Cooper
@cooperx86.bsky.social
GitHub user #118, programming, LLMs, 3D printing, and piano https://peterc.org/
"binfluencer" is one of my favorite modern words. It's the person in your neighborhood who puts the right bin out first so you can just copy them instead of remembering which one it's meant to be.
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"binfluencer" is one of my favorite modern words. It's the person in your neighborhood who puts the right bin out first so you can just copy them instead of remembering which one it's meant to be.
Found this book on Internet Archive and might borrow it as I'm intrigued. Thoughts @terencecgannon.com ? 😂
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Found this book on Internet Archive and might borrow it as I'm intrigued. Thoughts @terencecgannon.com ? 😂
I can be "down with the kids" and enjoy generation alpha slang with the best of them, but the term "pfp" is a level of degeneracy I refuse to stoop to, no cap.
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I can be "down with the kids" and enjoy generation alpha slang with the best of them, but the term "pfp" is a level of degeneracy I refuse to stoop to, no cap.
If you're in the email space and use a tool called Litmus, check your bill because they just 5x-ed the price of their main plan from $99->$500/mo, mentioning this only in an email that looks like all their usual fluffy marketing/content mails. Scumbag move.
November 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
If you're in the email space and use a tool called Litmus, check your bill because they just 5x-ed the price of their main plan from $99->$500/mo, mentioning this only in an email that looks like all their usual fluffy marketing/content mails. Scumbag move.
Thriller is the obvious choice, but this is my go-to music video involving Halloween costumes, and the song has good life advice to boot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS4N...
When You’re Ugly - Louis Cole
YouTube video by louiscolemusic
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October 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Thriller is the obvious choice, but this is my go-to music video involving Halloween costumes, and the song has good life advice to boot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS4N...
Do I still have my first mouse mat from 36 years ago? Yes! (I'm now a full-time trackpad user, though.)
September 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Do I still have my first mouse mat from 36 years ago? Yes! (I'm now a full-time trackpad user, though.)
Tell me it's not just me. I ask CarPlay or Alexa: "Play $SONG by $ARTIST". For many songs it then replies: "Playing $SONG live, dubstep acapella remix by $ARTIST".
If I just say the name of a song, always play the original!
If I just say the name of a song, always play the original!
September 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Tell me it's not just me. I ask CarPlay or Alexa: "Play $SONG by $ARTIST". For many songs it then replies: "Playing $SONG live, dubstep acapella remix by $ARTIST".
If I just say the name of a song, always play the original!
If I just say the name of a song, always play the original!
There's an AirBnB in Scotland where instead of relaxing, you get to run a real-life bookshop for one or two weeks during your stay: www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/7908227 .. I kinda wanna do this!
Rental unit in Wigtown · ★4.94 · 1 bedroom · 2 beds · 1 bathroom
The Open Book - a bookshop holiday!
www.airbnb.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM
There's an AirBnB in Scotland where instead of relaxing, you get to run a real-life bookshop for one or two weeks during your stay: www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/7908227 .. I kinda wanna do this!
What the heck are these kids learning in school nowadays that requires a 76TB NAS? 😅
September 5, 2025 at 8:32 AM
What the heck are these kids learning in school nowadays that requires a 76TB NAS? 😅
"The Pitt" is one of the best TV shows I've seen in years. I only just discovered it as Virgin had it on the flight, but it's not available in the UK at all (unless you sail the 🏴☠️). I love me a good medical show, but talk about turning it up to 11.
August 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"The Pitt" is one of the best TV shows I've seen in years. I only just discovered it as Virgin had it on the flight, but it's not available in the UK at all (unless you sail the 🏴☠️). I love me a good medical show, but talk about turning it up to 11.
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I've been reading Ruby Weekly since - let me check my inbox - *SPITS OUT WATER* - 2013?!? And that was already the 126th edition 😱 @cooperx86.bsky.social you are a machine!!
It's always been one of my top Ruby resources, so it's extra fun to be included in it!
rubyweekly.com/issues/762
It's always been one of my top Ruby resources, so it's extra fun to be included in it!
rubyweekly.com/issues/762
August 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I've been reading Ruby Weekly since - let me check my inbox - *SPITS OUT WATER* - 2013?!? And that was already the 126th edition 😱 @cooperx86.bsky.social you are a machine!!
It's always been one of my top Ruby resources, so it's extra fun to be included in it!
rubyweekly.com/issues/762
It's always been one of my top Ruby resources, so it's extra fun to be included in it!
rubyweekly.com/issues/762
I was tired of LLM clients having context, "chats", etc. Often I just want to fire off a quick prompt and get a quick response. So I built this for me, but you can use it too: peterc.org/zerocontext/ .. all client-side, you can save the HTML and use it locally if you like. Uses OpenRouter.
quick zero context llm
peterc.org
August 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I was tired of LLM clients having context, "chats", etc. Often I just want to fire off a quick prompt and get a quick response. So I built this for me, but you can use it too: peterc.org/zerocontext/ .. all client-side, you can save the HTML and use it locally if you like. Uses OpenRouter.
The meaning of this post is quite guessable if you check out the www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...
The Bluesky Dictionary
Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Well this is your chance to find out.
www.avibagla.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The meaning of this post is quite guessable if you check out the www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...
I dunno what they're up to, but this British made computer is kinda neat looking, as is the weird Linux variant they're building for it: caligra.com
Caligra is a new computer company.
The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate your work.
caligra.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I dunno what they're up to, but this British made computer is kinda neat looking, as is the weird Linux variant they're building for it: caligra.com
BTW, if you need to message me, go to my homepage peterc.org and email me. Bluesky doesn't allow DMs anymore and I'm not submitting my personal info to them 😂
July 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
BTW, if you need to message me, go to my homepage peterc.org and email me. Bluesky doesn't allow DMs anymore and I'm not submitting my personal info to them 😂
Thundercat is the modern day Michael McDonald. Any time he turns up on a song, he instantly elevates it far beyond it'd be on its own.
July 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Thundercat is the modern day Michael McDonald. Any time he turns up on a song, he instantly elevates it far beyond it'd be on its own.
Discovered it's "weird" to use your last name in takeout situations, but I always have. First name is too personal for something like that IMO, it just feels inappropriate to me.
July 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Discovered it's "weird" to use your last name in takeout situations, but I always have. First name is too personal for something like that IMO, it just feels inappropriate to me.
I remember when 10+GB hard drives first came out and I was like.. nah, I can't trust that, that's just way too much data in one place. Meanwhile, Seagate's newest drive is 30TB, some 3000 bigger 😄
July 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I remember when 10+GB hard drives first came out and I was like.. nah, I can't trust that, that's just way too much data in one place. Meanwhile, Seagate's newest drive is 30TB, some 3000 bigger 😄
Amazon S3 Vectors is interesting but it feels like they couldn't be bothered to launch a new AWS service with a new name, and awkwardly shoehorned a concept into a place it doesn't quite belong? aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in...
Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale (preview) | Amazon Web Services
Amazon S3 Vectors is a new cloud object store that provides native support for storing and querying vectors at massive scale, offering up to 90% cost reduction compared to conventional approaches whil...
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July 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Amazon S3 Vectors is interesting but it feels like they couldn't be bothered to launch a new AWS service with a new name, and awkwardly shoehorned a concept into a place it doesn't quite belong? aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in...
This is the best decade for popular music since the 90s.
July 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is the best decade for popular music since the 90s.
I was looking at this map of the world 105 million years ago (with present land overlaid) and noticed all the oil producing regions of the world were shallow seas then (light blue). That's no coincidence, but I'd never seen it before and I never listened in science class 😏
July 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I was looking at this map of the world 105 million years ago (with present land overlaid) and noticed all the oil producing regions of the world were shallow seas then (light blue). That's no coincidence, but I'd never seen it before and I never listened in science class 😏
The past few days I've noticed many (but not all) Web pages are taking longer to begin rendering – just a second or so. Then I remembered Cloudflare has turned on that anti-AI crawling stuff. Just making a note in case it turns out to be a story and not my imagination.
July 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The past few days I've noticed many (but not all) Web pages are taking longer to begin rendering – just a second or so. Then I remembered Cloudflare has turned on that anti-AI crawling stuff. Just making a note in case it turns out to be a story and not my imagination.
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🎙️ New #TalkingPostgres #podcast episode!
Peter Cooper joined to talk about 12 years of Postgres Weekly—with QBASIC Usenet fanzines, the BBC big tent, lots of #PostgreSQL, weekly newsletters for 460K devs, & 1 very cheesy story 🧀
🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/12-...
📺 youtu.be/F1eWSAVKxdY?...
Peter Cooper joined to talk about 12 years of Postgres Weekly—with QBASIC Usenet fanzines, the BBC big tent, lots of #PostgreSQL, weekly newsletters for 460K devs, & 1 very cheesy story 🧀
🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/12-...
📺 youtu.be/F1eWSAVKxdY?...
June 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
🎙️ New #TalkingPostgres #podcast episode!
Peter Cooper joined to talk about 12 years of Postgres Weekly—with QBASIC Usenet fanzines, the BBC big tent, lots of #PostgreSQL, weekly newsletters for 460K devs, & 1 very cheesy story 🧀
🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/12-...
📺 youtu.be/F1eWSAVKxdY?...
Peter Cooper joined to talk about 12 years of Postgres Weekly—with QBASIC Usenet fanzines, the BBC big tent, lots of #PostgreSQL, weekly newsletters for 460K devs, & 1 very cheesy story 🧀
🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/12-...
📺 youtu.be/F1eWSAVKxdY?...
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Changed my mind: AI is actually good for coding
I've been skeptical of AI development tools. Not because I'm anti-progress, but because the demos often feel over-hyped. Too many 'AI will replace developers' takes, too many one-shot coding videos th...
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June 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Many people seem to be bothered by demographic change, but I think I have more in common with modern day Brits of different ethnicities and religions than I would with my great-great-great grandparents. It's surely a personal thing, but zeitgeist seems more important than heritage to me.
June 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Many people seem to be bothered by demographic change, but I think I have more in common with modern day Brits of different ethnicities and religions than I would with my great-great-great grandparents. It's surely a personal thing, but zeitgeist seems more important than heritage to me.