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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Late '70s: Anti-aliasing: Trust me, when you've never seen it before, it's mind-blowing. Mid-80s: JPEG/DCT: Wait, you can fit 4MB of image data in a 400K file?? Early 90s: Cheap CMOS cameras. Looks like an LED, takes pictures, costs less than $10! (Video cameras ran $200+ then)

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"SI" was probably the tech bro's idea; trying to get away from all of the negative branding AI has accumulated. Tяump was just the mouthpiece.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@techconnectify.bsky.social Illustration for your next ICE engine deep dive video!

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wait- You'll also need another hole in the sleeve for the index holes on the floppy to be visible to the sensor.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No, the best way to read Wired is on a regular web page that works well with a mobile browser! Then, as soon as you close the browser tab, you know no advertisers are tracking you, nothing is lurking in the background draining your phone's batteries. @katie-drummond.bsky.social

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Did not know what a "Figaro" was. (See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_...)

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Nissan Figaro - Wikipedia

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Installing an app means you can run my phone's battery down and track my movements and activity at any time. Please maintain your WEB SITE and make sure it continues to work great on mobile devices. I love reading Wired but I will not install (yet another) app on my phone.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ah, the embedded Illustrator joke!

Detail of @nanoraptor's AI sticker, with a small square and the text "path"

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But the music track is so calm and relaxing!

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm reminded of mobile app dev job ads demanding "min. 5 years Swift programming experience" - posted just two years after Swift was announced.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I would bolt out of an auto dealership mid-sentence if a car sales person started to say "it doesn't support or you have to subscribe to Android Auto."

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Isn't it hard to get away with actually spending $48M of BTC? Like, that's how Razzlekhan and her partner got busted.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's fitting the acronym to remember the Great Lakes names goes from HOMES to SHAME. (via @techconnectify.bsky.social)

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Decades later, my left hand has issues, and my hearing acuity has slipped by double-digits - the reality of "TAP" is sinking in. Making that point, that realization we all get there, I think was a good way to build empathy for the full spectrum of people using our products.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I recall a lecture years ago at our software company about designing for people with disabilities. Unfortunately, I don't have a video of it, but the one thing I took away from it was referring to the population outside the disabled community as "TAPs - *Temporarily* Able People."

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Your creations are much more plausible!

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Where does this prototype live? CHM?

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Funny, Andreessen has the most iconic head shape of all the oligarchs. Making it black doesn't obscure it.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Really needed the Popeye theme song for the final fight scene.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A side effect of wide use of GLP-1s

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@inoreader.com What does it mean when your Chrome extension icon turns orange? It refused to add this page to "Save to Read Later" (I am a New Yorker subscriber logged into the site) www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Sort of like how major software vulnerabilities get their own logo.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I don't think I've watched any movie six times, but I'm up to five with Koyaanisqatsi. Favorite was with Philip Glass & his orchestra performing live in front of the movie.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Higher a contractor to work on your house. You'll run out again in no time.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

How electric VTOL air taxis will solve car traffic congestion problems.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

One thing about the old '70s 8-bit micros: Everything about them - registers on the CPU chip, PCB layout, OS implementation, app software, etc. - fits in one human brain. It may take a while, but you can understand the entire system. Generally not the case with larger CPUs.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

As someone who was around in the '70s: you frequently had to cram your code and data (and often, the OS) into a tiny address space. Like 64K. Not fun. Code overlays crash a lot. I was so happy to get 32 bit pointers in the 80s!

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The curves coming up out of the floor make me think of Pac Man. Expecting the waka-waka-waka noise now.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What's up with the "Cable is too long" message?

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For people wondering when the AI bubble is going to pop, I present you with this message, received by a paid-in-full customer of OpenAI. Not a good look when you have to tell paying customers you've run out of resources.

Screenshot of a forum post where a GPT-5.6 SOL customer is told "Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model"

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

American version: We'd go car shopping on Superbowl Sunday. The salesmen would sign off on most anything to get back to the game.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Working on creating something new, yes. But projects requiring you to dig through a large, undocumented legacy code base? Help from a robot is really useful.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Two great books on the origin of the microcomputer revolution published this year: @davidpogue.bsky.social's Apple - The first 50 years @bzotto.bsky.social's Go Computer Now My review of both books, and how their stories are related: saccade.com/blog/2026/06...

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Highs and Lows from Mid-70s Computing | Highs and Lows from Mid-70s Computing – Saccade.com

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I found the CoPilot integrations in VSCode and Visual Studio genuinely useful, particularly when the allowed access to specific models (Claude, Gemini, etc.)

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Seriously, shipping a product to customers preventing it's use right out of the box is just a mind-blowing quality failure. How many #iPhone17 customers will have to waste an afternoon at the store getting this resolved? #Apple

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Upgrading my wife's iPhone SE to a 17Pro - over an hour of watching it get stuck and start over before finally discovering the BRAND NEW PHONE needed a software update before the transfer could work. What a pathetic fail, Apple! (My Samsung upgrade worked perfectly 1st try) #Apple #iPhone

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Was this a prototype? I can't imagine NASA flying a board with so many bodge wires.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Walk into a hospital with a credit card and you'll almost always get a better price than the largest insurance companies negotiate." WTF? Every hospital bill I get the sticker price for any procedure is 2 to 4x what insurance pays.

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J. Peterson @isonno.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

There's something fishy about "2x lower cost" instead of "half the cost".

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