Blake Carpenter
@blakecarpenter.dev
I do SRE and other tech stuff. I like tube amps and whisky.
If you figure out where I work, opinions are my own.
https://www.blakecarpenter.dev/
If you figure out where I work, opinions are my own.
https://www.blakecarpenter.dev/
The marketing page for Lenovo's new handheld shows a guy playing at the bar and clearly I blacked out and attended their consumer test panel.
September 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The marketing page for Lenovo's new handheld shows a guy playing at the bar and clearly I blacked out and attended their consumer test panel.
Seeking an instrument, maybe keyboards, viola, trumpet, or other things less common in a rock band, to play instrumental rock in Framingham. We can sit on the floor and drink cider while we rock.
September 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Seeking an instrument, maybe keyboards, viola, trumpet, or other things less common in a rock band, to play instrumental rock in Framingham. We can sit on the floor and drink cider while we rock.
Made my evening. Great work as always!
August 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Made my evening. Great work as always!
Excited to be off work at 5 so I can start building.
August 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Excited to be off work at 5 so I can start building.
Are you exclusively friends with Snyder bros? Because people like this movie. I think the last time I enjoyed a comic book movie this much was Dredd.
July 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Are you exclusively friends with Snyder bros? Because people like this movie. I think the last time I enjoyed a comic book movie this much was Dredd.
Got the most metal Jesus flyer ever left on my car, twice. Cool, I get to keep one and send the other in.
July 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Got the most metal Jesus flyer ever left on my car, twice. Cool, I get to keep one and send the other in.
Frankensurfer is done once I add the strap buttons. Plays great now. Might upgrade the bridge too.
• Warmoth swamp ash body
• Warmoth 24.75" scale birdseye maple neck
• Stonewall Fat Jazzmaster Pickups
• Hipshot locking tuners
• 1M pots
• Kinda crappy adjustable Mustang bridge
• Warmoth swamp ash body
• Warmoth 24.75" scale birdseye maple neck
• Stonewall Fat Jazzmaster Pickups
• Hipshot locking tuners
• 1M pots
• Kinda crappy adjustable Mustang bridge
July 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Frankensurfer is done once I add the strap buttons. Plays great now. Might upgrade the bridge too.
• Warmoth swamp ash body
• Warmoth 24.75" scale birdseye maple neck
• Stonewall Fat Jazzmaster Pickups
• Hipshot locking tuners
• 1M pots
• Kinda crappy adjustable Mustang bridge
• Warmoth swamp ash body
• Warmoth 24.75" scale birdseye maple neck
• Stonewall Fat Jazzmaster Pickups
• Hipshot locking tuners
• 1M pots
• Kinda crappy adjustable Mustang bridge
Since LinkedIn users are obsessed with AI and don't know how to use paragraphs, I asked AI to explain it. We're all doomed.
June 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Since LinkedIn users are obsessed with AI and don't know how to use paragraphs, I asked AI to explain it. We're all doomed.
The plastic the record store had this in said "plays with some noise." Having now played the record, I'm assuming they hadn't heard it before. Even the CD sounds like shit. So stoked I found this.
June 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The plastic the record store had this in said "plays with some noise." Having now played the record, I'm assuming they hadn't heard it before. Even the CD sounds like shit. So stoked I found this.
I'm glad I can tell it how I feel.
May 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I'm glad I can tell it how I feel.
The Globe gets this city.
May 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The Globe gets this city.
The Wikipedia app for Android bugs out in the best ways sometimes.
May 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The Wikipedia app for Android bugs out in the best ways sometimes.
Mission accomplished.
April 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mission accomplished.
Don't make your career a hobby, either.
March 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Don't make your career a hobby, either.
Just noticed my blog's new theme auto-appended social share buttons, so I fixed some of the links.
March 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Just noticed my blog's new theme auto-appended social share buttons, so I fixed some of the links.
This dude has a street team that put his "Looking for the Perfect Woman" crap up in major cities everywhere. I felt like it lacked truth in advertising, so I fixed it.
I am not a great artist.
I am not a great artist.
March 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This dude has a street team that put his "Looking for the Perfect Woman" crap up in major cities everywhere. I felt like it lacked truth in advertising, so I fixed it.
I am not a great artist.
I am not a great artist.
Starting a Jazzmaster build. Warmoth parts with Stonewall pickups.
February 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Starting a Jazzmaster build. Warmoth parts with Stonewall pickups.
We just wanted to know if Alexa still acknowledged certain cultural celebrations and asked our Echo this last night. It's still saying 2032 today.
Maybe I don't need smart speakers.
Maybe I don't need smart speakers.
February 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We just wanted to know if Alexa still acknowledged certain cultural celebrations and asked our Echo this last night. It's still saying 2032 today.
Maybe I don't need smart speakers.
Maybe I don't need smart speakers.
Two things about the Cambridge, MA forecast:
1. I will write a black metal album in 3 days.
2. Why does hell start freezing over starting on inauguration day?
1. I will write a black metal album in 3 days.
2. Why does hell start freezing over starting on inauguration day?
January 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Two things about the Cambridge, MA forecast:
1. I will write a black metal album in 3 days.
2. Why does hell start freezing over starting on inauguration day?
1. I will write a black metal album in 3 days.
2. Why does hell start freezing over starting on inauguration day?
@newmellie.bsky.social says we look like we're about to drop an indie album.
January 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
@newmellie.bsky.social says we look like we're about to drop an indie album.
I think Boston Globe's ad sales department totally doesn't care.
January 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I think Boston Globe's ad sales department totally doesn't care.