Jan Schiefer

@janschiefer
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I am interested in model trains, electronics, electronic test equipment, HP calculators, FPGA, Ham radio, SDR, rustlang and much more. F# is my secret weapon.

Every day is an opportunity to suck at something new.

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.

Pronounshe/him
Languagesen/de/fr
githubhttps://github.com/jschiefer
Achievement unlocked: On Claude Code token usage dashboard, the "$ spent" field turned red today. Now waiting for "The Call". This will be amusing.
why did they call them "ai datacenters" when they could have called them "slopping malls"

Today's personal achievement: After a debugging session with many dead ends, Claude Code suggested we wrap it up for the day. I expected a little more stamina, but here we are.

#AI #claude #wimp

Tempting, but no.
Whatever happened to John Mastodon?

Heard many great stories, talked to some very cool people and saw some great machines at the Vintage Computer Festival today. If you are in the Pacific Northwest, don't miss this!

#vcf #vcfpnw #seattle

In 1967, IBM commissioned Jim Henson to make a 5-minute commercial for the IBM MT/ST, a Selectric typewriter-based word processor system integrated into its own desk. What he delivered instead was an experimental '60s techno-dystopian work of art.

"Paperwork Explosion" (embeds the film uploaded to YouTube): https://west86th.bgc.bard.edu/articles/paperwork-explosion/

The Jim Henson Company via YouTube, "Paperwork Explosion" [4:58]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IZw2CoYztk

Paperwork Explosion – W86th

age verification but it's just a dialog box that asks "are you old" and the answers are "yes" and "maybe later"