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@crim

@7mg.bsky.social

We have some local unhoused folks that rely on the free pantry in front of our house. One of them stopped by asking about a lighter they thought they left in the car last time we gave them a ride. They left with a brand new clipper, replacement flints, a hot meal and pecan pie

December 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM

@crim

@7mg.bsky.social

Also - the pipeline from purchasing a firearm to fill a gap in a set of tools you own to being a complete gun nut is not very long. Pray for me. (I live in the desert, my survival is not top of mind for it)

December 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM

@crim

@7mg.bsky.social

Great, LinkedIn is sending me rage bait in my email. Hard to argue with results when it’s the first time I logged in to figure out why it was sent to me in like a year.

December 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM

@crim

@7mg.bsky.social

I have a few talents, but my smoked pumpkin bisque is like… maybe the thing that justifies my existence on the planet.

November 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM

@crim

@7mg.bsky.social

I live across from some horses. Horses get horse-zoomies. At night, horse zoomies sound terrifying.

November 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM

@crim

@7mg.bsky.social

Found a dear friend passed courtesy AMEX ESTATE SERVICES. “Are you the executor of this estate?” Girl, we’re discovering there’s an estate to execute in realtime can I at least press zero for a human to give me a hug?

November 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM

@crim

@7mg.bsky.social

I will drag this state machine kicking and screaming to my desired outcome whether I like it or not

Kate @katef.bsky.social · Nov 7

if you enjoy some good old fashioned "you are definitely using the wrong programing language" code, here's UTF-8 encoding in pure VCL. which is essentially supposed to be a http config language. i am especially pleased with this
community.fastly.com/t/utf-8-enco...

UTF-8 encoding in pure VCL

Just for fun, here’s UTF-8 encoding in pure VCL. I wrote this as part of our language tests when we introduced bitwise operators a while ago, but I think it’s also a good example for passing argument...

community.fastly.com

November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM

@crim

@7mg.bsky.social

Just to complain here as well, I think that volumetric synthetic load tests against CDNs are dumb. They never demonstrate the capacity the test is supposed to exercise.

November 6, 2025 at 7:32 AM

Reposted by @crim

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋

@poppyhaze.bsky.social

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor

Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000