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Travis Shears
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New father, hobbyist, alpinist, software engineer, he/him, USA -> Munich, Germany

https://travisshears.com

https://keyoxide.org/B0399B155F3245ED51E1C09FD4C2E4DFAB8BABF8
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Kinda cool to see company I work for show up on AWS.

Was checking AWS S3 Glacier for backing up docker volumes of my homelab.

#aws
Screenshot of AWS website
November 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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More sites need sepia color modes. Also this framework for building rougelike games with Love2D looks sick.

prismrl.github.io/prism/index....
October 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Been enjoying the Lagrange app for browsing Gemini protocol.

Took me a while to find it since it is not released in App Store, but distributed via TestFlight.

#gemini
iOS App logo
October 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Looking forward to checking out Last Frontier.

thetvdb.com/series/the-l...

#series
man next to crashed airplane
October 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Egg wash and sesame seeds worked out on my sour dough loaf. 🍞

#baking
Baked loaf of sourdough bread with sesame seeds on top
September 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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I want to use these symbols from Alien in my home decor somehow. Hmm what’s radioactive. ☢️ 🤔

crewsproject.wordpress.com/2017/05/12/a...
September 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Finally managed some half decent sour dough.

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#baking
Loaf of sour dough bread cut in half.
September 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Vacationing to Lake Tahoe this morning thanks the macOS 26.

Liquid glass UI is giving early 2007 Windows Vista vibes. I’m hear for it.

#macOS
Screen capture of new macOS wallpaper
September 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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After a sitting in my basement since April, finally back to working on the balcony weather station project.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

I got completely side tracked with trying to learn CAN bus communication when it really was not called for.

#diyelectronics
Sensors assembled together with pico mc and LEDs on perfboard.
September 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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For my outdoor gear sewing projects I source my materials from www.extremtextil.de/en. This month they made a cool collaboration with a local fine painter.

"Peak" - by Robert Richter

www.robertrichter-art.com/work-avenue#...

#sewing
sewing machine as a mountain peak painting
August 30, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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As an American living abroad I’m expected to know how to make good fried chicken. Now I can.

#cooking

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fried chicken on baking sheet
August 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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New chopsticks are fun.
Chopsticks in box
August 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Overnight oats. Surprisingly good for very little effort.

#cooking
Bowl of overnight oats
August 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Just finished Vol 1. So good! I want the full series now.

As a new father maybe I'm in target demographic.

Babyteeth by Donny Cates

aftershockcomics.com/products/bab...

#comics
Babyteeth vol 1 cover
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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What is this Google Opal thing? Sounds interesting.

Nope

opal.withgoogle.com/landing/

#ai
Screenshot of opal is not available in your country yet popup
August 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Radish kimchi comes together a lot faster than cabbage.

#cooking
Thinly sliced white reddish Finished radish kimchi
July 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Backing up some files to cold storage, AWS S3 Glacier, via Freeze app.

www.freezeapp.net
screen shot of freeze app uploading tar file
July 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Back trying to make bread. Using Lievito Madre this time.

#cooking
Sour dough starter in plastic container
July 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Uxntal is fun in a "my brain hurts, but I must push on" way. Wondering if all concatenative languages are so hard. Thinking of checking out factor or joy.

factorcode.org

#factor
screen capture of factor ui lib in use
July 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Use case for split ergonomic keyboard? Snacks.
split keyboard with bowl of cereal in-between the two halves.
June 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Created a zsh theme that dynamically shows JJ version control description or git branch in my prompt.

paste.sr.ht/~travisshear...

Jujutsu? jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/

#zsh
#jj
screen capture of zsh theme
June 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Playing around with keyoxide. Added both this account and my mastodon one.

keyoxide.org/B0399B155F32...

#keyoxide
#gpg
screen capture of my Keyoxide profile page
June 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Did it take me an hour to figure out how to dynamically pass limit and offset to a XTQL query? Yes. Is it a pretty solution? No. Do I care? Hell no, it finally works!

docs.xtdb.com/reference/ma...

#clojure
#xtdb
clojure code screenshot
June 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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“Swing swing” followed by gleeful laughter comes from the hammock. It stretches between two trees at the base of a quarry rock wall. My daughter and I play.

“On belay”, “belays on”, “climbing”, “climb on” a friend and I repeat the mantra as I head up the wall.

#alpinism
#climbing
Two climbers starting a climb at the base of a quarry wall.
May 4, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Green long sleeve escapes the wardrobe and returns to rotation.

Found a few minutes to replace some broken buttons.

#sewing
Shirt showing replaced buttons. Button close up
April 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM