know anyone in DFW who can retrieve the content on 5 1/4 floppies? I have some really old stuff I found - the very first game I wrote actually - that I'd like to recover (and fix - damn there's still a dumb bug I remember).

Have you tried Hexaboo? Fun little little word game by a developer friend. And hexagons are the best, obviously. https://caryn-vainio.kit.com/posts/have-you-tried-hexaboo

An Iranian man left this comment on a YouTube channel. "As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the […]

New album (doom/sludge/instrumental) by my buddy Laden: https://ladenband.bandcamp.com/album/rapid-unscheduled-disassembly

"Am I an engineer? I don't know .. I don't seem have this obsession of the correct technical solution over what just works that you all have."

Those new pictures from the far side are quite something - https://images.nasa.gov/

Bobcat sighted in the yard this morning. The can't wanted to solo him, but that wouldn't end well.

The cat now accepts to go through the flap, but only in one direction. I should be able to build a cat-rectifier.

I'm teaching the cat to use the newly installed cat door. It's not even a door atm I taped it open. Still, he won't do it.

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG

"The following is permitted only between the hours of 9:00 pm and 4:00 am. Latex/PVC/Neoprene form fitting bodysuits" .. heeeey so anyway, who's going to Furry Fiesta in Dallas this weekend? #dallas #furryfiesta

It's interesting chatting with non-tech people about the wave of age verification laws. They are broadly in favor. The same way nobody actually cared when cell phones were going to track everyone everywhere.

Spirit airlines during Spring Break .. wtfbbqlol

Pre-workout: croissant, post-workout: crawfish boil.

Dallas Morning News dark patterns - have to call customer service for cancel https://dallasnews.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040420432-How-do-I-cancel-my-Dallas-Morning-News-print-or-digital-membership #dallas #dallasmorningnews

Where do I find a RGB ceiling fan. I want my whole office to feel like I'm *inside* the computer.

@1password could really do with some UX improvements. It doesn't have a good flow to select a specific password or OTP entry when you are on a site. It's either 'new' or a list of matches that is not the right one. Results in always having to go to the main interface and manually copy paste.

We really need to collectively stop using shell scripts, so many footguns omg.

Since it is Shabbat I'm going to keep my remarks brief.. 1. Preemptive US military attacks without Congression approval violate the US constituion. 2. Preemptive attacks by the USA and the state of Israel violate the UN charter, a treaty that both countries have signed. 3. The Iranian regime […]

I found a label maker in the Airbnb and I'm labeling all the things. Plz suggest name for a little hatchet used to cut firewood.

[LLMs] Wow, cline works in emacs? Anyone tried that? #emacs #cline

On a lighter note .. overheard: "It's not a Subaru, it's a LesbiUwU."

The next century might be Chinese. The US, Europe don't have the social and governmental structures to survive the approaching storm.

Plz send Dallas Waymo codes if you have them. #dallas #waymo

https://blog.ttimo.net/blog/rss-feed-and-mastodon-comment-threads/ - Testing! Using Mastodon as comment threads for the blog.

Go easy on the doom scrolling today y'all.

Is Cruz in Cancun yet? #texas

TIL lead generation on LinkedIn is all AI slop now. I guess I should have known, it's on me.

Benavides by two seconds. Legend. #dakar

Never meet your heroes (or check if they are still on Twitter).

The snow is absolutely beautiful today. #taos

Good day! I goofed around with cloud GPU instances over the break and wrote down a few thoughts: https://blog.ttimo.net/blog/cloud-gpu-instances-for-dev-workloads-worth-it/

RustDesk looks very compelling and easy to use at first, but is limited to 30 fps unless you subscribe or self-host. I've spent a few hours now trying to get direct-IP self-host working to a Windows server, without success. I need a break. #RustDesk

https://blog.ttimo.net/blog/blog-restored/ I've recovered my blog after typepad shut down last summer. Watch this space!

Pavlova - Merry Christmas !

Dang it! I had made it till the 24th, thought I was home free .. and got Whammed

Started the "Cloud City" project. If that works out at all I'll tell you about it in a few months. #vaguetooting

Work in progress, my first wood engraving for several months. Enjoying the calm it brings. 10x10 cm lemonwood. Looking back up the cliff path at Rubha Hunish, Trotternish, Skye. Down to the almost hidden peninsula and the birds, the Shiants, the Outers and the panoramic mainland mountains.

Oh that's just great, Mastodon told me I'm the reply guy - https://mastodon.social/@TTimo/wrapstodon/2025/cf90fc19db545e40

Is this an "IT" reference? #bathroomgrafitti

Collin County TX property tax website: you can put in an address and see how much you owe in taxes. It also shows how much your neighbors owe, and you can infer if they've paid already (it's due soon). Is it me, or is that a little weird? #texas #collincounty

I hereby declare Pulp Fiction to be a Christmas movie also.

I dreamt about the desert again. There was even a little snow. And lots of dust. #bigbendnationalpark

Windows lol .. the fans going absolutely bonkers at 10% CPU usage.

Some days the bear eats you. I moved a reasonably complex #python project over to uv and it was quite a bit more work than I had hoped for. Hopefully this dance of package managers we've had over the last decade calms down for the next few years.

This kid in my gym class looks like Max Verstappen. I expect him to do something outrageous and get away with it every time I watch him.

I spend 95% of my time on Linux, and occasionally use Dolphin - the file manager in #kde. Somehow I can never get it to look and feel quite right no matter how much I tweak the settings. Explorer may be the only thing I actually miss from Windows.