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retired unix whisperer and hpc apprentice

“cmo” for @micheleclamp.com

manages @chromamagic.com
Company did not use the #ai to write the on box copy for a bread machine.

Absolutely not. Nope.

“All you knead — and more!”

🤣
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Must quote post this one. It might be a forever quote.

“Yesterday’s flexibility has become today’s insurmountable technical debt.”

Read @usrbinkat.io for detail.

/cc @kelseyhightower.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
For #sc25 #hpc #cloud #ai

Don’t forget, you also win extra self prescribed points for any highly performative desperate breathless marketing dressed up in a “Please come to our weird ass social (10 miles away) for most excellent conversation!”

First to 10,000 pts wins.

I don’t make the rules.
November 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Heads up #hpc folks. There are going to be folks at the show who are EVEN MORE famous than @hpcnotes.bsky.social!

Hard to imagine, but true! 🤣

Keep an eye out for “SC Selfies With Jeff”

#sc25
I wonder if I keep building more Pi clusters, if Supercomputing conference #SC25 will continue returning to St. Louis...?

Hope to see you there, I'll be there as many days as I can!
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
As a research computing center director, I used to provide our customers with carefully crafted #hpc services that were designed to be like a beautiful Mac book pro…

Our users sent me email demanding this:

/cc @moorejh.bsky.social 🤣
OK, who owns one of these and wants to tell the tale
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
See also: Johnny Cash references on BlueSky.
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Not going to lie, I’d never heard of at home freeze drying until now. Now I’m blowing up @micheleclamp.com’s phone with Bree links.

I think it might happen.

On the phone to Santa…
If anyone is new since the last time I did the skittles, I have been freeze drying them and they are FREAKING AMAZING??? bsky.app/profile/most...
Mama Bree is coming to visit from Minnesota on Friday, so of course I had to top up the freeze dried skittles inventory. #BreezeDryer
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Website rocks. Also thinking of my old pal @ianholmes.org

zxbasic.readthedocs.io/en/docs/rele...
Released Programs - Boriel BASIC
zxbasic.readthedocs.io
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Parallel fridge wine.

#hpc #wine

mostly for @lucyfishwife.bsky.social & @micheleclamp.com

🇺🇸 / 🇬🇧
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“Note: On the 6-zone Konnected Alarm Panels, Zone 6 needs to be open in order to re-flash. If Zone 6 is a door or window, you can simply leave that door or window open during the flashing process.”
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
After just shy of 10 years, our old breadmachine seized up beyond repair.

A new shiny *much* smaller, quieter, lower powered offspring has now entered the arena!

Seems to only use an occasional 400W on bake mode for a 2 pounder…

Like all tech, incremental progress.
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Drive out to Watertown today with @micheleclamp.com who’s been accepted into the New England Watercolor Society Juried Show.

Fun fact, it’s in a super fancy “life sciences” cluster at the old arsenal complex.

Our old life, meets new life...

Good luck Michele!

#news #watercolor #lifesciences
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
lp0 on fire.
For when your old windows machine catches fire?
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
It’s not only the unix that’s forbidden round here…

🛏️ 🐈 🚫

🤣
November 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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best github readme image ever

github.com/Jeija/bluefl...
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Tomorrow I change back my #bsky “scary name”, but today I won a participation badge!

Points for just showing up?

Inspired. Living my best life.

Hashtag blessed etc. Haha.

#garmin #running
November 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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So I've been posting about the #SC25 on those other sites (they know who they are), but BlueSky is where the action is, so if you are attending SC25, you know where to go:

beowulfbash.com
Beowulf Bash | The annual celebration of Beowulf at SuperComputing
beowulfbash.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
enjoying finding old friends from the other sms site here.

cool.
Do a teamwork, not a screamwork.
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Moved my tech posts because @chromamagic.com and @micheleclamp.com are now all like super famous and stuff. 🤣

Here?

We do the forbidden unix.

Thanks to the ever prolific and brilliant @albertvilella.bsky.social for being FU follower #100.

Magic puss is still laughing at me. Hehe.
October 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
In case y’all were wondering @micheleclamp.com and me are now at the making your own balsamic glaze, and buying a special squirty pot for it stage of life.

You are welcome.
October 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Tonight the team at @archive.org celebrate one trillion web pages. Here’s a few more.

Excellent.
And perhaps it is only a bright light to some, but today at archive HQ a handful of us came together and rescued from an old dodgy drive a one of a kind compilation of a lifetime of research done by a writer so that his successor can complete the work.
October 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
IT IS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!

I know this because my 85yr old parent just wrote saying they’ve installed a Linux,

and can’t get the wifi working…

#linux #unix #hpc
October 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Stop scrolling and post two ASCII characters who bring you happiness.

.@
October 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM