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Daniel Pipkin 🦥
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Inspired by @arquipelago.org I printed and bound some PDFs I've been wanting to have around for reference. I used this video to learn the saddle stitch. youtu.be/aWHkY5jOoqM
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I'm trying to get more comfortable with C. @b0rk.jvns.ca's Memory Spy tool has really strengthened my intuition for the bits behind the variables.
memory-spy.wizardzines.com
Screenshot of memory spy website showing why negative one equals 65535 because they are both 1 away from zero.
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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The best part of trick-or-treating last night was seeing people out in the neighborhood being social and supportive. It's humanity's forte.
hankgreen.bsky.social Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 9d
I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Wikipedia is hands down the very best of the internet. This is a great interview with co-founder Jimmy Wales
youtu.be/YJezMMCogXw
The Culture Wars Have Come for Wikipedia | The Interview
YouTube video by The Interview
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October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Shoutout to @cuttlexyz.bsky.social's experimental 3d printing. I'm printing some husky earrings for my wife.
October 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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A bicycle for the mind.
dubroy.com Patrick Dubroy @dubroy.com · Oct 1
Going for a bike ride remains one of my most powerful debugging techniques.
October 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Forrest let me try this out and it was perfect for what I needed! This dino has a new arm now.
September 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time was 19 years ago.
August 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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3yo: "I want to read Fox in Socks: I don't want that food"
Me: "Green eggs and ham?"
"Yeah"
August 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I'm excited to share Mario Paint with my kids without worrying about my Super Nintendo getting destroyed.
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Mario Paint - Super NES – Nintendo Classics
YouTube video by Nintendo of America
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July 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Forget carrier pigeons, we need to create a starling modem.
bennjordan.bsky.social Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · Jul 26
New doc releases today!

- Ultrasonic recording of a starling that can record and playback virtually any sound

- Analyzing incredible slowed-down bird songs

- Showing you how to do this (and way more) on the cheap

youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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July 27, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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"Knowledge is something that when you share it there's just more. There's no scarcity."
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July 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Cleaning is fun when you find the right solvent. I just cleaned this duct tape off with gasoline. It came off in minutes.
Duct tape residue partially removed from a car exterior and a hand holding a yellow rag covered in gasoline.
July 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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As long as it "smells like a computer," I think we've got it 🕺. Please ask me questions about Folk. I love sharing it.
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · Jul 14
Thank you to everyone who came to our last Localhost talk with @cwervo.bsky.social and @omar.website!‬

They presented on @folkcomputer.bsky.social and unveiled the Folk Gadget! Together we escaped the screen and entered the realm of light and paper-based computing.
​📽️📄🌀

Watch the recording below:
Omar and Andres demonstrating the folk Gadget by projecting light onto pieces of paper with code and tags printed on it. Omar demonstrating the folk Gadget by aiming a triggered, handheld device and projecting light onto pieces of paper with code and tags printed on it. Andrés and Omar at a podium presenting a slide with many pictures that says "What is Folk Computer?" A shot of the crowd at the Recurse Center's Brooklyn hub. About 95 people are watching the talk.
July 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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I love that python's uv can read dependencies out of metadata in a single script. Thank you PEP 723. That means people can reliably run a single file I send, even if it requires other libraries.
See this in action in this quick script an LLM mostly wrote for me: github.com/ppkn/rss_dow...
July 2, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Senate Republicans are fucking cowards.
July 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I made a @val.town because the IRS doesn't want to send me a notification about 501c3 approval. It checks every couple of hours and sends an email when the org finally shows up in search.

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June 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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arquipelago.org
This feels fundamentally different to a chat interface. The context is always available to be edited and tweaked. There is no distinction between user-input and machine-output.
June 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Ten thousand of us showed up and one of us won't be going home tonight. I'm heartbroken.

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One person ‘critically injured,’ one arrested after shooting as 10,000 march in Salt Lake City during No Kings protest
Near the end of a march from Pioneer Park to the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building, shots were fired. Salt Lake City police said they transported one person to a hospital and arrested another.
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June 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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I'm so sick of hearing about AI coding, but Steve's talk was a very refreshing take on the current state of things.
June 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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I spent $500 to drive as a cow and I'm not disappointed.
Screenshot of Mario Kart World. A cow is doing a disco pose with one arm in the air after to jumped off a raised drawbridge. Toad Factory can be seen in the background.
June 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I wish to someday love a programming language as much as Bill Gates loves BASIC.
May 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Heartbreaking news. I have loved Polygon's work over the years. Sad to see it go.
charstring.com Chris Grant @charstring.com · May 1
14 years ago I pitched what would become Polygon to a startup called Sports Blogs Inc on the unfurnished third floor of a DC townhome. I held a laptop on my knees and went through a deck.

Today that same company -- now called Vox Media -- sold Polygon to Valnet.
May 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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In the end, the real Dynamicland was the friends we made along the way.
April 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Are we giving Nathan Fielder too much power? This man is a menace.
The Rehearsal S2E1 was fantastic btw.
April 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM