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Cody Wilson

@belthesar.com

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I eat tech for breakfast, music for lunch, and games for dinner.

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Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · Oct 23

With all the new cool kids, it's intro time, I see.

I'm Cody, or belthesar (I've gone by the latter for almost 3/4s of my life at this point). I'm a professional digital roadie, and by that, I mean when I'm doing my job, you never know I'm there.

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Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · 5d

I'm unreasonably stoked for this project. A way to take your social media and platform takeout data and view it in the way it was made - in a timeline.

timelinize.com

Timelinize

Timelinize unifies and organizes your digital life on your own computer.

timelinize.com

Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · 12d

More selfishly, I'm still pissed that they bought Westwood Studios and fucked around with Command and Conquer.

Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · 12d

The long game here is that this could be an indicator of a major collapse of the games industry. From a "bad video games conglomerate reaps what they sowed" perspective, yes, I'm with you. Not much to be sad about here. This could be a death knell for bigger things however.

Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · 12d

Big ups if your final product looks better than the Buddy Holly music video that came on the Windows 95 CD.

Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · 13d

Over the weekend, I did my first data recovery of a failed NVMe drive. I wrote up a little post outlining the story. codywilson.co/posts/nvme-d...

Recovering data on a failed NVMe drive from over 500 miles away

On Friday, a buddy of mine reached out to me on Discord - “hey, uh, do you happen to know how to recover data from a dead NVMe drive?” Well, no, I didn’t at the time, but challenge accepted? I figured...

codywilson.co

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Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · 18d

One more benefit: you get to work out of a converted car dealership that someone committed milk crimes against. If you want to know more, you should apply and ask about it.

Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · 18d

Do you like dealing with dollars and cents? Do you like making sure companies are doing things the smooth and smart way? Do you like working with absolutely chill fantastic folks that love video games? Check out this job post!

Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 18d

We're hiring a Controller (the 💵 kind not the 🎮 kind) – please forward this to your friend who is wasting their life away at some insurance company and suggest they waste their life with us instead!
www.fangamer.com/pages/job-li...

Controller

Fangamer is looking for an experienced accountant to head up our finance team as Controller. This should be someone who is excited about accounting, eager to get our books into shape, and importantly ...

www.fangamer.com

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Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · 18d

I continue to beat the bandwagon that advertising as a method of compensation for creative content is a perverse mechanism that will inevitably twist the platform against its original mission. And yet, thanks to ads, we've changed the value of created works in the eyes of the user.

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Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · 19d

I love this. I'm often a busy person. Lots going on, often lost in my own little world, working on things for $dayjob, or side projects, or spending time with my partner. But every time I'm invited to do something, even if I rarely say yes, I feel thought of. Counted. sharif.io/anna-alexei

Always invite Anna

Sometimes the people who need invitations most are the ones who always decline them.

sharif.io

Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · 25d

They're now self-hosting their own Mattermost. Love that.

Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · 25d

Hack Club, a very cool non-profit community that teaches kids to make cool stuff with tech got a surprise notice that their long-standing non-profit discount is over, that they needed to pay $50k this week to keep access to their data, with a future rate of $200k/yr. skyfall.dev/posts/slack

Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase

An open letter, or something

skyfall.dev

Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · 25d

a close up of a person 's hand holding a gun in a dark room .

Alt: Kylo Ren from Star Wars screaming "MORE!"

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Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · 27d

Man, I have got to up my blazer/sportcoat game. I love the way I look in them, but the only ones I have are black.

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Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · Sep 12

I know you've learned this now, but: Never, ever do business with GoDaddy.

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Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · Sep 9

You also mentioned seeing a flash of light on stream last night too that no one else saw, IIRC, and chalked it up to OBS being weird.

I blame the Trolls game.

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Jochen Lillich @geewiz.dev · Sep 9

It's the final countdown! In 2 days, I'll launch my free, instructor-led course "Basic Linux System Administration"! I'll broadcast it live on Twitch, YouTube and Owncast. Sign up here: mspc.sh/free-linux-c...

(Please boost to help me reach more people who could benefit from this course.)

Free Live Online Course: Basic Linux System Administration > The Monospace Mentor

Free Live Online Course: Basic Linux System Administration Broadcast on multiple streaming platforms Starting September 11th 2025, I’m going to host a free streaming version of my course “Basic Linux…

mspc.sh

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Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · Sep 9

@tropicalfreeze21.bsky.social you need to see this

Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · Sep 8

Oh god that’s a terrifying and wonderful idea. But it’s gotta be some sort of Q or Metron or Traveler fiasco gone wrong where it’s S1/S2 Mariner and fresh-from-the-occupation full of piss and vinegar take no names Kira

Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · Sep 6

Don't drop your temporal shields or you'll go back in time a year and have to do this all over again.

Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · Sep 3

localStorage is probably the most friction-free way to do client-side data persistence, but I have (perhaps unfounded) concerns that you might get a weird flash of an unintended site color scheme. I'm generally fine with my browser sending my preferred color scheme to a site, is that insufficient?

Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · Sep 2

@pizzahotline.bsky.social Hey, just stumbled across you from a random YT rec for a MOTORSLICE video, and now I'm falling in love with your tunes! I'd like to start playing around with some of that PS1 era sound, curious if you have any recommendations or guidance for sound design from that era?

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Internet Archive @archive.org · Aug 29

📢 The Internet Archive is hiring musicians to play at our virtual staff meetings. Share your music, get paid, and support our mission!

🎼 Interested? Use our online form ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/08/20/c...

#lukatsiklaurimusic

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Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · Aug 29

Imagine my surprise that you found an asshole driver from my hometown. At least, I'm assuming so based on where they bought the car from.

Cody Wilson @belthesar.com · Aug 29

Paging @philsalv.bsky.social

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Today is Friday in California @fridaypacific.bsky.social · Aug 22

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