de_dust is 25 years old #iykyk
14.03.2026 16:45
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de_dust is 25 years old #iykyk
New blog post: "Donations, Tipping, and Resilience"
After doing rideshare and pizza delivery, I learned something unexpected about tipping — and why G.K. Chesterton had the right idea about giving.
🔗 vertner.net/post/donations-tipping-and-resilience/
I’m never donating blood again. I’m so sick of all of the questions.
It’s always dumb shit like, “where did you get it?” and “why is it in buckets?”
The fastest way to burn 2,000 calories is to leave a tray of brownies in the oven too long.
New Blog Post! My wife was frustrated with news sites being too busy, so I sat down with Claude and built her a custom news feed — RSS scraping, an editorial AI layer, and a one-tap macOS/iOS Shortcut to generate it fresh every morning. 6 hours, start to finish. The future is weird; I'm here for it.
New Blog Post! The Max Schumer blog article that's making the rounds really got me thinking and I finally pulled the trigger on experimenting with using generative AI for building a web site. Check out the new full site along with the post here: vertner.net/post/how-i-l...
SCUBA is an acronym for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
TUBA is an acronym for Terrible Underwater Breathing Apparatus
You’ve heard of Flock of Seagulls, but what about Flock of Smegols?
Happy Veteran's Day, ya'll. I hope you left your boots out last night so Capt America could fill them with Rip-Its, Copenhagen, Monsters, and Zyn.
New blog post! For the first time in a few years... just a quick note about how I've transitioned my host and capitulated to the dominant software choice after 13 years or - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Wordpress. #blog #wordpress #selfhosting vertner.net/post/persona...
Happy birthday, U.S. Air Force! Looking pretty damned good at 78. Here's to another year of being the deadliest fighting force in human history!
I have the cutest damned cat. It’s hard to believe this little man is ~12 years old!
In today’s episode of My Kid is Cooler Than Yours, we’re using our 3D printer to build his vision for a costume so he can work part-time at a haunted house this fall.
How do you make a computer say five? You’ll figure it out; it’s Programming Binary 101.
A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON
Spicy take: what if we renamed NAS Oceana Dam Neck Annex to NAS Oceana Chapman Annex?
My response has always been, “dare to imagine that your god is so powerful that even if they created the world 6000 years ago, they left us with billions of years of history to explore.”
In some cases, I actually would prefer LESS widgets with faster and clearer access to what I need (I’m looking at you, banking apps).
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I couldn’t agree more. I know new features sell, but I feel like we’ve nearly reached an ideal feature state where my gear does everything I want and more… and all I really want is increased speed, stability, and user experience.
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I repaired my vacuum’s trigger for 15 cents thanks to my local library and their maker space! Support your local library!
We can’t always fix today, but we can always work on tomorrow.
Our ability to fight with our whole population is a key competitive advantage. youtu.be/SaJN2e3-UTc?...
If you’re cold, she’ll be cold. Let her out.
Sasha is always watching (you eat)
Look, I get it... but sometimes I just want to tune out the world and laugh.
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Cooking with chicken got 1000% better when I started cooking with thighs instead of breasts. All the better if your recipe will let you leave in the bones. Chicken breasts aren't that flavorful to begin with and meat packers regularly inject them with water to add size and weight.
Okay, but… hear me out….
What about playing a *dunmer* stealth archer??
“Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.”
I 3D printed my first thing tonight: a micro-benchy! USB drive for scale. I’m lucky to have a local library with a free maker space! 📚❤️