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Sam Steele 🏳️‍🌈 🎮 📸 👨‍💻
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#Android and #iOS developer at #IRCCloud. Usually posting about #gaming, #vr, #photography, #programming, and #homeautomation.

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Saffron Finch

📍 Como Zoo & Conservatory (St Paul, Minnesota)
📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (150mm, ƒ/5.6, 1/50s, ISO 1250)
📅 December 20th, 2025

#photography #naturephotography #nature #birds #finch #saffronfinch #birdphotography #wildlife #birdwatching […]

[Original post on mastodon.c99.org]
Saffron finch perched on a blue bowl of food Saffron finch perched on a blue bowl of food
December 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reposted by Sam Steele 🏳️‍🌈 🎮 📸 👨‍💻
floheinstein.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.

#foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec
Editor to generate a fake internal server error page complete with You, Cloud, Server in red and green
December 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Reposted by Sam Steele 🏳️‍🌈 🎮 📸 👨‍💻
phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy
Doing a variant of Advent of Code where I open a little door and eat a chocolate and don’t type anything or look at a computer
December 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Reposted by Sam Steele 🏳️‍🌈 🎮 📸 👨‍💻
jaseg.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
This must be one of the the most unhinged workplaces in science, ever. In 1966, Fowler asked how air moves through a centrifugal compressor. To answer this question, he put a guy holding a camera on a spinning chair in the middle of a huge turbine wheel spinning […]

[Original post on chaos.social]
A vintage line drawing of a fucking HUGE turbine thing, with the shaft going vertical and the blades pointing sideways, that has a fucking GUY sititing in the middle of it, right inside of the shaft! The thing has a "snailshell" exit volume for the air that looks like its name suggest like a snail shell's spiral. Air enters from the top besides the shaft. A screenshot of a paragraph from an old scientific paper typeset on a fancy typewriter. The text reads (OCR): It has therefore seemed useful to examine theoretically the flow in an impeller channel, and set down all the possible secondary flows that may combine to form it. Starting from this model, a program of experiments has been devised to determine the presence and magnitude of each of these components, and a series of impellers is being examined. A test rig has been built on which 6-ft-6-in-diameter impellers may be spun at up to 70 r.p.m. An observer sitting in the middle and rotating with the impeller is able to examine the flow in the channel with smoke and a movie camera, and to measure velocities with a hot-wire anemometer. Photographs of wool tufts in the channel, taken from outside through a window in the compressor casing with a 1-microsecond flash, have added to the understanding of flow direction in the channel.
December 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Reposted by Sam Steele 🏳️‍🌈 🎮 📸 👨‍💻
gin.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy
play the grindr notification noise at Christmas dinner to see which conservative relatives panickedly check their phone ringer
December 4, 2024 at 1:46 AM
sam.mastodon.c99.org.ap.brid.gy
25 mi (40 km) ride along the Mississippi River Trail

🚲 https://www.strava.com/activities/16527851556

#cyclingphotos #cyclingshots #cycling #ebike #electricbike #outdoors #minnesota #stpaul #saintpaul #twincities #msp #Strava #stravacycling #bike #ride #mtb #ebikeadventures #mississippirivertrail
Strava map showing a route along the Mississippi River Trail in Saint Paul, MN Black and red eBike in front of the Mississippi River, with the Mississippi River Bridge in the background Black and red eBike in front of the Daughters of the American Revolution monument Black and red eBike at the Two Rivers Overlook
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reposted by Sam Steele 🏳️‍🌈 🎮 📸 👨‍💻
tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy
We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they […]
Original post on tldr.nettime.org
tldr.nettime.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Reposted by Sam Steele 🏳️‍🌈 🎮 📸 👨‍💻
jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
my husband made it so the home assistant voice assistant can use full-on ollama to interpret instructions. then he told it to turn the lights on. it's been explaining its thought process for over five minutes now and the lights are still off.
November 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Reposted by Sam Steele 🏳️‍🌈 🎮 📸 👨‍💻
neilsardesai.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Always nice to have options
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Graffiti By The Lake

📍 Lake Nokomis (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (20mm, ƒ/8, 1/320s, ISO 250)
📅 November 3rd, 2025

#photography #streetphotography #naturephotography #landscapephotography #graffiti #outdoors #minnesota #minneapolis […]

[Original post on mastodon.c99.org]
Blue and pink graffiti tag that says CRASH on a rusty metal platform overlooking a lake
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The Painted Turtle

📍 Lake Nokomis (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (22mm, ƒ/8, 1/40s, ISO 250)
📅 November 3rd, 2025
🚲 https://www.strava.com/activities/16345896662

#photography #streetphotography #cyclingphotos #cyclingshots #cycling #ebike […]

[Original post on mastodon.c99.org]
Black and red eBike in front of a brick wall with a purple and blue turtle painted on it
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by Sam Steele 🏳️‍🌈 🎮 📸 👨‍💻
gosha.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy
Bring back BeOS style iconography
A screenshot of a gloriously colourful BeOS desktop, with a blue background, vibrant yellow window title bars, and colourful isometric icons
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
sam.mastodon.c99.org.ap.brid.gy
Got nerd sniped by @dskuza into adding my e-bike into #homeassistant. Now the charger is on a zigbee smart plug that sends a notification and turns itself off when the battery has finished charging. Also tracking the location with Tile, overall mileage / […]

[Original post on mastodon.c99.org]
Home Assistant dashboard displaying various statistics and data about an e-Bike Android notification saying the eBike battery has finished charging Node-Red automation to fetch data from ProBikeGarage API Node-Red automation to send a notification when e-bike battery has finished charging
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Autumn 🍁

📍 Lake Phalen (St Paul, Minnesota)
📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (92mm, ƒ/5.6, 1/80s, ISO 250)
📅 October 23rd, 2025

#photography #streetphotography #naturephotography #outdoors #autumn #autumncolors #fall #fallcolors #leaves #foliage #fallvibes […]

[Original post on mastodon.c99.org]
Red maple leaf on dark grey concrete
October 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
sam.mastodon.c99.org.ap.brid.gy
This week I rode my eBike from Como Park to Lake Phalen

📍 Lake Phalen (St Paul, Minnesota)
📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (14mm, ƒ/8, 1/400s, ISO 250)
📅 October 23rd, 2025
🚲 https://www.strava.com/activities/16235873807

#photography #streetphotography […]

[Original post on mastodon.c99.org]
Black and red electric mountain bike on a wooden platform overlooking a lake Black and red electric mountain bike next to a concrete pillar overlooking a lake Black and red electric mountain bike on a concrete platform overlooking a lake Map of the route from Como Park to Lake Phalen. Elev Gain: 487 ft Time: 1h 54m Distance: 17.72 mi
October 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Gateway Trail

📍 Gateway Trail (Minnesota)
📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (14mm, ƒ/8, 1/125s, ISO 1250)
📅 October 4th, 2025

#photography #streetphotography #cyclingphotos #cyclingshots #cycling #ebike #electricbike #outdoors #minnesota #nature #olympus #em10 #em10markii #omsystem
A black and red electric bike in front of a brown wooden sign that says "GATEWAY TRAIL - MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES" in yellow letters A black and red electric bike in front of a large map of the Gateway Trail. Two cyclists are on the path in the background.
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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World's Largest Snowman ⛄️

📍 North St. Paul Snowman (North Saint Paul, Minnesota)
📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (14mm, ƒ/8, 1/4000s, ISO 1250)
📅 October 4th, 2025

#photography #streetphotography #northsaintpaul #minnesota #letitsnow #roadsideattraction #winter #olympus #em10 #em10markii #omsystem
A giant snowman statue wearing a red scarf and black top hat along the side of a road
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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⚠️ Yield To Horses

📍 Gateway Trail (Minnesota)
📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (14mm, ƒ/5.6, 1/1000s, ISO 1250)
📅 October 4th, 2025

#photography #streetphotography #cycling #ebike #electricbike #outdoors #minnesota #nature #signs #horses #olympus #em10 #em10markii #omsystem
A black and red bicycle in front of a sign that says "Yield to horses" along a trail through the woods. Another biker is visible on the trail in the background.
October 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Rotary Park

📍 Rotary Park (North Saint Paul, Minnesota)
📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (25mm, ƒ/5.6, 1/1250s, ISO 1250)
📅 October 4th, 2025

#photography #streetphotography #cycling #ebike #electricbike #outdoors #minnesota #northsaintpaul #rotarypark #olympus #em10 #em10markii #omsystem
A black and red electric bike parked in front of a blue bench that says "Rotary" in gold letters. A wall in the background says "CITY OF NORTH SAINT PAUL"
October 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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LEGO Game Boy

📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (42mm, ƒ/5.6, 1/13s, ISO 1250)
📅 October 3rd, 2025

#photography #gaming #retrogaming #nintendo #gameboy #lego #olympus #em10 #em10markii #omsystem
LEGO Game Boy in front of a colorful Tetris block lamp with two LEGO cartridges: Super Mario Land and Legend of Zelda
October 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Garden Walkway

📍 Minnehaha Park (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (24mm, ƒ/5.6, 1/60s, ISO 200)
📅 September 26th, 2025

#photography #bloomscrolling #architecture #minnehahafalls #minnehahapark #minneapolisparks #minnesota #minneapolis […]

[Original post on mastodon.c99.org]
A paved pathway through a garden, surrounded by concrete pillars and covered by a wooden roof
September 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Music In The Park

📍 Minnehaha Park (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (24mm, ƒ/5, 1/250s, ISO 200)
📅 September 26th, 2025

#photography #streetphotography #streetmusic #outdoormusic #accordionplayer #harmonicaplayer #accordion #harmonica […]

[Original post on mastodon.c99.org]
An accordion player and a harmonica player standing in front of a brick wall in a park
September 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
sam.mastodon.c99.org.ap.brid.gy
Finished the latest expedition, caught up with all the new story quests from the previous few updates, and finally got around to finishing the Atlas Path after 9 years of playing No Man's Sky 😅

Time to explore all the new planet types, the deep ocean worlds […]

[Original post on mastodon.c99.org]
Approaching an oceanic planet Watching my ship hover over the ocean with its aqua jets upgrade from within the Nautilon submarine Searching for a lithium deposit deep under the ocean in the Nautilon submarine
September 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Abandoned Water Bottle

📍 Lillydale Regional Park (St Paul, Minnesota)
📷 Olympus E-M10 Mark II (14mm, ƒ/11, 1/400s, ISO 800)
📅 September 6th, 2025

#photography #minnesota #stpaul #saintpaul #twincities #msp #olympus #em10 #em10markii #omsystem
A black water bottle is sitting on a wooden park bench
September 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reposted by Sam Steele 🏳️‍🌈 🎮 📸 👨‍💻
samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
September 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM