Alex Sirota

New banner! This is my #frc team's (6238 Popcorn Penguins) robot completing a climb. It's hanging from a small piece of truss that's only a few inches off the ground. Photo shot by me, 2025-03-16. CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Hello from the top of the Empire State Building, where I am running WNYC's overnight programming from our little backup studio in the sky while Con Ed is doing work at our main studio downtown. #WNYC #radio #NYC

the juvenile ones are called axolittles

The iMac cube was not a success.

Shel Silverstein’s short poem Homework Machine (1981) was prescient about the limitations of LLMs. “I guess it’s not as perfect / As I thought it would be.” [kottke.org]

It is *bananas* that they would give vibe coding tools (and _Replit_, of all platforms 🤣) production deploy access! With no backups! We gave better backup tools to teenagers on Glitch remixing apps a decade ago.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

thread of photographs i took at my local protest (3) this trump supporter was the only counter-protestor i saw, and the police forced him to stand on the other side of a creek far away from the crowd of thousands — all alone, he helplessly kept trying to shout "you are the minority!"

Put the new registration sticker on @josh.sirota.org's car today, and wow the thickness of the stickers really adds up.

Yosemite climbers unfurl transgender pride flag on iconic El Capitan For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

what a ride it was at FIRST championships. even though we didn't make it to the playoffs, it was amazing to show off what we could do on the global stage. couldn't have asked for a better way to cap off not only the season, but my career as a student in FIRST. (also I got to meet @reeseric.ci irl)

#photography #omgrobots #robotics

Why did we get "pilled" and "coded," "fangled" was right there.

I imagine most anyone who follows transit-focused accounts knows this, but I figured I would write this little thread for those who may be less familiar with these issues. We have chosen to make cars easy and transit hard. We could reverse that and increasingly I think we should.

Can't wait for this to trickle to 95!

Here's a photo I took! This was taken as an assignment to show texture as an artistic element, but I think it stands well on its own. Shot by me, September 10, 2024. CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. #photography

buying a big weirdly shaped electronic gizmo is a humbling reminder this is a cardboard engineer's world and we're just living in it

So much truth in so few characters.

I'm doing #adventofcode this year, and this year I WILL do every puzzle and not lose interest after a week. I'll be posting my solutions here, if any of you are curious: codeberg.org/alexjs/advent2024

One thing many people are not aware of is that Apple has an entire building full of engineers who are working to push the boundaries of physics in seeing how far an AirPods case can fling the individual earbuds in different directions whenever you drop the case.

Friend, you spend a lot more time on your art than we do on our graphics. Are you really going to put your work out there without alt text and lose the ENGAGEMENT GAME to someone with no formal training? Your gorgeous character work losing to Trent Turkey? Alt text. If not for others, for yourself.

All-musical episode. 25 minutes of contestant interview interrupted briefly by 2 minutes of gameplay. Bottle episode from the POV of a buzzer button. Ghost hunting.

Emergency text-only post: The last file in Mario Strikers Charged is "zzzz.zzz". Opening it reveals an explanation that a bug prevents the alphabetically last file on the disc from loading, and instead of fixing it, this dummy file was a clever workaround.

Hi new followers! I have a hunch some of you are mistaken. My name is Alex Sirota but, I might not be the one you're looking for: - iosart.com isn't my site - I did not found NewPath Consulting - I haven't contributed to WordPress If you're sure I'm the Alex Sirota you're looking for, welcome!

billboards everywhere: - that one injury attorney - REST STOP 20 MILES - the lottery billboards in San Francisco: - enterprise software that 90% of people have no use for - AI AI AI AI AI AI AI AI - infosec product that blocks 1% more evil bits!

From todays’s extra edition of “We’re Here”:

Trans rights are human rights

My entry to this challenge - shot on my Nikon D7000. #Photography #It'sNotEasyBeingGreen

does anyone have recs for some #photography accounts to follow?

this is cool, use alt text.

Hello, Bluesky! I'm not really sure what people put in their first posts here, but hi there 👋