Peter Boothe
@pboothe.bsky.social
Founder of @triplepat.com Coding fool. Recovering academic. Currently starting a company in the Netherlands. Former tech lead of M-Lab and former CS professor and former a few other things too.
https://pboothe.github.io
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https://pboothe.github.io
pmb.74 on Signal for DMs
Timeline cleanser: Dutch snow day
January 5, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Timeline cleanser: Dutch snow day
I've been using Cursor as my IDE for more than a year now - vim for short things on the command line, but when I’m doing something big enough to require an IDE, I use Cursor.
Apparently this means I’m one of the top users? Anyway, this means I’ve got opinions. (🧵)
Apparently this means I’m one of the top users? Anyway, this means I’ve got opinions. (🧵)
December 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I've been using Cursor as my IDE for more than a year now - vim for short things on the command line, but when I’m doing something big enough to require an IDE, I use Cursor.
Apparently this means I’m one of the top users? Anyway, this means I’ve got opinions. (🧵)
Apparently this means I’m one of the top users? Anyway, this means I’ve got opinions. (🧵)
We did this to ourselves. It didn’t have to be like this.
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We did this to ourselves. It didn’t have to be like this.
Sometimes the timeline provides a gift
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Sometimes the timeline provides a gift
Wikipedia says India is more populous than China…
October 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Wikipedia says India is more populous than China…
A tough day at the office for GitHub operations.
October 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A tough day at the office for GitHub operations.
A nice timeline cleanse from my run this morning.
September 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A nice timeline cleanse from my run this morning.
The entire stock market, with its options and futures and ETFs and everything else, is based on just mixing and matching the stocks ~4000 companies.
That’s so few companies on which to base so much of the financial industry!
That’s so few companies on which to base so much of the financial industry!
August 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The entire stock market, with its options and futures and ETFs and everything else, is based on just mixing and matching the stocks ~4000 companies.
That’s so few companies on which to base so much of the financial industry!
That’s so few companies on which to base so much of the financial industry!
7% of Democrats and 31% of Republicans are unashamed gutter racists.
August 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
7% of Democrats and 31% of Republicans are unashamed gutter racists.
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
May 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
Ammunition makers (Olin, Northrup Grumman, etc) hate the idea of rail guns because it means they sell pieces of metal and not complicated multi-piece stuff with chemicals in it. The Wikipedia article has all the weird language I associate with a heavy pr campaign. eg
February 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Ammunition makers (Olin, Northrup Grumman, etc) hate the idea of rail guns because it means they sell pieces of metal and not complicated multi-piece stuff with chemicals in it. The Wikipedia article has all the weird language I associate with a heavy pr campaign. eg
When you begin the day by scraping ice off the windshield of your cargo bike, that counts as a cold day.
November 21, 2024 at 4:44 PM
When you begin the day by scraping ice off the windshield of your cargo bike, that counts as a cold day.
Got it and am reading it! Thanks for the recommendation!
November 14, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Got it and am reading it! Thanks for the recommendation!
Here's how American's voted in 2020
I think it will be really interesting to do the same chart when the dust settles after all the 2024 votes are counted.
sankeymatic.com/build/?i=IIW...
I think it will be really interesting to do the same chart when the dust settles after all the 2024 votes are counted.
sankeymatic.com/build/?i=IIW...
November 8, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Here's how American's voted in 2020
I think it will be really interesting to do the same chart when the dust settles after all the 2024 votes are counted.
sankeymatic.com/build/?i=IIW...
I think it will be really interesting to do the same chart when the dust settles after all the 2024 votes are counted.
sankeymatic.com/build/?i=IIW...
An old photo from an old article, but only the paint changed while I was there (it ended up being black walls instead of white) observer.com/2010/12/goog...
September 17, 2024 at 2:30 PM
An old photo from an old article, but only the paint changed while I was there (it ended up being black walls instead of white) observer.com/2010/12/goog...
Somewhere between “very online”, “way too very online”, and a third secret thing.
September 17, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Somewhere between “very online”, “way too very online”, and a third secret thing.
The American Book Center in Amsterdam knows what's up.
July 1, 2024 at 4:17 PM
The American Book Center in Amsterdam knows what's up.
That's what happened to "The Familiar"! I even spoke to the author about my worry about that happening and he signed my book saying he was determined to properly finish it...
April 18, 2024 at 8:34 PM
That's what happened to "The Familiar"! I even spoke to the author about my worry about that happening and he signed my book saying he was determined to properly finish it...
Ah yes, the famous sport of football, starring the Cincinnati Bengals and <squints> PEC Zwolle
February 12, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Ah yes, the famous sport of football, starring the Cincinnati Bengals and <squints> PEC Zwolle
@mathykim.bsky.social this was a pretty funny notification to get. “Why is this a nightmare scenario? I thought Kim liking things was a GOOD thing?”
December 8, 2023 at 6:41 PM
@mathykim.bsky.social this was a pretty funny notification to get. “Why is this a nightmare scenario? I thought Kim liking things was a GOOD thing?”