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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

wh28olympics.gov registered by the Department of Homeland Security.

Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I borrowed a Festool track saw from the Cville Tool Library, and of all the tools that are not fucking around, the Festool track saw is the most not fucking around. I’d never used anything by Festool before, and I see why their stuff is so expensive. I made four perfectly straight cuts, so I can […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

It is 2026 and I just now realized that I could simply install a GUI SQLite viewer instead of using the CLI all the time. That took me ~20 years, but I got there.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

A couple of weeks ago, reaching for a metaphor, I declared something to be “as useless as nipples on a chicken.” On reflection, I think I’ve invented a great aphorism, and I hereby release it into the world.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@botgov/11737198375… si.gov has been registered by EOP. This is weird / troubling because the Smithsonian Institution is si.edu, which is registered by, of course, the Smithsonian Institution.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@botgov/11736065913… In extremely niche local news, the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority (RSWA) and the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) have set aside their naming differences and split domains to align on sharing rivanna.gov. Congratulations, you crazy […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

One of these is the logo for X/Twitter. One is the logo for X11. Huh.

A black “X,” with one stroke solid, the other broader, filled in white.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Thinking about becoming a guy who is obsessed with maintaining my servers’ continuous uptime.

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Nelson Minar @nelson.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Fresh new CAPTCHA hell from Google (as seen on Reddit)

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I'm impressed to see IBM's Granite LLM model, which is open source, with open weights, trained exclusively on non-copyrighted text. I'm running it on my M5 MacBook Pro right now, for a big text-summarization project. No ethical concerns, either in training or in operating…I think I've found an […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@covid_wastewater/1… Covid wastewater levels have now hit "very high” levels in California, Florida, Texas, USVI, and Washington.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I finally added a blogroll to my blog. I just exported my NetNewsWire file as OPML, removed all the utilities (e.g., my various websites' RSS feeds that I use to monitor them), and imported it into WordPress. waldo.jaquith.org

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Waldo Jaquith – Open source, procurement, and gov tech.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

My bots are having a heck of a time with Mastodon.social today. More uploads & posts are being rejected than permitted. (I haven't had time to dig into my log messages to understand the underlying problem. Maybe tonight, if the problem persists.) ...It took me two attempts to post this, so I'm […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Have you read a government/organizational report that you really liked? Maybe you loved the format, maybe the tone, maybe the design, maybe the structure, but whatever it was, would you share a link? I'm looking for some some models.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@botgov/11724741294… lafeark.gov is a weird one. It's registered by the town of Lafe, Arkansas. But that should be lafear.gov, not lafeark.gov. There is no other Arkansas domain that uses "ark” instead of "ar.” I'm also amazed Lafe has a domain. There's […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

RE: social.afront.org/@MLE_online/11723… I forgot that Charlottesville's library had this! In ~1994, I could dial into their BBS and search the catalog just like if I was sitting at a terminal in the library. It felt like a magic trick.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I'm having a hard time finding something to replace 1Password (I use its features to the hilt, it turns out). I wish I could test out Bitwarden without having to create an account on their server or set up my own server. I just want to, like, look at it.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

I just remembered that we used to have to park our drive heads on MFM and RLL hard drives. There was a "PARK" command you'd use to tell it to move the drive heads off the platters, so if you were physically moving your computer, you wouldn't have to worry about it banging into the platters.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

"With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of git.kernel.org traffic — everything else are scrapers." (via @nelson people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/cree…

Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Yesterday I copied a couple of million tiny JSON files to S3 and that cost me $11.98 in S3 transfer fees. ... I was not aware that would be so expensive!

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

After many years of using !! to re-run the last command (especially sudo !!), I finally looked into the syntax I was parroting. These look very useful! I'm confident I can remember !500 or whatever, but I'd really like to be able to remember !ping or […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

!500 — Run command number 500
!! — Run the last command
!-3 — Run the command 3 before the current one
ping - Run the last command that started with "ping"
!?example .com — Run the last command containing "example.com" anywhere

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

BirdNET has concluded that tree crickets are, in fact, eastern screech-owls, and my BirdNet-Go is positively giddy with bajillions of claimed owl calls every night. I understand how this happened with the training data, but… 🤨

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Currently geocoding 173,830 addresses, one per second. Being polite to APIs has an associated time penalty. But, hey, that's only 48 hours. Not bad.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

@josh I have introduced my nine-year-old to your iceberg maker and he has spent easily an hour on it the past 24 hours.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@kottke/11713475260… I love long walks (2,000 miles is my longest), and I really like them in Manhattan. I've done ~NYSE to 110th a few times, across 20 years of visits there, and it's a completely different walk each time. That's presumably about half of […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

RE: xoxo.zone/@mathowie/117128516630147… I would not consider a vehicle that didn't support CarPlay. My folks couldn't decide between the Chevy Blazer EV and the Ford Mustang EV, and chose the Ford *solely on the basis that it supported CarPlay*. They were repulsed by the idea of […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I so appreciate that we just don’t talk about, refer to, quote, etc. ESR or RMS anymore. Great work, everybody.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

I feel good about my decision to simply never bother with GraphQL.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@kottke/11705000668… Yessss, I loved this game as a kid, and I've spent a bunch of time researching its origins myself.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

My blog is extremely slow, *but only for me*, because of some admin user thing in WordPress, I assume, which it annoys me that I have to debug. If it took 10 seconds for *everybody* to load a page, but I'd get that fixed immediately, but I am apparently willing to suffer weeks of minor […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

I have made a profoundly stupid new bot. I fully expect its followers will number in the low dozens. But it delights *me*, and that's the important thing. You know how Sugar Ray's "Fly" was introed by Jamaican dancehall DJ Super Cat? Well, what if every song could have that intro? […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Every day for the past ~week I have gotten spam that's targeted at me because of a specific GitHub repo that I’ve contributed to. Obviously no human is looking at these, e.g. one cites this repository name: "Turn CSV into JSON. [RETIRED]” I do not like this.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Excited, confused little girl at this mini-golf course: “I got a home run!”

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Blog entry: We need something between a traditional home solar installation and plug-in solar. Imagine paying an electrician to install an inverter that connects to your electrical panel. You’d be left with a box on the side of your house, with a connection point for solar power. Then you, the […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Too bad DDG and Kagi bangs can only scope down to one site, because I'd love to have one to search cooperative extension services’ websites, the U.S.'s best source of agricultural information. They're a wealth of information about gardening, pest management, food preservation, composting […]

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