Chris J. Karr

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy

I wear a lot of hats: software developer, entrepreneur, weird fiction publisher, writer, non-profit founder, election worker, local handyman, open-source creator, and […]

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@ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy Oct 11, 2026, 10:57 PMReposted by @chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy

Howdy! I have a client that's hiring a data engineer (ideally with Snowflake experience, but they'll take anyone smart enough to figure it out) in Canberra. I can arrange for the automated screens and the like to be skipped, and the interviews will not have any leetcode-style nonsense. I've […]

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 10, 2026, 9:46 PM

Not a lot better ways to spend a day than a horror film marathon.

Just finished 1965's "The Skull" starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

#AlamoDrafthouse #HorrorFilms

Dismember the Alamo intermission screen.

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 10, 2026, 12:44 PM

How I'm spending my Saturday morning. It will be a full decade since I started doing this.

If you care about free and fair elections, there's no substitute for working your own local area and making sure that YOUR elections meet that bar.

#Election2026 #Chicago

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 7:50 PM

Interesting article looking beyond the current popular hardware in use on our mesh networks.

https://beala.substack.com/p/why-is-mesh-hardware-living-in-the

#MeshCore #Meshtastic

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 6:24 PM

Was playing with customizing the Apple Mail send message window toolbar and discovered that "CONTRAST" is apparently a dirty word in Cupertino these days.

#BadUX

Hard to read "Send" button if you just select text icons in the latest Mac OS X.

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 5:56 PM

I have my fingers crossed that Apple Mail has had some bug fixes that pushed me to Thunderbird since I switched over (in the last iteration of Mac OS X).

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 5:55 PM

Going BACK to Apple Mail from Thunderbird. I'd LOVE to be using an open source mail client across my devices, but Thunderbird has so many bugs, weird behaviors, and other issues that it's severely degraded my e-mail experience for quite some time. I think the MAIN problem that it has is that […]

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 5:29 PM

Working on maybe the world's first MeshCore ghost story. Things get WEIRD when my unrelated interests begin to intersect... That said, it sometimes makes it difficult to come up with titles.

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 3:32 PM

Really been having a ball reading Poul Anderson's "Tau Zero".

Thanks Quinn, for putting this classic on my radar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOfqRH5Dyjc

#TauZero #PoulAnderson #Relativity #ScienceFiction

@glyph.im Oct 9, 2026, 7:41 AMReposted by @chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy

New Blog: Programming Isn't Special

Artists understand that AI is bad for art. Why don’t programmers understand that we are artists?

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 9, 2026, 4:33 AM

"Other Mommy" was MUCH better than it had any business being. A clever horror story, with one hell of an actress playing the little girl.

Worth seeing in the theater for those that still care about that kind of stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9h5pfcYwY

#OtherMommy #HorrorMovies

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 8, 2026, 2:00 AM

Just caught this in the theater.

Great music, and a great time.

https://youtu.be/DYdPhqkw0pU?is=yjPIaYS4u57Nnx-p

#Queen #Budapest #ConcertFilm #AlamoDrafthouse

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 12:24 PM

Kicking this morning off with a live version of Sturgill Simpson's "Make Art, Not Friends", from the "Sound and Fury" album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoEQe9EAltU

#SturgillSimpson #SoundAndFury #MakeArtNotFriends

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 11:35 PM

Used a conversation about AR glasses to introduce someone new to the 1995 Neo Noir masterpiece, "Strange Days".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DnLmuCcKRk

#StrangeDays #NeoNoir #Noir

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 10:11 PM

Damn, this song goes hard live.

(From the last tour.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDxEjSrp0RM

#SturgillSimpson #AllSaidAndDone #SoundAndFury

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 7:32 PM

Finally getting around to listening to the recording of last week's Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds concert.

It sounds GREAT. It's basically a new 3-hour album for me to enjoy.

I need to follow @atomicpoet's example and create a 3-CD set of it to give to […]

[Original post on omgwars.com]

Files from the Johnny Blue Skies concert at Chicago's United Center on Sept. 29, 2026 playing in Feishin.

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 7:08 PM

One thought I'll share right now: I'm DAMN happy that I'm not necessarily IN the "Tech Industry" or one of these companies and I have the latitude and space to figure out how to deal with these changes on my own, instead of having a bunch of half-baked "thought leader" methodologies rammed down […]

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 7:07 PM

A very interesting (and disquieting) view on the state of the current tech industry.

I have lots of thoughts on its topic, which I'm saving up for a newsletter post of my own.

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-state-of-the-tech-industry-in

#SoftwareDevelopment #AI

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 4:29 PM

This weekend beat me over the head with the fact that I need to play "Bloodborne". It seems like the PERFECT game for Spooky Season, but I do not have a PlayStation console for it. :-P

Maybe I can make a request for one as an early birthday gift...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G203e1HhixY […]

@chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 3:30 PM

Was delighted to get home at 1am last night to discover that the Transformers comics I bought from @trashbandy showed up after USPS took their sweet time with them.

I'm not a big Transformers comics collector, but these are key issues for me, esp. #17, The […]

[Original post on omgwars.com]

Marvel US's Transformers #3 (the one with a black suit Spider-Man), #5 (the Shockwave "All Are Dead" cover), and #17 (the one with the most heroic Autobot ever, Scrounge).

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