Val Packett 🧉

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Purple is my natural hair color. I have strong opinions about software and sometime I even get to make them reality. Same for the state of the world in […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.treehouse.systems/@valpackett, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

Finally got an internal gear hub installed on my bike (got a lucky local deal on a lightly used Nexus 7.. ha why does that sound like a tablet name-) aaaaaaa it’s so good now. Fuck derailleurs, all my homies hate derailleurs.

Close up photo of the rear wheel of a parked folding bicycle, with an ice cream cone in front (for scale, err, to celebrate). The wheel hub is thicc and there’s only one sprocket visible outside.

kraftwerk updated for 2026: "i'm the sloperator with my pocket slopinator" (touches a rabbit r1) (waits for cloud processing) (distorted text to speech noise comes out)

kraftwerk updated for 2026: "i'm the sloperator with my pocket slopinator" (touches a rabbit r1) (waits for cloud processing) (distorted text to speech noise comes out)

protip: DO NOT even think about playing that fucking card game you saw on GDQ, especially if you have any work to do. It's actually evil. It's a psychological weapon designed to attack your last chance at productivity.

i saw the home page of gitlab dot com accidentally when logging in to respond to a comment and what in the holy corposlop is any of this even beyond "AI this AI that"… what the hell is SAST and DAST?!

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Today in "the cyberpunk future we got": at a little local awards ceremony for partners of a cooperative bank, one neighborhood org was gifted —no joke— some RAM sticks, an SSD, and a bunch of food. Absolutely last place I expected to encounter the DRAM&NAND crisis at but here we go