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drew

@grmnygrmny.bsky.social
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programmer formerly at @bandcamp.com i design & build synths at subalpinecircuits.com i make music at grmnygrmny.bandcamp.com vancouver, bc

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NDP @ndp.ca · 08/10/2026
Homelessness in Canada exploded after successive Conservative and Liberal governments gutted public housing spending. The market won't solve the problems it created. It's time for the government to get back in the business of building housing that people can actually afford.
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
hahaha, yeah, this is clearly some AI bullshit, though a free OSS CS6 equivalent suite would rock!
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
now let me just see if there’s a CLAUDE.md file in the repo… oh would you look at that! built the hard way come on now
“built the hard way”
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this shit takes forever but finally ready to order the production candidate PCBs and panels! figuring out how the damn thing fits together and what it's made of has taken months. now to figure out what mistakes i made after spending a bunch of money
the PCB for my synththe PCB panels for my synthCAD model of the synthCAD model of the back of the synth
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
now we’re cooking (ha ha)
powerbook g4 running custom paprika client
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
thumbing through dad’s collection of 64 kbps mp3s
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
powered by claude! remember this next time someone tries to tell you that anthropic are “good guys” www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an
overreliance on Al contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
pictured: me in my happy place
me floating in elfin lake
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
god i wish there was good star trek being made. can we just memory hole everything made after enterprise and start there
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
time to get depressed in the sunshine
an espresso and “end times fascism”
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
can we please go one day without a dumb ass from either openai or anthropic getting scared by their shadow and everyone writing a story about it
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
actually think this is 100% accurate
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“you very well may keep a job!” god just listen to yourself! bsky.app/profile/hail...
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
it is such an insane fantasy to think that neoliberal governments would ever let UBI exist. no, instead we will have wealth inequality like you can’t even imagine if these AI dorks get their way. get ready to make $10/month changing GPUs in a data center
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
lmao
hacker news screenshot of openai employee being called out for fearmongering about llms making biological weapons
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
that sounds very good. i’m entering the bagel making phase of my unemployment
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
wow. i love to hear that. any standout fillings?
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
go on
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
we thought we were making the machine god but we accidentally made the machine DEVIL and it will kill us all! oh shit, oh fuck what did we do anyways here's a new model we think you're going to love
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
this is what happens to your brain when all of your friends are other rich bay area tech guys
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
it does make sense that all these "ai is the god machine and it's so scary and we have to build it as fast as possible" people are rationalist slate star codex types. closely related to the effective altruism dorks
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🗣️ don’t support these companies 🗣️
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
it is a really funny flex to have a little AI psychosis on main and drive a whole website crazy for 24 hours
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 08/09/2026
why does everybody that gets really into ChatGPT or Claude or whatever immediately start talking like that one friend that went to Burning Man one time
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
i think this is very true! we have to find a way to talk about it with each other in a way that doesn't feel so dismissive ("get on board or get left behind" etc) i have appreciated your thoughts on all this stuff and am glad you haven't succumbed to Poster's Madness like so many others on here
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
i am begging people to go outside. it's good for you
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
go outside and talk to people who don't work at tech companies. talk to artists! talk to teachers!
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
dude lmao cmon
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
good! this is the future. imo as engineers it's of critical importance that we're not giving up the tools to build things, regardless of how you feel about the current duopoly. support the people on your team choosing to do things locally!
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
oh i’m very aware of the state of the industry. i just think it’s a really dismissive way to shrug off real concerns. if paul wants to be an interesting CTO he can move the whole engineering team to locally run open weight models. @pfrazee.com i dare you
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
wow… i just lost my job… thanks for rubbing it in… sheesh…
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
just take a breather and stop posting and consider whether other people might not be insane and might just have a different point of view that you. respectfully!
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
man you gotta chill out. it sucks to be dismissive of all concerns about LLM programming. not everyone is ”delusional”. not all of us are eager to hand over the ability to build things to two unsavoury companies who stole all of the internet from us and run everything on illegal spacex data centers
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
being unemployed is about 3 parts hell yeah finally i can focus on my projects and 1 part oh god what am i doing with my life
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
yeah it’s coming out at the same time in a form of beautiful synergy
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
go on
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
in case it was not clear i'm working on a macos 10.4+ compatible subsonic music player that runs on ppc/x86/x64/aarch64! it's already pretty usable but it looks like crap so it'll be a while
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
music as it’s meant to be played
my subsonic client on an imac g4
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
elfin lakes is the most beautiful location on the planet
mountains over lakemountains over lakes
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
woah these are cool!
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
have been playing around with pixel-art-ifying film photos i've taken over the years which feels like it can capture some of the "subalpine" aspect in a way that is also a little fun but feels like it's trying less hard than like, a picture of a mountain as a triangle wave
pixel artified film photo of elfin lakespixel artified film photo of a mountain in albertapixel artified film photo of snow covered trees
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
i am not a designer but i really wanted to try to do as much of the brand/identity of my synth company as possible. i think i've landed on these typefaces which feels authentic to the aesthetic i've been thinking of. it feels like something i can execute on myself that is a little "fun"
typefaces for my synth
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
yayyyy thank you! my plan for the final product is hardwood with a nice aluminum panel but there's something kind of charming about a synth in a chunk of 2x8 😊
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
haven't put out a demo in a while! i am hard at work on the next prototype
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Donkey left behind after Bald Ridge wildfire found rolling in ash, doing 'great'
DONKEY THRIVES AFTER FIRE
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
big walk is GOTY contender for sure. really really good
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
delete this
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
nothing like waiting to see if your childhood home burnt down, if your parents are homeless, if your brother and his family are also homeless, etc
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
thank you!
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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
playing around with some ideas for synth brand aesthetic and kinda like digitized film photo
film photo of elfin lakes turned into pixel art
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