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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 26/09/2026

It's 10:30pm, the house is dead quiet, and I'm editing photos at the dining room table. My 19yo grown-ass adult child strolls nonchalantly into the kitchen and lets loose an absolutely EARTH-shaking belch. I swear to God the windows rattled...

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 23/09/2026

Squad leader trying desperately to convince rebel leadership that this thermal exhaust port right below the main port leads directly to the reactor system...

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 19/09/2026

Well, it's that time of year here in the Pacific Northwest, where my desperate attempts to cram in a few more golden hour outings before the days get too short practically guarantees that dinner is either late or cold every night. #photography #pnw #fall #goldenhour

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 13/09/2026

Husky Stadium, shot from the Burke-Gilman trail ramp at dusk, Thursday September 10. #uw #huskies #universityofwashington #gohuskies #udub #pnw #fall #dusk #fall

Husky Stadium at dusk, with a dark blue sky and the lights creating a beam effect through light fog.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 11/09/2026

Bit of an ominous-looking cloud rolls into Seattle just after sunset, taken from the UW ramp on the Burke-Gilman trail near Husky Stadium, just before 8pm Thursday September 10. #wawx #clouds #uw #photography #ominous #fall #sunset

A dark cloud on the left takes up about half of the frame, with the mostly clear sky sunset still relatively well-lit on the right. The photo was taken facing the west. Streetlights line the concrete ramp to the Burke-Gilman trail that curves a bit to the left as it crosses the street below (street below is not visable).

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 21/08/2026

Time lapse of the pyrocumulus cloud from the Little Giant fire in Washington state, taken from just north of the Kingston ferry terminal Thursday, August 20, 2026. #pyrocumulus #wildfire #littlegiant #wawx #watchduty #mountpilchuck #pugetsound #photography #pugetsound #washington #fire #kingston

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Jim Hammerand @jimhammerand.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Venus showed up for tonight’s Edmonds moonset #wawx

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 16/08/2026

The M/V Puyallup departs the Edmonds ferry dock under Venus and the crescent moon after sunset on Saturday August 15, 2026. #edmonds #ferry #pugetsound #moon #venus #puyallup

A Washington State Ferry, The M/V Puyallup, at the Edmonds ferry dock, with Venus, the crescent moon, the Olympic mountains, and clouds with a pink and blue sunset in the background. A handful of people milling about on the jetty at Brackett's Landing North are silhouetted against the ferry's lights reflected in the water of Puget Sound.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 15/08/2026

Me, last night after sunset: "I sure do love to stay out and watch the Perseids every year, but I'm going to bed. Not going to see any meteors through all this smoke." The Perseids: www.kiro7.com/news/local/d... #meteor #meteors #fireball #perseids #smoke #wawx

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Did you see it? Fireball lights up the sky over WA

If you happened to be awake and looking at the sky around 12:50 this morning—you got one heck of a show!

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 12/08/2026

This thread reminded me of one of my physics professors, Dr. Gruebel, who was essentially invincible. www.dailysentinel.com/life_and_ent... He got bitten by a coral snake while working at the SFASU observatory one afternoon. For him it was NO BIG DEAL.

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Professor saw action at famous battles of WWII

Grade school in Wisconsin was a dreary place to be in 1941.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 05/08/2026

I mean, I know he does it for the lolz, but I definitely remember the feeling of being simultaneously drunk enough and hungry enough to have done this all entirely unironically at least a couple of times in college.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 05/08/2026

I feel like "Can't watch the abandoned out of control rocket crash into the moon because of all this wildfire smoke" should definitely be one of the higher levels on the qualitative dystopian scale.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 29/07/2026

American cold war nuclear weapon mishaps. In other news, I have only been asked to host my company's Friday all-hands trivia exactly once.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 28/07/2026

This is a little abstract and I don't have time to list ALL of my specific answers anyway, so I will go with this: Nothing has ever made me doubt my own ability more than trying to get my kids to do stuff they just didn't want to do.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

DA REAL INTERNET MUST COME BACK - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELTEN WITH 2 CEO REMOVER'S "BRING BACK RSS READER'S AND BLOGS" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 22/07/2026

Just another stunning Edmonds waterfront sunset. This place is a cheat code for beauty, and especially with the cool breeze tonight, it was another all-around spectacular summer evening. We are lucky to be alive; we are lucky to be here, now. #edmonds #marina #dock #sunset #boats #photography

Sailboats in their slips at the Edmonds Marina dock just after sunset, with a deep orange glowing sky near the horizon, transitioning to blue. The Olympic Mountain range is in the background, across Puget Sound. There are a few distant wispy clouds out over the Olympics.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 07/07/2026

Can't tell if my watch is just sleep-shaming me...or maybe thinks I'm dead?

Garmin fitness tracker watch on my wrist showing "Still awake?" followed by "Sleep is the best way to recharge and recover from a stressful day. Try to clear your mind, relax and get some sleep."

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 05/07/2026

Seems like the vast majority of us stragglers took it all in stride, and appreciate the @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov crew that are going to be working late to get us home. People are playing cards, taking naps, laughing and joking.

Stragglers waiting at the Kingston terminal in lawn chairs and on blankets.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 05/07/2026

Earlier tonight, passengers waiting to board the last M/V Puyallup run after the Kingston fireworks sung the Star Spangled Banner. It was genuinely kind of moving. But right after that, the ferry reached capacity and had to leave a bunch of us here. 😂 Word is they are making an extra run, though.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 02/07/2026

Strongly resisting the urge to spin up a web site that offers public GitHub repos saved to various novelty formats like floppies, QIC tape, 9 track tape, punch cards, printed by a dot matrix printer on fanfold paper, lots of options.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 26/06/2026

Sophisticated and oddly specific -- but not spearphishing. I won't hazard a guess as to what the threat actors here might be up to, but I am already looking forward to a good Darknet Diaries episode once it all gets sorted.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 24/06/2026

I wonder if this is one of those decisions that goes all the way to top before it gets shot down, with half the folks in the org overtly referring to the prior incident with glee, and the other half pretending as earnestly as they can they have never heard of the prior incident.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 31/05/2026

Might be a missed opportunity here for #Lynnwood to really lean into the big hair #80's vibe, but these lineups actually look really good anyway. Plus I'm a sucker for food trucks and free live music. See you there. ilovelynnwood.com/summer-sounds/

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Summer Sounds - I Love Lynnwood

June 17 July 8 July 29 About Summer Sounds Outdoor Concert & Market Join us this summer at The District Plaza for Summer Sounds, a new free outdoor concert and vendor market series happening June 17, ...

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 24/05/2026

You know you're a bit of a security and privacy nerd when you wake up Sunday morning, and the very first thing you want to do is play around with the new Connection Allowlists support in Chrome 148. timjohns.com/blog/connect...

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Tim Johns - Blog: Connection Allowlists

Experiments with the Connection Allowlists draft support in Chrome 148

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 20/05/2026

I took the #scenicroute on a #roadtrip from Southern California, zig-zagging back and forth across the state. We spent one of the nights in Fort Bragg, California, where I caught this #crescentmoon setting over the #puddingcreek trestle. #photography #california #moon #trestle #sunset

Very thin sliver of a crescent moon setting over the Pudding Creek trestle in Fort Bragg California on May 17, 2026 just after sunset, with birds flying above the trestle silhouetted against the sky, which ranges from deep blue at the top to orange near the horizon.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 19/05/2026

Obscure thought of the morning: "I wonder if anyone has done a study of how the Zeigarnik effect applies for various Claude Code settings.json configurations." I might have kicked off a "few" Claude Code sessions "Just so I can stop thinking about this for now" and it worked a little too well.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 23/04/2026

OK so this hits just a little too close to home...

Meme showing kids in dirty clothes and a smiling well-dressed woman standing around a messy table in a run-down room with peeling paint and drywall and a broken window, with the caption "Mom, how did we get so poor?" "Your father spent our life savings on Claude code and shipped nothing."

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 20/04/2026

Me to my wife tonight: "<Kid> is really into storm chasing. Maybe I could lean into that a little bit as a bonding opportunity." ...

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 20/04/2026

My 13yo recently got into storm chasing video games. We live in the PNW, but I grew up near the south end of tornado alley, am a long-time amateur radio operator, and had some basic familiarity with SKYWARN. So hey! Bonding opportunity, right? ...

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 16/04/2026

I have so many little out-of-context vignettes that would make AMAZING writing prompts or something, but in reality, were just mildly coincidental and otherwise entirely mundane. My life sounds a lot more exciting "on paper" than it is in real life.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 11/04/2026

I'm not saying I'm OVERLY concerned about Mythos. I'm just saying Project Glasswing reminded me of this ESPN SportsCenter commercial for some reason. youtu.be/99z_d-iRnsg?...

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Y2K | This Is SportsCenter

YouTube video by ESPN

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 04/04/2026

American #astronaut Christina Koch's TODO list for the week: 1. Go to Moon. 2. Return to Earth. 3. Change LinkedIn title to "Space Plumber" #artemis #artemis2

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 02/04/2026

Tonight marks the utterance of the 2,000th #parenting phrase that I NEVER would have expected to emerge for my lips: "Son, you'll know you're growing up when you realize that if you eat that entire gallon of ice cream in one sitting...you're probably gonna shit something resembling a basketball."

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 22/03/2026

My spouse, who likes to pick on me for how obsessed I get with MY hobbies (well, and everything else - work, parenting, etc.) has just prepped an entire growler full of artisanal vanilla extract, and has multiple gallons of kombucha brewing....

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 09/03/2026

Sometimes I describe the Puget Sound Convergence Zone as "much like the surrounding weather, but mildly drunk" -- but apparently March is "like the PSCZ brought a bag of shrooms to the party"

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 09/03/2026

Find someone that looks at you like my granddog Minty looks at me. I'm smart enough to know that I'm not the MOST important humans in this big beautiful brindled beast's life (my daughter-in-law is), but she sure makes me feel like it.

A beautiful brindled beast of a dog looking up at me with LITERAL big puppy dog eyes.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 02/03/2026

I took this shot of the moon tonight while trying to get my settings dialed in, but it's quite possibly in vain. The Pacific Northwest weather: Making a mockery of humans trying to witness celestial events since at least 13,000 BC. #wawx #pnw #eclipse

Close-up of the nearly full moon from Sunday, March 1

Partial screenshot from weather.com, of the weather report for the night of Monday March 2 for the Seattle area, showing "Partly cloudy skies in the evening, then becoming cloudy overnight.", which indicates it's likely to be cloudy for the lunar eclipse. Also shows Low of 47F, Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph, 18% chance of precipitation. 84% humidity, UV index 0 of 11, Moonrise 5:22 pm, Moonset 6:33 am, Full Moon.

Partial screenshot from timeanddate.com, showing a table with seven rows, each of which is one of the stages of the lunar eclipse in the early morning hours of March 3, along with the footnote "The Moon is above the horizon during the eclipse, so with good weather conditions in Seattle, the entire eclipse is visible."

(Poster's note: the Seattle weather at this time is expected to be cloudy)

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 27/02/2026

I had to stop and think whether I might have already done this entirely by accident back in college.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 21/02/2026

Curious if anyone else's extended family group chat is as off-the-wall as mine? I just posted this question there and am only 80% joking. <Brother>, if our dog vacation cult business plan pans out, let's see if <Nephew> wants to use the proceeds to start the world's most boring mutual fund.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 09/02/2026

Apparently Lynnwood, WA appreciates the outcome of tonight's game. #seahawks #superbowl

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 07/02/2026

Just this week I was lamenting to @xkallisti.bsky.social that, for someone who never really liked JavaScript, I certainly have written a lot of JavaScript.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 22/01/2026

Still chasing that perfect shot -- I am enjoying the experience AND getting a few other shots that I like as well, so seems OK, as obsessions go. Hoping for cooperative weather again next month! bsky.app/profile/timj... myedmondsnews.com/2026/01/scen... #photography #wawx #moon #mountains

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Scene in Edmonds: Around town - My Edmonds News

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 18/01/2026

Apparently either the #Seahawks are doing really well or Lynnwood is suddenly under siege and taking coordinated indirect fire.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 17/01/2026

Me to my wife the professional math tutor: "Hey. Check it out. I got this thing worked from 8 equations with 8 unknowns down to 3 equations with 3 unknowns, but this one's a doozy. Do you think you can help me simplify it?" My wife: "I'm tired and going to bed."

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 02/01/2026

Watching Shadows Under the Market at seattlepublictheater.org was easily one of the highlights of 2025. Criminally underrated. I still can't believe this just ran for a little over a week and didn't go insanely viral, at least regionally. Such a great show. #theater #seattle

Night photo of the dimly lit front of the historic Bathhouse Theater on Green Lake, with the brightly lit marquee showing "Shadows Under the Market, August 1 to 9, seattlepublictheater.org" over the closed front arched double doors. No one is in the photo, giving it a dark lonely vibe very appropriate to the play.

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Tim Johns @timjohns.com · 01/01/2026

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you... Hi, I'm any number of otherwise barely remarkable incidents involving gravity, fire, kinetic energy, and my own stupidity.

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