Tim
@timburga.com
dfw | just trying to be nicer | If I don't answer leave a message on the machine
get your medal at @altheroes.bsky.social
or don't, i'm not your boss
get your medal at @altheroes.bsky.social
or don't, i'm not your boss
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Tim
@timburga.com
· Oct 31
online is not real life
red and blue states are a modern myth designed to divide and distract us
change is scary when you're going through it but obvious in retrospect
society isn't going downhill, we're hardwired to only remember the good
red and blue states are a modern myth designed to divide and distract us
change is scary when you're going through it but obvious in retrospect
society isn't going downhill, we're hardwired to only remember the good
Honey I Shrunk the Sweeney
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Honey I Shrunk the Sweeney
do your worst @profanity.accountant
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
do your worst @profanity.accountant
our fair webbed site has become lousy with whorebots this week
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
our fair webbed site has become lousy with whorebots this week
once again playing the "will the pie survive to Thanksgiving" game and it's going to be a photo finish kinda year
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
once again playing the "will the pie survive to Thanksgiving" game and it's going to be a photo finish kinda year
it has been [ 0 ] days since the last Oslo roundabout bendy bus jam
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
it has been [ 0 ] days since the last Oslo roundabout bendy bus jam
announcing claude ope-us for the US midwest
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
announcing claude ope-us for the US midwest
a special treat for @jcsalterego.bsky.social, because he's been good
Strong Bad Email #210 - Robots
YouTube video by homestarrunnerdotcom
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November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
a special treat for @jcsalterego.bsky.social, because he's been good
got a lil surprise this morning
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
got a lil surprise this morning
the European counterplan to the garbage US peace plan is, in fact, also garbage
this timeline continues to be so bad
this timeline continues to be so bad
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
the European counterplan to the garbage US peace plan is, in fact, also garbage
this timeline continues to be so bad
this timeline continues to be so bad
i nearly failed out of college because i was hooked on a text-based MUD (BattleTech 3056) and spent all day in the computer lab instead of class
i really liked scripting macros and i realized i should learn programming instead of failing out of mechanical engineering
i really liked scripting macros and i realized i should learn programming instead of failing out of mechanical engineering
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
i nearly failed out of college because i was hooked on a text-based MUD (BattleTech 3056) and spent all day in the computer lab instead of class
i really liked scripting macros and i realized i should learn programming instead of failing out of mechanical engineering
i really liked scripting macros and i realized i should learn programming instead of failing out of mechanical engineering
Reposted by Tim
Ok Bluesky, let’s give this a go: I found this postcard in the back of a photo frame I bought at a London thrift shop.
It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!).
I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?
It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!).
I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ok Bluesky, let’s give this a go: I found this postcard in the back of a photo frame I bought at a London thrift shop.
It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!).
I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?
It’s an unsent postcard from a woman called Linda to her parents. The front shows the Kremlin in Moscow and the stamp says 1984 (!).
I’d love to return it to Linda - can you help?
dotnet has been open source for over a decade and is actually really good but it suffers from understandable but misplaced anti-microsoft bias
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
dotnet has been open source for over a decade and is actually really good but it suffers from understandable but misplaced anti-microsoft bias
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entering my 1 week long between-jobs era and it feels good, damn good
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
entering my 1 week long between-jobs era and it feels good, damn good
BREAKING: Cheney's corpse has escaped the coffin again and is now attempting to waterboard Laura Bush
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
BREAKING: Cheney's corpse has escaped the coffin again and is now attempting to waterboard Laura Bush
new pics from the preliminary report on UPS 2976 😲
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
new pics from the preliminary report on UPS 2976 😲
tech debt: when you sacrifice a little maintainability for short term expediency
tech suffering: when you pascal case your postgres objects because you didn't know better and have to put quotes around every column and table name in every query for eternity
tech suffering: when you pascal case your postgres objects because you didn't know better and have to put quotes around every column and table name in every query for eternity
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
tech debt: when you sacrifice a little maintainability for short term expediency
tech suffering: when you pascal case your postgres objects because you didn't know better and have to put quotes around every column and table name in every query for eternity
tech suffering: when you pascal case your postgres objects because you didn't know better and have to put quotes around every column and table name in every query for eternity
(drawing conclusions after briefly skimming the cloudflare outage report)
see this is why you don't limit your file sizes
see this is why you don't limit your file sizes
November 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
(drawing conclusions after briefly skimming the cloudflare outage report)
see this is why you don't limit your file sizes
see this is why you don't limit your file sizes
Reposted by Tim
Reposted by Tim
IF YOU ARE RUNNING YOUR OWN PDS I am sorry but I am about to make a change to our docker compose.yaml to switch to a fork of the watchtower service that handles updates -- see github.com/bluesky-soci...
unfortunately, upstream is now unmaintained and we can't push this out any more cleanly. thanks!
unfortunately, upstream is now unmaintained and we can't push this out any more cleanly. thanks!
switch to watchtower fork by axfelix · Pull Request #289 · bluesky-social/pds
I normally don't switch to a 3rd party fork lightly due to maintenance implications, but this seems like the right move here: containrrr/watchtower#2122
Tested that the fork was able to update ...
github.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
IF YOU ARE RUNNING YOUR OWN PDS I am sorry but I am about to make a change to our docker compose.yaml to switch to a fork of the watchtower service that handles updates -- see github.com/bluesky-soci...
unfortunately, upstream is now unmaintained and we can't push this out any more cleanly. thanks!
unfortunately, upstream is now unmaintained and we can't push this out any more cleanly. thanks!
past me ftw
cloudflare exfil complete ✅
don't know why I thought all my hosting should belong to one megacorp
i don't even use the same company for car and home insurance
don't know why I thought all my hosting should belong to one megacorp
i don't even use the same company for car and home insurance
November 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
past me ftw
Reposted by Tim
1980: the internet routing system provides a virtually unlimited number of paths between any two machines to ensure maximum connectivity and resiliency
2025: can't flush the toilet because AWS East is down
2025: can't flush the toilet because AWS East is down
October 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
1980: the internet routing system provides a virtually unlimited number of paths between any two machines to ensure maximum connectivity and resiliency
2025: can't flush the toilet because AWS East is down
2025: can't flush the toilet because AWS East is down