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Kernel Bob :progress_pride:

@kbob@chaos.social
mastodon 4.5.7

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool.

I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that.

Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube.

Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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Joined September 26, 2018
Pronouns:
he/him. þei/þem is ok for typography/ancient language geeks
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https://kbob.github.io/
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Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
@kbob@chaos.social

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool. I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that. Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube. Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
@kbob@chaos.social

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool. I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that. Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube. Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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@kbob@chaos.social · 1d ago

People who never smile:

Wednesday Addams
Walter White
Donald Trump

Who else?

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Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
@kbob@chaos.social

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool. I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that. Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube. Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
@kbob@chaos.social

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool. I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that. Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube. Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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@kbob@chaos.social · 2d ago

Tim Burton is a treasure.

#Wednesday

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Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
@kbob@chaos.social

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool. I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that. Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube. Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
@kbob@chaos.social

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool. I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that. Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube. Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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@kbob@chaos.social · 2d ago

Thanks, @reconbot@toot.cafe and @castaway@fosstodon.org, now I'm playing Clues By Sam too.

Except I don't like to think hard. So taught my computer to play for me. The puzzle's initial state and clues are embedded in the source file, and when I run it, it shows suspects being identified and the board being gradually uncovered. Unlock a clue, type it in, and run the solver again.

The clue syntax is easy to type, easy to parse and evaluate, hard to read.

#CluesBySam #BuildThread

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Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
@kbob@chaos.social

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool. I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that. Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube. Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
@kbob@chaos.social

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool. I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that. Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube. Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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@kbob@chaos.social · Feb 22, 2026

Whenever I feel like ignoring a new technology, I think of my late father-in-law. He worked at Bell Frickin' Labs in the 19-frickin'-80s, and he had never used Unix.

Sure, he avoided a lot of dead end over-hyped tech, but he missed a big one.

Edit: nor C. He wrote in assembler.

#Unix #ThisPostIsAboutAI

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@kbob@chaos.social

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool. I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that. Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube. Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
@kbob@chaos.social

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool. I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that. Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube. Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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@kbob@chaos.social · Feb 22, 2026

This one was hard. I ended up making a diagram of the last five clues.

[Bracket City]
February 21, 2026 🟡 (Medium)

https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/

Rank: 🔮 (Puppet Master)
🎹 Total Keystrokes: 65
🎯 Minimum Required: 65

Total Score: 100.0
🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪

#BracketCity

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Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
@kbob@chaos.social

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool. I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that. Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube. Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
@kbob@chaos.social

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool. I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that. Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube. Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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@kbob@chaos.social · Feb 02, 2026

I'm starting a new "build thread" (not building anything except pixels, but they're good pixels).

This is the "Bubble Universe" graphics hack. I'm going to try to have some fun with it. Follow or ignore hashtag #BubbleUniverse for more.

🧵 1/N

#BubbleUniverse #BuildThread #GenerativeArt

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@kbob@chaos.social

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool. I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that. Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube. Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
@kbob@chaos.social

Crusty geek. Retired software developer, aspiring musician. Used Unix way before it was cool. I'm in New York, but my heart is in Oregon. My cardiologist hates that. Once I built a pumpkin chucker. Another time, I built an LED cube. Interests: 3D printing and making in general, synths (playing and making them), learning the bass guitar (rock, jazz, funk), FPGAs and electronics, pinball. I spent 40+ years obsessively coding and studying computing, but that interest has finally cooled.

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@kbob@chaos.social · May 25, 2025

Today I went to the #HomeAssistant Community Day in Brooklyn. It was great! I found out people are pushing Home Assistant to do things I'd never considered using it for. And I got to spend some quality time talking with fellow geeks about geeky things. (I seem to live in a geek desert.)

I gave a micro talk on the #FilaBillyHumidor, and it was well received.

Thanks @madelena@mastodon.online for hosting!

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