Chris Chancellor
@chancellor.social
Site Reliability Engineer by day, book hoarder by night. Obsesses over Linux, local history, public radio, and motor oil.
📍 Kansas City, MO
📍 Kansas City, MO
Scouting teaches boys to become men. The Scout Oath and Law gives them a set of core values to abide by. The merit badge program sparks interests that often lead to future careers. And as a boy who grew up without a father, it gave me direction I desperately needed.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Scouting teaches boys to become men. The Scout Oath and Law gives them a set of core values to abide by. The merit badge program sparks interests that often lead to future careers. And as a boy who grew up without a father, it gave me direction I desperately needed.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
Great piece.
"What happens when an industry spends 15 years telling talented young journalists that personal brand is currency, that access is the game, that being a character in the story makes better content—and then acts shocked when someone takes that logic a few degrees too far?"
The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Great piece.
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Every time somebody makes a slack channel like `team-backend` I make another one named `team-backend-cool` just like the CIA handbook taught me
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Every time somebody makes a slack channel like `team-backend` I make another one named `team-backend-cool` just like the CIA handbook taught me
A huge win for school libraries across the state!
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A huge win for school libraries across the state!
Today we discovered Monkey Mountain, a county park on 855 acres with beautiful wooded hiking trails and bits of pastureland sprinkled throughout. All of it hardly used; we had the whole park to ourselves this evening as we explored one of the pastures.
November 16, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Today we discovered Monkey Mountain, a county park on 855 acres with beautiful wooded hiking trails and bits of pastureland sprinkled throughout. All of it hardly used; we had the whole park to ourselves this evening as we explored one of the pastures.
I love it when code works one day, then decides to not work the following day when I hop back online.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I love it when code works one day, then decides to not work the following day when I hop back online.
Reposted by Chris Chancellor
Reposted by Chris Chancellor
fact: before clocks became widespread, each town had one guy who owned 24 dogs and fed one of them each hour.
that way everyone would know exactly what time it was.
What time is it? Oh, it's Captain Snuffles o'clock, they'd say
which was weird considering they didn't know what clocks were
that way everyone would know exactly what time it was.
What time is it? Oh, it's Captain Snuffles o'clock, they'd say
which was weird considering they didn't know what clocks were
November 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
fact: before clocks became widespread, each town had one guy who owned 24 dogs and fed one of them each hour.
that way everyone would know exactly what time it was.
What time is it? Oh, it's Captain Snuffles o'clock, they'd say
which was weird considering they didn't know what clocks were
that way everyone would know exactly what time it was.
What time is it? Oh, it's Captain Snuffles o'clock, they'd say
which was weird considering they didn't know what clocks were
Reposted by Chris Chancellor
I couldn't agree more.
Unfortunately this is also one of the biggest issues with the "Just put Linux on it" movement. It's great for power users and nerds, but the wild variation of Linux distributions makes troubleshooting for non power users very hard.
danieldelaney.net/normal/
Unfortunately this is also one of the biggest issues with the "Just put Linux on it" movement. It's great for power users and nerds, but the wild variation of Linux distributions makes troubleshooting for non power users very hard.
danieldelaney.net/normal/
October 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I couldn't agree more.
Unfortunately this is also one of the biggest issues with the "Just put Linux on it" movement. It's great for power users and nerds, but the wild variation of Linux distributions makes troubleshooting for non power users very hard.
danieldelaney.net/normal/
Unfortunately this is also one of the biggest issues with the "Just put Linux on it" movement. It's great for power users and nerds, but the wild variation of Linux distributions makes troubleshooting for non power users very hard.
danieldelaney.net/normal/
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Guy Excited About Party Studying Up On History Of Parties https://theonion.com/guy-excited-about-party-studying-up-on-history-of-parti-1819571895/
October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I may or may not have gotten into the Halloween candy destined for trick-or-treaters. When you think about it, though, I’m preventing children from getting cavities. It’s an altruistic action. That’s what I’m telling myself as I open another packet of Trolli Crawlers.
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I may or may not have gotten into the Halloween candy destined for trick-or-treaters. When you think about it, though, I’m preventing children from getting cavities. It’s an altruistic action. That’s what I’m telling myself as I open another packet of Trolli Crawlers.
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And Alexander wept, for there was no more hamburger to help
October 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
And Alexander wept, for there was no more hamburger to help
@jpbrammer.bsky.social Loved your story tonight at the Folly Theater!
October 18, 2025 at 4:19 AM
@jpbrammer.bsky.social Loved your story tonight at the Folly Theater!
My e-bike just shipped and I am PUMPED.
October 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
My e-bike just shipped and I am PUMPED.
I unironically love getting notifications from the library that a book I put on hold months ago (and subsequently forgot about) is ready for pickup. It's like a gift from my past self!
October 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I unironically love getting notifications from the library that a book I put on hold months ago (and subsequently forgot about) is ready for pickup. It's like a gift from my past self!
Interesting, I just got an unprompted email requesting that I reset my MLB.com account "to keep [my] account secure." It's not an issue of password strength/reuse, and they haven't previously had a policy of timed password expiry. The email is legit.
Security incident?
Security incident?
October 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Interesting, I just got an unprompted email requesting that I reset my MLB.com account "to keep [my] account secure." It's not an issue of password strength/reuse, and they haven't previously had a policy of timed password expiry. The email is legit.
Security incident?
Security incident?
Butterflies weren’t the only ones enjoying the butterfly garden at the Dillon Nature Center today; there were also lots of Common Eastern Bumble Bees! The number of pollinators we saw doing their thing was simply delightful.
October 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Butterflies weren’t the only ones enjoying the butterfly garden at the Dillon Nature Center today; there were also lots of Common Eastern Bumble Bees! The number of pollinators we saw doing their thing was simply delightful.
Monarch butterflies were everywhere in Hutchinson, Kansas this weekend! We visited the Dillon Nature Center earlier today and were delighted at how many we saw enjoying the butterfly garden.
October 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Monarch butterflies were everywhere in Hutchinson, Kansas this weekend! We visited the Dillon Nature Center earlier today and were delighted at how many we saw enjoying the butterfly garden.
I saw this little fella at the Hutchinson Zoo yesterday. A yellow-shouldered drone fly was busily pollinating this Lindheimer’s beeblossom.
October 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I saw this little fella at the Hutchinson Zoo yesterday. A yellow-shouldered drone fly was busily pollinating this Lindheimer’s beeblossom.
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Reposted by Chris Chancellor
I just found a tandem bike on Craigslist.
I am about to purchase said tandem bike on Craigslist.
My wife and I are going to look so dorky on our tandem bike and I CANNOT WAIT.
I am about to purchase said tandem bike on Craigslist.
My wife and I are going to look so dorky on our tandem bike and I CANNOT WAIT.
October 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I just found a tandem bike on Craigslist.
I am about to purchase said tandem bike on Craigslist.
My wife and I are going to look so dorky on our tandem bike and I CANNOT WAIT.
I am about to purchase said tandem bike on Craigslist.
My wife and I are going to look so dorky on our tandem bike and I CANNOT WAIT.
I love it.
October 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I love it.
Another week, another sprint review showing me with an ungodly number of Jiras in my backlog. 😅
October 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Another week, another sprint review showing me with an ungodly number of Jiras in my backlog. 😅
SUCH a heartwarming story to end my evening. ❤️
Francine the cat is back home at a Lowe's store in Virginia after going missing for a few weeks.
Purrfect ending: Missing Virginia store cat found after hitching a ride to another state
Francine the cat is back home at a Lowe’s store in Virginia after going missing for a few weeks. The calico cat hitched a ride to a sister facility in another state.
bit.ly
October 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
SUCH a heartwarming story to end my evening. ❤️