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Corey Peterson
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Ed tech, climate, space. Open source developer @ UCF. Opinions mine.
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Corey Peterson @clpeterson.bsky.social · Nov 12
Time for a proper intro post?

Hey all 👋! I'm a full-stack dev responsible for an open-source ecosystem of gamified web applications here at UCF 🎮. I also mentor a cohort of junior student devs as part of our in-house "Techrangers" program. I do everything from accessibility to front-end to devops.
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The human mind is not built to handle maintaining dependabot pull requests on 40+ github repositories
December 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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We did our first EV "road trip" this weekend: ~240 miles each way. Two random observations: 1: supercharger congestion is nuts! Stopped to charge 3x, and all 3 stops had packed superchargers. By contrast, CCS chargers always had room. 2: every CCS network has their own app. Annoying! I'm up to 7.
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Unreasonably bummed to learn that the zoo in Miami decommissioned and scrapped its monorail in 2022. I had fond memories of riding it as a kid! 1990s me was convinced monorails were the transit option of the future.
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Hopped... sparkling water? This was a new experience, but a delightful one.
A photo of a can of "swamp water", or carbonated water with hops. It was non-alcoholic and surprisingly tasty.
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Beeps and boops
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Two weeks ago I made the plunge on a gently used EV. Now I'm that guy who won't shut up about how awesome EVs are (sorry.) Especially coming from a series of manual transmission cars, it truly feels like driving a spaceship.
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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End of an era. I really think this is for the best, despite having many wonderful memories of visiting as a kid 20+ years ago.
October 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Still thinking about this cozy beer garden in southwestern Maine from last weekend. Pizza, beer, 70 degrees, 45% humidity. Just incredible.
An outdoor beer garden with a rustic vibe under party cloudy skies near sunset. A wooden barn, pavilion, outdoor recliners, and barrels fill the scene. An outdoor beer garden from the perspective of a bench under a wooden pavilion. A large wooden barn fills the center frame.
September 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Hi. I don't have anything of substance to add to the current discourse, so here's a loon on a lake.
A wide angle photo of a picturesque lake in Maine, with a low rolling mountain on the horizon under blue skies. A tree juts into frame from the shore on the right, behind which a floating wooden platform for swimming sits and nearby, the distinct profile of a loon.
September 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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I've used twitter via the web app on firefox mobile since they shut down 3rd party apps prior to elonification. Since then, it is shocking how much power it drains even just scrolling the timeline for several minutes. At some point I need to plug in dev tools and investigate.
August 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Pleased to snag a signed copy of Al Reynolds's new novella. This is now my second signed book by one of my favorite authors.
A red hardcover book sits on a black coffee table. The title reads "the dagger in Vichy" by Alastair Reynolds in a medieval style. A hardcover novella is opened to the first page where the signature of the author is visible.
July 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I held off playing BG3 for a while because I was skeptical it was THAT good, but after having just finished my first run... Okay, yeah, it was indeed THAT good.
July 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Sleepy boy
A black cat lies asleep on a green carpet. His coat shines impressively with the bright light coming into the room. The head of a snake toy peeks out from under his chin, implying he was playing with it before falling asleep.
July 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy.
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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It's a great time to fuck off from work, log off online, and take care of yourself and the people you love.

We all need to gear up for what's coming.
July 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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I don't have the words to convey how absolutely devastating this would be. I look forward to preparing for storms based purely on vibes and YouTube weather slop.
michaelrlowry.bsky.social Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · Jul 1
It's hard to adequately summarize how destructive NOAA's 2026 proposed budget released on Monday is for hurricane forecasting, but I crammed all I could into today's newsletter. I encourage everyone with interests along the coast to read it carefully. ⬇️
NOAA Proposes Permanently Closing Premiere Hurricane Research Institute
In its proposed 2026 budget released Monday, NOAA closes all federally funded weather and climate research labs, including the one responsible for maintaining the nation’s top hurricane models
michaelrlowry.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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From one of the local protests in Casselberry this morning. Overheard organizers estimate about 2000 in attendance, by far their largest turnout yet.
Selfie of a guy with red hair and a beard, sunglasses, and a bucket hat holding a sign that says "NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL" Wide angle photo of protestors along the edge of a street holding signs and American flags towards passing vehicles. A crowd is visible stretching away from the close side of the street as well as the opposite side.
June 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Block Island views, from a nice little mini-vacation this weekend to rendezvous with family.
A view of the north side of Block Island from offshore. Sand-colored cliffs are topped by a thin layer of green, situated between radiant blue water and a sky filled with scattered clouds. An elevated view of a well-maintained field bordered by vegetation. Several New England-style homes pepper the vegetation in the distance and further out, the shore island curves away revealing a town several miles distant. The sky is clear with only faint wisps of cloud and the sea stretches out to the horizon on the left. A long wooden staircase descends in moderate fog to a distant beach. Thick, stout vegetation surrounds the stairs on either side. The atmosphere is gray and moody.
May 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭
May 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Visited a wholesome little aquarium in southern Rhode Island today and now considering what it might take to move from edtech to museums, aquariums, or similar public-facing scicomm orgs 🤔
May 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Anecdotal: On occasions where I still visit the other site, it's through the web app on mobile safari with ublock origin. Doing so incurs a massive drain on battery performance, in a way I can only assume the native android or iOS apps avoid. Suppose that's the price paid for modest privacy.
May 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Sometimes I think about resubbing to @washingtonpost.com but then they put out utterly humiliating garbage like this, an absolutely embarrassing double standard, and I only wish I could cancel my sub again and again and again
The U.S. presidency is the biggest, most taxing job there is, demanding an almost superhuman level of basic intelligence, clear thinking and wisdom. In addition to managing a policy agenda, negotiating with foreign leaders, making legislative deals and representing the nation at home and abroad, the president also must be prepared to handle an unexpected crisis at any hour of the day or night.
May 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Today I learned some of the most formative influences on my childhood - MSB, Reading Rainbow, Bill Nye - were all due to NSF funding.
dcardo.bsky.social Daniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · May 16
I was today years old when I learned that the Magic Schoolbus was an NSF-funded project.
Image of the TV series The Magic School Bus accompanied by the following text: Airing on PBS in the mid-1990s, this NSF-funded animated TV show follows Ms. Frizzle and her class as they set off on field trips out of this world, including careening across the solar system, traveling through the human body or visiting the late Cretaceous period.
May 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM