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Rob Terrell

@robterrell.com
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Lovable dork. CTO. Formerly Zynga CTO.

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 02/10/2026
Wild Horse Nine at the #mvff opening night: it’s got the bones of In Bruges, flipped. Two hitmen travel to a remote location; one is expected to shoot the other; an impatient boss shows up. Somehow the Kennedy assassination is important. Great performances, reflective and regretful.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 02/08/2026
Working the Byte Shop table at #vcf west with my kid, Byte Shop founder Paul Terrell, and Apple garage gang member Daniel Kottke
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 31/07/2026
IMAX fail
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 24/07/2026
what the fuck do you mean, this stove will require bluetooth-enabled pots, can you hear how you sound
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 23/07/2026
should I do a breakthrough
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 23/07/2026
Spotted one of the rare blue-eyed coyotes, in Mount Tam state park
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 20/07/2026
I think Athena is purely a figment of his guilty conscience — she is the only god ever shown in the film; she doesn’t meet Telemachus; she appears in the form of the priestess who was executed (and she never appears in any events that happen before that).
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 15/07/2026
Ludicrous beach sunset, with birds.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 28/06/2026
weird that my parents’ internet is too slow to download movies to watch on the plane (presumably the infamous streaming tv boxes sold to seniors that secretly add their IP to a botnet) but the plane has starlink so I can download fine while in the air
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 28/06/2026
It’s been decades since I’ve had the chance to indulge but am now discovering that this choice, before a cross-country flight, was a mistake.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 04/06/2026
“Data center” is more of a Shelbyville idea fox59.com/indiana-news...
fox59.com
Caught on camera: Shelbyville mayor insinuates citizens opposing data centers are poor renters in ‘sh***y houses’
SHELBYVILLE, Ind. — Shelbyville Mayor Scott Furgeson was caught on camera insulting his own constituents and insinuating that everyone with “No Data Centers” signs in their yards were p…
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 27/05/2026
@snell.zone I enjoyed the new podcast! It’s not super important but FYI your second swing at pronouncing “Terrell” is how Paul himself says it.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 04/04/2026
Great morning out in the headlands
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 28/03/2026
Back in Cali
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 24/03/2026
Obligatory photo when in the neighborhood.
Babylon cinema, Berlin
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 19/03/2026
Obligatory photo when in the neighborhood.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 13/02/2026
Guy at the flower shop was quoted $185 for the arrangement he picked out and then he asked “what is the expected romantic ROI for these?”
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 20/01/2026
AI is simultaneously over- and under-hyped.
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Roger McNamee @moonalice.com · 11/01/2026
If you want to honor Bobby Weir, consider a contribution to Sweetwater Music, the concert hall Bobby founded that now operates as a non-profit. sweetwatermusichall.org
sweetwatermusichall.org
Sweetwater Music Hall | Live Music | Mill Valley, CA
This reincarnation holds true to the heart of the old days, and aims to feed the soul with music, community, and excellent food.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
We had a good run
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 08/12/2025
Yesterday I got to participate in something incredible. My uncle, Paul Terrell, wanted to celebrate the 50th birthday of his famous original computer store, the Byte Shop. This store is legendary in Silicon Valley.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 08/12/2025
Some photos from the Byte Shop 50th birthday event. Here’s an Apple 1.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 07/12/2025
The Byte Shop had a gum-ball machine that you could get RAM chips from
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 07/12/2025
Behind the scenes of the Byte Shop
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 06/12/2025
Come join us here — this should be good!
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 25/11/2025
Hal Hartley! Has a new movie!
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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 20/11/2025
Bay Area tech history nerd friends: Paul Terrell, the founder of the Byte Shop–Apple’s first dealer—is holding a 50th anniversary party next month. It’s open to all and I’ll be there! byteshop50thyearbirthdayp.rsvpify.com
byteshop50thyearbirthdayp.rsvpify.com
Byte Shop 50th Year Birthday Party • RSVPify
December 6, 2025 @ 5:00 PM - Double Tree by Hilton 2050 Gateway Place San Jose, Ca. 95110
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 18/11/2025
@ruffinprevost.com so, wanna do this anthropic settlement?
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 10/11/2025
Same, but the Gen X one.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 06/11/2025
The United States is restricting entry for “certain nationalities.” In my case, the restricted nationality is “United States.”
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 29/10/2025
Since it is teleoperated (ie a person far away is driving the robot by watching through its camera eyes) you are basically paying a huge amount of money for the lowest wage worker they can find to do your chores poorly
1x.tech
NEO Home Robot
Transform your Home. NEO takes care of tasks around the house so you can focus on what matters to you.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 27/10/2025
The scariest part of House of Dynamite was when the president said “I was listening to this podcast and…” you’re the president you can get real information why are you treading the word salad infosphere slop with the rest of us
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 16/10/2025
Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head. Let the Right One In It Follows Under the Skin Evil Dead 2
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2025
my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 03/10/2025
Hamnet: men would rather write the greatest play of all time than go to therapy.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 03/10/2025
Hamnet at the MVFF — Chloe Zhao and Jesse Buckley Q&A (…I’m in the last row of the theatre obv)
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 02/09/2025
Bolinas sunset, six seconds til end of summer.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 05/08/2025
Moving the team to the “perverse bonbon” methodology just because I like the name
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 04/07/2025
Bad idea Friday: I made an MCP server that lets Claude run applescripts on my computer.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 18/05/2025
Headcannon birth of the first order: Dedra Meero spends 3 years in prison on a work crew building parts for Death Star II. She becomes a crew (later floor) leader. After the Emperor dies she is released in a general amnesty for political prisoners—after all, she was jailed for being a rebel spy.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 14/05/2025
The fictional Terminator manifests in our reality as a roomba with a knife duct-taped on top, but still manages to wipe out humanity.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 01/05/2025
Inverse correlation? So everything is fine as is?
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 14/04/2025
Blue Origin 2 for 2 at sending a celebrity to space for PR purposes only to have the celebrity prefer earth
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 12/04/2025
Back from travels.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 20/03/2025
I got to play this and I’m pleased to report that your game character appears to shoot enemies with, what else, finger guns.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 17/03/2025
New Disney princess just dropped
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 16/03/2025
Just don’t lose in the play-in game.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 15/03/2025
Ending the season on a lane violation on an otherwise tie-up made free throw — just heartbreaking for those kids.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
In our benighted times, competence has a very strong liberal bias.
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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 04/03/2025
The acronym to learn is EDI — electronic data interchange. This is a 70s technology where you hand an agency a file of a particular (binary) format that says “send money from here to there”. These files were sent via X.100 networks, direct dial up, later email and ftp.
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