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@jdan.me
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Author of the critically-acclaimed "Harry Potter" series of children's fantasy novels
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jordan @jdan.me · Oct 19
i’m collecting an army of some of the greatest posters go.bsky.app/KcbPrGj
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"La, a note to follow So" was complete bullshit by the way
December 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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catfishing.net
#550 - 5/10
🎅🏻❄️❄️🎅🏻❄️
❄️❄️🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻
catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game
Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.
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December 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I just solved this puzzle to get access to Thinky Dailies! Try it out!
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Thinky Dailies, a daily puzzle adventure!
Join our thinky friend on an adventure through handcrafted daily puzzles - every day, a new puzzle, new rules, new surprises.
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December 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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ankiwrapped.com/result-2025
Anki Wrapped summary graphic on a dark blue, starry background. Text reads: ‘Reviews: 24,773,’ ‘Minutes Reviewed: 2,411,’ and ‘Cards Created: 1,535.’ A ‘Top Decks’ list shows: 1) Ultimate Geography, 2) Tutoring, 3) Vocabulary, 4) Vocabulary, 5) Vocabulary. On the left side is a tall vertical mosaic of small squares forming a gradient from dark blue at the top to teal at the bottom. The bottom displays the text ‘ANKIWRAPPED.COM.'
December 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Excited to announce my new MacBook is ready for computer programming
the lazy vim welcome screen, with banner text レイジーヴィム with some options beneath
December 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Amazon has a pretty wild deal on M4 MacBook Air's ($749) amzn.to/3KJubMt
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December 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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can't wait to my own toy story 6 where buzz lightyear and mr beast save elon musk it's gonna be so freaking epic 🤣
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16d
Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora

Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer

openai.com/index/disney...
As part of this three-year licensing agreement, Sora will be able to generate short, user-prompted social videos that can be viewed and shared by fans, drawing on more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters. Agreement will make a selection of these fan-inspired Sora short form videos available to stream on Disney+. Disney and OpenAI affirm a shared commitment to responsible use of AI that protects the safety of users and the rights of creators. Alongside the licensing agreement, Disney will become a major customer of OpenAI, using its APIs to build new products, tools, and experiences, including for Disney+, and deploying ChatGPT for its employees. As part of the agreement, Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, and receive warrants to purchase additional equity.
December 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Did a big groan when I opened up Advent of Code this morning and saw a graph problem. I didn't feel good about pairing with Claude on it (what's the point of solving the problem at all?)

so as retribution I had Claude generate some LaTeX explaining our solution and now I'm forcing myself to read it
Counting Paths in Directed Acyclic Graphs: Solutions to Advent of Code 2025 Day 11 Jordan Scales December 11, 2025 Abstract We present efficient algorithms for counting paths in directed graphs with and without constraints. Part A addresses the unconstrained path counting problem from node you to out, while Part B extends this to count paths from svr to out that must visit both dac and fft. The key insight that enables efficient computation is recognizing the input graph as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), allowing dynamic programming with memoization to reduce exponential complexity to linear time.
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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those of you who put antlers on your car…i can still tell it’s a car
December 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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today's advent of code is very cute!
December 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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catfishing.net
#528 - 7/10
🐈🐟🐟🐈🐈
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December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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we just added FAIRIES to tldraw.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Please enjoy this playlist I made to be played in the bathrooms at the office this week open.spotify.com/playlist/0FF...
Notion
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November 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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A movie that takes place where you’re from
movie poster for clerks
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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I used jQuery and said “I’d like to work with @johnresig.com” and every job since has been a referral from a Khan Academy colleague
recurse.com Recurse Center @recurse.com · Nov 11
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Tried for three months but Apple Music is simply too buggy. I’m so sorry.
November 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Friendly reminder to always check your email 😅
An email Subject: Jordan <> Alexander Graham Bell From: Alexander Graham Bell <agb@yahoomail.com> to: me Hi Jordan, Any interest in inventing the telephone with me? We have early prototypes but could use your help -- agb
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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damn good work @draknek.bsky.social

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end credits for Spooky Express
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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#YangCanWin
NYC Mayor Race on polymarket, with Yes selected. A bit of $1 pays out $1,000
November 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Forever grateful to @evan.exposed for getting me off of Hey email and onto SaneBox w/ Gmail. Has completely fixed me

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November 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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an 18 year old just asked me i was “unc” for halloween :/
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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reaching enlightenment
the neovim editor with lazyvim editing ansi_shadow_spec.rb # frozen_string_literal: true RSpec.describe AnsiShadow::Text do it "recalls characters" do char = AnsiShadow::Text.new <<~TEXT x x xxx TEXT expect(char.to_s).to eq <<~TEXT.chomp █ █ ███ TEXT end end the font is a large mono-space Comic Sans, and the explorer on the left has a label in Katakana エクスプロール
October 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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teaching my coworkers chess because I miss danya
a chess mat on a light wooden table
October 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM