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Husband, Father, Linux user, software engineer, Texan, Christ follower. Take all of these words with a grain of salt. All opinions are my own.
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A battery filled with algae is somehow managing to power this computer for months: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2319584-computer-powered-by-colony-of-blue-green-algae-has-run-for-six-months/

No-one's quite sure what's going on. Possibly the algae is serving as the medium catalyzing the interaction between the anode and cathode in the battery.

Except research shows the anode isn't degrading, which suggests ...

... the *algae* is producing the electrons.

Some thoughts on this in my blog post here, item 6: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lavaforming-ai-writes-heavy-metal-and-drones-that-deliver-hamburger-helper-59b9bcfda9a8

Computer powered by colony of blue-green algae has run for six months

Blue-green algae, a type of cyanobacteria, set in a container on a windowsill powered a computer continuously for six months using photosynthesis

New Scientist

I made it. I didn’t freeze. I had a good time. I loved walking and chatting with my wife just like we do on most weekdays.

Doing a fun run/walk in the grape capitol of Texas has its perks: I hit every wine stop on the way and tasted some great Texas wines.

I’m about to do a “gobble wobble” wine run in freezing weather. As a Texan, I’m not sure I was built for this.
Do you ever wonder how SSH works?

The new Black Panther is 🔥

My fickle self finds the Black Panther storyline the most compelling part about the Marvel universe right now.

Let’s try this again. Where you at #fediverse? Boosts welcome so we can get the best sample size.
North America/South America
37.7%
Europe
51.5%
Asia/Pacific
10.1%
Africa
0.7%
Poll ended at .
Computers, or “servers” as we techies call them, are lighter than air and usually bump harmlessly around the ceiling. But when a new user joins a server: some zeros become ones, and approximately 61 grams are added to the server. This means our admins need to ride their helium pump machines extra hard. And that, my friends is why the influx of users has made it so hard to “keep the servers up”. Hashtag “the more you know”

I can’t be the only nerd that changes their mind hourly about why one programming language or stack is “better” than the other.

I feel like I’m constantly arguing with myself over hardware and software technology that spans decades and a multitude of use cases. Nothing is ever simple.

I couldn’t resist a watch that is programmed with a solunar calendar display. Kind of an oddity, and kind of cool.
Not my first, and probably not my last… #casio