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Chris Rebert
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Programming language theory enthusiast. DevOps/Infrastructure believer. Xoogler. Opinions are my own, not my employer's.
📍SF Bay Area, California, USA
https://chrisrebert.com
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misterabk.bsky.social
Last-minute gig idea! A knock-off VHS that looks a bit like a classic Disney cartoon:
December 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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travis-robert.bsky.social
I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!
January 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus

Censorship. Bari Weiss
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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misterabk.bsky.social
Throwback to the Xmas when I spoofed mobile game ads too accurately, and no one clicked on the video.
December 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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hillelwayne.com
From now until the end of the year, you can get Logic for Programmers $10 off! Use the code `hannukah-presents` or just click this link: leanpub.com/logic/c/hann...
Logic for Programmers
The mathematics that will help you in your everyday programming.
leanpub.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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wittywebhandle.bsky.social
Microsoft Logo w/ the Four Humors written on individual blocks of the window. Orange is Sanguine Green is Melancholic Blue is Phlegmatic Yellow is Choleric
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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misterabk.bsky.social
An Important Information Film. Please share widely so that more people receive the information.

Tickets: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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steveklabnik.com
not the crossover i expected to see on my timeline today
hbomberguy.bsky.social Hbomberguy @hbomberguy.bsky.social · Nov 18
C++ is for little worms
November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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skeet.best
BABIES ARE BORN WORSHIPPING UNKNOWN GODS — DWARF FORTRESS, BUG REPORT #13172
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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lexmcmenamin.com
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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letitmelo.bsky.social
I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
Ethan Evans, former Amazon VP As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why: The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's. The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere. Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong. Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google). The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well. At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either. Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
a Wikipedia editor with the username Vigilantcosmicpenguin explained, "I contacted Brian David Gilbert with a request for freely licensed photographs. He delivered."
gilbert poses after his pizzas fall on the floor
October 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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misterabk.bsky.social
It's that time of year again. Happy Michaelmas to all who celebrate.
youtu.be/WDXLxpQdIUQ
The Nightmare Before Michaelmas
YouTube video by Alasdair Beckett-King
youtu.be
September 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com
Good morning! It's Pizzamas, and that means I can finally tell people about THIS:
pizzamas.com/collections/...

I wrote another Pizzamas Dungeons and Dragons adventure!

It's got tons of Nerdfighter references (and a few just for the LRR fans, heh heh), jokes and a message board!
Pizzamas One Shot - Part II
Did you absolutely love the first adventure? Well we’ve got a new one cooked up for you! Now with some new pre-gen characters and packed with a whole lot of excitement! Are you a DM? If you purchase t...
pizzamas.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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johngoodman.bsky.social
realistic Star Trek
A comic on the bridge from Star Trek the Next Generation. Picard: COMMANDER DATA, PLEASE IDENTIFY THAT ROMULAN VESSEL. Data: THAT'S A GREAT IDEA CAPTAIN! IDENTIFYING A VESSEL IS A GREAT PLACE TO START - IN ANY TACTICAL OR STRATEGIC OUTER SPACE SITUATION. THIS VESSEL APPEARS TO BE A 23rd CENTURY KLINGON BIRD OF PREY! 🚀🦅✨ Picard: ARE YOU SURE? LIKE I SAID WE'RE... PRETTY SURE IT'S ROMULAN. Data: ... Data: OF COURSE! SO SORRY ABOUT THAT, YOU'RE RIGHT! ON CLOSER EXAMINATION IT'S A ROMULAN VESSEL! CAN I RECOMMEND SOME SOONG™ BRAND PRODUCTS THAT CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT? Picard cradles his face in his hand in a gesture of frustration. Data: DID I MENTION THE PLIGHT OF OPRESSED WHITES IN SOUTH AFRICA?
August 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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misterabk.bsky.social
Cool to see people embracing Obviously Evil Design Choices. What's the point of adverts like this if they aren't covered in cryptic messages in the dead crew's blood?
matthewholehouse.bsky.social Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · Aug 28
Anduril campaign in Westminster tube. The agency got the “securonomics is back” memo
August 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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jhenderson.bsky.social
Imagine walking into an established writers room with a list this vague and acting like you just saved TV.

www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
August 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
cvrebert.bsky.social
Now, this is what we in the biz call an oopsie-doopsie #Fastmail 🤡
Not returning any text for some messages, nor are those messages clickable from lists 🙃
A search results page in the Fastmail webmail client, with 2 results, but no text (from, subject, body preview) whatsoever; just 2 checkboxes and 1 "pinned" icon
August 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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rendle.dev
I’m learning all about electric from a Christian home-schooling book. Turns out the electric works much the same way the moon and insects do: god does it.
A photo of a paragraph from a textbook that reads: Ask your student what he thinks makes atoms stay together. (Answers will vary.) Tell him that scientists have many ideas but do not know for sure because nobody has ever seen inside an atom. Then read Colossians 1:16-17. Everything is held together by the power of Christ Jesus. Without His preserving power, the universe would fly apart. While those who are unsaved struggle to find out why atoms stay together, we as Christians know that God does it. (Bible Promise: I. God as Master)
July 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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ashleylynch.bsky.social
This is extremely cool. GOG is taking a stand against payment processors caving to fundamentalist religious groups and is offering a bunch of "banned" games for free.
freedomtobuy.games
Freedom To Buy
Join the 48-hour giveaway and stand for the freedom to buy games.
freedomtobuy.games
August 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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dfeldman.org
One of the proposed Texas gerrymanders includes a long skinny district snaking from Houston to the tip of the Panhandle, which is over 600 miles 🙃
A snaky district going from Houston to the top of the Pandandle
July 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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segyges.bsky.social
regardless, "prominent early backer of OpenAI has LLM-related psychotic episode in public" is somewhat concerning
July 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
The makers of our film ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ tell the shocking inside story of how the BBC basically failed at journalism and at being informant, and refused to air the documentary on Gaza that we at Zeteo, with Channel 4, then acquired:
BBC bosses pulled our film on Israel attacking Gaza’s med...
The producers' story of how the corporation repeatedly delayed and ultimately shelved their damning documentary
observer.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
In 2021, Biden admin awarded Kerr County TX $10m in American Rescue Plan Act funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue warning system. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/t...
July 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM