Christopher De Vries

maker of unnecessary technology maintainer of @auroraalert.bsky.social he/him https://unnecessary.tech

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Primary Election Day 2026

Voting needs to be accessible to everyone, but voters should take the responsibility to make an informed choice, otherwise they should skip the ballot box.

1d ago·2 min read·343 words

Standard.site

Exploring the Standard.site lexicon and integrating it into my hugo blog.

2d ago·3 min read·430 words

Why is Time so Complicated?

Sep 21·5 min read·935 words

We Are Not Machines

Sep 14·2 min read·292 words

MCP Server Programming: Inspector

Aug 11·2 min read·227 words

Unnecessary AI?

Aug 10·6 min read·1106 words

Advent of Code: Summary

Jan 2·9 min read·1743 words

Advent of Code 2024 - Day 11

Dec 12·3 min read·573 words

Advent of Code 2024 - Day 6

Dec 6·3 min read·561 words

Advent of Code 2024 - Day 4

Dec 4·2 min read·327 words

Advent of Code 2024 - Day1

Dec 1·4 min read·736 words

Whispers in the Dark: Gleam Edition

I used Bluesky's Jetstream and gleam to resurrect and old project I made for twitter.

Nov 20·5 min read·990 words

Bluesky

Nov 13·1 min read·123 words

NotebookLM

Oct 31·1 min read·48 words

No Language Model

Jul 7·3 min read·517 words

Deploying on Fly.io

Jan 17·6 min read·1177 words

Post.news Rss Generator

Jan 9·2 min read·284 words

Fading LED Chain

Nov 22·1 min read·21 words

COVID Data

Aug 5·2 min read·235 words

Why I Created an OpenFaaS template for COBOL

Apr 27·7 min read·1322 words

What Happened to Cyberspace?

Aug 24·3 min read·420 words

The Go Language

Jul 1·3 min read·511 words

Martian on the Loose: A Quick Cloud Run Site

Apr 25·3 min read·490 words

Cloud Run: The Future of PaaS

Apr 21·3 min read·552 words

Hello (Again) World!

Apr 6·1 min read·152 words