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Chris Higgins

@ch166.bsky.social

unix geek since 1989, building the Internet since 1994, building the cloud since 2008. scuba diver, skier, runner, pilot husband, dad, dog owner #avgeek #geek

126 Followers  |  129 Following  |  252 Posts  |  Joined: 04.12.2023  |  2.2584

Latest posts by ch166.bsky.social on Bluesky

if you spell bug with a J rather than the B.. and add some whiskey.. then things might just be ok

02.11.2025 11:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
PROCAFFENATING
The tendency to not start anything until you've had a cup of coffee

PROCAFFENATING The tendency to not start anything until you've had a cup of coffee

I feel seen !

30.10.2025 15:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy birthday...

30.10.2025 03:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

is it bad, that I'm hearing Sean Connery as James Bond saying 'ive got a very heavy parcel', and it sounding like 'happy parcel'..

that's bad right?

29.10.2025 05:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

how else do you expect us to check to see if the bread in the oven is baking nicely

27.10.2025 02:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

'random' printer errors, 'random' patreon errors.
have you considered that tech doesn't like you because you keep taking all its bits off and showing everyone the innards?

27.10.2025 01:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the luggage knows exactly where it is

26.10.2025 11:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

flightaware are sending me so many 'your receiver has rebooted' emails, that there has to be a way for them to draw a map of power stability across the world .. and right now Seattle can't be doing that great

26.10.2025 09:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

unfortunately windows is too rude to be a daily driver for me. the chaos of multigenerational user interface mayhem within windows is inexcusable for a product they charge money for.

eg. how many different tools are involved in advanced configuration of the firewall?

26.10.2025 09:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

apt install bleach vinegar

24.10.2025 02:53 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I envy the quality of your prints..

23.10.2025 15:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

some days the paper isn't a nice crisp sheet from the top of the ream

23.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

isn't that already implemented in the 'other' platform?

23.10.2025 05:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

your pancake flipper is too long for a pan with that depth.

we covered this in lesson 1 (choosing the right tools)

review the class notes and see me after patisserie class tomorrow

23.10.2025 05:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

they will provide you the opportunity to be disappointed again next year. guaranteed!

21.10.2025 03:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a simple cloud and AI generated lightning bolt, courtesy of Claude.ai

16.10.2025 00:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Claude Talk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic

claude.ai and chatgpt will both give it a go.. the results are hilarious

16.10.2025 00:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

#ai #fun if you want to see why AI isn't replacing any real jobs soon, try get your favorite AI tool to draw a lightning bolt in SVG.

if/when it fails take it's attempt and feed it to a different AI tool ..

I'm getting everything but a ⚡

16.10.2025 00:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ah, but will it run on my Amiga or C64 or my C128 ?

run anywhere... ya think !

;-)

15.10.2025 00:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We had a regular intermittent network outage that we eventually coorelated with a sw dev making coffee.

when he got up from his desk, his chair would sit on the coax and cause a network outage.

fun times

14.10.2025 20:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it's not too many Macs .. just too little time available

13.10.2025 23:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A break in the weather calls for a quick currency flight..

Seattle in the sun..

13.10.2025 23:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a little girl wearing a leopard print shirt is making a face ALT: a little girl wearing a leopard print shirt is making a face

ha! but you told us this via a text prompt and not a song....

pot meet kettle..

13.10.2025 23:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

YouTube says that you should clean the carb, and make sure that the governor spring is connected..

perhaps that's for a different kind of idle speed ;-)

09.10.2025 22:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey, BOSE... deciding to render my soundtouch devices useless because you can't bother to run a simple API - will not result in me taking you up on your offer to buy more of your stuff.

my existing Yamaha audio devices are less buggy, and that's where I'll spend my money
#bose #enshittification

09.10.2025 22:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

get into a habit of running black against the code regularly.. and just stick with its style guides.

04.10.2025 19:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

came here to say this

04.10.2025 19:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

well, if AI is doing the design - shouldn't we expect our future AI overlord to be giving themselves some extra hardware now..

it's as if AI traveled back from the future and started taking over everything a little extra early

02.10.2025 03:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

for all the energy and magic that the initial development teams squeeze from the hardware, it's depressing to see the second generation of those teams succumb to the need to use ever more powerful hardware to do less and less.

02.10.2025 03:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"X-Plane 12 is currently available for PC and mobile platforms"

did y'all skip Mac and Linux platforms for a reason ?

30.09.2025 02:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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