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Peter K. G. Williams

@pkgw.bsky.social

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Technical Lead of the IAU Minor Planet Center, at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. He/him. newton.cx/~peter

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Incredible. IYKYK.

Me with one of the original signs for the one and only Charlie's Beer Garden.

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Here's the traffic over the past 90 days. I wish it was all real (sorta), but ...

Graphs of web traffic. 34.41 TB of data delivered in 194.73 million requests over the past 90 days, with a sharp uptick in the traffic recently.

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

FINALLY a politician who's willing to stand up to Big Sendmail

Elizabeth Warren saying "I strongly support EXIM"

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Follow-up: back home, so excited for this

A picture of a green Muli electric cargo bike

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Because I'm choosing to live my best life, today I'm on a road trip to Montreal to pick up a special German electric cargo bike from the only shop in North America that imports them

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My cursèd rsync is finally done.

rsync summary: 79 hours, 150 million files, average transfer speed of 700 kb/s :-(

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I generally like my new XPS 9640 but this keyboard is a crime: - Virtual function/media key row, including Escape. - No right Control key - Trackpad surface and its edges are completely invisible This is supposed to be a laptop for people who use computers seriously!!!

A photo of a laptop keyboard with the attributes described in the skeet.

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Behold: Safety Focaccia.

A focaccia that has had all crusts sawed off and is therefore safe, in this context

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Peter K. G. Williams @pkgw.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I thought the whole point of Pyrex was that this didn't happen? Put this pan down on the counter, turned away, and CRUNCH 😳

A Pyrex baking dish that has spontaneously exploded on a soapstone counter.

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