Chris Gardner
@freestylecoder.bsky.social
I'm like the digital Lorax, I speak for the binary trees.
Spawn, the Elder: I point at the American flag and say, "why is that fandom so toxic."
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Spawn, the Elder: I point at the American flag and say, "why is that fandom so toxic."
It's game day! That's right, it's time for #ExtraLife. Join me all day today into tomorrow morning as I stream #PolemonLegendsZA for 24 hours to raise money for #ChildrensOfAlabama
Event Page: www.extra-life.org/participants...
Stream Page: www.twitch.tv/freestylecoder
Event Page: www.extra-life.org/participants...
Stream Page: www.twitch.tv/freestylecoder
Change Kids' Health, Change the Future
Game on with Extra Life, a fundraising program of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Rally with our community of gamers to play games and raise funds that help kids in local communities across the ...
www.extra-life.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It's game day! That's right, it's time for #ExtraLife. Join me all day today into tomorrow morning as I stream #PolemonLegendsZA for 24 hours to raise money for #ChildrensOfAlabama
Event Page: www.extra-life.org/participants...
Stream Page: www.twitch.tv/freestylecoder
Event Page: www.extra-life.org/participants...
Stream Page: www.twitch.tv/freestylecoder
Not gonna lie. Literally kinda shaking right now...
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Not gonna lie. Literally kinda shaking right now...
Holy Smurf, y'all, we did it. And, I do mean we. I couldn't have done it without y'all. Let's keep going.
@extralife4kids.bsky.social
#ChildrensAL
www.extra-life.org/participants...
@extralife4kids.bsky.social
#ChildrensAL
www.extra-life.org/participants...
November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Holy Smurf, y'all, we did it. And, I do mean we. I couldn't have done it without y'all. Let's keep going.
@extralife4kids.bsky.social
#ChildrensAL
www.extra-life.org/participants...
@extralife4kids.bsky.social
#ChildrensAL
www.extra-life.org/participants...
This was too good to leave buried in a reply thread and not share with everyone
November 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This was too good to leave buried in a reply thread and not share with everyone
Spawn, the Latter, while wearing a My Chemical Romance T-shirt they got at Hot Topic: I'm not emo.
Everyone else in the room: o_O
Everyone else in the room: o_O
October 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Spawn, the Latter, while wearing a My Chemical Romance T-shirt they got at Hot Topic: I'm not emo.
Everyone else in the room: o_O
Everyone else in the room: o_O
Whelp, my current project at work is winding down. Yes, I still have a job, I will just be between projects. Having said that, if anyone wants to swoop in and talk, now is the time. Hit me up.
October 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Whelp, my current project at work is winding down. Yes, I still have a job, I will just be between projects. Having said that, if anyone wants to swoop in and talk, now is the time. Hit me up.
Today, I was successfully removed from a mailing list. So, no matter what happened in the morning, or what this evening may bring, today will end no worse than a push.
October 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Today, I was successfully removed from a mailing list. So, no matter what happened in the morning, or what this evening may bring, today will end no worse than a push.
The only thing worse than your computer crashing is knowing your computer is about to crash and being fairly helpless to doing anything about it...
September 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The only thing worse than your computer crashing is knowing your computer is about to crash and being fairly helpless to doing anything about it...
Reposted by Chris Gardner
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
September 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Home ownership 101: The penalty for fixing the lawnmower is having to immediately use the lawnmower...
August 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Home ownership 101: The penalty for fixing the lawnmower is having to immediately use the lawnmower...
Reposted by Chris Gardner
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
Watch this. Seriously. Even if you don't care about the games aspect, this is happening all over the corporate world. Shout out to @icklenellierose.bsky.social and @outsidextra.bsky.social for some great digging and, dare I say, actual journalism.
(Link in Ellen's quoted skeet.)
(Link in Ellen's quoted skeet.)
New Oxtra vid inspired by the journalism of @stephentotilo.bsky.social, whereupon I dug around some business numbers and just thought people might be interested in them…you know…?
How much are gaming CEOs making compared to the people they've been firing? Ellen went rooting around in some financial statements to find out...
youtu.be/V-dYttts94o
youtu.be/V-dYttts94o
August 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Watch this. Seriously. Even if you don't care about the games aspect, this is happening all over the corporate world. Shout out to @icklenellierose.bsky.social and @outsidextra.bsky.social for some great digging and, dare I say, actual journalism.
(Link in Ellen's quoted skeet.)
(Link in Ellen's quoted skeet.)
My opinion on the Cracker Barrel logo kerfuffle: Y'all care way too much about the logo of a restaurant you haven't been to in years ...
August 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My opinion on the Cracker Barrel logo kerfuffle: Y'all care way too much about the logo of a restaurant you haven't been to in years ...
The more I see people use JavaScript frameworks, the less I understand why anyone would want to use a JavaScript framework...
August 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The more I see people use JavaScript frameworks, the less I understand why anyone would want to use a JavaScript framework...
Reposted by Chris Gardner
Don’t bread on me.
August 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Don’t bread on me.
Today's hot take: if your "AI" app is calling a COTS model, you're not doing AI. You're using an API...
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Today's hot take: if your "AI" app is calling a COTS model, you're not doing AI. You're using an API...
Ya know. I don't even need the jank to go away. I just need to have every step I do to remove some not make more than I fixed apparent
August 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Ya know. I don't even need the jank to go away. I just need to have every step I do to remove some not make more than I fixed apparent
Me, at work:
Well, if you want it cooked correctly, you need to tell me the squirrel is on fire before it's medium rare...
Well, if you want it cooked correctly, you need to tell me the squirrel is on fire before it's medium rare...
August 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Me, at work:
Well, if you want it cooked correctly, you need to tell me the squirrel is on fire before it's medium rare...
Well, if you want it cooked correctly, you need to tell me the squirrel is on fire before it's medium rare...
The number of "enterprise" providers that think a valid authentication method is a plain text file on a production deployment is utterly mind boggling...
August 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The number of "enterprise" providers that think a valid authentication method is a plain text file on a production deployment is utterly mind boggling...
Living with a neurospicy teenager:
Them: what's for dinner?
Me: it's Monday. It's pasta night.
T: gah, guess I'm not eating.
M: you know, pasta night is your thing, you can stop it whenever you want.
T: No! You can't change it. Monday night is pasta night!
(Yes, they will eat it)
Them: what's for dinner?
Me: it's Monday. It's pasta night.
T: gah, guess I'm not eating.
M: you know, pasta night is your thing, you can stop it whenever you want.
T: No! You can't change it. Monday night is pasta night!
(Yes, they will eat it)
August 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Living with a neurospicy teenager:
Them: what's for dinner?
Me: it's Monday. It's pasta night.
T: gah, guess I'm not eating.
M: you know, pasta night is your thing, you can stop it whenever you want.
T: No! You can't change it. Monday night is pasta night!
(Yes, they will eat it)
Them: what's for dinner?
Me: it's Monday. It's pasta night.
T: gah, guess I'm not eating.
M: you know, pasta night is your thing, you can stop it whenever you want.
T: No! You can't change it. Monday night is pasta night!
(Yes, they will eat it)
Reposted by Chris Gardner
To honor Ozzy's larger-than-life rock and roll legacy, we're making Brütal Legend *FREE* on itch.io: doublefine.itch.io/brutal-legend
But this incredible deal will only last for 666 minutes, as the prophecy foretold. So get yourself clicking, before it disappears like a demon in the night...
🤘 🖤
But this incredible deal will only last for 666 minutes, as the prophecy foretold. So get yourself clicking, before it disappears like a demon in the night...
🤘 🖤
July 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
To honor Ozzy's larger-than-life rock and roll legacy, we're making Brütal Legend *FREE* on itch.io: doublefine.itch.io/brutal-legend
But this incredible deal will only last for 666 minutes, as the prophecy foretold. So get yourself clicking, before it disappears like a demon in the night...
🤘 🖤
But this incredible deal will only last for 666 minutes, as the prophecy foretold. So get yourself clicking, before it disappears like a demon in the night...
🤘 🖤
Reposted by Chris Gardner
Python is the yaml of programming languages.
July 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Python is the yaml of programming languages.
Should I buy myself #DonkeyKongBananza for my birthday? I mean, it's not like I really have free time to play it, but a collect-a-thon platformer coming out on my birthday is a sign, isn't it...?
July 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Should I buy myself #DonkeyKongBananza for my birthday? I mean, it's not like I really have free time to play it, but a collect-a-thon platformer coming out on my birthday is a sign, isn't it...?
Let the birthday staycation begin!
July 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Let the birthday staycation begin!