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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As someone who **once** got to surprise their partner with flowers at the gate prior to 9/11 I’m considering getting PreCheck just for this.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Realizing people are unlikely to mistake my writing for LLMs —no matter how many times I reread drafts I usually miss a doubled word and often include phasing which works fine in spoken english but is awkward when read. I wonder if Pangram would agree

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A reminder: Google will never call you. If someone says they are Google on the phone it is a scam. If you ever get a call from someone claiming to be from your bank, hangup and call the number on the back of your card. Incoming numbers and CallerID can be easily spoofed.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I used to create open source tools to scratch and itch and hoping someone else would find them useful. Now I create a new tools almost weekly, post them on GitHub and don’t care. It’s not my job to convince everyone they are missing out on useful shit.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Panic released the PlayDate SDK 3.1.0 and I've updated playdate-luacats Lua stubs for all the improvements. Get it while the bits are hot. github.com/notpeter/pla... devforum.play.date/t/sdk-os-3-1...

devforum.play.date

SDK/OS 3.1.0 is now available

Please see the changelog, and download the latest at Develop for Playdate. Let us know if you run into issues by posting a new thread in <span class="hashtag-icon-placeholder"></span>SDK Bug Reports<...

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King Mob @kingmob.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I’m calling it now. LLMs will cause cursive to return. How it’ll go: As we demand students show they’re not cheating with AI, hand-written tests and assignments will make a comeback. Because print is slower than cursive, we will start teaching it to kids again.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Glass bottle Fruitopia (1994-1997) Strawberry Passion Awareness Raspberry Psychic Lemonade Cranberry Lemonade Vision Pink Lemonade Euphoria Lemonade Love & Hope Citrus Consciousness The Grape Beyond Fruit Integration Gone but not forgotten.

Eight original flavors of glass bottle Fruitopia. A Coca Cola Minute Maid product.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Wanna be a better listener? Be like John Cena. When people open up, prompt them to talk about it more. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8GdnQ78/

John Cena chatting with Pete Davidson
Prompting him to “talk about it” after Pete mentioned that doing Make a Wish fucked him up for a month.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Everyone is excited about Valve’s box shaped computer, but only one company dared to ship cube with one corner too few. #BoxeeBox

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“On July 1st all US Households will receive a bill for $2222 to cover their portion of the war reparations to Iran.” ($300B/135M households) #ArtOfTheDeal™️

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Introducing defaults-differ a tool for diff-ing macOS defaults preferences step 1: run default-differ step 2: change something in System Settings step 3: get `defaults` commands of the changes (profit?) github.com/notpeter/def...

MacOS defaults command line tool for diffing before/after.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

It's wild that in 2004 @daringfireball.bsky.social synthesized an ascii-based spec for annotating text and now I (and millions of others) use backticks when writing. Not just code but prose too. Every single day. At some level, I often think in Markdown. Yikes.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

@github.com: Please support emoji responses to Issues and PRs being closed. I want to 🎉 the merging of a long lived PR 👎 the premature closing of a legit issue and ❤️ an unmerged PR that wasn't quite up to snuff.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm checking the [noun] against the [source of truth] so I can answer precisely rather than hand-wave the [verb] behavior.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I've been using LOL in conversation for 30 odd years (ytalk, IRC, ICQ, AIM, etc) but more recently my brain is no longer processing it "Laughs Out Loud". Instead I see a man drowning. Won't someone please help him? lol

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It's amazing how everything depends on GitHub and so much breaks when it's even a little bit unavailable. Today's example, JSON schema loading from jsonschemastore.org via yaml-language-server / vscode-json-language-server. No auto-complete for me!

jsonschemastore.org

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Good news everyone! yaml-language-server now supports a more generic inline schema directive! Coming soon to YAML files in all your repos. github.com/redhat-devel...

GitHub Actions Workflow YAML with new schema directive:

# $schema: https://json.schemastore.org/github-workflow.json

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Does anyone else experience a splotchy mess when transitioning from dark to light on their Macbook? This is a two week old 14inch M5 Macbook Pro Nano-Texture with default settings. None of the display options (Preset, True Tone, Refresh Rate, Brightness etc) seem to help.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Have you ever wondered why if you save an empty Rust file your editor might add a newline? I thought it was a @zed.dev bug, but turns out it's cause Zed by-default enables format_on_save and rust-analyzer. When rust-analyzer invokes rustfmt and that actually adds the newline. But why?

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

It took me far too long to realize Indeed was merging with GlassDoor and not NextDoor. For the life of me I couldn’t grasp the private equity AI fever dream where combining profiles of racist NextDoor comments and resumes of unemployed folks led to a profitable synergy.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

One of my favorite parts of coding agents is that I can just say "fix my merge conflict". I will happily pay some number of pennies to outsource the first pass to a machine.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

At a bar with "Mango Cart" on tap. It's amazing how fast this has fallen out of the lexicon. Juul mango pods (along with Creme, Fruit, Cucumber) were discontinued (US in 2019, Canada 2020) but before that were **super** popular with kids. The beer is a about a literal food cart that sells mango.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I don't live in Utah, but I think this would be a fun ride. Eating 10 Costco 1/4 Hotdogs would mean my body would be 1% Costco Dog by weight (2.5lbs/250lbs). That should probably auto-trigger an intervention. ggg.lmarx.com

ggg.lmarx.com

Great Glizzy Gauntlet - 10 Costcos, 100 Miles

The most delicious bike ride in Utah! Visit 10 Costcos in one epic 100-mile century ride on May 2, 2026.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I’ve hit a bug for years (5?) where my iPhone gets in a state where video refuses to play. Once it’s triggered no app can play video (YouTube, Hulu, TV, etc) until I restart the device.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Good news everyone! I’ve joined @oxide.computer! I’m super excited about my position, new coworkers, the organization and the Oxide rack and I’m looking forward to getting up to speed on everything. Happy Friday y’all!

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court slips opinion in Attorney General v Mystic Valley Regional Chart School. tldr: Massachusetts charter schools are agencies of the Commonwealth and thus subject to Public Records law (MGL Chap 66 § 10). www.mass.gov/doc/attorney...

SJC slip text: “GEORGES, J. This case requires us to decide whether a
"[Commonwealth charter school," as defined by G. L. c. 71, $ 89 (g), is subject to the Massachusetts public records law,
G. L. c. 66, S 10. Mystic Valley Regional Charter School (Mystic Valley) contends that it is not and, on that basis, refused to comply with multiple public records requests. After the Attorney General commenced this enforcement action, a
Superior Court judge (motion judge) granted judgment on the pleadings in the Attorney General's favor, concluding that Mystic Valley is a governmental entity obligated to respond to the requests.
For the reasons explained below, we conclude that Commonwealth charter schools, including Mystic Valley, are
"agencies" subject to the public records law. As a matter of statutory interpretation, a Commonwealth charter school qualifies as an "authority established by the general court to serve a public purpose," G. L. c. 4, S 7, Twenty-sixth, and therefore falls squarely within the class of governmental
entities expressly covered by the public records law. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment.”

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Not a single streaming service has “random” or “I’m feeling lucky” button for television episodes. When watching Friends, no one wants to choose amongst 236 episodes — pick one and I’ll say yes/no.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

We all deserve snow days. ⛄️ Any administrator pushing for 7hrs of zoom meetings for kids should be fired. Requiring employees to work during a state of emergency (especially w/o childcare) should be illegal for non-emergency jobs. It’s not hard: don’t expect work when things close for snow. ❄️

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Sigh. Neither of these programs should exist. Citizens should be treated equally. Full stop. Airline security is not an Amazon Prime or Costco membership. While we’re at it, abolish the security theater around liquids, shoe removal, pocket knives and scale back the budget accordingly.

washingtonpost.com

DHS reverses course on suspending TSA PreCheck after outcry

The reversal came after discussions with the White House and TSA, an official said. DHS will still suspend the Global Entry program as the partial shutdown continues.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Sometimes AI can be part of a solution. But more AI isn't always the solution.

Screenshot of pileup of train cars with the text "I'm sending in more trains!"
From Futurama, The Day the Earth Stood Stupid episode.
A train derailment occurred and the Governor lady said "I'm sending in more trains" as a solution.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

#hugops to GitHub SREs. In addition to the Actions/Issues outage `/sessions/sudo` took me more than a dozen attempts to succeed so things are still obviously not going great. Also, achievement unlocked: non-unicorn error message.

GitHub 500 error message saying "Ooops!!!"
Octcat, holding a wooden sign with 500.
Falling down a canyon Wiley coyote style.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Would love it if the BlueSky iOS app had a “Save Video” feature like they do for images. I understand why Twitter/Facebook don’t want this (they would prefer you to share so they can measure/increase engagement) but would love it if BlueSky went a different way. Cc: @pfrazee.com

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Why do none of the mainstream editors let you specify an arbitrary git ref to diff against? I know tools can diff two arbitrary commits in a compare view but I want this inline while editing. It appears VSCode, JetBrains and Zed only support inline diff against HEAD.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I found something where current LLMs struggle. Task: Update a Lua 5.4.0 patch set to work with Lua 5.4.3. Perhaps repeatedly generating patch tool patches for patching patches is just too much patching.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Congrats to @nereuxofficial.bsky.social on landing a neat feature in Zed. And thanks to Amos for sweetening the pot.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The clearest introduction to at:proto I’ve seen yet.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

This does something funky on the iPhone if you press and hold. Looks like it confuses the iPhone’s edge detection algorithm for creating stickers and does this fun loop instead.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

First day feedback on ChatGPT Codex CLI. It seems very oriented towards providing a numerical menu of next actions. Which seems ok? Nothing wrong with reducing my turn to "2" to trigger the second option in a list but it's definitely got a totally different flavor than Claude Code or Gemini CLI.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Using an Intel Macbook from 2020 isn't cool but ChatGPT Desktop only supporting Apple Silicon makes me sad. Yes, backwards compatibility is hard. Yes it has diminishing returns. But a web app in an Electron wrapper with cloud-hosted inference is not a compelling reason to upgrade. (Claude works).

The macOS desktop app is only available for macOS 14+ with Apple Silicon (M1 or better). Access to the ChatGPT app may depend on your company's IT policies.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Want Windows #PowerShell to act like readline/bash/zsh? ctrl-d Quit ctrl-u Clear line ctrl-_ undo ctrl-a/ctrl-e Home/End ctrl-k/ctrl-y Cut/Yank ctrl-l Clear buffer Try: Set-PSReadlineOption -EditMode Emacs Make it permanent by pasting to your profile: notepad $PROFILE #readline #themoreyouknow

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Running Windows? Tired of seeing online search results show up when you search from the Start Menu or inside the Control Panel? Have I got good news for you.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Yikes. I wish bsky.app supported auto-saving drafts. A single alt-left and *poof* your draft thread is gone forever.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

If I was @hankgreen.bsky.social I would exclusive use these Hank stamps.

Postage Stamp: "Thank you / Healthcare Community"
Where it looks like it says "Hank"
2024 USPS Forever

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Google's gemini-flash-lite is amazing and cheap. Task: image of a stamp, return json with postage rate, short description, keywords, etc. Image input token cost is 258 tokens per 768x768px tile (2-6 tiles per image for me). Processing 1028 images was ~$0.11 ~100 images per penny. Wow.

Winter Landscapes (2025)
USA Forever Stamp

$JSON output: ```json { "description": "This stamp depicts a snowy winter scene at sunset, featuring snow-covered evergreen trees in the foreground and a house in the background.", "full_bleed": false, "image_filename": "Hn5oLCeO4QLUE84VSfDIBD9oHFCM4kSIayyQlaMV.png", "keywords": ["winter", "snow", "sunset", "house", "trees", "landscape"], "mail_class": "first class", "shape": "landscape", "value_type": "forever", "words": ["FOREVER", "USA"], "year": "2025" } ```$

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Yikes! Claude Code on the web / desktop app / mobile app is good. I've been happily using it the Claude Code CLI, but being able to kick-off sessions from one device (including from mobile), continue them elsewhere, then directly Open a PR for review feels like a super power.

Claude.ai mobile app side bar showing the "Code" section for Claude Code

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Congratulations Leila and New York City. So many good things yet to come.

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Peter Tripp @notpeter.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

#HugOps to the Free Law folks. They do amazing work with ReCAP, CourtListener and so much more. Keeping them light in the new year!

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 31/12/2025

I’m going to be the old man (41) who talks about understanding the code the AI generates and being able to write it by hand. The kids will say I’m out of date, and I’ll never be sure they’re wrong. The indignity will never be lost on me that I’m talking about hand-writing god damn Javascript.

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