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chrismcmahon.bsky.social
Software QA, bass player, guerilla ukulele. Southern gentleman. Western canyoneer. Writer. Founded QA practice for Wikipedia/Wikimedia Foundation and Salesforce Foundation. Ex-Thoughtworks too. Y2K made my career.
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holy cats yes

submitted 28 minutes ago • 3 comments

What is common knowledge in your field, but. shocks outsiders? The entire internet runs without rules, just a few agreements called RFCs, "Request For Comments". The World Wide Web on top of the internet is just a few *optional* standard practices maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium, W3C.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I have reached the point in my musical reinvention where I realize I have to just play scales. A lot. All the time. So many scales. Really fast scales. I tried to play a fast bop tune last week and it just did not come out my fingers.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Today is Bloomsday. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday It was a while ago and it took me a few false starts but I remain proud that I did once read Ulysses all the way through beginning to end.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

omg I’m only 11 paid subscribers away from the goal I set to feel like it was financially feasible to move my newsletter off Substack!! If you’d like to subscribe & support my move to @beehiiv.com:

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

David Bowie's album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars was released on June 16, 1972 #CD #vinyl www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

attn: @hugs.bsky.social

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Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

My partner and I saw one of the Baldwin brothers having ice cream with his daughter in Santa Barbera. Neither of us could figure out which Baldwin he actually was.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Rainbow over Santa Fe NM

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“.. Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to the Smithsonian. .. He made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.” - Bob Dylan, on Brian Wilson #RIP “Good Vibrations” (1966)

submitted 7 days ago • 86 comments

One of my favorite Rob Wasserman essays, Carnie Wilson and her father Brian in a trio www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYVb... If you know anything about Brian's history, this hits hard.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I was just listening to the newly-released 1983 live cover of this by Joan Jett. What a great songwriter. RIP Sly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH8V...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

that said, it would be foolish to think that multiple state sponsored organizations around the world are not parsing the Bluesky firehose in real time

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

peoples' photos from the Yampa trip still rolling in

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Burqueños if you're around tomorrow night this should be a good show. Pat won a New Mexico Music Award for a song on Sunday

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking about how I made one little decision ~3 years ago and now I work for a newsletter publishing platform startup instead of satellite infrastructure company MAXAR.

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submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Stick Men, featuring Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto & Markus Reuter, will tour the West Coast this July. For latest tour dates, tickets, and updates visit:
 stickmenband.com/shows/ #kingcrimson #progrock #progressiverock

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Sassy turned 16yo while we were on the river last week. Living her best life in the summer sun. (May be relevant to your interests @darthbluesky.bsky.social )

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Jonathan Livingston Seagull in the 21st Century

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found some old photos, this is from a Canyon Road art gallery in Santa Fe in 2011

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NB: this is also immensely helpful in job interviews/screening and such. It's impressive when you can spin up a quick demo/code example/proof-of-concept in seconds in response to a work related question.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This is pretty nifty, I play bass with Pat Reyes in a little duo called Luna Sage, last night she won best Latin song at the 2025 New Mexico Music Awards. Congratulations Pat! www.newmexicomusicawards.com/2025-new-mex...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment