Nathan L Smith
@nlsmith.com
Gardening, historic building maintenance, pet photos, infrastructure observability, JavaScript, graph theory, jokes. Fiscally anti-fascist, socially anti-fascist. Pacifist Gemini.
South Amana, Iowa
South Amana, Iowa
Brownie doesn’t understand tennis at all.
December 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Brownie doesn’t understand tennis at all.
Reposted by Nathan L Smith
Check out the first episode of a video documentary series by cinematographer Jerry Risius and me on issues facing Iowa: water, cancer, resilient agriculture and rural consolidation. Please share! Thanks.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
What's Eating Iowa: Episode 1 - Water
YouTube video by Iowans for Stronger Communities
m.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Check out the first episode of a video documentary series by cinematographer Jerry Risius and me on issues facing Iowa: water, cancer, resilient agriculture and rural consolidation. Please share! Thanks.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xqa...
Ok, Copilot, I know this looks bad, but honestly I was searching for "cumulativetodeltaprocessor" for a work thing about a customer thing, then I got distracted by another tab, and I switched back and this was just here, yeah.
December 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Ok, Copilot, I know this looks bad, but honestly I was searching for "cumulativetodeltaprocessor" for a work thing about a customer thing, then I got distracted by another tab, and I switched back and this was just here, yeah.
Canada goldenrod, Great St. John’s wort, Virgin’s bower 🌱
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Canada goldenrod, Great St. John’s wort, Virgin’s bower 🌱
Woodpecker in the maple tree 🌱
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Woodpecker in the maple tree 🌱
Ghost cat sneaks out of the house and thinks she can make my grapes her play house. 🌱
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Ghost cat sneaks out of the house and thinks she can make my grapes her play house. 🌱
Thanks to Coralville for building this huge Natatorium just for Nates to hang out at.
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thanks to Coralville for building this huge Natatorium just for Nates to hang out at.
Reposted by Nathan L Smith
Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Code wikis are documentation theater as a service by @theletterf.bsky.social
passo.uno/ai-wikis-doc...
passo.uno/ai-wikis-doc...
Code wikis are documentation theater as a service
Code Wiki, a new AI tool by Google, claims to generate a complete set of docs, including diagrams, from code repos. The landing page goes as far as saying “Stop documenting. No more stale docs. Ever”,...
passo.uno
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Code wikis are documentation theater as a service by @theletterf.bsky.social
passo.uno/ai-wikis-doc...
passo.uno/ai-wikis-doc...
Reposted by Nathan L Smith
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. (11/18/2025)
f the nyt
f the nyt
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. (11/18/2025)
f the nyt
f the nyt
Found my teen’s alt creds on a sticky note and she goes by “Jackoff McGee”
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Found my teen’s alt creds on a sticky note and she goes by “Jackoff McGee”
Reposted by Nathan L Smith
And then… it all happened. Prince “posthumously” got the Award of Merit at the AMAs, performing an edit of this greatest-hits medley, as well as a medley of songs from the album that Warner wouldn’t let him release. And he thanked Dick Clark for “letting him put Prince to bed”. youtu.be/XUQPw7TAMz4
PRINCE-RARE-Hits Medley Live & Award-1995 AMAS (1/30/1995) 4K HD-Best Copy
YouTube video by Tom Key
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
And then… it all happened. Prince “posthumously” got the Award of Merit at the AMAs, performing an edit of this greatest-hits medley, as well as a medley of songs from the album that Warner wouldn’t let him release. And he thanked Dick Clark for “letting him put Prince to bed”. youtu.be/XUQPw7TAMz4
Slop is on the menu at The Vine
November 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Slop is on the menu at The Vine
