Alex Whitney
@alex.social.itshalfempty.com.ap.brid.gy
Software Engineer on a career break living in Atlanta, Georgia.
Private pilot, board gamer, backpacker, and a constantly growing list of other hobbies.
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Private pilot, board gamer, backpacker, and a constantly growing list of other hobbies.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.itshalfempty.com/@alex, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
I decided to purge some of my older and unused digital accounts today. It's refreshing when the process is straightforward!
TrueCar's process was strange though. For some reason they ask for all of your PII in the request asking for them to... delete […]
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TrueCar's process was strange though. For some reason they ask for all of your PII in the request asking for them to... delete […]
[Original post on social.itshalfempty.com]
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I decided to purge some of my older and unused digital accounts today. It's refreshing when the process is straightforward!
TrueCar's process was strange though. For some reason they ask for all of your PII in the request asking for them to... delete […]
[Original post on social.itshalfempty.com]
TrueCar's process was strange though. For some reason they ask for all of your PII in the request asking for them to... delete […]
[Original post on social.itshalfempty.com]
Fanciest coffee I've ever had in my life. I wasn't gutsy enough to try their competition coffee, but it did sound very interesting! Very glad I made the stop at Glitch in Tokyo.
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Fanciest coffee I've ever had in my life. I wasn't gutsy enough to try their competition coffee, but it did sound very interesting! Very glad I made the stop at Glitch in Tokyo.
Lunch and a view! Next stop - Kyoto.
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Lunch and a view! Next stop - Kyoto.
It's WILD that a movie-style heist of jewely at the Louvre happened today. I was literally in the same room only a few days ago! I didn't take any photos directly of the items that were stolen, but they were partially visible in a couple photos I took.
October 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It's WILD that a movie-style heist of jewely at the Louvre happened today. I was literally in the same room only a few days ago! I didn't take any photos directly of the items that were stolen, but they were partially visible in a couple photos I took.
A couple years ago I got to see Lang Lang in a glacier. Tonight I got to see Lang Lang in the flesh.
September 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A couple years ago I got to see Lang Lang in a glacier. Tonight I got to see Lang Lang in the flesh.
I don't know when they added it, but Sporty's pilot training courses now have a "ChatDPE" feature that gives you checkride questions and grades free-form answers. I ran through a few questions this morning, and while I don't think it's particularly […]
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September 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I don't know when they added it, but Sporty's pilot training courses now have a "ChatDPE" feature that gives you checkride questions and grades free-form answers. I ran through a few questions this morning, and while I don't think it's particularly […]
[Original post on social.itshalfempty.com]
[Original post on social.itshalfempty.com]
The new debrief feature in Foreflight is pretty cool. I'm not sure just how good the scoring is, but it does a pretty good job of separating and identifying maneuvers.
August 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The new debrief feature in Foreflight is pretty cool. I'm not sure just how good the scoring is, but it does a pretty good job of separating and identifying maneuvers.
Good morning, Gencon! I'm avoiding the 10am vendor rush this morning by finally learning to play Root
July 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Good morning, Gencon! I'm avoiding the 10am vendor rush this morning by finally learning to play Root
Given how little I've been able to fly lately, canceling a flight due to weather is pretty painful. I try not to second guess my decision when the weather turns out to have been fine.
...But canceling my flight today was a very good call. I doubt I'd […]
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...But canceling my flight today was a very good call. I doubt I'd […]
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July 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Given how little I've been able to fly lately, canceling a flight due to weather is pretty painful. I try not to second guess my decision when the weather turns out to have been fine.
...But canceling my flight today was a very good call. I doubt I'd […]
[Original post on social.itshalfempty.com]
...But canceling my flight today was a very good call. I doubt I'd […]
[Original post on social.itshalfempty.com]
I took some photos of my old hockey team last night. Here are a few of my favorites - the rest I shared on my blog.
https://itshalfempty.com/2025/07/07/puckaneers-photos.html
https://itshalfempty.com/2025/07/07/puckaneers-photos.html
July 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I took some photos of my old hockey team last night. Here are a few of my favorites - the rest I shared on my blog.
https://itshalfempty.com/2025/07/07/puckaneers-photos.html
https://itshalfempty.com/2025/07/07/puckaneers-photos.html
Lucked out on our hotel room in Stavanger, Norway. Also, it's 9:30pm and my brain doesn't know what to do with all this sunlight.
June 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Lucked out on our hotel room in Stavanger, Norway. Also, it's 9:30pm and my brain doesn't know what to do with all this sunlight.
Edinburgh might be one of my favorite cities. It definitely helps that the weather happens to be so nice.
April 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Edinburgh might be one of my favorite cities. It definitely helps that the weather happens to be so nice.
The Old Man of Storr was hiding in the clouds this morning. Somehow the clouds hit even thicker and lower by the time I finished the walk to the top. At least I got this kind of cool time lapse.
April 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The Old Man of Storr was hiding in the clouds this morning. Somehow the clouds hit even thicker and lower by the time I finished the walk to the top. At least I got this kind of cool time lapse.
Okay Belfast, what's the deal with your bike share. This is the most number of bikes I've seen at a station so far, and I must have seen a dozen or so.
April 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Okay Belfast, what's the deal with your bike share. This is the most number of bikes I've seen at a station so far, and I must have seen a dozen or so.
It's been an exhausting past month. I lost a grandmother a few weeks ago. And today I've lost my other grandmother. I'm fortunate to have been able to be with them both in their final days.
I'm going to miss them both.
I'm going to miss them both.
April 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It's been an exhausting past month. I lost a grandmother a few weeks ago. And today I've lost my other grandmother. I'm fortunate to have been able to be with them both in their final days.
I'm going to miss them both.
I'm going to miss them both.
It was very cool to see art made by one of my cousins hanging at the High today!
March 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It was very cool to see art made by one of my cousins hanging at the High today!
Calibre is pretty nice for managing an e-book library. And instructions are pretty easy to find online and fairly straightforward for using the DeDRM plugin to strip the DRM off Kindle books. That's not legal in the US of course. But if you were in a […]
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February 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Calibre is pretty nice for managing an e-book library. And instructions are pretty easy to find online and fairly straightforward for using the DeDRM plugin to strip the DRM off Kindle books. That's not legal in the US of course. But if you were in a […]
[Original post on social.itshalfempty.com]
[Original post on social.itshalfempty.com]
Of all the services to pick for spam / scams...why would anyone choose Peach Pass? The text message I got of course used a shortened link, pointing to another shortened link, with an ID in the query params
February 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Of all the services to pick for spam / scams...why would anyone choose Peach Pass? The text message I got of course used a shortened link, pointing to another shortened link, with an ID in the query params