that is metal af
28.10.2025 14:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@andr00-brs.bsky.social
Competitive computer nonsense maker. Same andr00 from livejournal, the hug counter, brainstorm demoscene group, old tyme irc. And very early social media. I mean like, I had to run a web server under my desk and it was in the Globe and Mail.
that is metal af
28.10.2025 14:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It is best for your mental health that you are not emotionally engaged with every single murder, yes. If you are in the first group, especially.
13.09.2025 19:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There's a group that's sad when anyone gets murdered
and there's a group that's sad only when someone they like gets murdered
and the second group says the first group is faking it
pizn't
01.07.2025 06:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I have spent a lot of time working on software that automatically synchronizes audio events with visual events and I think we need an app that you give a collection of explosion videos and it sync-sequences them to the 1812 overture.
if they are spacex rockets exploding that's just a bonus
the first step to knowing about something is intuitively hating it so much that you have to figure out what your problem is
19.06.2025 17:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Model: a conceptual representation of almost anything
Context: the information that goes with something. Almost anything.
Protocol: rules about how data is transmitted.
These are the generic words you use to pad out your backronym. Using them all in one thing, it's like a guy with three last names
whaaaaat??
18.06.2025 14:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Maybe. Is the hypothesis that if you could reproduce today the features of golden-era twitter, then your app would be as popular as golden-era tw? Or close?
I think that time has passed, and tw development shifted towards attempted profitability some time ago, drawing down on inertial goodwill.
I wear one of these things so people don't run me over. When I do, everyone treats me as a kind of dorky but trustworthy crossing guard type. try it?
03.06.2025 23:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I still open conversational topics with, "I've been thinking a lot about you humans.."
03.06.2025 14:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I have worked with a few academic researchers over the years who are also careful and knowledgeable software engineers and boy do I miss them
03.06.2025 14:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I have been trying, for 30 years, to come up with a universal system for organizing all my files. Every year I get more files and more ways to organize them. Sometimes I have to migrate the system. At this point I'm thinking of hiring a librarian.
01.06.2025 20:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Or that you have Max Cannon in your contacts and it's time to think about Red Meat for a minute
01.06.2025 15:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i peaked when polly esther responded to my email in Suck
25.05.2025 08:24 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hmm, what's the most valued material of this age? I guess a tuxedo woven from user data
06.05.2025 03:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The dots are alive, but my cat is going to have an out of body if I don't turn in for the night
04.05.2025 06:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0my dottttssssss
04.05.2025 05:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Kitty Korner project complete. Zero casualties
03.05.2025 21:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I've always been a measure twice cut once kind of guy, but I think I overengineered this cat door project a little. Making jigs to hold the door still while I make one single cut in it.
Jigs: cut twice, cut once
googling "how to indoor carpentry without pissing off wife"
03.05.2025 16:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I am gonna power up the flipdot panels this weekend and see if I got the protocol right. But first I have to install a cat door.
03.05.2025 16:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0where we are today. these things speak a wacky little serial protocol and are delicate as hell but i have to finish the idea
30.04.2025 06:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"oh you know what, this needs to be standalone hardware"
30.04.2025 06:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0How it started: world's least convenient digital clock
30.04.2025 06:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I am not the Andr00d that made a watch project that got out of hand (5th place Revision 2025, Wild)
I do, however have a clock project that is in the process of getting out of hand.
tl;dr I thought a clock that was just a qrcode of the time would be funny and now I have a flip dot display WIP.
I would presume this translates to "Papalboy" π
22.04.2025 14:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't want to be a type-of-guy type of guy but I spent a few years talking to people in a Seattle bar almost every day and thought the two types of guy were boat guy and startup guy
22.04.2025 14:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0type of guy who uses every conversation to try out his stand up material
22.04.2025 14:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Wordle was invented by Josh Wardle
(he should change his name)