Network Engineer specializing in Wireless LANS. Also experienced in design, implemetation, and support of DC and campus networks. cablingoptional.com
Joined March 2010
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Feb 23
Today was peak #enshittification for me:
-UHaul app hangs & crashes => 30 mins in cold
-McDonald’s app fails 10x, then orders food it said it couldn’t -CoinTracker points to Coinbase, which points back -TurboTax jumps back to earlier sections again & again
#idiocracy
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Jan 14
What are people thinking when they show PowerPoints while not in slideshow mode? This is so common and it drives me crazy!
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4 Nov 2025
Re: AT&T reducing offload amounts on some hotspots, I’m wondering what the pattern is. My two are in quite busy (relative to my town) public areas, but ATT offload is much lower.
I imagine their own towers can handle more load just fine.
What are others seeing?
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Think your flight tracker knows where planes really are?
Unless it can prove where a signal was received, it’s just assumptions.
🛰️ Wingbits locks each signal to a GPS-verified device and cryptographically signs it.
That’s not flight tracking.
That’s proof-of-location intelligence.
That's DePIN in action.
And you can be part of it.
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20 Jun 2025
Utah Wi-Fi friends - I’ve been to a lot of airports and cities, but so far SLC airport and the little bit of the city I’ve seen have impressed. So modern and clean!
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8 Jun 2025
@DTWeetin A56, 3rd charging pole from counter, AC outlet facing ramp has issues. Bottom outlet inop, top is intermittent , & both are quite loose. Thanks in advance for keeping this terminal in tip-top shape!
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8 Jun 2025
USB ports on this post also quite loose and cycle on and off - only providing power for seconds at a time
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Nick Looper retweeted
24 May 2025
In the last 5 mins UDR of Friday we got so close to a milli....
Oh it's Friday...
And we got ATH for @helium
Eyes on this for tomorrow
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23 May 2025
Shakira’s hips lied to me about the concert start time at Little Caesar’s Arena in Detroit. We’re currently at 100 mins after scheduled start.
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Nick Looper retweeted
19 May 2025
Ready for Day 1 of the @WBAlliance in Dallas!
@helium right on schedule at 11.40am to showcase and demo to the industry the results of the work on quality of service metrics that is live on the network.
Quality is measureable.
Put your money where your mouth is.
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10 May 2025
San Jose to Limón…Chiquita, Del Monte everywhere…have never seen so many shipping containers in my life
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10 May 2025
Visiting the Starbucks R&D facility Hacienda Alsacia in Costa Rica - this place is so cool!
Few thoughts:
- LoRa or HaLo soil moisture and pH sensors could be used for higher res data on new varietals
- Why doesn’t anyone ferment and distill the sugary pulp from the cherry?
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10 May 2025
Homemade Cellular Internet Backup - Part 1: The Problem cablingoptional.com/2025/05/…
(my first blog entry in several years)
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Nick Looper retweeted
5 May 2025
First iteration of flight paths now live on our @wingbits map! More cool functionality coming shortly 🚀
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Telefónica México is bringing the Helium network to over 2 million subscribers in México 🎉
César Hernández Pérez of @Telefonica_En and Mario Di Dio of @helium join #TakingStock with @TrinityChavez to discuss the partnership!
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Nick Looper retweeted
28 Feb 2025
I need help. 3 National STEM Festival sponsors pulled funding because of the current climate. Please help. This is a life changing opportunity for kids that have worked so hard!
gofundme.com/f/support-the-n…
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Nick Looper retweeted
21 Feb 2025
Neutronex is all about putting your computing power to good use. While your machine helps search for pulsars and gravitational waves, you earn $NTRX for contributing to real science.
No expensive mining rigs, no waste—just science and rewards.
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21 Feb 2025
How do we have self driving cars, but potato chip bags are still so loud you can hear them over noise-cancelling headphones? This is the real problem for scientists and engineers to address! 😅😅
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