Rob Prentiss

@robprentiss
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Husband, father, & SWE Tools Engineer at the fruit company. Using Go (#golang) for fun and profit. Opinions expressed here are my own.
GitHubhttps://github.com/jorng
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🎃 Happy Halloween 2025 👻
What if you took the core abstractions of Plan 9 from Bell Labs and put them in a WebAssembly module?
https://progrium.xyz/blog/2025/spirit-of-plan9-on-the-web/
The Spirit of Plan 9 on the Web

Homepage and blog of hacker/builder Jeff Lindsay, aka progrium

progrium.xyz
Protests are not, and cannot be illegal in the United States of America. Our wannabe dictator does not get to ignore the first amendment to our constitution.

Remember when we **didn’t** have a wannabe fascist dictator for a President?

Pepperidge Farm remembers…

All I really want from the #Switch2 is better standards support for the USB-C ports.
- Standard video output (displayport), so that normal adapters work
- 5Gbps (or better) USB data transfer speeds, so I can use Gigabit (or 2.5G) ethernet
- Latest USB-PD for high speed charging

Don't get me wrong... it *should* also have 1080p or better graphics support, but I'm not holding my breath on that one.

2025

Was cleaning out my backpack for a trip, and realized I am still using an analog audio cable (3.5mm to RCA) that I bought on discount from Best Buy when I was working in the Geek Squad 20 years ago. The cable is still rock solid, and working great.

Also found a 3.5mm "aux" cable from around the same time that I haven’t used in years.

Analog audio was so much more simple. Heck, even S/PDIF was great (over RCA/Coax), and super simple.

Definitely makes me miss the headphone jack on my iPhone.

🎃Happy Halloween 2024👻
@siracusa couldn't be more wrong about CD-R.

Tried to go to Home Depot to pick up some stuff for the house, and needed a couple of tools... Went to the tools isle, and **every single tool** was behind glass now.

Everything.

Not just the expensive stuff or power tools. Utility knifes, blades, levels, screwdrivers, hammers, you name it.

I turned around and won't be coming back anymore. I don't have time to look around for an associate, and then wait until they find a "tools expert" or whatever. Get your shit together #HomeDepot.