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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026

I think it's time to nuke the Win 10 drive for good. Ideally I'd also clone my 512gb Fedora drive and expand it into this 1TB drive, but I've never had much luck with that sort of thing.

Windows 10's Security panel, and a dialog saying "Page not available; Your IT administrator has limited access to some areas of this app, and the item you tried to access is not available. Contact IT helpdesk for more information." (this is a personal laptop with a single user account (mine))

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026

SIXTH PLACE! This is likely less an indication of my skill than an indication of most golfer's lack of desire to waste any of their prescious time on this earth even attempting to minify COBOL. Tbh I got a pretty decent jump just accidentally finding out that […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of https://code.golf containing my COBOL code to print the lyrics to 99 Bottles of Beer. To the right is the leaderboard for this challenge in this language. In 1st is user "primo-ppcg" at 437 chars. I'm #6 with 578 chars.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026

Uuuuughh, COBOL. I don't even care about the bloody score, I just couldn't not finish a challenge that on paper should be painfully easy, but because it's COBOL, it's just pain lmao

Screenshot of the 99 Bottles of Beer challenge on code.golf, written in COBOL, and successfully run (FINALLY).

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026

If you're a weird nutjob like me who likes it when the line they're currently reading is the first line at all times (idk; it's congenital), *and* you also use Firefox, then you may appreciate this, which changes the number of lines scrolled by a press of an […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of about:config. The search bar contains `toolkit.scrollbox.verticalScrollDistance`. Below that is the corresponding parameter, which I've changed from it's default value of 3, to my preferred value of 1.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

Has anyone noticed that Github is a steaming pile of shit now? I mean yeah I know it's a sloppy cesspool, but I'm talking functionally... I just got rate limited typing in the Username field lmao

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

There was a time when I knew how to open the filter modal with a keyboard shortcut, and I remember it being a pain in the ass to learn the first time around, but I don't remember and I'm mad about it. I do remember it being a strange shortcut. Like I feel like Tab was involved, for some reason.

Screenshot of some tabular data in Excel. The focused cell is the heading for a column with a little down-pointing triangle icon on the right hand side (for filtering)

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Ok, as expected, utility hooks do make half decent wall mounts for guitars. The one thibg purpose made guitar hangers have going for them however is that the hook usually swivels, so asymmetrical headstocks like both if these don't cause the guitar to lean to […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Two guitars hanging on a white wall between a copy of a Rollibg Stone Grateful Dead magazine and a photo of a skateboarder nailing a sick grind on a truck's bumper on newsprint (cut it out of a skateboarding magazine; don't remember which).

Guitar 1 is a kindy funky shaped sunburst catalog guitar that looks like a mish-mash between a Teisco and a Harmony (because it kinda is), while #2 is a black Squier Stratocaster with some light modifications

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Omg, idk how many people even remember or care about this (or if it was ever much of a thing in the US), but Hershey Brown Cow chocolate syrup STILL EXISTS. Apparently Brazil had a particular fondness for it, so it never went away there. Apparently R$38,40 is […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Shopee Brazil website listing for Brown Cow chocolate syrup (think Nesquik, only different). The bottle stilk has that unique cylindrical shape with the snappy spout lid!

Photo of two boxes of Soda-licious, a gummy snack sold by Betty Crocker in the 1990s. both boxes are a vibrant purple, with the name "Soda-Licious" set in a bold and bouncy typeface, with pop bottle shapes for the two I's in "licious". The first box, the "fruity mix 6-pack" (red punch, lemon-lime, grape), has the name set in lime green. On the second "soda 6-pack" box (root beer, orange, cherry cola), it's set in a vibrant reddy-orange.

If you never had the pleasure, I don't know how to express to you how good these were, lol. I was like 6 or 7 when these were discontinued and I stil want them back

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I did that thing I do where I read the first chunk of a book in one go, and then wait months to come back to it, and now I feel like I have to start again, because I enjoy punishing myself I guess. Anyway, I think I'll just re-read one chapter back. I was really […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A paperback copy of Dick Francis' Straight. The cover is metallic gold, with the author's name abd title in black all caps. A small circle contains a photo of some sort of jewelry featuring semi-prescious stones of some description.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Jeeez, I'm dyin' out here. Meanwhile boo-thang cleared a line within the first 30 minutes! #Monsterdon

Monsterdon Bingo card, not even close to having a single line filled out.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Measure once; live the consequences. In all seriousness though, I actually measured zero times, but it's stilk playing far better with this new horrendously ill-fitting neck than it ever did with the original. Anyway, this is recoverable lol, but I'll just live […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Closeup photo of an electric guitar neck where it meets the body. The alignment is such that the low E (the thickest string) is a mm or two from edge of the fretboard, while the high E (thinnest) is more like 7 or 8mm from the other edge. There is a similar misalignment between the strings and the six pole pieces in the visible pickup.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Question for #EE folks: if one or more capacitors on a power supply go POP, my understanding is that this could cause a cascading failure and damage nearby passive components. The power supply in question is the one in my Pioneer CLD-110 LaserDisc player; also […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Photo of the power supply PCB with annotations pointing out the location of the replaced capacitors as well as the blown fuse. Parts/top side.

Photo of the power supply PCB with annotations pointing out the location of the replaced capacitors as well as the blown fuse (plus a scribbled out section annotated "unrelated soldering atrocity" lol). Solder side.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Some friendly citizens and police officers all hanging out together to watch a police cruiser's sick breakdancing routine. A grown up street light and its young adult child watch from the back row.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Gotta love auto-generated captions. If I were deaf, I would probably come to the following conclusions: 1. this guy really sucks at guitar, and; 2. the audience has exactly zero tact.

Screenshot of a Youtube video, featuring a guy in a black hoodie playing a Telecaster. The captions read as follows:
[Music]
[Laughter]

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Oh gee, thanks. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside 🙄

Screenshot from an email from Wikipedia thanking me for my monthly donation, and "inviting me" to install the Wikipedia mobile app?

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

I just dodged a couple of bullets in the form of an impulse buy. It was between a Tascam DP006 (which would have been practical but dinky and annoying (menu divey), or a Zoom PS04, which would've been cool and funky and had tons of effects of varying usefulness […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A shiny red plastic device with a small LCD, 7 verical slidets, a couple of XLRs and several TS connectors, and myriad buttons and knobs. It's a digital multitrack recorder, because in spite of computers being very much "my thing," I don't really love making music on them most of the time.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

I decided that instead of repairing my headphones by just barely managing to solder that awful enamel coated wire/nylon blend (aka tinsel wire, it turns out), I'd rather just replace the entire cord with a jack. As anticipated, this was a far less awful […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Pair of Sony MDR-7506 headphones, closeup the left side, where an ⅛"/3.5mm aux. cable is attached, at the point where the now removed "permanent" cable's strain relief would normally be.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Do you think there's someone out there on the internet that doesn't really get how any of it works; they just think every comment on the internet is a personal message to them from some far away pen pal? It's unreasonable how angry this makes me lmao

A comment on Reddit: "It's a gorgeous library, indeed. Is there another one nearby that I should check out?"
Another comment, in reply: "Google it"

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Well, better late than never... only weeks after I finally cloned every site one by one onto a new server to test and fix any breakages lol. It needed to be done, but of course it only needed to be done because I was on the only host on the planet that doesn't […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A notification on the Cloudways admin interface of their new (as of the 8th of August) preview of "PHP Version Per Application"

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Throwback to that time I did a thing to my shitty little Dell Latitude (and a time when swappable batteries were still a thing [insert non-existant "pouring 40oz bottle" emoji here]). It did "work" in that it extended the battery life, but basically it would […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

An older Dell laptop with a battery pack installed in the normal place (remember when you could get larger batteries for business laptop's, and they would kinda stick out the back like a handle? That), and another battery pack hot glued and duct taped to the back of the screen, with yellow and black wires coming from it and entering the battery at the bottom. A soldering iron and related tools/materials plus some PC power supply cables with molex connectors are sitting on the counter top nearby.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

It might be time for a new old projector

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Huh... I didn't realize a cable could be microphonic.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Elementor has taken the universal trend of butthole AI logos, and gone a step further, with a whole ass ass pooping out a smaller twinkley sphincter... so uh, yeah.

The top bar of Elementor featuring a series of vague icons. The first is a plus sign, which brings up the list of widgets to add to the page, to the right of that is a new one, which a little toast below it indicates is for a feature called "Angle" which purports to generate new widgets based on a proompt. But the icon, I swear to Bob, looks like two butt cheeks (kinda like a 3 with the top and bottom quarters missing, if that makes sense) just pooped out a little twinkley butthole (the international symbol for AI features is of course a glittery sphincter; which isn't far from the truth). You can't make this stuff up.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Okay I'm extremely entertained. I enjoy the fact that the Granada is very much an amp some kid who owned this Harmony would conceivably have been playing it through. Also, while I miss the gorgeous tones I could get out of my [not even gonna say it cause you'll […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

I've discovered a glorious resource in the form of this archive of scans of vintage guitar catalogues and advertisements (www.vintageguitarandbass.com/gretsc…), and I did what I always do when presented with an archive of vintage […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

I need a type nerd with a better memory than me to help identify this font. It's super distinctive, but I'm drawing a complete blank. pls to halp? #typography #typeface #fonts #fontsinuse

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Is this not one of the sexiest headstocks ever conceived? It really is a shame. Silvertone 14XXs were all over eBay back in the day ~2005ish), and yeah, a really nice one with the original amp-in-case with all it's vinyl/fabric intact would have cost you real […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

I did a thing (poorly). A smart person wouldve drilled the corners first and then cut across them so there would be a radius, but it sounds so f**king good I do not care. I love this pickup. Something is shorting out though because the bridge pickup is silent […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

"I don't want to be racist, but..." Don't lie, that'd exactly what you wanna do, as if every other less shitty Subway location within a 50km radius isn't staffed by just as many brown people? Welcome to Canada, dummy. Click on his profile, and right below this […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A one star google review for a substandard Subway location, which reads "I dont want to be racist but this is pure observation. Persian servers were rude but very efficient. They get the job done quickly. But since brown people started working here ever... [truncated exerpt ends here]"

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Omg amazing my phone wasn't annoying enough already thank you Google.

screenshot of a push notification from Google Photos that says "say hello to yourself" and features a photo of a terrible selfie (covered with an emoji to protect the innocent and very irritated).

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Please don't break please don't break please don't break (upgrading PHP on a server with many websites. Yes, I tested on another server first. No, that doesn't really make me feel better while the spinny circles spin lol)

Several rows of the status message "Application Operation is in progress, View Credentials [link]" each with its own spinny circle animation

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

I still can't believe how hard I have to fight against modern Illustrator's snapping to do something as simple as line up a selection to an identical selection behind it. Like I actually have two guides crossing at the center point of the lower object so I can […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Okay, non-semantic markup is one thing (e.g. building everything with divs), and I think we can all agree that while it doesn't make for the most readable markup, it's entirely possible to have that still deliver a readable document should the stylesheet go […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Screenshot of a Cart button in an e-commerce header. It features the word "Cart" next to a simple geometric shopping bag made up of two rectangles, in which the number of items in the cart is shown (in this case, 2).

Beside that is a bit of the relevant CSS:
.cart-icon.image-icon strong, .cart-icon.image-icon strong::after {
border: 2px solid white !important;
color: white;
}

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

Okay, refret complete! Well, in the end I decided to just do frets 13 and up, because everything lower down is pretty much solid (little to no wear? I think this may have been a fretwork guinea pig for the previous owner as well tbh), while past the 12th fret […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Upper end of the fretboard of the aforementioned Harmony H-802 guitar. Its surface is rough (it is old, and it's also fake "ebony" (something light, and cheap, painted black lol) as are the ends of the frets, but they are intact, and it's playing better than when I got it.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

"The Harmony" in question, for those who likely have no idea what I'm talking about. It's an H-802, which would've been available from the Montgomery Ward catalog in the 1980s. I don't think Montgomery Ward ever expanded into Canada however, so either somebody […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A likely early to mid-80s electric guitar. It has a red-orange sunburst finish, two very wide single coil pickups encased in chrome, and a 22 fret (plus a zero fret) definitely not ebony fretboard (definitely something cheaper dyed black) missing the two highest frets. The bridge on mine is an import Tune-O-matic style thing (with obnoxiously tall roller saddles, which necessitated a fairly generous neck shim) because the original was just a curved bar with terrible intonation.

The pickups sound great by the way. If you spot one of these for cheap, pick it up. They're great.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Bookends is such a stellar album. I mean I knew that already but it's been a long time since I really threw down on some Simon & Garfunkel. Got the urge to hear Punky's Dilemma and decided to just throw the whole album on, and I'd forgotten just how much I loved this record.

Album cover for Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends. A black and white photo of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel in black turtle necks on a grey background. The text "BOOKENDS/SIMON & GARFUNKEL" is at bottom center set in a very thin sans-serif typeface I don't immediately recognize.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

How am I still in a relationship with this woman?

Screenshot of a conversation with my s/o. Her: do you have enough? Me: Ya. Also me: just enough (she hearted this msg). Me again: …to party [gif of McLovin's fake ID in cashier's hand with his dweeby ass smile in the background]

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

If you're of the Coen Brothers, or just good movies in general, and you haven't seen The Hudsucker Proxy, I highly recommend the experience. If you enjoyed Terry Gillian's Brazil, it's got a lot of that same cartoonish, almost theatrical charm.

Movie poster for The Hudsucker Proxy. Tim Robbins is the focal point, shot from below. He's holding a red hula hoop, and looking down toward the viewer though the middle of it. In the bottom corners are images of Jennifer Jason Lee's and Paul Newman's smiling faces. Paul Newman has a cigar in his mouth.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

Spreadsheets are my passion (I do remember doing this. What I meant by "reasons" however is simply lost to time, though I promise it made some kind of sense at the time, lmao)

Two columns of a spreadsheet. All the values in the first column are "FALSE", while all the values in the second are "TRUE". The first col heading reads: 'FALSE (hardcoded, for "reasons")' and the second column heading reads 'TRUE (hardcoded, for "reasons")'

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

I don't care what anyone says. This is the best marketing email I've ever sent (well, graphic for a marketing email, whatever).

A sky blue backdrop with pale cartoon cloud forms. Overlaid is the text "Just Because Sale" set in Cooper Black. Flanking the text on either side are images of Zac Efron shrugging (from the popular meme of Zac Efron shrugging).

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

Despite my best efforts, the clip on this tuner finally broke, so I've turned it into this sad but otherwise fully functional suction tuner, which makes me laugh and is therefore an improvement over it's previous form.

A small circular electronic guitar tuner with a bright inverted LCD screen. A curved plastic arm protrudes from the back, crudely electrical taped to a suction cup, which has been stuck to a glass coffee table. The whole thing stands at a hunched and tilted stance not dissimilar to Marvin from Hitchhikers' Guide.

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My name is Gordo @gordoooo-z.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

I discovered Spectroid and I've spent the past several minutes trying and failing to whistle at 2600 Hz like Cap'n Crunch. I can barely hit 1900. It might help if I could whistle outward, but I cannot. That smug brat from Honey I Shrunk the Kids has been taunting me since the 90s.

Screenshot of Slectroid, a spectrum analyzer app for Android. The top portion of the display uses a yellow line to chart the current frequencies (x axis is freq., y axis is amplitude) and a red line to chart the maximum amplitude for each frequency since starting recording. The lower portion is a traditional spectrogram, which uses brightness to show amplitude as opposed to the y axis, which in this case is time. The entire spectrogram slowly moves down as time passes. There is a warbley vertical streak around 1500-1800hz showing the past 50ish seconds of me trying my best to break 1800Hz, lol. The value displayed the very moment of the screenshot is 1809 Hz.

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