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Software engineer living near San Francisco. Photography, making stuff, cooking, and ADHD task paralysis fill my free time.
I was burbling about my cute Chevy Spark EV to a friend, and I was showing off the infotainment theme customizations I did, and I'm still very proud of the battery state of charge screen animations!

The white sparks are shown when the car is accelerating or decelerating, representing the Bussard Collector  I wrote a Python script to run a particle engine and bake them into SVG frames.

https://hufman.github.io/stories/sparktheme
@LeoBurr Well that’s just ridiculous
@LeoBurr When I get the extra sets of plasticware, it always feels like the message is “you ordered enough food for a family of five” 
@nixCraft Does this include servers with a non generated hostname that one sshs into often?
@eff Dang I thought I was about to learn about some cool new style sheet exploit 
The i on iMac stands for Gay
How many obsolete CD drives a person needs?
What do normal people do on vacation?

Made a little pornographic test case for the UK #OnlineSafetyAct, to see whether we can get Ofcom to ban AWS S3 from the United Kingdom.

http://ofcom.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

An Example for Ofcom

You didn't need another reason to hate Meta (which owns Facebook and Instagram), but here ya go anyway:

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/14/meta-robby-starbuck-ai/

Meta appoints notorious anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor

Meta has appointed right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-DEI conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck to advise them on preventing political bias in AI.

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