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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta
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- Open source 🐛🧲
- Maintains http://SerialPort.io & helped found Nodebots
- Never graduating from @recursecenter
- I write about the internet I wish we had and other […]

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My kids laser tag system broke. One of the guns started acting like a vest. So of course we took it apart.
December 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Had to rebuild and clean out my hotend on my prusa mk4s after a pretty bad jam (first ever) that caused filament to push out in places I didn't know filament could go. It was like how they show bad plumbers in movies with water coming out of places there shouldn't be water. It was bad.

I got a […]
Original post on toot.cafe
toot.cafe
December 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
It’s just an #ai being wrong about fire safety in my search results kind of morning.
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
From @matt's newsletter

https://www.patreon.com/posts/did-you-enjoy-it-143454734

It's about how Jon Stewart got his dream job and hated it, the pressure of putting himself out there, and then decided to drop the pressure and just enjoy it and let the chips fall where they may.

He got canceled […]
Original post on toot.cafe
toot.cafe
December 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
OK

#hugops to the MTA TrainTime team this December 1st when everyone’s monthly pass expires.
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Props to the delivery van driver blasting REM at 8 in the morning in the middle of the city.
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Reposted by Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta
While I'm thinking about work, a piece of advice for startups thinking about security: fix your project management and roadmapping process before/at the same time as bringing someone in to help with security, especially if that person is not getting put in as a peer to the CTO with the swing to […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I'm exploring setting up a persistent linux place for me and I just found https://rootloops.sh/ and it's the kind of silly I love
Root Loops
Terminal color schemes for cereal lovers.
rootloops.sh
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Reposted by Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta
Since this seems to come up a lot, especially now with Windows being replaced by Copilot and Tim Apple being a frequent guest at the White House, I thought I'd write up my quick and objective guide to choosing Linux distros:

I just want something stable and easy to install that's still being […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Oh dip #proxmox can now import docker into lxc containers!
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I took some photos on the train this morning.
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Listen I’m sure Adam’s farms is great but I can think of a lot of things that top stock photo pizza
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Strength, Utility and Delight as three pillars of design is kinda a nice framework.

(More or less according to an old roman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmness,_commodity,_and_delight)
Firmness, commodity, and delight - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 AM
After building a small tool with JMAP I can say that I like it as an API. I've never worked with IMAP so I don't know how much has held over, but I found the docs, and concepts quite straightforward.

#jmap
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Windows 3.1 on the gameboy color review https://retrododo.com/gbs-windows-review/
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I’ve had a really wild ride emotionally this past week and it’s probably due to the changing of the season and the amount of direct sunlight I get. That didnlt make any sense to me a few days ago but it’s clear as daylight to me now.

So if you’re feeling worse than usual, try to get sun in your […]
Original post on toot.cafe
toot.cafe
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta
The wait is finally over, we're happy to announce that the KeebDeck Keyboard and our first product using it, the KeebDeck Basic, are now available for sale from our @lectronz.com store! ⌨️

lectronz.com/stores/solde...
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
"Science doesn't care about your feelings, and physics wants to make you cry"

It's true...
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I have always wondered how transit data is provided and today I found #gtfs The General Transit Feed Specification!

https://gtfs.org
Home - General Transit Feed Specification
gtfs.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We're going to rename the Tappan Zee!

#mamdani
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
This guy Ari just walks around the city playing music and people sing with him and it's so very good

https://www.youtube.com/live/Bx7gOILpJyc?si=wilVkrntZyIb71QV&t=3075
November 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
@thisismissem thanks for the pointer to the selfhost newsletter everything about them is awesome
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Reposted by Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta
KeebDeck Basic size reference btw
October 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Reposted by Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta
do things that are weird, free, and kind
October 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Tailscale identity on network connections :kirby:

https://tailscale.com/blog/building-tsidp

I mean the connection is backed by a peer to peer vpn so that makes sense I suppose. I’m still a little flabergasted.
How we built a lightweight identity provider using Tailscale's tools
How tsnet, application security grants, and Funnel combined to build a secure authorization app.
tailscale.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM