Mark
@cdi.bsky.social
A hands-on visionary who respects the sea
Something to think about the next time you’re buying toilet paper and bananas
December 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Something to think about the next time you’re buying toilet paper and bananas
Seems like this Apple IIGS I got was actually used at Apple. Also has definitely been dropped at least once.
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Seems like this Apple IIGS I got was actually used at Apple. Also has definitely been dropped at least once.
My wife @ladykaka.bsky.social and I, from the instrument.com 20th anniversary party
December 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
My wife @ladykaka.bsky.social and I, from the instrument.com 20th anniversary party
Another VHS upload to the archive: The World of Jump Roping, brought to you by the beefiest man to ever twirl a rope, Mark "Roth" Rothstein. Nobody has ever loved anything as much as Roth loves jump roping. archive.org/details/worl...
November 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Another VHS upload to the archive: The World of Jump Roping, brought to you by the beefiest man to ever twirl a rope, Mark "Roth" Rothstein. Nobody has ever loved anything as much as Roth loves jump roping. archive.org/details/worl...
The only other thing I'll say about our current technological state of affairs is that we already invented the perfect catch-all solution to everything 40 years ago
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The only other thing I'll say about our current technological state of affairs is that we already invented the perfect catch-all solution to everything 40 years ago
Respectfully disagree. I think it makes people under-think what they’re doing, and have attended several incident reviews at work lately where the underlying cause was accepting LLM suggestions. You can show me all the toy software you want but so far this stuff is still a hinderance at scale.
He’s right! You don’t have to use it—but it’s going to sweep through codeworld like a purifying fire. You may not care! But it’s not like when it draws you a bad picture of a large-breasted elf. It’s more like it shreds the foundation of what makes tech “valuable.”
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Respectfully disagree. I think it makes people under-think what they’re doing, and have attended several incident reviews at work lately where the underlying cause was accepting LLM suggestions. You can show me all the toy software you want but so far this stuff is still a hinderance at scale.
Today's archive upload jumps the queue by singular request: Exposing the Satanic Web. Brought to you by Dave Roever, the phosphorus grenade that hit Dave in the face back in Vietnam, and the satanic panic of the late 80s. archive.org/details/expo...
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Today's archive upload jumps the queue by singular request: Exposing the Satanic Web. Brought to you by Dave Roever, the phosphorus grenade that hit Dave in the face back in Vietnam, and the satanic panic of the late 80s. archive.org/details/expo...
The thing about preordering Analogue gear is that when it finally shows up, it feels like a gift from the person you were several years ago.
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The thing about preordering Analogue gear is that when it finally shows up, it feels like a gift from the person you were several years ago.
The answer is always and unequivocally: yes, absolutely
Every time I leave the house for anything but work, I ask Mark @cdi.bsky.social if he’s embarrassed of me because I dress like a tween boy
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The answer is always and unequivocally: yes, absolutely
Love to do a little light tourism through the world of the insanely paranoid.
November 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Love to do a little light tourism through the world of the insanely paranoid.
“This system will grind you up and spit you out and if the only thing you’ve got to wedge into the gears is a thick, beautiful pecker, then you’d be a fool to let social convention hold you back.”
IDK why we labeled this as a Fucking Day? It's just
@jasonkpargin.bsky.social talking about a man showing off adorable baby chicks on TikTok. Hmmm, guess we must be missing something? Anyway, we made this completely innocent article FREE!! 1900hotdog.com/2025/11/fuck...
@jasonkpargin.bsky.social talking about a man showing off adorable baby chicks on TikTok. Hmmm, guess we must be missing something? Anyway, we made this completely innocent article FREE!! 1900hotdog.com/2025/11/fuck...
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“This system will grind you up and spit you out and if the only thing you’ve got to wedge into the gears is a thick, beautiful pecker, then you’d be a fool to let social convention hold you back.”
Reposted by Mark
fuck it. only good decisions from here on out
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 AM
fuck it. only good decisions from here on out
Today's upload is a rip of the second Atari E.R.I.C. point of purchase laserdisc. This disc ran inside an in-store kiosk and was driven by pressing keys on an Atari (likely 800?) computer, which then jumped to various time codes via a serial connection to the LD player. archive.org/details/atar...
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Today's upload is a rip of the second Atari E.R.I.C. point of purchase laserdisc. This disc ran inside an in-store kiosk and was driven by pressing keys on an Atari (likely 800?) computer, which then jumped to various time codes via a serial connection to the LD player. archive.org/details/atar...
Kate Bush: the maaaan with the chiiild in his eyes
The Child In His Eyes: please help, he’s a wizard and trapped me here with magicks
The Child In His Eyes: please help, he’s a wizard and trapped me here with magicks
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Kate Bush: the maaaan with the chiiild in his eyes
The Child In His Eyes: please help, he’s a wizard and trapped me here with magicks
The Child In His Eyes: please help, he’s a wizard and trapped me here with magicks
There are three men outside my office window cutting down a tree, and my ass is sitting at a computer like "I have a real job too! I type on the computer for a living!" like a complete asshole.
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
There are three men outside my office window cutting down a tree, and my ass is sitting at a computer like "I have a real job too! I type on the computer for a living!" like a complete asshole.
9am vs 4pm (I did none of this work)
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
9am vs 4pm (I did none of this work)
Organizing my ripped VHS/LD stuff on the Plex server
November 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Organizing my ripped VHS/LD stuff on the Plex server
There's a thread at work where folks are trying to get Claude/Cursor to stop praising everything they type, and it's genuinely incredible to me that they are dumping paragraphs of text into a markdown file begging an LLM text editor to stop s'ing their d's.
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
There's a thread at work where folks are trying to get Claude/Cursor to stop praising everything they type, and it's genuinely incredible to me that they are dumping paragraphs of text into a markdown file begging an LLM text editor to stop s'ing their d's.
Ripped some laserdiscs today.
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Ripped some laserdiscs today.
Finally found a copy of the second laserdisc for Atari E.R.I.C. in-store computer sales kiosks from the early 80s. I have a decent rip of disc 1 up on IA; I’ll try to get this one up soon too. archive.org/details/atar...
October 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Finally found a copy of the second laserdisc for Atari E.R.I.C. in-store computer sales kiosks from the early 80s. I have a decent rip of disc 1 up on IA; I’ll try to get this one up soon too. archive.org/details/atar...
A place I was an early employee at is having their 20th anniversary party tonight and holy shit does that make me feel old.
October 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A place I was an early employee at is having their 20th anniversary party tonight and holy shit does that make me feel old.
Decades of overpromising have evolved the Peter Molyneux Hype Cycle into something really special. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/its-abo...
October 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Decades of overpromising have evolved the Peter Molyneux Hype Cycle into something really special. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/its-abo...
I’m old, the things I love are outdated, I accept that now
October 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I’m old, the things I love are outdated, I accept that now