andrés ignacio torres
@andresitorresm.com
29 🏳️🌈. aka Andresito; en el laberinto como Asterión. software engineer ii @ microsoft vancouver. computer science @colorado.edu | #USBve computers, poetry & fiction. YVR 🇨🇦 / 🇻🇪 he/him aitorres.com
huh, Bluesky just marked like 20 of my old notifications as new again
fun sunday side project: figure out how meshtatic works now that I got my first LoRA device up and running!
woke up genuinely rested and happy for the first time in a while. no rush, no checklists to get through today.
I’d never seen a guitarist doing playback but I guess there’s always a first time, huh
HANG ON we hit THREE THOUSAND pdses this week?? 3k pdses in the atmosphere!
so glad it'll be a long weekend so i can (try to) get *some* rest
they used to do "puppy therapy" at the office building every few months, bring a lot of puppies you could play with for a bit during lunch break to reduce stress kinda miss that
this monday morning has been somewhat quiet. a bit too quiet, even. i wonder what this monday afternoon will bring.
( they are dead, they are gone, no one lasts forever. ) open.spotify.com/track/1BPpJd...
No One Lasts Forever featuring David Cronenberg
Charli xcx, David Cronenberg · Music, Fashion, Film · Song · 2026
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i get reminded of this xkcd strip at least once a week
![xkcd 927: Standards
[Caption above the panels:]
How Standards Proliferate
(See: A/C chargers, character encodings, instant messaging, etc.)
[A text-only panel.]
Situation:
There are 14 competing standards.
[Cueball and Ponytail stand facing each other.]
Cueball: 14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases.
Ponytail: Yeah!
[Another text-only panel. The word "Soon:" appears in its own box at the upper left of the panel.]
Soon:
Situation:
There are 15 competing standards.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3nlkmby2zllrhcj6z5dnicui/bafkreicp3qc3kfr2m3qeagvvindn6pzt5txmxj3gsygrwemtf4hexx4r6e)
going retro and setting up a 2012 mac mini that i got from the thrift store for my home lab!
It would be pretty badass if someone out there started running an independent Atmosphere client/PDS that runs 100% on solar If one already exists give it a shoutout so people can learn about it
i didn’t know i could buy bluesky for less than 10 dollars
Tragic: local man was just congratulating himself for sending six emails and starting to relax when half of them immediately responded
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