Dane Petersen

Coder. Dad. Minnesotan.
Cloud Platform Engineer at 1Password.
Formerly GE Aviation, GE Digital, Filament, Adaptive Path, Big Winds, Sons of Fortran.
he/him

2025-05-27

I think about this album art a lot.

The album art for “The Enemies EP” by Headlights depicting the outline of a unique handgun in profile, the barrel pointing backwards. When held, the barrel of the gun would point at the holder.
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2025-05-27

I’m all about that highbrow art…

Heavy graffitied bathroom… sink is surprisingly clean.
2025-05-26

6yo: “Daddy, how did Abraham Lincoln die?”
me: “Umm. Well. He. How… how do you think he died?”
6yo: “FROM TOO MUCH SCREEN TIME!”

2025-05-25

@Coffeekid heck yeah Cat Power

2025-05-22

@mulegirl For me it’s fifteen years of muscle memory instantly ready-to-hand every time I pick it up. I know every nick and chip on every edge of OmniGraffle that I use.

It’s not perfect, and I’m not either, and we just understand each other. The tool just disappears.

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2025-05-22

I'm a complete freak because I continue to be happiest in Omnigraffle.

A cartoon diagram of the design process in olden times and in digital system times
2025-05-22

@mulegirl SAME.

2025-05-21

I produce dank content for my team. #team #teamwork

An image comparing the embarrassingly bad letterspacing on Pope Francis’ tomb to the bad letterspacing on a Bell Canada modem.

The tomb says “F R A NCIS C V S”.

The modem says, “N etwor k au th en ti cati on er r or”.
2025-05-19

If Hippocampus and HARBOUR toured together I think they would annihilate each other.

2025-05-19

I hate this.

A sticky note with a “cheat sheet” to the last three Debian versions, including version numbers, code names, and release years. Every version code name starts with “B”.
2025-05-19

Twenty years ago I would challenge myself by climbing a Cascade volcano.

Today I challenge myself by spending two hours in a Chuck E Cheese.

2025-05-19

@marcoarment I feel like I’m doing something untoward when I flip it on its back to do this to it.

2025-05-16

you know it’s allergy season when you walk into the eyeglass store and your first thought is “feels like they have a medical grade filtration system in here”

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a little background music for special occasions, like generating a license key for photoshop 6

2025-05-15

I just dropped our Oral-B Bacteria Defense floss in the toilet but I’m gonna leave it to RFK Jr. to test whether that’s what they meant.

2025-05-13

“Small Nodule” is a great jam band name.

2025-05-12

If your handwriting is bad “Cholula” transforms readily into “Chocula”.

2025-05-12

how many meetings you think

A box of Rice Chex cereal.

One side of the box shows a photo of Rice Chex cereal in a bowl. The other side shows a photo of “Chex Mix” (with nuts, pretzels, different kinds of Chex, etc.) in a bowl.

Overlaid on the Chex Mix photo is the statement “Use Chex to make your favorite mix.” Below that statement in a smaller font is the clarification “cereal only in box”.

The statement becomes patently false the moment you pour cereal out of the box. You can believe there were many meetings about this photo, the primary statement, and the supporting clarification.

My spouse believes the legal team was also involved.
2025-05-11

Currently there is no way to directly sign up for Disney+ in any of their Apple apps.

The steering route is the only route. Disney’s payment and subscription system is the only system.

I just imagine Tim Cook raging through his giant house, throwing things and flipping over tables.

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2025-05-03

So maybe LLMs are like gzip for words, really?

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