nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 10/10/2026took some wrestling, and serving the install media via http on my main pc, but it’s going! 100
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 10/10/2026vintage computing continues! 2006 ish dell, got the period correct 4:3 monitor going too. XP booted, so i’m cloning the whole thing into an image onto my NAS. then it’ll get SuSE 10.0 for period correct linux 😎 100
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 07/10/20262009 core duo macbook restoration and upgrade in progress. ssd to go in, along with 8GB of RAM. all for less than $130. (the macbook was in the family, freshly wiped and restored in 2018 then never used lol) 210
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 06/10/2026big kitty! this is pico sitting in a box like a real weirdo 150
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 17/09/2026crossed the worlds tiniest ferry today. ~186 meters. 000
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 06/09/2026“it was a great race well done i’m really happy for him” 000
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 01/09/2026it was delicious. fuck some jarred sauce if you got the time. 000
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 30/08/2026back at LGA heading home. guess what day we arrived in NYC? lol 000
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 27/08/2026yeah immediately from hotel to noodles, we’re starving. 100
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 25/08/2026whereidlive.com/t/us-states-... agreed the stayed a while is a bit ambiguous but whatever, i just derived what i could as well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 000
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 24/08/2026i managed to get ssl working via a cursed alias function in bash, got the clang binary for darwin 12 from macports, discovered i don’t have a linker or C headers, so i compiled the object file anyway and hex dumped it. not bad for an evening of work on an 09 macbook lol 100
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Fast and Furious 25th anniversary showing. same theater i saw it in back in high school. 000
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 14/08/2026i’m sure there’s a lot more here in the View full thread 😱 020
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 06/08/2026p* P* *d *D for some reason, either iOS or bluesky render out the asterisk depending on the letter case context of its neighbor. why? no idea. but there it is. 100
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 06/08/2026i know this isn’t the point at all, and i absolutely agree with yours - but i can’t stop looking at the vertical height alignment of the two asterisks! how did this happen! also why is my brain like this?! 010
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 01/08/2026i knew i saved this for a reason! shoutout to the tow truck driver who verbatim copied the name from his dispatch report at work the other day. i got a very hearty chuckle when i got to work in the morning. 000
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 26/07/2026tell you what though. implementing a fractal engine in code is a lesson in patience for someone who isn’t good at math 😂 abstractions become very abstract 100
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 25/07/2026found a used copy of the book that started my whole web dev interest back in the late 90s. i first rented it from the library because i thought JS was what webpages WERE. i learned HTML from this book on accident 😂 fun little personal history artifact. 000
nice petegeist 👻 @nicepete.bsky.social · 03/07/2026finally got a long table for my loft so i can work on weird hardware projects, and unpack all that crap everywhere. 000
