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astronomer, telescope wrangler, grizzled pythonista, bluesky boomer
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yup, i’m definitely in canada, eh 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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...

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.

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

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

1 year ago ~to the day~

post a warning

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

funny, this oversells what mars is really like…

Spotted on 4th Ave. in Brooklyn

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

got 1 whole mile left on the warranty 😬😬😬

spotted at a local bookstore…

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

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.

how i arrived on bluesky

FMK: JD Vance edition.

it is deeply sad that this is a radical take….