Mike Andrews
@bit0.com
(he/him) Server/net/infosec nerd (Fark). Keywords: JoCo Cruise, MSTie, 🎢, IPv6, bourbon🥃, hubby/stepdad, failed 🎸ist. Then it gets weird…
As of today, I've been at my current job for exactly half my life. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
August 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
As of today, I've been at my current job for exactly half my life. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
I rewrote a script that took 21 hours to run and got it down to 71 minutes, and only one person in the world is going to care about it, but I'm still counting it as a win.
August 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I rewrote a script that took 21 hours to run and got it down to 71 minutes, and only one person in the world is going to care about it, but I'm still counting it as a win.
Unpopular take from a developer: all AI is a scam, all of it, and you should not use it for anything ever
August 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Unpopular take from a developer: all AI is a scam, all of it, and you should not use it for anything ever
We (Fark) do indeed still exist.
"Bluesky is dead, you have to go where the people are."
Counterpoint:
Counterpoint:
July 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
We (Fark) do indeed still exist.
Things I did not expect to still have in my pocket when going through security at a Primus show. Oopsie!
(For the uninitiated, it’s a ten-gigabit ethernet fiber optic adapter)
(For the uninitiated, it’s a ten-gigabit ethernet fiber optic adapter)
July 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Things I did not expect to still have in my pocket when going through security at a Primus show. Oopsie!
(For the uninitiated, it’s a ten-gigabit ethernet fiber optic adapter)
(For the uninitiated, it’s a ten-gigabit ethernet fiber optic adapter)
Maybe the DC parade would’ve had more than 10k people show up if they’d offered everyone an extra hour in the ball pit
June 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Maybe the DC parade would’ve had more than 10k people show up if they’d offered everyone an extra hour in the ball pit
Always a good time when you discover a feature you should add to your work app (like support for a new image format), only to discover you already did it two years ago and just forgot
May 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Always a good time when you discover a feature you should add to your work app (like support for a new image format), only to discover you already did it two years ago and just forgot
Happy First of May to all of us JoCo fans that celebrate outdoors.
May 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Happy First of May to all of us JoCo fans that celebrate outdoors.
The biggest surprise about the 4chan hack is that it took as long as it did — if they really hadn’t patched anything in a decade
April 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The biggest surprise about the 4chan hack is that it took as long as it did — if they really hadn’t patched anything in a decade
The weather radio has started singing the song of its people.
March 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The weather radio has started singing the song of its people.
Brief Fark outage planned tonight after midnight ET (more likely 1 am ET) lasting up to an hour. It won't be for letting it all hang out.
March 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Brief Fark outage planned tonight after midnight ET (more likely 1 am ET) lasting up to an hour. It won't be for letting it all hang out.
We did a nerdy thing with our basement stairs.
February 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
We did a nerdy thing with our basement stairs.
Fark starts its 26th year today. Some of us have been doing this half our lives. I don't really know what to think of that.
February 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Fark starts its 26th year today. Some of us have been doing this half our lives. I don't really know what to think of that.
Maybe "Super Bowl LIX" isn't the one to keep using roman numerals for.
February 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Maybe "Super Bowl LIX" isn't the one to keep using roman numerals for.
We've now reached a point where OpenVMS ships with a newer version of Perl (5.40) than most Linux distros (5.36).
January 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We've now reached a point where OpenVMS ships with a newer version of Perl (5.40) than most Linux distros (5.36).
43 days til nerdboat and I just had my first "missing the boat" dream... only to wake up to an email about their new booking system changeover.
January 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
43 days til nerdboat and I just had my first "missing the boat" dream... only to wake up to an email about their new booking system changeover.
This week’s win: getting a program that took 10 hours and 100 GB of memory to run slimmed down to 6 and 22.
January 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This week’s win: getting a program that took 10 hours and 100 GB of memory to run slimmed down to 6 and 22.
Once more, with feeling. KY vs Texas A&M
January 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Once more, with feeling. KY vs Texas A&M
Looks like the spambots have found me here too. Meh. It was inevitable.
January 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Looks like the spambots have found me here too. Meh. It was inevitable.
OK, so the video limit here is 60 seconds. So much for the 65 second timelapse of Monday's snowfall I was gonna repost here. Since we're supposed to get more Friday, I'll do another timelapse this weekend.
January 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
OK, so the video limit here is 60 seconds. So much for the 65 second timelapse of Monday's snowfall I was gonna repost here. Since we're supposed to get more Friday, I'll do another timelapse this weekend.
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It's the best time of the year -- Fark's Headline of the Year 2024 is open for voting
It's the best time of the year -- Fark's Headline of the Year 2024 is open for voting
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December 14, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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Today I managed to be proud, scared, and disgusted all at once by one blob of Javascript I had to write to work around a bug in Safari.
December 5, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Today I managed to be proud, scared, and disgusted all at once by one blob of Javascript I had to write to work around a bug in Safari.
PSA: Bluesky has two-factor auth. Turn it on.
November 19, 2024 at 1:06 AM
PSA: Bluesky has two-factor auth. Turn it on.