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Glen Akins

@bikerglen.bsky.social

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Building gadgets, riding bikes, and fighting the good fight for municipal broadband. Chip designer by day. Some days you're a mountain goat; other days you're a fainting goat. 🐐

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Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 2h

Finally got around to installing some software on the Framework Desktop. I'm astounded at how much faster it is than my old PC. Fusion orbits are silky smooth and the Bambu Studio slicer is super snappy. Next step is moving it upstairs to my desk and beginning the migration of everything else to it.

framework desktop, nec 18" HD LCD, keychron tkl keyboard, cheap logitech mouse sitting on a workbench in a makeshift studio in an unfinished basement.

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 4h

git unfuck main.cpp

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 7h

welp insurance company paid my hand x-ray claim but not my index finger x-ray claim because apparently they're too stupid to know the difference between what is visible in each series.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 12h

left hand down for a few more weeks so getting ready to buy a metric shit ton of Duplo blocks to play with because that's the level of motor skill i have right now. 😂

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 16h

I disconnected my outdoor hoses yesterday afternoon!

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 16h

Done.

box o hand warmers

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 16h

no cars, movies, and beer does sound nice though. i wonder what my gym would do i bought one of their beers and hopped on one of their pelotons with it. probably nothing is my guess.

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 16h

why do i need an indoor bike? we've never let bad weather stop us from riding outdoors.

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe if it had its own screen and didn't require wifi and didn't require an app and didn't require a subscription. I'm cheap and a Luddite. It does look neat though.

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 16h

All the major brands control retail pricing now so it's impossible for Amazon to have a better deal than anybody else on anything of any significance except for possibly last year's junk.

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 22h

Anytime after dark to about 10 pm. Knock and there's probably beer and chips. Door bell button doesn't do anything. Wolves are going out closer to Halloween.

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 1d

My employer needs to pay for my shower time.

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 1d

A couple more lights on the rotting corpse at the back right of the 2nd picture and I'm done with Halloween until it's time to release the wolves from the basement in two weeks.

halloween props lit in a variety of colors in a yard. mostly tombstones and bones

halloween props lit in a variety of colors in a yard. zombies, ghouls, skeletons

close up of cemetery but the plague doctor is better lit this time.

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 1d

at least it wasn't broadcom

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 5d

Outrageous! The moon rotation in this shot of
The Lion King remake implies it was shot far into the northern hemisphere. What happened to realism? Literally unwatchable.

Screenshot of shot with the full moon rising in front of Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa. Below are three moon diagrams showing the proper orientation of the moon from the northern hemisphere, equator (Kenya) and southern hemisphere. The moon from the film is aligned to the northern hemisphere version because realism means nothing any longer.

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 2d

40% is insane!

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 3d

2024 Halloween me decided to be nice to 2025 Halloween me and label things for what they are for, but he also hid 2 of the 9 Hue spotlights as a challenge in a separate stash in the garage. #wolf

three hue 40W power supplies with p-touch labels on them that read "ground wolf," "roof wolf," and "tombstones."

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 3d

Welp, I can't ride for at least a month so I ordered another bike. This one's gonna be a gravel bike.

The Chamois Hagar defies classification and exudes stoke, taking what we knew gravel to be, and redefining it. 700 x 50c tire clearance, 430mm chainstays, a 66.6 degree headtube angle, 80mm of BB drop...

www.evil-bikes.com

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 3d

@s3thn3ss.bsky.social

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 4d

The parts from SendCutSend worked out well! Time to work on the software and mechanics now.

small railroad semaphore signal spectacle with a wooden arm and green/yellow/red 4.5" vintage lenses. laser cut from steel and wood with 3d printed plastic retaining rings for the roundels

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 5d

My left hand is fucked for at least another 4 weeks but already making plans with @s3thn3ss.bsky.social to do our longest ride ever...my house into Wyoming and back. Wanna join us @alans9.bsky.social?

Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 5d

I worked for Cisco at the time and we were all LOL'ing at the giant ass Cisco-Linksys router the next day at work.

Kyle Fixes the Internet

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Glen Akins @bikerglen.bsky.social · 5d

I went to Soapstone once but the gate malfunctioned and was closed. I called the ranger on duty and he told me to just ride Red Mountain instead so I ditched my truck at the closed gate and went for the 35 mile-ish day. By the time I was back at the gate, it was open. Prob not what ranger intended.😂

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Colleen Madden @oligarchymalarkey.bsky.social · 5d

Will her halftime show be shooting all the puppy bowl puppies?