Peter Boothe

@pboothe.bsky.social

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Founder of @triplepat.com Coding fool. Recovering academic. Currently starting a company in the Netherlands. Former tech lead of M-Lab and former CS professor and former a few other things too. https://pboothe.github.io pmb.74 on Signal for DMs

Derpy lion in Museo da Ciencia in Coimbra, Portugal
“Networks of New York”, used, sold by Amazon dot com for $219.86.
THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE says US currency
There are a total of 17 bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton tracks around the world in use for competitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bobsleigh,_luge,_and_skeleton_tracks
We are all driving brains gunked up with cortisol because that’s what state terror and fascism do.
A snowy scene along a wooded canal with a bicycle being ridden through the snow in the foreground
A sign for tracking “SLEEPS ‘TIL CHRISTMAS”
I’m a top 7% user of Cursor and pressed tab more than 4e5 times this year.
“Anything going on?” “A monkey and a kid with a jet pack.” “Fucking Internet.” “‘Heard that.” From Barry Ween, Boy Genius by Judd Winick
Candy names make no sense
A list of things said to have been ruined by women
Wikipedia says India is more populous than China
Lots of red dots on the GitHub status page
A beautiful path through a park
In 2019 there were only 4266 publicly traded firms in the United States.
Results of a poll showing that 7% of Democrats and 31% of Republicans view being white as an important part of making someone American.
The “I’m in this photo and I don’t like it” meme used to indicate that I have also been finding work slack less stressful than social media recently.
14,715 unread emails
A Lovens bakfiets
Almost aggressively neutral language on the Wikipedia page for rail guns: Any trade-off analysis between electromagnetic (EM) propulsion systems and chemical propellants for weapons applications must also factor in its durability, availability and economics, as well as the novelty, bulkiness, high energy demand, and complexity of the pulsed power supplies that are needed for electromagnetic launcher systems. Who was asking about this? Why did this text get put in the header? Smells like a PR campaign bumping up against Wikipedia’s NPOV
A Lovens cargo bike with a rain cover that is still 20% covered in snow and ice and sleet.
The World and All That It Holds on a table with a trivet used as a chaotic bookmark
The 8th floor hallway of the telco hotel portion of 111 8th Ave in NYC. The ceiling is packed full of metal conduit filled with fiber, each conduit representing an inter-network link. It’s the Internet!
I am user 91,276, having joined on May 26, 2023
"DEMOCRACY MAY NOT EXIST, BUT WE'LL MISS IT WHEN IT'S GONE" painted in block letters on the window of a closed bookstore in Amsterdam, NL
June 29, 2016 For Peter. And here it begins. Just like one day, here, it will end too. -Z
A Dutch soccer theme room with semi-random Americana and American football memorabilia strewn across it
“Kim liked your post This is a nightmare scenario”