Brian Hicks

@brianhicks.bsky.social

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Programmer and maker and general tinkerer. https://bytes.zone

Headline of the New York Times as seen in Google News: Trump asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player's Suspension. Now He's Eligible to Play.
A wet owl in the rain. Sirianni looks like this bird in his very damp hat.
Six kratky hydroponics buckets on a steel shelf under bright LEDs in a concrete basement. The top shelf is much older and fuller than the bottom one.
A bucket of teal liquid being stirred with a white spoon. It’s fairly transparent, despite being slightly tinted, so you can see all the way to the bottom.
Two buckets of lettuce plants. The ones on the right are something like 300% the size of the ones on the left, despite them being the same age.
A harvested head of lettuce on a chopping board next to a shiny knife. I’m pulling back the top leaves to reveal the healthy green inner leaves.
A rack with six lettuce plants in various stages of growth. The biggest is straining to reach the lights about 6 inches above it. The smallest is barely past seedling stage.
A screenshot of g-code for a Bambu 3d printer. The code block is surrounded by comments that say "printer finish sound". It starts with an M17 and M400 command, followed by many lines of M1006 commands that the printer uses to make noise. Each M1006 command has a bunch of parameters that seem to control the pitch and duration of the note.
Two loaves of bread on a cooling rack. One is cut in half and set on top of the other to show the puffy, medium density crumb.
Two loaves of white bread cooling on a rack. They have a weird shape and way too much flour on top, but they’re just about perfectly brown.
Four seedling-stage lettuce plants in white buckets. The upper right plant is the largest, followed by the lower right, the lower left, then the upper left. The plants in the right bucket have a couple true leaves each, while the ones in the left bucket barely have one true leaf each.
A steel shelf with two levels containing 2-gallon buckets of lettuce in various stages of growth. Each shelf has a light and each bucket has space for two plants grown in the Kratky method.
Two Romain lettuce plants in a hydroponic bucket bucket. The leaves are broad and have a healthy color, with no light spots or tip burn.
ABC news headline, reading "White House East Wing demolished, new images appear to show" below literal photo of White House East Wing rubble.
Screenshot of a Renovate automatic image update. It's updating gcr.io/distroless/cc-debian12 to use the digest 0000f9d. Four leading zeros is pretty unlikely.
A bowl of freshly made caramel sauce sitting on a kitchen counter. It is just starting to cool, so it’s quite sloshy still
a map of the united states overlaid with the locations of planned protests on October 18. There are hundreds and hundreds of dots all over the country, so thick that you can't count them individually.
A lettuce plant, barely past the seedling stage and with only two leaves. It’s planted in a rockwool cube inside a net cup.
Laser cut aluminum version of the recurse center logo, held between my thumb and two fingers.
Two builds in GitHub actions. The older took 19 minutes and 43 seconds. The newer, with cache new populated, took 37 seconds.
iOS time-sensitive notification from Duolingo: only three hours left to clash! Stefano might think you’re too scared to even take your turn, just saying…
tweetdelete's live task progress screen. It shows the progress of deleting all my tweets. So far, it has check 19,870 and deleted 49. The job is estimated to be complete about 20 minutes after the screenshot was taken.
A “PLAÏ” AI teddy bear for sale in Kohl’s. It claims to provide kid-safe stories powered by OpenAI and Claude.
USB charging ports in the back of an airplane seat
BlueSky first 10m users banner showing my user number, 53,701, in the first 1%
A raccoon looking scared with the text “things are constantly happening and I would like for it to stop (please)”
Lettuce in a five gallon bucket. Planted yesterday. Barely more than sprouts
a photo of a salad with croutons on a placemat with a fork. The lettuce is from my hydroponic garden
Six lettuce plants in a hydroponic growing setup. Five are a really good size and one is much smaller.
Six lettuce plants growing in a plastic bin under a grow light. One is much smaller than the others.
The Recurse Center logo (a pixel art computer) laser engraved and cut out of an aluminum blank.