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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 · 23/07/2026

Spotted one of the rare blue-eyed coyotes, in Mount Tam state park

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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 · 12/06/2026

Me playing a game on a Sol at the Byte Shop!

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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 · 24/03/2026

Obligatory photo when in the neighborhood.

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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 · 08/12/2025

This one’s period correct!

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 08/12/2025

This thing really started it all. I have many bad childhood memories of failing to enter the tape loader program through those switches.

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 08/12/2025

Byte Shop employee Sidd Chopra (from 1979-1983) holding an original t-shirt

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 08/12/2025

sitting alongside Apple first employee Bill Fernandez, Apple co-founder Ron Wayne, and Woz.

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 08/12/2025

Harry McCracken, Paul Terrell, Steve Wozniak

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 08/12/2025

Dan Fylstra, co-creator of VisiCalc, speaking with Bob Marsh, founder of Processor Technology.

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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 · 18/11/2025

@ruffinprevost.com so, wanna do this anthropic settlement?

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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 · 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 · 04/07/2025

The MCP server itself is a SwiuftUI app that has a GUI for debugging.

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 04/07/2025

Pixelmator Pro has an AppleScript dictionary, so I tried the @simonwillison.net test

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 04/07/2025

Seems great, right? Well, here's the bad idea part.

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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 · 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 · 21/03/2025

The good news is, it’s a lousy reader

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 17/03/2025

New Disney princess just dropped

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 21/01/2025

Ludicrous sunset on the Bolinas ridge. The ocean looks like mercury and the farallons look like shark fins.

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 06/01/2025

Age yourself with your first computer.

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 26/12/2024

My kid took C++ at the community college last semester and complained about having to do null checks. Now he’s the one who complains.

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 25/12/2024

My daughter liked the Sirius Black fireplace thing so much she made one of me

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 22/12/2024

If you’re still looking for an Xmas gift for me, I suddenly need one of these

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 21/12/2024

Kicking off the holiday hacking with my Apple //e gpu project! Let’s get the RP 2350 onto an Apple // peripheral card. I picked this Pimironi board because it looks like a classic gpu chip.

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 08/12/2024

Anti-jetlag exercise. Poppy in the redwoods.

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 08/12/2024

Europe’s nice and all, but home is hard to beat.

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 29/11/2024

Now the project runs without crashing and can connect to the ring!

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 29/11/2024

Next problem: the project needs an image named "colmi". I opened the asset catalog and added one I found.

Xcode asset catalog with the ring image added.

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 29/11/2024

Here's the updated Info.plist.

The Info.plist with the company identifier key added.

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 29/11/2024

Dishes are done. Tryptophan-driven hacking getting started.

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 30/10/2024

Goodbye to the best dog ever.

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Rob Terrell @robterrell.com · 17/10/2024

Crazy sky stuff this morning

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