Daniel Pipkin 🦥
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After a 5 hour flight, I really appreciate that SLC is designed to minimize the time spent taxiing. The tradeoff is that it takes longer to walk through the airport but it's so worth it to be able to get off the plane and stretch my legs.
December 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
After a 5 hour flight, I really appreciate that SLC is designed to minimize the time spent taxiing. The tradeoff is that it takes longer to walk through the airport but it's so worth it to be able to get off the plane and stretch my legs.
It was an amazing party. Thank you to everyone who came. There was a big event where the folk2 merge happened through the system and you can see the aftermath in this photo.
December 13, 2025 at 6:59 AM
It was an amazing party. Thank you to everyone who came. There was a big event where the folk2 merge happened through the system and you can see the aftermath in this photo.
Folk Computer is doing a v2 launch party this Friday in Brooklyn. I'll be there if you want to come say hi.
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RSVP to Folk Computer v2 Launch Party | Partiful
Join us to celebrate the launch of the new version of Folk Computer!
After ~two years of hacking away, Folk2 is ready to be shared with the world! To celebrate this milestone, we're throwing a launch...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Folk Computer is doing a v2 launch party this Friday in Brooklyn. I'll be there if you want to come say hi.
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Lasers were first built in 1960. That's 15 years after the atomic bomb dropped. I always pictured them being an earlier 20th century invention.
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Laser - Wikipedia
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December 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Lasers were first built in 1960. That's 15 years after the atomic bomb dropped. I always pictured them being an earlier 20th century invention.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser?w...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser?w...
One must imagine Icarus happy.
Flying is fun as hell.
Flying is fun as hell.
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
One must imagine Icarus happy.
Flying is fun as hell.
Flying is fun as hell.
Inspired by @arquipelago.org I printed and bound some PDFs I've been wanting to have around for reference. I used this video to learn the saddle stitch. youtu.be/aWHkY5jOoqM
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Inspired by @arquipelago.org I printed and bound some PDFs I've been wanting to have around for reference. I used this video to learn the saddle stitch. youtu.be/aWHkY5jOoqM
I'm trying to get more comfortable with C. @b0rk.jvns.ca's Memory Spy tool has really strengthened my intuition for the bits behind the variables.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I'm trying to get more comfortable with C. @b0rk.jvns.ca's Memory Spy tool has really strengthened my intuition for the bits behind the variables.
memory-spy.wizardzines.com
memory-spy.wizardzines.com
The best part of trick-or-treating last night was seeing people out in the neighborhood being social and supportive. It's humanity's forte.
I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The best part of trick-or-treating last night was seeing people out in the neighborhood being social and supportive. It's humanity's forte.
Wikipedia is hands down the very best of the internet. This is a great interview with co-founder Jimmy Wales
youtu.be/YJezMMCogXw
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The Culture Wars Have Come for Wikipedia | The Interview
YouTube video by The Interview
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October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Wikipedia is hands down the very best of the internet. This is a great interview with co-founder Jimmy Wales
youtu.be/YJezMMCogXw
youtu.be/YJezMMCogXw
Shoutout to @cuttlexyz.bsky.social's experimental 3d printing. I'm printing some husky earrings for my wife.
October 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Shoutout to @cuttlexyz.bsky.social's experimental 3d printing. I'm printing some husky earrings for my wife.
A bicycle for the mind.
Going for a bike ride remains one of my most powerful debugging techniques.
October 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
A bicycle for the mind.
Forrest let me try this out and it was perfect for what I needed! This dino has a new arm now.
September 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Forrest let me try this out and it was perfect for what I needed! This dino has a new arm now.
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time was 19 years ago.
August 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time was 19 years ago.
3yo: "I want to read Fox in Socks: I don't want that food"
Me: "Green eggs and ham?"
"Yeah"
Me: "Green eggs and ham?"
"Yeah"
August 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
3yo: "I want to read Fox in Socks: I don't want that food"
Me: "Green eggs and ham?"
"Yeah"
Me: "Green eggs and ham?"
"Yeah"
I'm excited to share Mario Paint with my kids without worrying about my Super Nintendo getting destroyed.
youtu.be/Ok8hd9D6ImM
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Mario Paint - Super NES – Nintendo Classics
YouTube video by Nintendo of America
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July 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm excited to share Mario Paint with my kids without worrying about my Super Nintendo getting destroyed.
youtu.be/Ok8hd9D6ImM
youtu.be/Ok8hd9D6ImM
Forget carrier pigeons, we need to create a starling modem.
New doc releases today!
- Ultrasonic recording of a starling that can record and playback virtually any sound
- Analyzing incredible slowed-down bird songs
- Showing you how to do this (and way more) on the cheap
youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo
- Ultrasonic recording of a starling that can record and playback virtually any sound
- Analyzing incredible slowed-down bird songs
- Showing you how to do this (and way more) on the cheap
youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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July 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Forget carrier pigeons, we need to create a starling modem.
"Knowledge is something that when you share it there's just more. There's no scarcity."
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July 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"Knowledge is something that when you share it there's just more. There's no scarcity."
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Cleaning is fun when you find the right solvent. I just cleaned this duct tape off with gasoline. It came off in minutes.
July 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Cleaning is fun when you find the right solvent. I just cleaned this duct tape off with gasoline. It came off in minutes.
As long as it "smells like a computer," I think we've got it 🕺. Please ask me questions about Folk. I love sharing it.
Thank you to everyone who came to our last Localhost talk with @cwervo.bsky.social and @omar.website!
They presented on @folkcomputer.bsky.social and unveiled the Folk Gadget! Together we escaped the screen and entered the realm of light and paper-based computing.
📽️📄🌀
Watch the recording below:
They presented on @folkcomputer.bsky.social and unveiled the Folk Gadget! Together we escaped the screen and entered the realm of light and paper-based computing.
📽️📄🌀
Watch the recording below:
July 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
As long as it "smells like a computer," I think we've got it 🕺. Please ask me questions about Folk. I love sharing it.
I love that python's uv can read dependencies out of metadata in a single script. Thank you PEP 723. That means people can reliably run a single file I send, even if it requires other libraries.
See this in action in this quick script an LLM mostly wrote for me: github.com/ppkn/rss_dow...
See this in action in this quick script an LLM mostly wrote for me: github.com/ppkn/rss_dow...
July 2, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I love that python's uv can read dependencies out of metadata in a single script. Thank you PEP 723. That means people can reliably run a single file I send, even if it requires other libraries.
See this in action in this quick script an LLM mostly wrote for me: github.com/ppkn/rss_dow...
See this in action in this quick script an LLM mostly wrote for me: github.com/ppkn/rss_dow...
Senate Republicans are fucking cowards.
July 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Senate Republicans are fucking cowards.
I made a @val.town because the IRS doesn't want to send me a notification about 501c3 approval. It checks every couple of hours and sends an email when the org finally shows up in search.
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June 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I made a @val.town because the IRS doesn't want to send me a notification about 501c3 approval. It checks every couple of hours and sends an email when the org finally shows up in search.
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This feels fundamentally different to a chat interface. The context is always available to be edited and tweaked. There is no distinction between user-input and machine-output.
June 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This feels fundamentally different to a chat interface. The context is always available to be edited and tweaked. There is no distinction between user-input and machine-output.
Ten thousand of us showed up and one of us won't be going home tonight. I'm heartbroken.
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One person ‘critically injured,’ one arrested after shooting as 10,000 march in Salt Lake City during No Kings protest
Near the end of a march from Pioneer Park to the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building, shots were fired. Salt Lake City police said they transported one person to a hospital and arrested another.
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June 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Ten thousand of us showed up and one of us won't be going home tonight. I'm heartbroken.
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I'm so sick of hearing about AI coding, but Steve's talk was a very refreshing take on the current state of things.
June 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I'm so sick of hearing about AI coding, but Steve's talk was a very refreshing take on the current state of things.