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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 24/09/2026

Who do you see in my dog's chest...

Picture of a dog sitting on a carpet looking up

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 10/08/2026

This is my astronaut training rig!Pi

Picture of vic 20 and c64 and accessories on top of a bookshelf.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 05/08/2026

It's so Christmas-ay!!!

A graph of uptime for various parts of Claude - with many indications of downtime in various red and green and yellow and gray colors

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 04/08/2026

The orange sun this morning is beautiful and ominous... #wawx #DuvallWashington

Orange sun peeking through tall PNW trees

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 03/08/2026

Washington State is on fire (east of the Cascades) and now we are getting the reminder here west of the Cascades. You can see the air turning yellow and brown minute by minute out here in the Snoqualmie valley. Time to inhale and hold your breath Seattle. #wawx #airquality #smokemap

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 02/08/2026

A shrine to my nerdy younger self. In my parents storage for probably 37 years... Now it will be the background for my video meetings! #c64 #vic20 #c1541 #c1520 #commodore #300BaudModem #TapeDrive

Commdore vic 20 and commdore 64 along with floppy drive, tape drive, and a random selection of commodore related and newer books. All on display on the top and inside the shelves of a bookcase.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 24/07/2026

AI tooting it's own horn and then providing a disclaimer. I love it.

Ai generated summary of an article saying self driving cars have 68% fewer accidents, but with a warning that is generated by ai, which can make mistakes.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 17/07/2026

Sure, the mercator projection makes the scale of the smoke look larger in the ARTIC OCEAN!!!! fire.airnow.gov#2/60.8/-72.95

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 08/06/2026

I'll give you a 2-fer -- this is the Tolt River merging with the Snoqualmie river, taken in January of this year a few weeks after the massive flooding. I'm going to vote for the Snoqualmie river as my favorite, but the Tolt river holds its own!

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 21/03/2026

We had a full-on winter wonderland here one week ago!!

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 21/03/2026

Man, the hits keep coming. The Snoqualmie river here in #DuvallWA is at about 41.2 feet (the epic flood in December 2025 was about 45 feet). #pnw #wawx #flood

River flood water covering a path and small park near the normal path of water.

Another view of a small park near the river edge covered in water, with trees poking up through the water and brush in the foreground.

A park area covered in feet of water. A water height pole (for measuring flood heights) is largely underwater, in the distance.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 13/03/2026

Awwwww our doggos first snow-potty. She's from SF and having a hard time adjusting to cold wet rain but she didn't seem to have any issue with 2 inches of snow (and climbing!) on the ground here in #DuvallWA #pnw #wawx

Picture of backyard covered in 2 inches of snow with dog and human footprints

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 12/02/2026

Seen... Waymo car with a human test driver NB 405 in Snohomish county just north of the King county line. It's getting real, Seattle! #waymo #seattle #pnw

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 10/02/2026

Meet Fluffy. She was my dad's close companion for the last 10 years. And now she's coming to live with us. And she apparently loves SF Mission burritos as much as I do... I guess it's good she's moving to the PNW because burritos aren't good for dogs...

Small grey and tan mixed breed dog with front paws on table looking as if she wants to be fed food from the person taking the picture.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 31/01/2026

It's true. Waymo is officially at SFO. Sorta (car rental). And not for everyone.

Sign reading "autonomous rides. For access to waymo, proceed to level 1 curbside"

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 29/12/2025

This is the view across the street from home. Still ice/graupel and such on the ground, from Friday night. Nothing new, just hasn't melted in 2.5 days. Doesn't look anything like this a 1/4 mile in downtown... Nothing on the ground there. #wawx #duvallwa

View of a front yard covered in white icy precipitation and distant roofs still covered in similar white precipitation.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 13/12/2025

Was just at #MoPOP last weekend (designed by Frank Gehry) the day after he died (didn't know it at the time). And then I'm loading up #Battlefield6 and noticed... He's referenced in one of the main locations in one of the maps... #Kismet (BTW, www.mopop.org is great every time I go!)

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 20/10/2025

A picture of one of the wings of sutro tower being worked on. I took this from Golden gate and Franklin. Taken on 100x zoom on a #Pixel10pro from 2.4 miles away. #zoom #ai #sf

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 13/09/2025

When did they paint the undersides of the freeways in SF royal blue? They've been that weird teal green my entire life going back to the 70s and I've only been gone a couple years....

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 08/09/2025

We took the long way:

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 08/09/2025

Been living here in Duvall for a couple of years, and this is the first time we did a Sunflower maze, at a local farm. I can't believe this is real and I was there today. #DuvallWA www.loraleesfamilyfarm.com

A view of a sunflower farm with sunflowers from side to side, trees and rolling green hills in the background.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 01/09/2025

The western half of the US and Canada, outside the coastal areas, is covered in wildfire smoke. And having just returned from Eastern Washington, it's hard to imagine how we can really accept this long-term. Super-unhealthy, and extremely gloomy, IMHO. www.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 22/07/2025

So here in our little #pnw town of #DuvallWa the neighborhood park got a refresh including a new sign.. Apparently they and us vampires in mind. Finally someone thinks of the vampires!! Don't mind me, I'll be posted up waiting for Salma Hayek to appear... #FromDuskToDawn #vampire

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 12/07/2025

It's 9:20pm, 68F and the pink clouds are overhead. This is amazing. #pnw #duvallwa

Pink clouds in front of a blue sky before sunset. Houses and a street in the foreground.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 21/06/2025

Doh I meant to post video.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 06/06/2025

I have newly gotten a) a heat pump (first time with central A/C in decades) b) an IR camera for my phone and c) hot feet. You're welcome.

Foot prints in the foreground disappearing as they get closer to a air conditioning register/vent (on the floor), as taken by an infrared camera, demonstrating that my feet are significantly hotter than the air coming out of the register.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 25/05/2025

There's a guy in my neighborhood who power walks and sings at the top of his lungs (I think wearing headphones). I caught him behind the hedge behind my house singing Weezer's "Island in the Sun" and I thought I'd share a snippet of the audio I caught (on this video).

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 25/04/2025

I think I got this tip from @rickklau.com, but if not then consider it a gift, Rick. #HotelHack

A clothes hangar used to ensure curtains in a hotel room are closed to block light.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 24/04/2025

Took this picture today...

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 24/04/2025

Oh yah, and THIS!! They finally closed off the street along Pike Place market to cars!! (well, lots of cars parked there -- maybe delivery? but none driving through)

Bold "Street Closed Detour" sign in the foreground with the iconic Pike Place "Public Market Center" sign in the background..

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 24/04/2025

Damn #Seattle, you done the "tearing-down-your-waterfront-freeway-viaduct" well... #SF, my home, you coulda done so much better after tearing down the Embarcadero Freeway... #Waterfront

Picture of the Seattle waterfront, facing south on top of Alaska way where the Alaska viaduct used to be. Pictured in the foreground is a green planted area and in the background is the ferris wheel and the promenade and part of the Aquarium.

The waterfront promenade in front of the Seattle Aquarium showing the wide walkway and 2 way fully protected bike lane. Sunny day with many people strolling along the walkway.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 05/04/2025

I asked a local LLM (#Qwen2 - #QwQ) on my MacBook Pro "how does presidential impeachment work" and it almost reached a boiling point. I mean, my computer. That was the thing reaching a boiling point. #LLM #impeachment #AI #SoHotRightNow #Qwen2 #law #government

Meters on a MacBook Pro showing CPU at 202 degrees F and GPU at 211F degrees F.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 28/03/2025

Alpacas! At Enchanted Farms near Duvall, Washington. #alpaca #pnw #duvall #wa

Alpaca with big black eyes and bottom teeth jutting out.

Alpaca face with big fur around the head.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 28/02/2025

I know the world sucks right now, but I just discovered that Slack has a :men-with-bunny-ears-partying: and sharing it on our our dev team slack channel made me giggle gleefully. #MentalBreak #Chuckle #Laugh #SillyForWork #Slack

Slack emoji of men with bunny ears partying.

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 28/02/2025

Tree pollens in the PNW at levels of 1137 particles per meter cubed. Threshold for "very high" is 600 particles per meter cubed. From www.nwasthma.com/pollen-count/

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 11/02/2025

Don't you think the SF Bay would be more appropriate?

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 03/12/2024

Almost the same shot, same afternoon:

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 03/12/2024

Afternoon fog, a streetlight shows through a barren tree. Shot at 4:45pm, its dark, thick clouds, 36F. So perfectly spooky. #pnw #photograpy #photos #duvallWA

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 27/11/2024

My throwback #SF #Muni hoodie I got myself celebrate the "fun" of riding Muni as a kid (also my dad working for MUNI and SFMTA/DPW for many years).

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Gabe Wachob @wachob.com · 15/11/2024

In Sequoia #Apple turned on this bonkers feature where dragged a window near an edge of the screen, would dock and then make my window full size (and I have a big monitor). And then I had to manually resize it to "undo" it. Never. Wanted. It. Here's the option to turn off. You are welcome.

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