Connor Tumbleson

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Ramblings of a Tampa engineer 🌉 bridged from https://connortumbleson.com/ on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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Destiny 2 is over

Destiny 2 is on the way out - a long 9 years of gaming coming to an end.

1d ago·6 min read·1048 words

BSides Tampa 2026

Bsides Tampa is a yearly BSides event and each year it grows - this year I took a stab at the Badge Challenge.

May 18·23 min read·4572 words

Recent Power Outages

I went almost 1,000 days without a power outage - now I'm averaging an outage every 72 days. What happened?

May 11·1 min read·23 words

GitHub, AI & An Influx of Content

Recently a day at work with GitHub has been met with errors and more - is AI at fault?

May 4·1 min read·26 words

Switching Laptops

A laptop is retired - a new one is born and another sits sleeping.

Apr 27·1 min read·16 words

The AI Attacker

The era of the AI Attacker is here - who will keep up.

Apr 20·1 min read·16 words

A few months ago I did a blog titled "Social Etiquette" where I took a look at a few occurrences of behavior over the past week that were pretty poor behavior. I found a new word for it of "main chara…

Apr 13·1 min read·102 words

Bungie & Marathon

On March 5, 2026 Bungie released Marathon - a re-imagined game of their previous 1994 game by the same name. This was the company that created Halo and Destiny so I was definitely interested in a new …

Apr 6·1 min read·93 words

ZooBrews at ZooTampa

A yearly event at the Zoo - night time & drinks.

Mar 30·1 min read·14 words

The odd new spam on GitHub

The new type of spam plaguing GitHub with LLMs, edits and more.

Mar 23·1 min read·18 words

Apocalyptic Traffic

A train crossing arms go down - no train comes. Traffic backs up and police show up, a story of a ~25 minute delay on the way to work.

Mar 16·1 min read·31 words

Breaking Changes vs Infinite Support

A project that never introduces breaking changes and works on old versions or a project that pushes boundaries on newer technologies.

Mar 9·1 min read·26 words

Cooking a Tomahawk on a Green Egg

I'm no professional when it comes to cooking on a Green Egg, but I was gifted a large Tomahawk steak and it was time to cook it. Reading up on plenty of guides the plan was going to be slow indirect h…

Mar 2·1 min read·105 words

The UT Frat Behavior

A bit ago Alyson and I had an appointment with our wedding coordinator in the Soho (South Howard) part of Tampa. Knowing we'd be down there we paired our visit with a lunch and some errands in the are…

Feb 23·1 min read·101 words

Apktool v3.0.0 Released

Apktool v3.0.0 has been released dropping support for aapt1, 32-bit and heavily improving the internals of the tool.

Feb 22·1 min read·21 words

The Pneumonia Strikes

I'm not sick often, but this time I was struck by something that took me down for weeks.

Feb 16·1 min read·21 words

Travel Blog: Gainesville, GA

A trip north to Atlanta with an extra drive to the Gainesville area of Georgia.

Feb 9·1 min read·19 words