Tim Johns
@timjohns.com
I characterize the emergent behavior of complex systems and react accordingly. That could be debugging code, culture building, or coaching for organizational change. Other interests include security and privacy, photography, and road trips.
It's 10:30pm, the house is dead quiet, and I'm editing photos at the dining room table. My 19yo grown-ass adult child strolls nonchalantly into the kitchen and lets loose an absolutely EARTH-shaking belch. I swear to God the windows rattled...
Squad leader trying desperately to convince rebel leadership that this thermal exhaust port right below the main port leads directly to the reactor system...
Angry Staff Officer@pptsapper.bsky.social · 2y agoTag yourself with the job you’d actually have in the Star Wars universe given your occupation I’d be the Rebel engineer officer screaming at leadership on Hoth that a linear defense against armor is useless unless you’ve got integrated minefields and obstacle belts linking in with the terrain
Well, it's that time of year here in the Pacific Northwest, where my desperate attempts to cram in a few more golden hour outings before the days get too short practically guarantees that dinner is either late or cold every night. #photography #pnw #fall #goldenhour
Husky Stadium, shot from the Burke-Gilman trail ramp at dusk, Thursday September 10. #uw #huskies #universityofwashington #gohuskies #udub #pnw #fall #dusk #fall
Time lapse of the pyrocumulus cloud from the Little Giant fire in Washington state, taken from just north of the Kingston ferry terminal Thursday, August 20, 2026. #pyrocumulus #wildfire #littlegiant #wawx #watchduty #mountpilchuck #pugetsound #photography #pugetsound #washington #fire #kingston
Me, last night after sunset: "I sure do love to stay out and watch the Perseids every year, but I'm going to bed. Not going to see any meteors through all this smoke." The Perseids: www.kiro7.com/news/local/d... #meteor #meteors #fireball #perseids #smoke #wawx
Did you see it? Fireball lights up the sky over WA
If you happened to be awake and looking at the sky around 12:50 this morning—you got one heck of a show!
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This thread reminded me of one of my physics professors, Dr. Gruebel, who was essentially invincible. www.dailysentinel.com/life_and_ent... He got bitten by a coral snake while working at the SFASU observatory one afternoon. For him it was NO BIG DEAL.
Professor saw action at famous battles of WWII
Grade school in Wisconsin was a dreary place to be in 1941.
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Tim Johns@timjohns.com · 2mo agoI only know of one friend (and separately, one of my college professors) who actually got a venomous bite, and neither from cottonmouths. Pretty much everyone else I grew up with has a handful of close call stories...although none quite as good as this kid's 😂.
I mean, I know he does it for the lolz, but I definitely remember the feeling of being simultaneously drunk enough and hungry enough to have done this all entirely unironically at least a couple of times in college.
Dolphin Pilot@theamitie.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this
I feel like "Can't watch the abandoned out of control rocket crash into the moon because of all this wildfire smoke" should definitely be one of the higher levels on the qualitative dystopian scale.
American cold war nuclear weapon mishaps. In other news, I have only been asked to host my company's Friday all-hands trivia exactly once.
ETX Gov@etxgov.myatproto.social · 2mo agoYou've got a captive audience on a plane, and you know they can't open the doors and yeet you out. What subject are you gonna do a 30 minute sermon on?
This is a little abstract and I don't have time to list ALL of my specific answers anyway, so I will go with this: Nothing has ever made me doubt my own ability more than trying to get my kids to do stuff they just didn't want to do.
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2mo agoHey parents of bsky: What are some theories of parenting you were very confident in right up until you had your own kids?
Can't tell if my watch is just sleep-shaming me...or maybe thinks I'm dead?
Seems like the vast majority of us stragglers took it all in stride, and appreciate the @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov crew that are going to be working late to get us home. People are playing cards, taking naps, laughing and joking.
Tim Johns@timjohns.com · 3mo agoEarlier tonight, passengers waiting to board the last M/V Puyallup run after the Kingston fireworks sung the Star Spangled Banner. It was genuinely kind of moving. But right after that, the ferry reached capacity and had to leave a bunch of us here. 😂 Word is they are making an extra run, though.
Earlier tonight, passengers waiting to board the last M/V Puyallup run after the Kingston fireworks sung the Star Spangled Banner. It was genuinely kind of moving. But right after that, the ferry reached capacity and had to leave a bunch of us here. 😂 Word is they are making an extra run, though.
Strongly resisting the urge to spin up a web site that offers public GitHub repos saved to various novelty formats like floppies, QIC tape, 9 track tape, punch cards, printed by a dot matrix printer on fanfold paper, lots of options.
GitHub@github.com · 3mo agoWe heard you. We agree. In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM. Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children. Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real. gh.io/cd
Sophisticated and oddly specific -- but not spearphishing. I won't hazard a guess as to what the threat actors here might be up to, but I am already looking forward to a good Darknet Diaries episode once it all gets sorted.
InfoSec@infosec.skyfleet.blue · 3mo agoPhoto ZIP campaign targeting hospitality industry delivers Node.js implant for persistent access
I wonder if this is one of those decisions that goes all the way to top before it gets shot down, with half the folks in the org overtly referring to the prior incident with glee, and the other half pretending as earnestly as they can they have never heard of the prior incident.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 3mo agoOregon, it is time. You know what must be done
Might be a missed opportunity here for #Lynnwood to really lean into the big hair #80's vibe, but these lineups actually look really good anyway. Plus I'm a sucker for food trucks and free live music. See you there. ilovelynnwood.com/summer-sounds/
Summer Sounds - I Love Lynnwood
June 17 July 8 July 29 About Summer Sounds Outdoor Concert & Market Join us this summer at The District Plaza for Summer Sounds, a new free outdoor concert and vendor market series happening June 17, ...
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You know you're a bit of a security and privacy nerd when you wake up Sunday morning, and the very first thing you want to do is play around with the new Connection Allowlists support in Chrome 148. timjohns.com/blog/connect...
Tim Johns - Blog: Connection Allowlists
Experiments with the Connection Allowlists draft support in Chrome 148
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I took the #scenicroute on a #roadtrip from Southern California, zig-zagging back and forth across the state. We spent one of the nights in Fort Bragg, California, where I caught this #crescentmoon setting over the #puddingcreek trestle. #photography #california #moon #trestle #sunset
Obscure thought of the morning: "I wonder if anyone has done a study of how the Zeigarnik effect applies for various Claude Code settings.json configurations." I might have kicked off a "few" Claude Code sessions "Just so I can stop thinking about this for now" and it worked a little too well.
