Chris Gervais 🎸🥁💻
@chrisgv.bsky.social
Dad, Apple and vintage Mac nerd, musician, GenX, recovering software engineer, CTO @ various. Beef loyalist. Prolific sneezer. Boston area and thus, Dunks.
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Chris Gervais 🎸🥁💻
@chrisgv.bsky.social
· Nov 24
#intro for any new followers. At work, I lead teams to build AI and software apps for healthcare, specifically in automating medical coding and enriching data for research.
Otherwise, I’m a #musician, into #retrocomputing (esp. coding on old #macOS), and proud dad, husband, and Nazi hater.
Otherwise, I’m a #musician, into #retrocomputing (esp. coding on old #macOS), and proud dad, husband, and Nazi hater.
iOS' Visual Lookup may have just solved a mystery for me. I don't know plants but it seems to do a good enough job and identified a few plants in our house that I'm likely allergic to. I love plants, but not enough to put up with the constant running nose and sneezing
October 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
iOS' Visual Lookup may have just solved a mystery for me. I don't know plants but it seems to do a good enough job and identified a few plants in our house that I'm likely allergic to. I love plants, but not enough to put up with the constant running nose and sneezing
First apple pie of the season!
October 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
First apple pie of the season!
While I appreciate with the message, the car has got to go.
October 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
While I appreciate with the message, the car has got to go.
Got my SE/30 motherboard returned from being recapped but when I power it up, no video 😫 I'm going to strip it down and remove the RAM, ROM SIMM, and SCSI connection and try again. Had order some tools to help me power the motherboard outside the case. Good nor'easter project!
October 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Got my SE/30 motherboard returned from being recapped but when I power it up, no video 😫 I'm going to strip it down and remove the RAM, ROM SIMM, and SCSI connection and try again. Had order some tools to help me power the motherboard outside the case. Good nor'easter project!
Shocked I say, shocked!
April 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Shocked I say, shocked!
Holy hell…every word of this. https://genexgeek.com/2025/04/20/gen-x-cynicism-betrayal/
We Were Right to Side-Eye Everything: The Gen X Origin of Cynicism
Gen X wasn’t born cynical. We were built that way. One betrayal at a time. The job, the war, the dad on TV. Cosby didn’t break us. He confirmed what we already knew.
genexgeek.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Holy hell…every word of this. https://genexgeek.com/2025/04/20/gen-x-cynicism-betrayal/
Reposted by Chris Gervais 🎸🥁💻
Thank you so much for all the kind birthday wishes and support 💜
There’s still one day left to grab my Swift and SwiftUI books at a special discount!
There’s still one day left to grab my Swift and SwiftUI books at a special discount!
It’s my birthday weekend 🥳 and I’m running a special sale on my #SwiftLang and #SwiftUI books - just for my followers, and just for the next 48 hours!
📚 Use the code BDWK25 at checkout to get 20% off any book or bundle:
books.nilcoalescing.com
📚 Use the code BDWK25 at checkout to get 20% off any book or bundle:
books.nilcoalescing.com
Nil Coalescing Books
Swift and SwiftUI books from Nil Coalescing
books.nilcoalescing.com
April 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Thank you so much for all the kind birthday wishes and support 💜
There’s still one day left to grab my Swift and SwiftUI books at a special discount!
There’s still one day left to grab my Swift and SwiftUI books at a special discount!
If you think bringing manufacturing back to the US means a lot jobs, I'd love know what century you're living in https://bostondynamics.com/news/boston-dynamics-hyundai-motor-group-expand-collaboration-drive-mobility-manufacturing-innovation/
April 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
If you think bringing manufacturing back to the US means a lot jobs, I'd love know what century you're living in https://bostondynamics.com/news/boston-dynamics-hyundai-motor-group-expand-collaboration-drive-mobility-manufacturing-innovation/
Is there any product that dads harder than FlexSeal?
March 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Is there any product that dads harder than FlexSeal?
OK, so I was actually able to pull something off for #marchintosh
I found an old utility that I had written in 1998, SwitcherSetter, for setting the hidden options on Mac OS 8.5+'s Application Switcher palette and updated it!
Grab the latest release at 👇🏻
I found an old utility that I had written in 1998, SwitcherSetter, for setting the hidden options on Mac OS 8.5+'s Application Switcher palette and updated it!
Grab the latest release at 👇🏻
March 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
OK, so I was actually able to pull something off for #marchintosh
I found an old utility that I had written in 1998, SwitcherSetter, for setting the hidden options on Mac OS 8.5+'s Application Switcher palette and updated it!
Grab the latest release at 👇🏻
I found an old utility that I had written in 1998, SwitcherSetter, for setting the hidden options on Mac OS 8.5+'s Application Switcher palette and updated it!
Grab the latest release at 👇🏻
I definitely die a little bit whenever I hear the Chevy commercial that uses INXS "Don't Change." Such a great song.
Don't Change by INXS on Apple Music
Song · 1982 · Duration 4:26
music.apple.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I definitely die a little bit whenever I hear the Chevy commercial that uses INXS "Don't Change." Such a great song.
Neighbors understanding the assignment
March 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Neighbors understanding the assignment
Neighbor understands the assignment
March 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Neighbor understands the assignment
Sometimes SRV's cover of "Little Wing" hits just at the right time in the day. That time is now.
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Sometimes SRV's cover of "Little Wing" hits just at the right time in the day. That time is now.
Yes! So glad you’re here and on Mastodon 👏
👋 from the Swift team, now on Bluesky!
February 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Yes! So glad you’re here and on Mastodon 👏
Reposted by Chris Gervais 🎸🥁💻
Reposted by Chris Gervais 🎸🥁💻
#forestservice employees who were recently terminated. We are working on a legal action. Please dm us. (We removed the previous post due to concerns about the form being spammed by bad actors) #nffe #unionstrong #holdtheline
February 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
#forestservice employees who were recently terminated. We are working on a legal action. Please dm us. (We removed the previous post due to concerns about the form being spammed by bad actors) #nffe #unionstrong #holdtheline
February 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I'm sure it was "accidental" - what a traitor
Elon Musk’s DOGE Shares Classified U.S. Intel With Entire World
Elon Musk’s minions posted classified data on their website for anyone to see.
newrepublic.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I'm sure it was "accidental" - what a traitor
Shocked, shocked I say that my state gives out more to the federal government than it receives so other states can take more. What happens to all those states that take more than they make as their federal funding dries up? FAFO.
Which states get more federal money than they send
Only 13 U.S. states send more money to the federal government than they receive.
www.axios.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Shocked, shocked I say that my state gives out more to the federal government than it receives so other states can take more. What happens to all those states that take more than they make as their federal funding dries up? FAFO.
Idiots thinking 150 year olds are getting social security benefits. It just takes a couple of brain cells and a Wikipedia page to figure it out. Mr. Rocket Man is a danger to this country
Nope. There are no 150-year-olds on Social Security.
It's COBOL!--UPDATED Feb 15
Elon Musk claimed that his team found 150-year-old people collecting Social Security! He implied there were dead people being sent benefits, with checks cashed by someone else. But no—the people getting paid are very much alive. They are collecting...
www.dailykos.com
February 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Idiots thinking 150 year olds are getting social security benefits. It just takes a couple of brain cells and a Wikipedia page to figure it out. Mr. Rocket Man is a danger to this country
I cannot get enough of Bartees Strange - this song just hits everything right
Sober by Bartees Strange on Apple Music
Song · 2024 · Duration 3:41
music.apple.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I cannot get enough of Bartees Strange - this song just hits everything right
So glad Phil is connecting with me. My first set of questions revolve around what the hell a Sussudio is.
January 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
So glad Phil is connecting with me. My first set of questions revolve around what the hell a Sussudio is.