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Day job: Platform Engineering Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic 24/7 job: Father of two amazing teens, husband to an amazing wife, son and brother Helping to make Star Wars, like Vader Immortal, Tales from the Galaxy's Edge, The Mandalorian, Ahsoka
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A coworker said I look like I work at Orange County Choppers until I open my mouth. I’ll take it. #beard

I'm pretty diligent, but we (or at least 1 computer) were hit with malware last month. Wally's Steam account was compromised, but I didn't discover it until tonight. Anyone been through the cleanup of a malware attack before? Looking for advice, or at least someone to commiserate. #cybersecurity

Pretty wild that I can model a new built-in media center in Fusion 360, export it to USD, and use AR in iOS to walk around it in the space I’m going to build it. #augmentedreality #cad #fusion360 #maker #woodworking

Oh my, Paradise is an incredible “mystery box” show the likes of LOST with the heart of This is Us!

The reflection of moonlight on the iced-over snow is really beautiful this evening.

Colman Domingo is so good in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. I love that it’s such a unique take and yet he’s clearly calling back to and honoring Willem Dafoe through his voice. It’s a wonderful connection that has kept me on edge. #Marvel

Paradise has one of the strongest pilots I’ve seen in a while. And the first 4 episodes overall are bangers. Really got me hooked.

Finishing Daredevil and jumping over to finish Echo, I’m struck at how much Daredevil/Kingpin content we got in the Disney+ era. No Way Home, Hawkeye, She-Hulk and Echo. I’m looking forward to Born Again next month!

Season 3 of Daredevil was worth watching. Shame it took me this long!

Learned I can get a Katz’s pastrami delivered, so we’re eating good tonight!

Wow, “Hide My Email” from Apple is so more limited than I expected. Used it for the first time to create an account on a website, but you can’t send email from hidden accounts, both making it impossible to contact support with any authenticity and defeating the security purpose of hiding your email.

Finally watching Season 3 of Daredevil and discovering that Foggy and The Penguin share a mother!

The FUD is bothering me, so I’ve got to say something. “DEI” doesn’t equate to giving someone an advantage. As a white male hiring manager, it’s about making sure I don’t _just_ interview other white men.

Bye bye Alexa, I’ve got a fully #selfhosted voice assistant! Whisper for speech-to-text, Llama 3.2 for the conversation agent, Kokoro-84M for text-to-speech, and #homeassistant connecting them all together behind their new Voice Preview device! All running on my home network on a mix of OS and GPUs

Upgraded to the #Unifi Cloud Gateway Max last night so I could do intrusion protection on my network without impacting performance. This morning it identified Trojan malware on my son’s computer that had evaded Windows Defender. Money well spent.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is just joyful to watch. I love everything about it, the universe, the animation style, the intro. #Marvel

Today's creation, a cozy Christmas Village in #TinyGlade

Don't be a sucker. youtu.be/8K6-cEAJZlE

I can’t get anything done when we’re home alone. #dogs

Recreated my IRL house in #TinyGlade.

If only they had hired Cambridge Analytica instead. Joking aside, we are not a land of the free if we are not free to assemble. Most social networks are built to bait us into engagement, but I still believe it is our right to use them to assemble peacefully in a virtual but shared space.

Having fun in #tinyglade, a zen-like diorama game. Work in progress recreation of Cinderella Castle from Walt Disney World.

Silo, strong second season. Loved the intrigue of the ending.

I adore the way the ending of The Fablemans made me feel, in large part to that scene with David Lynch.

Watching Disclaimer on Apple TV and the narrator’s accent, cadence and second-person phrasing is so intensely reminding me of playing Balder’s Gate 3. Wild to have one medium so strongly evoke another, I’m assuming unintentionally.

Switch // Switch 2

Well, looks like I’m buying a new handheld gaming device this year.

The Pitt is a reboot of ER for 2025 and that’s a good thing.

Hi. My name is Brian. I'm a 46 year old man. I have a head cold today. I may die. Pray for me.

Almost finale time! #SkeletonCrew #StarWars

I converted my old Windows gaming PC into a Linux machine learning sandbox. Now I'm hosting my own LLM with Ollama and Open WebUI and Llama 3.2 performs well even with my 5 year old Radeon GPU. And I can access it from anywhere thanks to Tailscale so I might end my ChatGPT sub. TBD #selfhosted

I get excited when my colleagues release one of these reels. Even more special when I get to see one early. Seeing this memory yesterday, geeking out about ILM before working at ILM, it reminds me of how lucky and special it is for me to have a job that I quite literally dreamed about. #pinchme

Cooked my first A5 wagyu steak at home and didn’t screw it up! 🥳

Sonny as a 3D-printed, full-color lithophane (backlit plastic, thickness changes the brightness) #3dprinting #lithophane #bambua1mini #bambulab

“You wouldn’t download a lightsaber!”…or would I? Printed Ahsoka’s hilts for my daughter Penelope today. A fun multicolor print. Came out really beautifully. #StarWars

A low-key #NewYearsEve of Catan and fondues & wings. Definitely my speed.

Day-after: soy-hoisin-ginger-garlic pork belly bites. Chunked, coated in extra sauce and reheated in the air fryer #yummyfood #leftovers #bbq

The crew of the Onyx Cinder! #StarWars #SkeletonCrew #LEGO

Soy-hoisin garlic ginger pork belly, with a brûlée crust. #yummyfood #smokedmeat #bbq

Setting up one of my Christmas gifts, a Raspberry Pi 5 with POE/M.2 hat and a 1TB SSD in a slick metal case. I think I’m moving Home Assistant over to it. #raspberrypi #homeassistant #homeautomation

Building The Onyx Cinder begins! #SkeletonCrew #StarWars