Nate Parker

This is a personal Twitter account, so I don't talk about tech a lot as I do it at my day job. If you have questions, though, feel free to engage and I will do my best to answer. Otherwise, this is mostly chatter about interests of mine, neat ideas, & other cool folks.

Use coding assistance wisely. It's tempting to put yourself on autopilot:

Indiana's statehouse just signed two bills that cannot survive being read in the same sentence. The first: public universities must now accept the Classic Learning Test for admissions. The CLT draws its questions from classical texts. Plato. Augustine. Cicero. Shakespeare. The argument is that these works represent the intellectual foundation of Western civilization and self-government. The second: public colleges must eliminate programs deemed to produce "low earning" graduates. No carve-out for humanities. No protection for the programs where students actually read and wrestle with those classical authors the first bill just elevated. Fort Wayne's Redeemer Classical School sent a representative to the statehouse to champion the CLT. Their students read Homer and Euclid. Their graduates will now test into universities that are legally required to accept their scores and simultaneously required to shut down the departments built around the tradition those scores are supposed to measure. You cannot champion the classics as a signal of intellectual seriousness and then eliminate the classrooms that make the ideas real. That is not education reform. That is a credential without a curriculum.

@kmcnam1 Page best not viewed with Gopher.

@sc0nesandc0ffee This is excellent. The shirt color works really well with the image.

Girl Dinner but make it ✨Void✨ (Image is pulled from the cinematic trailer, text edited by me and printed on one of those ‘one tee print and ship’ sites.) #marathonthegame #girldinner

Why IEEE floating point as two zeroes: +0 and -0 johndcook.com/blog/2010/06/1…

Access granted. You have found your way to the Marathon. The ice around Cryo Archive cracks and groans. It seems nothing can stop you from getting in. It will be interesting to see if you can get out. 10 AM PT, March 20, 2026

@sc0nesandc0ffee There is, in fact, a time span in there. :)

….shit.

I really wish more Americans were aware that the USPS is the only service - the ONLY one - that can reach every home in the country. All other services rely on them for "last mile" deliveries that these other (more expensive!) services refuse (or can't) deliver to!

@mass_ave I'm surprised MCL cafeterias still exist.

MCL Arlington

Your job will replace you before your body is cold. If you ignore your kids they will hate you forever. Tough choice.

@medus4_cdc You're just too classic is all.

My teenager said she wants to watch an "old school horror movie" I suggested "House on Haunted Hill" with Vincent Price. She said "no, I was thinking something classic, like The Blair Witch Project" Anyway, I'm going to die of old age any day now

The United States Postal Service, USPS, doesn’t “lose” money. It costs money. It’s a public service. Don’t fall for the privatization propaganda.

@agent_duckman Seconded.

i love following tracket so much because she's a real one

@Susan16Park Dumb Tzu say dumb things.

@CtrlAltDwayne My condolences for your loss. Take time for yourself.

> work at Dell > mass email lands > subject line: "Exciting Update on Our Future Together" > whenever HR says exciting someone's getting fired > it's 11,000 of them > they call it "disciplined cost management" > HR lady hands you a severance folder with a straight face > $51,727 > they rehearsed this > she definitely practiced the sad eyes in a mirror > 11,000 people times $51k > $569 MILLION to make you all go away > you could build a small country with that > or just keep employing them but that doesn't make the shareholders horny > CEO posts on LinkedIn 14 minutes later > "the hardest decision I've ever had to make" > posted from Starlink on his boat in the Adriatic > 47 comments saying "brave leadership" > brave??? he fired people from the ocean > stock jumps 4% > Wall Street is literally throwing a party because you're unemployed > go home > sit down to update your resume > open your laptop > it's a Dell > the Dell logo stares at you > You just got fired by the people who made the device you're using to cope with getting fired > the fan kicks on like it's laughing > close laptop > open it again > what else are you gonna do > disciplinedcostmanagement.exe

🚨🚨 @FoxNews: 1 BILLION identity records exposed in ID verification data leak — INCLUDING +203 MILLION America records Governments requiring Digital ID w/ "age verification" mandates create MASSIVE security risks The threat is NOT hypothetical. Another unfortunate example:

@Calranthe I wish I had even 10% of this energy.

Today is already a more productive day than most, Jelly server migrated to Linux, LM studios 4.7TB of LLM's downloaded (basically every Unholy, Derestricted, Heretic, NSFW, Abliterative, Uncensored and "this was trained on 4chan what could possibly go wrong" model) I'm going to have some funzies! local remote access and configuring of my 417TB of backup drives and methodology. (its grown a little) Added another 2 monitors to my gaming PC and one specifically to be remote access to my AI Machine for tweakies and setups. (not like it will affect the performance of my 5090. Redid all my gaming pc cooling switched the fans on the AIO to a different configuration and added another couple of fans to vent the head of the 5090 into the room. Redid my network corner of the Living room and de-spaghettified the wires. 95% of my house is now wired connected instead of wireless. Kitchen setup based around the 5090 laptop is complete and ready to go when summer comes and the sun hits my streaming room and makes it unusable for me during the day. (it will take 2-3 minutes and one unhook drive to move all my needed files to the kitchen) (back of house is cooler for the summer)

I haven't used most of these except codingame, which is enjoyable. But I like the concept:

🚨Breaking: Someone patched GIMP to look and feel exactly like Adobe Photoshop. Same keyboard shortcuts. Same tool layout. Same everything. It's called PhotoGIMP and it's free. Here's exactly what it changes: → Every keyboard shortcut mapped to match Adobe's official Photoshop layout → Tools reorganized to match the Photoshop panel positions you already know → Canvas space maximized -- same default workspace as Photoshop → Custom splash screen and app icon so it feels like a real product → Pre-defined canvas templates matching Photoshop defaults → Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux -- installs in under a minute Here's the wildest part: Adobe Photoshop costs $600/year. GIMP is free. PhotoGIMP makes it feel like Photoshop. The only reason most designers don't switch is muscle memory every shortcut is in a different place and it feels wrong from the first click. This patch fixes that entirely. Ctrl+Z undo. Ctrl+J duplicate layer. Ctrl+T transform. All of it. Download a zip. Extract to your home folder. Done. 6.7K GitHub stars. Works with GIMP 3.0+. 100% Open Source. GPL-3.0 License. (Link in the comments)