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I build small tools I want to use myself, mostly around reading, planes and weather. My site is wptk.org.

• 20+ years in knowledge management, technical writing, instructional design and facilitation
• A.S. Political Science, College of Coastal Georgia
• B.S.Ed. Workforce Education & Development, Valdosta State
• MLIS, Valdosta State (starting Fall 2027)

Junk Kipple: a self-hosted RSS reader with a Google Reader compatible sync API (kipple.cc) ADSB-TUI: a retro terminal view of the aircraft your ADS-B receiver hears bell-system-sim: work a Bell System repair test desk on a UNIX V7 terminal in 1983, weeks before divestiture cfbtui: college football scores, rankings and scoring plays in your terminal Claude skills for decoding METAR/TAF and ACARS messages and researching aircraft owners Where else to find me gawx.cc adsb.cc

Books & Stuff Current: Audiobook: 🎧 Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry eBook: 📖 Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📖 Last read: The Case of the Creepy Castle by Melinda Metz, Judy Katschke · 316/350 · Oct 23, 2026 🎧 Last listen: Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom · 296/350 · Oct 26, 2026 623 books rated so far, all of them at wptk.org.

Overhead 2,332 aircraft heard by my ADS-B receiver in the last 24 hours. Top types Top carriers Boeing 737-800 199 Southwest Airlines 212 Boeing 737 MAX 8 175 American Airlines 181 Airbus A321 142 Delta Air Lines 136 Airbus A320 106 United Airlines 120 Airbus A321neo 88 JetBlue Airways 74

Latest from Working Copy_final_this_one Oct 25, 2026 | Talking Robots: Kipple’s First Two Days Oct 20, 2026 | Adventures in Vibecoding Part 2: Robot Boogaloo (and AI agents get slightly better at coding) Oct 17, 2026 | The Shape of Grief a Decade Later Oct 14, 2026 | I Wonder What Planes Flew Over When I Was a Kid Oct 5, 2026 | Adventures in Vibecoding: Pre-History (Part 1: Replit + Traffic Cams)