Probstisms

Tim Probst
Tim Probst
@Tim@www.timprobst.com

Early adopting super geek, musician, father, resident tech guru.

1,081 posts
7 followers
Tim Probst
Tim Probst
@Tim@www.timprobst.com

Early adopting super geek, musician, father, resident tech guru.

1,081 posts
7 followers
  • A hearty welcome back to Standard Time for all of my fellow time travelers out there!

  • Better yet, start a self-hosted WordPress blog, install and activate the ActivityPub plugin, and completely control your content and never have to worry about a platform blocking your ability to communicate with your hard-earned audience ever again.

  • If you are a public figure, elected official, or a public company or organization posting on Threads, I ask you to please, please, please turn on Fediverse Sharing in your settings. You will immediately free your content from any specific company’s servers and will make it possible for people using other apps and tools to…

  • Anyone else a little weirded out by the M&M commercials where the M&M characters are eating M&Ms and other candy? Bunch of cannibals!

  • Trump’s “New White House”

    The dismantling of the White House East Wing by the Trump administration this past week was very disturbing to many Americans. This is especially true because Trump himself mislead all of us by initially saying the White House would not be impacted by the massive ballroom he is hellbent on building. Seeing the remnants of…

  • Had a chance to watch Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost this afternoon, and it was really fantastic. Highly recommended! Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost

  • Today’s AWS outage has me thinking more about redundancy for our public cloud-based offerings. Is it enough to set up failover infrastructure with the same host in a different region? Should we be considering using a different cloud provider in a different region for our replication and disaster recovery environments? I have no doubt that…

  • Considering the weather, the No Kings turnout in St. Louis was incredible! The rain did mess up my Resistance theme because I could not show off my May the 4th Estate Be with You shirt. Let’s double the number of marchers at the next No Kings event!

  • The American Association of School Librarians national conference just so happened to be in St. Louis this week so it is needless to say that this librarian and her sign were very popular at the No Kings march.

  • The Saint Louis area really showed up and showed out for multiple No Kings events yesterday. Look at the size of the crowd downtown, and this was during a thunderstorm and steady rain throughout the march!