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Timothy Stiles
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Genetic, research, and software engineer looking to make friends.

Creator of Poly, an open source Go package for engineering DNA 🧬

Let's engineer weird little guys together.
github.com/bebop/poly

📍San Francisco
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What it feels like to set up a GPU node for your home computing cluster
Miyazaki looking example with a unlit cigarette in his mouth.
July 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Hank Hill at the counter of the computer business center help desk quoted as saying, "I do not want to save ro OneDrive. I want to save to the documents folder... On my computer.... That I own... In my house."
July 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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The only orange muppet to trust about science.
Protestor holding a hand drawn sign of Beaker from the Muppets that says, "THE ONLY ORANGE MUPPET to TRUST ABOUT SCIENCE!"
June 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Scenic view of Dolores park with "FUCK ICE" in big white lettering alongside a hill.
June 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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I've never seen this many people at Dolores park
Literally thousands of people marching alongside Dolores park. One protestor holds a sign that says, "STOP THE KIDNAPPING".
June 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Activist crossing the street with their dog and golden retriever in front of SF Tesla dealership. Holding an American flag in one hand, and a protest sign in the other obscuring their face that reads, "IMPORT STUDENT ACTIVISTS".
April 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Listen to that sizzle. Is this asmr?
March 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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This machine kills fascists #standupforscience2025
Protest sign with an image of a microscope with the caption "This machine kills fascists".
March 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Used this to get admin on my school laptop and almost got expelled.
from: https://logi.wiki/index.php/Single_user_mode "Create a new user in Single User Mode (This creates a new Administrator Account) You can create a new administrator account by restarting the Setup Assistant: Boot into Single User Mode: Start/restart your Mac. As soon as you hear the startup tone, press and hold ⌘ + S until you see a black screen with white lettering. (If you end up back on the login screen after a flash of the black screen with white lettering, enter your password and it will return to the black screen.) Mount the drive by typing /sbin/mount -uw / then ↩ enter. Remove the Apple Setup Done file by typing rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone then ↩ enter. Reboot by typing reboot then ↩ enter. Complete the setup process, creating a new admin account. With macOS Catalina, the APFS volume scheme is a little different. Change step 2 to /sbin/mount -uw /System/Volumes/Data . Continue to step 3. "
February 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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AliExpress customer support needs to understand that I'm happily married
Text from AliExpress customer support: Don't worry I already handled this kind of case many times and I am long time agent here. I can assure you that the information I have given to you is the best way to solve your concern. I hope you appreciate my efforts to you.😘 Is there anything else I can help you more customer?😍
January 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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is ghostty faster? I don't really know. Will it make me a better engineer? Probably not. Does it have a bunch of sweet themes?

yes. yes it does.
A theme preview screen with ghosty listing 24+ themes in the sidebar while previewing the synthwave everything which I personally use
January 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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this meme is a week late but I couldn't get it out of my head
template: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oh-shit-for-real first panel: computer screen with Mitchel Hashimoto's face on it. A man on the couch is laying down and says. "Oh Mitchell, I'm just feeling real low" Second panel zooms in on Mitchell's face on the computer screen and says, "I made a new terminal emulator. Third panel zooms in on the same man with a blank face for a somewhat dramatic pause. Fourth panel the man sits up a little, turns to Mitchell and says, "Oh shit, for real?"
January 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Finally got my kubernetes cluster running at home with multiple machines.
Three nodes running talos in a cluster. Adding more nodes should be pretty easy!
December 15, 2024 at 11:55 PM
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These sprouts made my day.
three little ginger sprouts emerging from the soil.
December 15, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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Calling Poly from python repl 👀
from a terminal emulator Python 3.13.0 (main, Oct 7 2024, 05:02:14) [Clang 15.0.0 (clang-1500.3.9.4)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from poly import checks >>> checks.IsDNA("adfa") False
December 11, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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Rust and Python both have documentation tests which serve a similar purpose but are defined as in-line within doc strings instead of regular unit tests. Makes them a little clunky to write, test, and maintain.

doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-exam...
from https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/testing/doc_testing.html /// First line is a short summary describing function. /// /// The next lines present detailed documentation. Code blocks start with /// triple backquotes and have implicit `fn main()` inside /// and `extern crate <cratename>`. Assume we're testing `doccomments` crate: /// /// ``` /// let result = doccomments::add(2, 3); /// assert_eq!(result, 5); /// ``` pub fn add(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32 { a + b }
December 10, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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Calling Go from python repl 👀
a python 3.13 repl with the following text >>> from out import hi >>> hi.hello("you") hello you from go >>>
December 10, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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Estimated tsunami start times for NorCal and Oregon.
ESTIMATED TSUNAMI START TIMES FOR SELECTED SITES ARE Fort Bragg, CA 11:10AM Crescent City 11:20AM Port Orford Oregon 11:20 AM Brookings OR 11:25 AM Charleston Oregon 11:40 AM San Francisco CA 12:10 PM
December 5, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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WAT

registry.terraform.io/providers/MN...
Terraform Provider for dominos pizza docs: "The Dominos provider exists to ensure that while your cloud infrastructure is spinning up, you can have a hot pizza delivered to you. This paradigm-shifting expansion of Terraform's "resource" model into the physical world was inspired in part by the realization that Google has a REST API for Interconnects, e.g. for people with hard-hats digging up the ground, laying fiber. If you can use Terraform to summon folks with shovels to drop a fiber line, why shouldn't you be able to summon a driver with a pizza?"
December 4, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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new blog just dropped
a github pages static site with a header simply saying "hello" with no css styling at timohystiles.github.io
December 2, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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this is what I make agar plates with so only the strong survive
A kilogram of s&b brand wasabi for $10 at my local chef supply store.
November 23, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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too much wet internet not enough rice. we also tried using Gluten Free wasabi powder
A 1KG bag of s&b brand wasabi powder I found in the store for $10 the other day
November 22, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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You can add your bluesky handle to your GitHub profile too btw

github.com/TimothyStiles
My github profile with my @stiles.io bsky handle next to the logo
November 22, 2024 at 7:15 AM
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Time to update your threat model
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/homer-staring-at-moe 1st panel Moe is dressed up and looking proper but alarmed, labeled "scientist". 2nd panel homer looks disheveled looking down at Moe off screen. "Labeled bootleg sports streamers".
November 19, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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"You have your anarchist. What are you going to do with him?"
Paperback cover to a paperback reprint of Ursala Le Guin 's novel, "The Dispossessed". It features a man with smooth plastic clothes from the chest up a barren desert of jagged rocks and a dirigible in the background.
November 16, 2024 at 6:14 PM