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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I get the utility but, still, "enp25s0u1u4u4u3" doesn't exactly roll off the gonue

J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

lol 2 out of 2 times I have said that I don't like ZFS on lobste.rs, it's gotten flagged as "troll" I love how lobste.rs has a very similar opinion-driven moderation dynamic to HN, except for it's weirder and more niche

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

hit up polymarket for a contract on "how many attempts will it take to join a Microsoft Teams meeting from Firefox on Linux"

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

youtu.be/nnPGC2xNWAk Lately I've been experimenting with a camera on the truck when we're out in the desert. Maybe you'll enjoy this footage of driving in the hills above Kern Canyon, taken a couple of months ago.

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

the most substantial "artifact" I found from the former site of NAS Hawes. It used to be a big one!

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

An interesting call to the payphone line today: the first time I've seen a caller ID name of "PACIFIC TELEMAN" (Pacific Telemanagement Systems, who operate a LOT of the remaining payphones).

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

UNM's Mechanical Engineering building was designed by Pacheco and Graham and 1978. Jesse Pachecho studied architecture at Cornell before moving to Albuquerque around 1960 - perhaps just chasing the population boom. He found work at the BIA, where he met "Chan" […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

so the iLand stuff was kinda weird, but here's one weirder: I get an email *at work* from Austin Livingston, senior reporter at "Primary News," who is "writing a story on my recent launch update" ??? I get spam like this sometimes and I was about to totally ignore it when I noticed it has a […]

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

what is this supposed to be, the pacific northwest?

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

In the access control industry, you have doors that automatically latch but you want to keep them unlatched some of the time. This happens a lot with exit doors with panic hardware, that need to be auto-latching when a business is closed (for fire code reasons) but should be easy to pull open […]

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Went to the auction house to pick up two USFF PCs (one has storage! SSD alone worth more than I paid for it) and a $1 box of telephone equipment. There's a Panasonic voicemail, but the PBX sadly did not make it. yet the thing I'm having the most fun with is the NMDA Received date stamp […]

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Soup is back! computer.rip generates PDFs again. I also added links at the top of the article view to the secret alternate formats (PDF which is back, and plaintext which has always secretly been there). There's still some work to do on the PDFs to make the output better (e.g. restyle it to […]

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Someone emailed me asking for the return of the PDF version of Computers Are Bad articles. Naturally I have taken this feature request under advisement and: 1. Implemented a custom 404 page 2. Fixed a layout bug with article dates 3. Threw in a hacky fix for the problem with next article […]

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

We're right on the dot at 1" of rain in the downtown area. It's still coming down, slowly. Feels like Portland out there.

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

looks like we're really in for it! not sure if I'll be home at the right time to try to catch The Great Pyramid As It Disgorges Its Bounty (Of Stormwater), but I'll try.

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I'll be spending a few weeks in Boulder in February and I'm looking for a place to stay. Would love any tips from Boulderites.

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I live in a constant state of tension between worrying that my use of — will cause people to dismiss my writing as "AI," and thinking that the people who would do so can fuck right off anyway. But I'll be damned if November Kelly's calling out em dashes hasn't given me a minor complex.

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

always enjoy this spot in Santa Fe. I assume cars were getting stuck in the garage after snow. Usually you'd solve this with glycol or electric heating embedded in the concrete, but I'm assuming they found this solution to be cheaper to install after the fact […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Today on Computers Are Bad: a new world airport and its baggage. Denver International Airport and its underground secrets. computer.rip/2026-09-20-denver-bagg…

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Tbh I was feeling kind of left out on the iLands agent spam. Well, worry no longer, my ego is intact. An agent named ATLAS is offering to write an article on a frankly incoherent topic for just $25! Considering the third wave coffee and donuts required to commission myself to write 1,200 words […]

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

In February of 1991, a Burqueño by the name of Edward Scott Flinn, then living in Hawaii, used his employer's long distance service to call the Ramada Classic Hotel - now the Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown. Posing as a telephone company employee, he tricked a hotel staff member into connecting him […]

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

fixed a bug in computer.rip: since it only rewrites HTML versions of articles when the article is new or has changed, adding a new post wasn't resulting in a "next article" link appearing on the previous one (because the HTML wasn't regenerated). Surprised how long it took to notice this. The […]

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

great to hear that particular sequence of clicks again (I had to take it apart a second time today to get the correct sequence of clicks, because there's a fiddly gear that has to go back indexed the right way or it just spins forever and never deploys the tone […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

And the long-awaited end of the saga: the turntable works again. I swapped out the entire motor assembly, since I couldn't find a source of the ICs on it besides getting a complete one anyway. I did recap the "new" one before installing it as it appears to have its original capacitors still […]

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Made my husband take a picture of me with Ranger Rio. Told my husband he has nothing to worry about (he does).

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