Idahoan 🥔 living in Finland 🇫🇮, working at Hamina Wireless. CWNE #233. I'm into old computers, retro videogames, 3D printing, and fixing stuff.https://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mlijarwzn225From the archives: A prototype WLAN Pi NEO2 leave-behind sensor in 2020. It had two Wi-Fi adapters and a PoE splitter. I meant to intro it at WLPC, but forgot to pull it out from under the podium at the end of my talk. It got pretty hot, and took a long time to print, so I never released it.10 May 2026 10:07 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlijarwzn225https://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mlgq47bgc227From the archives: 3D printing back in 2013 with Printrbots. We didn't have fancy stuff like auto leveling. We had wood! 3D printers made of actual wood! And we had to walk uphill in the snow, too! Both ways!09 May 2026 17:05 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgq47bgc227https://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mlbktnbkxk2p11, as her older sister agonizes over an art project: “Pain is the best teacher.” “…at least, that’s what Bowser says.”07 May 2026 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbktnbkxk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3ml7i74vqc22uWelcome to "Googling Idaho Gubernatorial Candidates Real Quick so you Don't Have To", a Bluesky thread. 🧵06 May 2026 19:55 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7i74vqc22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mkyx4djn2s22I work for a good company. Nice people. Great product. My industry has a bunch of great people with lots of friends. But making videos, speaking at conferences, being the "community guy"... I don't think I can do it anymore. Some negative people, tough competitors, and monotony leave me exhausted.04 May 2026 05:33 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkyx4djn2s22https://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mkoygvgois2hClaude by @anthropic.com was/is my favorite LLM, but they shut off our entire company weeks ago with no explanation. They finally replied to our messages saying they would turn it back on, but it's been another week and... nothing. Most of the company is giving up and switching to other tools. ☹️30 Apr 2026 06:30 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkoygvgois2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mjr5rpiiq226I am doing a massive project to consolidate my locally-stored photos (plain filesystem), Google Photos, and Apple Photos to Immich, with photos dating back to the early 2000's. The hardest part has been timestamps. So many of my photos lack EXIF data.18 Apr 2026 09:46 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjr5rpiiq226https://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mjo6tgvvzk23From the archives: the gauge cluster on my SV650S. That was (and still is) one of my dream bikes.17 Apr 2026 05:27 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjo6tgvvzk23https://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mintllhx622mSomething I don't understand about Europe: WhatsApp. It's ugly and controlled by a US-based company, and both Signal and Telegram are _right there_. I just don't get it.04 Apr 2026 08:40 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mintllhx622mhttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mhup6ugm4s27Why, why, WHY does Slack not use Command + K to make a link?! What product manager decided to do that?!25 Mar 2026 08:45 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhup6ugm4s27https://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mhppzrz3tc24That feeling when you update a DNS entry that should take 24 hours to propagate, and it starts working in about 30 seconds. https://media.tenor.com/olrJuVMndToAAAAC/satisfation.gif?hh=196&ww=33023 Mar 2026 09:17 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhppzrz3tc24https://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mhfiy6sdtk2h11, usability-testing a shopping cart prototype by @thelinengirl.bsky.social: "Ooooh, a discount! Wait, that's more than half. Who permissioned that?!"19 Mar 2026 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhfiy6sdtk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mhczhujfi22oTo me, the worst thing about vintages Macs are StuffIt archives. I never seem to have the right version of StuffIt on my machine. I wonder what is the minimum viable version of StuffIt is that would give the maximum compatibility across various System and Mac OS versions?18 Mar 2026 08:01 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhczhujfi22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mgyxvkm6f22611: “Dad is relaxing in his space pod continuum.”14 Mar 2026 08:06 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgyxvkm6f226https://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mgv5xajkss2sI've released a new #Pebble App! World Clock does the usual world clock stuff, plus scrubbing forwards and backwards to compare times across timezones! 💿 @repebble.com App Store: https://apps.repebble.com/de275b75a4294a21a57a2658 💾 @rebble.io App Store: https://apps.rebble.io/en_US/application/69b089a5831b010009fc28ff12 Mar 2026 19:44 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgv5xajkss2shttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mgale7y7k22pThey could have called it an iBook! 😭04 Mar 2026 15:18 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgale7y7k22phttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mfwk5rtr4k2cI was excited to finally get a Symbol SPT-1800 running PalmOS, but disappointed to find out that the 802.11 Radio Configuration was password-protected. Fortunately, someone on Reddit figured it out! ▶️ Video: youtu.be/mKruVXJEXb4 🥱 TLDW: Found it with a hex reader https://youtu.be/mKruVXJEXb428 Feb 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfwk5rtr4k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mfwhx3oyos22 [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Feb 2026 14:50 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfwhx3oyos22https://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mf4uitsflk2nReasons why I have housekeeping make up my room at every hotel I’ve ever stayed at: 🚫 Because I want my room made up ✅ Because I can’t get the Privacy sign to stay on the doorknob, no matter how hard I try18 Feb 2026 10:26 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf4uitsflk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mebeynqxec2eWhoops, it's been over 365 days. I guess I'd better get my backups fixed.07 Feb 2026 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mebeynqxec2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3md3hmxamtk27I have a product that I love. It failed outside of warranty. I emailed their support asking if there was anything I could do to fix it myself. They just issued a replacement item. Or, I could have publicly flamed them on social media. That would have shown them!23 Jan 2026 10:12 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3md3hmxamtk27https://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mcq4oumqj22mThis weekend, I worked on my Helsinki Regional Transit Departures app for #Pebble. Coming soon: 🚋 Toggles between route number and destination with a short timer! 🚌 No longer constrained to just Helsinki; will support all of 🇫🇮 Finland and 🇪🇪 Estonia, since they use the same API!18 Jan 2026 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcq4oumqj22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mcpobbzisk2sLLM be like, "Yo dawg. I heard you like functions and methods, so I put a method inside a function so you can call the method with a function."18 Jan 2026 17:39 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcpobbzisk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mcjmzei5v224Lately when text chatting with friends, instead of wasting electricity on AI image generation, I've just been saying: "Imagine me Scrooge McDuck diving into a pit full of identical multi-port USB-PD power adapters." Saves electricity, but burns glucose. I wonder which is worse.16 Jan 2026 08:01 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcjmzei5v224https://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mbz3sogywk2zDad had a 386 running Windows 3.1. Playing this and Skifree are some of very, very first memories of using a computer and playing video games of any kind. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Jan 2026 18:10 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbz3sogywk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mbvrjhwuys2iBack at work for two days; already struggling with wrist pain from mouse and keyboard work. Mechanical split keyboard, ergonomic trackball mouse from Logitech. Not sure what else I can improve.08 Jan 2026 10:28 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbvrjhwuys2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mbte4ev27c27I randomly stumbled across @tantacrul.bsky.social's video about Audacity 4. Two thoughts: 1. Wow. Audacity 4 Alpha 2 is shockingly easy to use. My go-to, starting now. 2. As a product manager on hiatus, this video is a masterclass in UI/UX design for mature apps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_G3807 Jan 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbte4ev27c27https://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mbhxi3t2ik2xA few minutes ago, here in Lapland. 🇫🇮02 Jan 2026 22:37 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbhxi3t2ik2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/potatofi.bsky.social/post/3mbhxb7csos2xPebble Round 2's platform name in the @repebble.com SDK is: Gabbro! Aplite (Classic, Steel) Basalt (Time, Time Steel) Chalk (Round) Diorite (2) Emery (Time 2) Flint (2 Duo) Gabbro (Round 2) Info about Gabbro (rock): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabbro Pull request for Gabbro: https://github.com/coredevices/PebbleOS/pull/654 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabbro02 Jan 2026 22:34 +0000at://did:plc:achrrt3sla2hfec7336bmdrf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbhxb7csos2x