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Robert Howe

@rchowe.com
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Engineer, travel aficionado, and public figure. But I'm really just here to meme.

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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 29/09/2026
Any time I read about the world's food system it makes me want to stockpile dried goods and water.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 29/09/2026
Similarly, apples carry the genome of most modern apple types in their seeds, so planting seeds gets you a genetically random apple (including not very good hybrids). Most apple trees in orchards are grafts for this reason.
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Jurijs @cyberpunk.tools · 27/09/2026
One of the coolest things I've read recently! Dude gave Claude a cable and asked it to troubleshoot his Kia, which wouldn't start Claude wrote the code, told him to plug it into the car and turn it on, diagnosed the problem and the guy found the root cause for his car not starting up OMG
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 31/08/2026
Claude is talking to this capacitance meter. I am just doing some vibe EE.
Claude Code running on a PC next to a capacitance meter.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 30/08/2026
@justin.randoneering.dev Check this out if you want to try the branch version.
github.com
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 30/08/2026
I have a branch that works on an EC2 VM and my laptop. Tested on Amazon Linux and Ubuntu but it should work on most distros. It might be time to promote Linux to mainstream (but still beta) in co/core...
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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 28/08/2026
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 27/08/2026
There has to be a browser extension that tells you which credit card to use already, right?
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 23/08/2026
I rarely code in my free time. I can see a beautiful concept in my head but my hands can't produce it fast enough or good enough to keep me focused on it. AI solves that problem. I will miss writing elegant solutions. I will not miss "oh it's not ready yet, I haven't had energy to work on it".
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Ennie @anyuse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The most Massachusetts thing that has ever happened. I took a client call in the car: Me: I am really sorry, but I am about to go through Dunkin. When I roll the window down, we’re in public, so there is no privilege, so we need to pause this. Client: thank god, me too.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 17/08/2026
The New Jersey turnpike ripped out their Tesla superchargers and installed CCS/NACS chargers. They are a decent amount more expensive than off-turnpike chargers (okay) and the one I tried did not manage to successfully charge my car. I guess I’ll charge at Wawa.
A Tesla at a non-Tesla charging station.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 17/08/2026
Yeah, because of the good documentation and structure it may be good for model training/testing too.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 17/08/2026
That makes sense. Thanks!
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 17/08/2026
How does Claude Code know so much about atproto? Is there a built-in tool or is it trained on some atproto knowledge? I just had it do a ton of web searches for AWS Lambda SnapStart, but I have never had it web search on atproto stuff.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 09/08/2026
The day that American Express stops sending me scratch-and-sniff invitations to get a credit card is the day the recession starts. No recession this month, folks.
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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 23/10/2024
If you love something, let it go That's why none of my side projects are finished
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 30/07/2026
It definitely suggests it is DNS related, and there is a material difference between how name.com resolves the site and other nameservers...
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 28/07/2026
This bugged me so I tried to reproduce it in Firefox on Windows. No dice. @torrent-empress.bsky.social If you're inclined, can you tell me what DNS server you are using? Run ipconfig /all in a console and look for some lines that start with "DNS Servers". Might be your router but worth a shot.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 28/07/2026
My guess given the SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG error (which does not strictly mean "too long" in Firefox lol, just that the SSL handshake couldn't complete) is a Railway config issue or a special case with the user's environment (e.g. proxy server, antivirus, addons...).
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 28/07/2026
It definitely could be an artifact of there not being an HTTPS record set in Railway / name.com and the fallback behavior tripping up Firefox, but I don't think it's as conclusive as Claude suggests.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 28/07/2026
I think Claude is actually wrong in this case and you have the default macOS version of dig which does not know about HTTPS records and falls back to an A record. The name.com DNS server does do REFUSED vs NXDOMAIN when querying the A record, which may or may not be the cause.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 23/07/2026
And be Cousin “Sparkling Grape Juice” Ronnie for the next few months.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 22/07/2026
Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉
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austin @aparker.io · 14/07/2026
don't talk to me or my son ever again
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 14/07/2026
A Steam Machine with a Mac Mini on top of it.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 14/07/2026
One of these things is not like the others...
A screenshot of the cocore.dev providers list showing one provider with an AMD Custom CPU 1772.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 10/07/2026
Thanks! London is always a great time.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 10/07/2026
I bought a steam machine (but before I saw this).
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 01/07/2026
I need to run a model that supports confidential prompts to test that. Let me see if we can get qwen3.5-4b added to the confidential list though.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 01/07/2026
Because it's the largest model on the default list that easily fit on my 16 GB Mac Mini. What newer models do people want to see on the list that would fit?
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 25/06/2026
If the problem is latency, you can probably use historical latency on the (requestor, provider) pair to get a pretty good routing after a few requests. I imagine a problem that needs low latency is going to be making lots of requests.
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Bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 25/06/2026
Oh by the way, next week’s #AtmosphereSessions I’ll be talking to the amazing backend team from @cocore.dev - @devingaffney.com, @rchowe.com, and @ngerakines.me about their absolutely incredible AI cooperative project! Atmo will be up shortly!
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 24/06/2026
Hmm...
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 24/06/2026
A lot of people are asking for Linux, and getting inference running on Linux should go fast. Our security system works piggybacks on Secure Enclave present every Mac and Apple limiting what you can do with certs there; the approach for Linux will likely be more of verification and a web of trust.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 23/06/2026
I just dropped my phone. It's fine, but I got a push notification a minute later from the Apple Store app saying I could buy a new iPhone.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 19/06/2026
Mischief.
Statues on a fountain with orange traffic cones on their heads.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 19/06/2026
No Scotland, no party.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 18/06/2026
The cool thing that makes co/core and darkbloom.dev (who wrote the paper on this topic) possible is that Apple ships secure enclave with every Mac.
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Devin Gaffney @devingaffney.com · 18/06/2026
Just a wildly ambitious thing to build - so grateful to @hipstersmoothie.com, @rchowe.com, and @ngerakines.me in helping bring this thing out into the world finally. We wanted to get this out in December but the stars did not align - excited to hear what folks think here!
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Graze Social @graze.social · 18/06/2026
And paired with it, a @leaflet.pub!
graze.leaflet.pub
Can we billionaire-proof inference?
A small, federated compute co-op called co/core — and the wider experiment it's a part of.
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Graze Social @graze.social · 18/06/2026
Announcing co/core: a social computing experiment from the Graze team
console.cocore.dev
co/core — an AI cooperative
co/core is a cooperative for AI inference — people pooling the Macs they already own to run open models for each other, instead of renting from the big clouds. An experiment in AI infrastructure we bu...
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 27/05/2026
The Gornergrat is considered one of the three ski lifts from the town too (the other two being an underground funicular and a gondola that leads you to a gondola transfer station).
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 23/05/2026
I was wondering if the flag of the Seychelles was actually relevant or just a colorful flag.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 01/05/2026
Spirit airlines trading cards are about to become the hottest commodity for a certain subset of nerds.
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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Boston, Somerville, Cambridge
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 30/04/2026
Once you start seeing missing spaces in public web content due to how React formats line breaks, you can't stop seeing it.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 28/04/2026
A client (who doesn't use Bluesky) sent me a "new" AI generated logo for their company today and asked me to put it on their creative. I had to rage-write a blog post about logo design to calm down.
leaflet.pub
Your Logo Should (Probably) Follow These Rules
A rant about logo design rules.
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 17/04/2026
Hen of the Woods?
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 07/04/2026
"I just hooked up OpenClaw to a Bloomberg terminal and told it to make money."
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Robert Howe @rchowe.com · 04/04/2026
There are few things more New Englandy than the first day at an ice cream stand in the spring.
An ice cream stand.
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