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astronomer, telescope wrangler, grizzled pythonista, bluesky boomer
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kinda digging it being this light at 22:00. glad the van has great blackout shades, though…

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and here we go…

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

the “goats and glaciers” viewpoint had neither goats nor glaciers, but was still very pretty. and just barely escaped last year’s massive fire…

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

yup, i’m definitely in canada, eh 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

hanging out with family in millarville and learned about a local hero via a can of a local IPA. an emancipated slave, john ware, came to alberta and taught people how to cowboy: parks.canada.ca/culture/desi...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Every 10-20 years, a breakthrough technology promises non-developers to finally create software without needing to hire programmers. So far, every such technology resulted in the need for more devs… expert in this NEW technology (or knowing how to fix it up). Every. Time.

submitted 12 days ago • 19 comments

glacier national park is pretty zen in the off-season… 🏔️

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RIP the mount and computer for my seeing monitor back in south africa… 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

1 year ago ~to the day~

submitted 15 days ago • 195 comments

post a warning

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

long-time bucket list item: ✅ concert at red rocks

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

funny, this oversells what mars is really like…

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Spotted on 4th Ave. in Brooklyn

submitted 19 days ago • 45 comments

based on my experience living in 🇿🇦, the only thing more universally adored across race and culture than mandela was a braai.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

if a white sox fan with a direct connection to god can't kill jerry reinsdorf, religion is 100% confirmed fake

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments

your Pope Name is the last thing you ate + the number of letters in your first name and that would make me Pope Biltong VII...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

i’ve seen PCA, which i’ve been using for decades, rebranded as AI so, yeah, bullshit rebranding is very much a thing…

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

what hobo thinks of stopping at buc-ee’s…

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

def visit canyon de chelly nat’l monument if you have the chance 🏜️

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

this morning’s view from the coffee machine. don’t camp here if you’re prone to sleepwalking…

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

got 1 whole mile left on the warranty 😬😬😬

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

spotted at a local bookstore…

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

you could say that the two historians are crossing swords 👀 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

i definitely find LLMs a big time-saver for basic code help/hints vs dredging around thru google or stackoverflow. enshittification of search is one factor, but a bigger one for me is timeliness. wading thru pages of decade-old hits that aren't actually relevant is an annoying time-sink.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments