Kent Quirk
@kentquirk.bsky.social
Staff Software Engineer at Honeycomb.io. Former gamedev, into bikes and making things (mostly woodworking and code). I’m probably too much of a generalist. Very much on the progressive side. Opinions are mine.
Today’s bike ride included somehow getting a 2” nail right through the center of the tire all the way to the head. This is it pulled half way out.
June 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Today’s bike ride included somehow getting a 2” nail right through the center of the tire all the way to the head. This is it pulled half way out.
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Ditto.
April 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Ditto.
I put a pork shoulder in the smoker at 9AM expecting a 10-hour cook time. It’s going to come off after 13 hours. We had crackers and cheese for dinner. Pork will have to be reheated tomorrow. Sigh.
(But at least it’s not raw stupidity like the news.)
(But at least it’s not raw stupidity like the news.)
April 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I put a pork shoulder in the smoker at 9AM expecting a 10-hour cook time. It’s going to come off after 13 hours. We had crackers and cheese for dinner. Pork will have to be reheated tomorrow. Sigh.
(But at least it’s not raw stupidity like the news.)
(But at least it’s not raw stupidity like the news.)
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old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
This is a full scale emergency right now. Musk and his minions have used force to take over the government’s data and economic systems. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social I’m a constituent and need you to be shouting at high volume. No cooperation, no deals, no politics.
February 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is a full scale emergency right now. Musk and his minions have used force to take over the government’s data and economic systems. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social I’m a constituent and need you to be shouting at high volume. No cooperation, no deals, no politics.
After the election in 2016, I was motivated. I spent a year putting in 30 to 40 hours a week volunteering as an act of resistance. I don’t have it in me this time. I need to tune out. I know that’s what they want, but I’m sad and don’t have the energy right now.
January 21, 2025 at 4:24 AM
After the election in 2016, I was motivated. I spent a year putting in 30 to 40 hours a week volunteering as an act of resistance. I don’t have it in me this time. I need to tune out. I know that’s what they want, but I’m sad and don’t have the energy right now.
#Genuary Day 3 - exactly 42 lines of code. It’s best seen at the link to all my artistic projects: kentquirk.github.io/genuary24/
Generative Experiments with P5
kentquirk.github.io
January 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
#Genuary Day 3 - exactly 42 lines of code. It’s best seen at the link to all my artistic projects: kentquirk.github.io/genuary24/
My #Genuary for day 2: kentquirk.github.io/genuary24/_i...
January 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My #Genuary for day 2: kentquirk.github.io/genuary24/_i...
Genuary 1 - only h or v lines.
It’s a voronoi regionalization over 1000 points, where each region is rendered using vertical lines drawn in the average color of the underlying pixels.
It’s a voronoi regionalization over 1000 points, where each region is rendered using vertical lines drawn in the average color of the underlying pixels.
January 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Genuary 1 - only h or v lines.
It’s a voronoi regionalization over 1000 points, where each region is rendered using vertical lines drawn in the average color of the underlying pixels.
It’s a voronoi regionalization over 1000 points, where each region is rendered using vertical lines drawn in the average color of the underlying pixels.
I started Advent of Code again today. I wanted to use Deno and learn more about TypeScript but Deno is in the awkward transition stage to 2.0. I spent 1hr trying to read a text file into an array of strings and ran out of patience. I decided to switch to go for today. Maybe tomorrow.
December 1, 2024 at 8:50 PM
I started Advent of Code again today. I wanted to use Deno and learn more about TypeScript but Deno is in the awkward transition stage to 2.0. I spent 1hr trying to read a text file into an array of strings and ran out of patience. I decided to switch to go for today. Maybe tomorrow.
Today was the first time in probably 20 years that I’ve had a rotten egg. PHEW! I had gotten out of the habit of breaking eggs into a separate bowl, so I had to throw out the sugar and butter from the recipe too.
Interestingly, this is the only organic batch of eggs I’ve bought in a long time.
Interestingly, this is the only organic batch of eggs I’ve bought in a long time.
November 23, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Today was the first time in probably 20 years that I’ve had a rotten egg. PHEW! I had gotten out of the habit of breaking eggs into a separate bowl, so I had to throw out the sugar and butter from the recipe too.
Interestingly, this is the only organic batch of eggs I’ve bought in a long time.
Interestingly, this is the only organic batch of eggs I’ve bought in a long time.
There is nothing like the colors of New England in the fall.
November 17, 2024 at 6:01 PM
There is nothing like the colors of New England in the fall.
I really like the iPhone camera. This is handheld, no filters, of tonight’s moon.
November 15, 2024 at 4:06 AM
I really like the iPhone camera. This is handheld, no filters, of tonight’s moon.