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Travis Shears

https://travisshears.com

New father, hobbyist, alpinist, software engineer, he/him, USA -> Munich, Germany

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2025-01-01 09:05:48

Watched Wong Kar Wai's 2046. They dreamy ascetic was nice, but it wasn't my thing. I've moved on from my Hollywood blockbuster Star Wars / Marvel roots, but maybe I'm not yet cultured enough for Wong Kar Wai.
#movie

2024-09-25 22:07:31

Saw a dad walking around with his ~8 year old daughter helping her do parkour today. Woh, some of the moves looked tricky. I didn’t know this is father daughter compatible?!? Looking forward to it!
#dadlife

2024-09-14 06:06:50

Finally found a dumplings recipe that is easy enough for a weeknight dinner.
https://travisshears.com/cooking/notes/shumai
#cooking https://image.nostr.build/4c79a21d09cf5ac544cbc7e6897ecb11db2f3f726ee0ea105a84cd283388664f.jpg

2024-09-09 17:41:24

Cool graph style: https://dfm.io/xkcd/
Saw it on https://star-history.com/
https://image.nostr.build/8bff8e0f091c39ba67dce816faa0c60d7e045fca944b8bb91852876a951a4d73.png

2024-08-29 06:46:33

Looking to reduce my server costs; right now I have a bunch of fly.io machines running, a VPC instance, and bunch of AWS stuff. Looking at self hosting on a raspberry pi. Was just going to do a simple docker compose with nginx over it and Let’s Encrypt, but dokku looks intriguing:
https://dokku.com/
#webdev
#tech

2024-08-25 19:45:19

The Bear season one. It opened too chaotic for me but I stuck with it and enjoyed. Smile every time I see a cooking instrument I own, like: deli containers or micro plane.
Looking forward to season two.
#cooking

2024-08-25 17:26:25

Working on backing up photos to my NAS today. Came across a nice tool to remove duplicates: jdupes, https://codeberg.org/jbruchon/jdupes
Run this to delete duplicates in the current folder:
jdupes -dN .

2024-08-11 07:12:45

Curry ended France in style. What a way to cap off the Olympic Gold Medal run. U.S.A!
#basketball
#olympics

2024-08-08 21:19:38

Sad to see Dennis, Franz, and the rest of the German team lose. Then team USA had me very nervous with the close win over Serbia.
#olympics
#basketball

2024-08-08 21:15:36

I’m also a Bruno fan. Nice that it supports GraphQL. #note1vzp…nanr

2024-08-08 10:46:33

Wetter Online App never fails me. Saw a storm this morning and used the app to figure out which direction it is going and how much time I have to get myself and by daughter, with the stroller, into cover.
https://apps.apple.com/app/id545993260 https://image.nostr.build/00c06ca89c950eb913b1f86a05ae55196fb6182103304a8f27f0aaa9263d7603.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a1aa4ae1253b93aa0adf0342216dd2fe54047bcf9fa0aeb40b609c7e6c1a9769.jpg

2024-08-06 20:35:03

Some amazing basketball in the Men’s Olympic Quarter Finals today. Unfortunately only caught highlights for the most exciting games.
France with the upset! Serbia going into overtime to secure the win. Germany coming back after going down big!
#basketball

2024-08-06 14:20:29

Wanted to show someone https://craigslist.org/, the first link did not disappoint.
https://image.nostr.build/0e2521c4516d2ac3b1e88482bfd588de199129f822baf91c3fcaa03c05de35d1.png

2024-08-05 15:48:53

No basketball today, but group phase is over and quarter finals of olympic basketball starts tomorrow! I'm hyped!
Let's go men's team USA and team Germany! Go women's team USA and team Spain!
#basketball
#olympics

2024-07-31 10:51:30

Spanish women’s basketball 🏀 team again with the close and super exciting game resulting in a win. I know team USA is the heavy favorite for gold; I’m routing Spanish for silver.
#basketball
#olympics

2024-07-31 06:39:00

My weekend recovering on the couch from a virus 🤒 was saved by marathoning Olympics coverage (yes in a feverish blur I accidentally bought Disney+ first instead of Discovery+).
Been enjoying Men’s and Women’s basketball the most. Women’s game Spain 🇪🇸 vs China 🇨🇳 was the most exciting. Seeing Megan Gustafson (also from a small town in Wisconsin like me) go up against the huge Chinese bigs was epic. Nice overtime win.
#basketball

2024-07-23 14:40:08

My wife makes nice drinks. Bumble.
#coffee https://image.nostr.build/2793ed2be3b7d99b1cab456644d5020a79d60cf8edea2572649ab719d8f5761f.jpg

2024-07-23 11:38:45

LEBRON! Another classic take over in the 4th quarter. As this is probably his last Olympics I’m hoping he goes out with a bang.
🇺🇸 vs 🇩🇪
https://youtu.be/vB-dUGMFV90?si=lxjGw-s6p9qC6X2f
#nba

2024-07-20 06:37:02

The Race for the Galaxy 🌌 was fun last night. Glad I got it. With ~8 expansions, it should be fun for quite some time.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28143/race-for-the-galaxy/expansions
#cardgame https://image.nostr.build/a54cac9919d03e2bc5b22bf88ce395a6c88f2739a30f0549532eb77323eb396a.jpg

2024-07-19 10:16:39

Tried to use tRPC to communicate between two backend service. Nope.
The appRouter type has to be shared between the projects. Either with some hacky type generation and copy paste or another repo shared repo bringing dependency problems. Just nope. tRPC is not ready for prime time in the use case of backend service communication. Going back to GraphQL or simply REST.
https://trpc.io/
#webdev

2024-07-18 11:03:15

HTMX is the next big thing. Just watch a talk at We Developers Conference and I’m convinced.
https://htmx.org
#webdev

2024-07-18 09:29:01

Had a friend some years ago who worked for Circle CI. At that time, the main programming language there was Clojure. Always found that cool. Just learned they have switched to Go and TypeScript. 🥲
#webdev

2024-07-18 06:39:48

Woh, so many English language bookshops in Berlin!
Picked up some photography assignments. I can sense another photography month coming. This time black and white.
Also Russian civilian perspective on the war.
#berlin https://image.nostr.build/d83ef0eddcea80eb49df6cf6ebee3ba11d86dc30ca0c3f026f3fc2c5c8af83ac.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0d8120775d13e26f16383c5abb35d70b4e995a193d21f6f9c1fe007452cb790e.jpg

2024-07-16 20:31:30

Some cool permacomputing links:
https://links.compost.party
#permacomputing

2024-07-16 20:30:39

Liking the DIY nature of permacomputing and many of the projects like UXN, but the dooms day rhetoric is little weird.
I’m here to check out everyone’s cool projects. Oh wait are we digital preppers?
https://permacomputing.net
#permacomputing

2024-07-14 09:16:31

Playing Tchia on Xbox. Super cute game, love the island sunset vibes.
Eventually you get a small raft to sail. Spent 10 min playing with the controller trying to figure out how to control the speed. Only to find out it’s not a button. You have to let go of the rutter, walk over to the sail, and raise or lower it. Magic!

2024-07-08 09:03:58

Woh U.S. colleges will finally pay there athletes!?! This is huge.
It is super sad to see a rising athletes career get cut short because of injuries at the college level. At least now they should make it out with a big paycheck.
Also interesting what this will mean for the NBA draft. If you are projected to be a second round pick, why not stay in school as long as the money is flowing.
Living in Germany I'm exposed to FIBA basketball (not that I watch it). Paid college players could further weaken European basketball by attracting more talent to the US.
#basketball
#ncaa
#nba

2024-07-07 17:25:57

Didn’t realize how dominant the US Woman’s basketball team is!?
“They have no Olympic losses since 1992”
How is that even possible!?
Looking forward to watching them this summer (on TV, I may live in Europe but actually going is out of my budget)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_women%27s_national_basketball_team
#Paris2024 🇫🇷

2024-07-07 11:58:55

Here is the source code for the fetcher AWS Lambda functions I use to poll for nostr posts and save them to PocketBase.
https://git.sr.ht/~travisshears/micro_blog_repo_fetchers\
Also supports Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky. Why pick when you can use them all.
#tech
#nostr

2024-07-06 16:19:24

My nostr posts are now on my personal site!
They are now joined in a feed with Mastodon, Pixelfed, BlueSky, and my old Pleroma posts.
https://travisshears.com/micro-blog
#nostr

2024-07-05 20:04:55

I want to try one time pad encryption. Seems so cool! Perfect security, KGB sleeper communication, and flash burn paper?!?
Just need to convince my partner to decrypt my message.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad

2024-07-05 18:53:47

Watched my first football game of the year, just to see Germany get knocked out of the UEFA European Championship.
Wirtz was impressive though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_Wirtz
#football

2024-07-05 14:44:04

Looking for a way to stream my Nostr posts to my personal site.
https://travisshears.com/micro-blog
#nostr
#webdev
#tech

2024-07-04 08:58:10

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Finally beat Gaston. It only took spamming the heal the entire party potion a million times.
https://octopathtraveler.fandom.com/wiki/Gaston

2024-07-04 03:49:15

I’m not deep into EDC, but faraday bags are cool. I already have a RFID blocking card case; now I’m eyeing something I can slip my phone into.
Also if I could find the special fabric, it is something I could incorporate into my sewing hobby. Inside faraday pocket on my next fanny pack / shoulder bag project?
#edc
#sewing

2024-07-03 19:52:52

Been enjoying Octopath Traveler until today. Having three party members, I picked up Olberic as a forth. Trying to complete his intro quest and I’m stuck on the boss fight. Now I can’t take the other three and leave!?!

2024-06-29 21:07:50

Watching a bit of football (soccer). Germany is currently beating Denmark in the UEFA Round of 16.
Lived in Europe for more than half a decade and I still can’t get into it.
#football

2024-06-18 22:06:39

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Time to start watching draft prediction content.
#nba

2024-06-18 22:06:02

Celtics deserve it. What a season and run the championship.
#nba

2024-06-18 22:04:45

This is interesting. Main reason I’m switching my side project, written in Elixir, to Typescript is the lack of types. Refactoring a function then hunting around for wrong uses that need to be updated? No thanks. #note1672…hcea

2024-06-08 07:02:34

Oh wow, Celtics open up the series in style.
Porzingis making maybe best return from injury ever?
Still routing for the Mavs and hope they can make the series interesting; give us something special before the off season.
#nba

2024-05-30 04:19:40

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Now I have to go Mavericks. Underdog vs Celtics.

2024-05-30 04:18:56

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Was not an interesting series. Let’s see if Dallas vs Boston will be better.
#nba

2024-05-30 04:17:12

Thanks Apple weather. I can literally hear the thunder and see the rain, yet you show sun. For Europe I’ve had better luck with
Weather Radar
https://apps.apple.com/app/id545993260
Also didn’t Apple buy and shutdown the external api of Darksky, killing many open sources weather projects? Thought that would make there app more reliable.

2024-05-27 04:11:26

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I’ve rocked the ergodox for years. It won’t take you long to get the feel. Though it takes some tinkering to settle on a layout, with all the layers and such.
Voyager looks cool but I’d miss having more keys around my thumbs.

2024-05-22 06:22:28

I’m routing for Indiana and they almost stole game one in Boston. Should be an interesting series.
#nba

2024-05-20 04:46:34

Wolves did it!
What a game seven!
#nba https://image.nostr.build/138cbb6839358fc4e41de1c5b5f7ccc57ab68c5c07d47b63cb39f86b14acd3d1.jpg

2024-05-19 06:55:53

Great run by the OKC team. Not quite enough to get past Luka and the Mavs. I look forward to seeing many more post season appearances by that young team.
#nba

2024-05-17 04:49:25

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Hopes are back. Wow the Wolves absolutely put the smack down on the Nuggets in game six!
#nba

2024-05-13 10:58:01

colorful_football_goal
#photography https://image.nostr.build/fd4a78fd5e3cbff1c826685118a11636f5a4b43132d290196c37ae443ab0181f.jpg

2024-05-13 08:16:16

Would love to see Anthony Edwards and the Wolves upset the Nuggets. After game 4 Nuggets win, tying the series at 2-2, I’m not too hopeful.
#nba

2024-04-29 10:46:32

Passed up an old copy of El Grande at a Flomarket. Regretting it now. Looks fun.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/93/el-grande
#boardgame

2024-04-14 06:17:48

Not interested in Bitcoin related features or content on Nostr. The protocol looks promising.
#nostr

2024-04-13 10:56:47

I’m liking Elixir, but not having the type safety I’m use to from TypeScript feels weird. Maybe I should try Gleam. #note17j5…kggp

2024-04-13 10:46:45

Started an Elixir app to take my post from Pleroma (ActicityPub), BlueSky, and Nostr and combine them into a single feed I can embed on my website.
https://git.sr.ht/~travisshears/micro_blog_repo
#elixir

2024-04-13 09:40:47

Created a Nostr account to complete my collection.
ActivityPub: https://social.travisshears.xyz/users/travisshears
atProtocol: https://bsky.app/profile/travisshears.bsky.social