Cooper
@cooperx86.bsky.social
GitHub user #118, programming, LLMs, 3D printing, and piano https://peterc.org/
Found this book on Internet Archive and might borrow it as I'm intrigued. Thoughts @terencecgannon.com ? 😂
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Found this book on Internet Archive and might borrow it as I'm intrigued. Thoughts @terencecgannon.com ? 😂
I assumed that. Hard to say for sure, but their board of directors makes them smell that way 🦨
November 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I assumed that. Hard to say for sure, but their board of directors makes them smell that way 🦨
Do I still have my first mouse mat from 36 years ago? Yes! (I'm now a full-time trackpad user, though.)
September 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Do I still have my first mouse mat from 36 years ago? Yes! (I'm now a full-time trackpad user, though.)
What the heck are these kids learning in school nowadays that requires a 76TB NAS? 😅
September 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
What the heck are these kids learning in school nowadays that requires a 76TB NAS? 😅
Once you've set your preferences, it becomes a simple as this. No memory, no "chats", just ask a question and you're done. It's for simple, disposable queries.
August 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Once you've set your preferences, it becomes a simple as this. No memory, no "chats", just ask a question and you're done. It's for simple, disposable queries.
BTW, if you need to message me, go to my homepage peterc.org and email me. Bluesky doesn't allow DMs anymore and I'm not submitting my personal info to them 😂
July 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
BTW, if you need to message me, go to my homepage peterc.org and email me. Bluesky doesn't allow DMs anymore and I'm not submitting my personal info to them 😂
The Apricot was fire though. A very "designed" computer for the time and it had a sort of early equivalent of the Touchbar on the keyboard. Basically extra function buttons you could program with a LCD display above. Kinda far out for the 80s.
July 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The Apricot was fire though. A very "designed" computer for the time and it had a sort of early equivalent of the Touchbar on the keyboard. Basically extra function buttons you could program with a LCD display above. Kinda far out for the 80s.
I was looking at this map of the world 105 million years ago (with present land overlaid) and noticed all the oil producing regions of the world were shallow seas then (light blue). That's no coincidence, but I'd never seen it before and I never listened in science class 😏
July 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I was looking at this map of the world 105 million years ago (with present land overlaid) and noticed all the oil producing regions of the world were shallow seas then (light blue). That's no coincidence, but I'd never seen it before and I never listened in science class 😏
Watching a driving school dashcam video and I'd love to know how a full self-driving system would tackle this situation. Improperly placed roadworks sign. The driver in question followed the sign (stricti iuris) and nearly had a head-on collision.
May 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Watching a driving school dashcam video and I'd love to know how a full self-driving system would tackle this situation. Improperly placed roadworks sign. The driver in question followed the sign (stricti iuris) and nearly had a head-on collision.
Found a weird Chrome bug. If I right click in one Chrome window, it triggers hover effects on a background window that isn't in focus.
April 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Found a weird Chrome bug. If I right click in one Chrome window, it triggers hover effects on a background window that isn't in focus.
Was excited to see AliExpress pop up in my inbox with some fashion suggestions. Apparently oil combustion stoves are the look for Summer 2025.
April 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Was excited to see AliExpress pop up in my inbox with some fashion suggestions. Apparently oil combustion stoves are the look for Summer 2025.
My goal as an old person is to be as equally happy and sassy as William Shatner seems to be. What a legend.
April 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
My goal as an old person is to be as equally happy and sassy as William Shatner seems to be. What a legend.
Fun bit of drama in the piano community. Piano YouTubers caught out using AI to render their fingerings when their fingers push through their opposing hand to play keys (like the F in this screengrab) 😂
February 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Fun bit of drama in the piano community. Piano YouTubers caught out using AI to render their fingerings when their fingers push through their opposing hand to play keys (like the F in this screengrab) 😂
Yay, I'm going to Google I/O this year for the first time ever! Looking forward to lots of Gemini and Web platform goodness.
February 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Yay, I'm going to Google I/O this year for the first time ever! Looking forward to lots of Gemini and Web platform goodness.
Not that I have a reputation for being unhealthy, but this is the spam folder on one of my oldest email addresses:
February 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Not that I have a reputation for being unhealthy, but this is the spam folder on one of my oldest email addresses:
I didn't actually need this but just as an example.
January 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I didn't actually need this but just as an example.
Bought a 'SQFMI Watchy' watch. It's an ESP32-powered EInk-screened watch that's entirely open source and you can program from scratch in C. Really fun to program! Not using it as a watch but as an automated way to wake me up by vibrating when I'm not in a deep sleep, etc.
January 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Bought a 'SQFMI Watchy' watch. It's an ESP32-powered EInk-screened watch that's entirely open source and you can program from scratch in C. Really fun to program! Not using it as a watch but as an automated way to wake me up by vibrating when I'm not in a deep sleep, etc.
Maybe this sort of "stand" could be in my future.. :-D
January 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Maybe this sort of "stand" could be in my future.. :-D
This is the water and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.
January 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is the water and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.
Inspired by EDB. They submitted a corporate blog post to Hacker News yesterday and a bunch of people signed up to write their first ever comment in praise of EDB's "remarkable improvements":
December 4, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Inspired by EDB. They submitted a corporate blog post to Hacker News yesterday and a bunch of people signed up to write their first ever comment in praise of EDB's "remarkable improvements":
And failing to notice that you included <s> somewhere in some code which causes all your source to be struck out. It's almost like no-one looks at the posts after they hit Publish isn't it? (Only a hunch, I have no proof.)
December 4, 2024 at 8:13 PM
And failing to notice that you included <s> somewhere in some code which causes all your source to be struck out. It's almost like no-one looks at the posts after they hit Publish isn't it? (Only a hunch, I have no proof.)
I also appreciate the little touches like formatting Python in such a way that it wouldn't ever run.
December 4, 2024 at 8:13 PM
I also appreciate the little touches like formatting Python in such a way that it wouldn't ever run.
However, sometimes they really do nail the formatting. Like in this illuminating Postgres vs MySQL article which really narrows in on the differences:
December 4, 2024 at 8:08 PM
However, sometimes they really do nail the formatting. Like in this illuminating Postgres vs MySQL article which really narrows in on the differences:
Engineers at EDB / EnterpriseDB put in the hard work of writing a good blog post for their employer and a month later it still looks like a pile of unformatted gloop. It's almost like no-one at EDB looks at their own blog 😔
December 4, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Engineers at EDB / EnterpriseDB put in the hard work of writing a good blog post for their employer and a month later it still looks like a pile of unformatted gloop. It's almost like no-one at EDB looks at their own blog 😔
However, guiding Claude through a "golfing" process produces something even better (though still Postgres specific):
December 1, 2024 at 1:57 PM
However, guiding Claude through a "golfing" process produces something even better (though still Postgres specific):