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John Minnihan

@jbminn.bsky.social
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Dad, husband, humanist, founder. Invented hosted source control. Now a full-time nomad traveler living in new places thirty - ninety days at a time. Newsletter, videos & travel app coming soon.

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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 58m
we went outside at 6:30AM and could see a bunch of stars from our front garden. it's so dark at night here that star-gazing is possible from almost anywhere.
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 4h
so… sun block SPF 20,000
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 5h
as foretold in the prophecy
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 5h
heading to Michael’s for breakfast before a day of hiking
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 6h
no lines no waiting priest #4
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 19h
yolo, my man
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 19h
minimize, you say
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 19h
dream => plan => live you can do it
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 19h
how abt 100
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 20h
sort of? we’re nomads + stay in new places 30 days at a time. we’re five months into full-time travel + we repeated stays in both Breck + Taos. walking distance to the Plaza. up next: Zion, Palm Desert, San Diego + Morro Bay. that puts us to MAR when we head to EU for a few years.
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 20h
happy hour at Taos Mesa Brewing again. in JUN we lived across the street. it’s still walkable but we drove this time.
a salad and beer are on a patio table
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 20h
we all want the good graves, Michael
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
bacon eggs spam posts jerry and spam has just a little bit of jerry
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i try to avoid pejorative mental health terms, but it's really difficult when people like this remain in the sphere of public influence. are they just evil instead?
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
we're going out to the edge of the gorge this evening (or tomorrow, depends on weather/clouds) to watch the sunset + then do some star gazing. the night sky gets pitch-black here, more than we've seen almost anywhere (night sky over the Ligurian Sea at Monterosso el Mare was pretty dark, too)
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
just misread 'gentle yoga' as 'genital yoga'. those are different
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it was really quite a sight
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
another view of the Dawn Patrol
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the Dawn Patrol balloons were first to inflate.
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
hmmm, seems most of the videos didn't upload. i'll try again.
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Here are a few videos of the balloons. Only the Dawn Patrol lifted off - all these remianed inflated and ready to go aloft, but never did. There were a lot of really creative balloons. The Smoky Bear was neat to see.
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We attended the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta this morning. There were a couple hundred balloons (maybe more) and we saw the Dawn Patrol. The way those first nine balloons lit up the pre-dawn sky was amazing. They didn't do the mass ascension at 7:00A as expected, as the conditions weren't right.
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ma’am, probably
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
at The Shed in Santa Fe. it’s packed. bar seating only for us as we got here two minutes after it opened.
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
why are you attacking @jcsalterego.bsky.social
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
heading down to Albuquerque today for the Balloon Festival dawn patrol tomorrow morning. it'll be an early day so we're staying there tonight. lunch in Santa Fe at The Shed. fun day ahead.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
my man's a bit too serious for the serious club
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
bleach aftershave
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Taos
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
[ just got to Taos after a 4.5 drive ] watch: “you should stand, slug” me: watch: me:
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Read the room, watch”
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
can you get me a deal on car insurance
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we tell our watches to shut up when they nags us abt either standing - while we are standing - or exercise after we’ve already done our first walk. the algorithms have weird edge cases
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
now in month six of the slow travel. hopping in the car soon to head to Taos as we begin the slow move southwest. donated more clothes yesterday as we pare down further. if it doesn’t fit on our backs (+ maybe chests w/ a reverse day pack) we aren’t keeping it. lotta lessons in these 11 months.
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sir, some things are assumed
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
sure, Jan also: in ‘80 drove from STL to Columbus OH w/ my best friend in a rented van to pick up a ‘56 Corvette frame. it barely fit.
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
throw in a tube sock w/ those quarters + we can make something happen
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
on the road again. You, home. Us, Taos.
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
yep. when i was still working, teams wld ask me abt stuff all the time + yet (often) display no desire to learn how to do it themselves.
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i love a good desert. we have a bakery here in Breck that we’ve visited 19 times for cakes + cookies.
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I didn’t initially understand that it was a brownie + gelato… looks really good
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
that cheesecake looks delicious
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
happy hour at Luigi’s in Breck. chatted w/ the owner a bit, let him know we enjoyed his place (visited four times across our two month-long stays) local connections are the lifeblood of travel. loving this adventure
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
coulda freaked her out by barking
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
that is an outage. demand to speak to a manag-- no, wait
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
whoops - not owner, as he'd sold the shoe company prior. he was the founder of rockport. details are mostly clear, but after 27 yrs it's a bit blurry
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
you hate to see it * * you do not, in fact, hate to see it
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John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the context there was that the owner of rockport shoes had used the well, liked it + then acquired it in the past. he decided to commercialize forum software + changed the name to 'well engaged', iirc. i was there modernizing their infra just before they merged w/ Delphi in Cambridge.
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