Dan Ports

@dan@discuss.systems
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Distributed systems, operating systems, networking research.

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; affiliate faculty, University of Washington.

But realistically: mainly cat photos, food and wine, and bad jokes.

I also administer https://discuss.systems/

webhttps://drkp.net/
Found a way to distinguish which one is my personal laptop and which one is my work laptop.

So, this goober escaped from the house (AGAIN) yesterday while we were out of town, causing us to rush home, and spent the last 27 hours strolling around the neighborhood.

Today, he just walked in the front door right at dinner time, went straight up to the food table and was like "I've missed multiple meals while I was gone, can I have them all now please?"

#cats #catsofmastodon

Bonus: lowland anoa

🚨 BABY TAPIR ALERT 🚨

#tapir

Things I did not know I needed: a wind up otoro nigiri.

Additional Pixel-as-dishtowel content.

#cats #catsofmastodon

I am impressed that my favorite sushi bar can still find new fish I haven’t tried, although I’m not 100% convinced they aren’t just making these up with AI.

“Banded jacopever” has to be made up, right?

But what if we ... didn't?

Pixel is now a dishtowel.

#cats #catsofmastodon