Marshall Bowers
@maxdeviant.com
宝霞龙. 31. Conjurer of code. Devourer of art. Pursuer of æsthetics. Soli Deo gloria. He/him. Engineering at Zed Industries.
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When reviewing The Muppet Movie, Roger Ebert said he could find out how they made Kermit ride a bike, but he didn’t want to know. He preferred to think he did it himself. I think about that all the time.
February 12, 2026 at 4:57 AM
When reviewing The Muppet Movie, Roger Ebert said he could find out how they made Kermit ride a bike, but he didn’t want to know. He preferred to think he did it himself. I think about that all the time.
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Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
February 14, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
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i can’t stop laughing
February 15, 2026 at 12:05 AM
i can’t stop laughing
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Surely You're Jestergooning, Mr. Feynman!
February 15, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Surely You're Jestergooning, Mr. Feynman!
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Netflix please I can’t do this today
February 14, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Netflix please I can’t do this today
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ICE has completely broken our social contract.
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 14, 2026 at 10:55 PM
ICE has completely broken our social contract.
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
Oh good, I see we're back to the slopware discourse and trying to witch hunt people who use LLMs.
Fucking tiresome 🙄
Fucking tiresome 🙄
February 15, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Oh good, I see we're back to the slopware discourse and trying to witch hunt people who use LLMs.
Fucking tiresome 🙄
Fucking tiresome 🙄
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Being in the AI bubble is rotting my brain, dude. It's the only thing I have access to.
Do you guys remember hobbies? Those were cool
Do you guys remember hobbies? Those were cool
February 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Being in the AI bubble is rotting my brain, dude. It's the only thing I have access to.
Do you guys remember hobbies? Those were cool
Do you guys remember hobbies? Those were cool
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I've accumulated photos of nearly 40 different birds now, so I decided to make a dedicated page for them on my blog!
Was debating whether to branch out into other animals and bugs but I think I will keep it simple and just go with birds for now
www.emgoto.com/birding/
Was debating whether to branch out into other animals and bugs but I think I will keep it simple and just go with birds for now
www.emgoto.com/birding/
Emma Goto - Birding
A log of birds I've spotted.
www.emgoto.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:34 AM
I've accumulated photos of nearly 40 different birds now, so I decided to make a dedicated page for them on my blog!
Was debating whether to branch out into other animals and bugs but I think I will keep it simple and just go with birds for now
www.emgoto.com/birding/
Was debating whether to branch out into other animals and bugs but I think I will keep it simple and just go with birds for now
www.emgoto.com/birding/
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Why Did Oxide Raise $200M? FAQ Friday #36
February 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Why Did Oxide Raise $200M? FAQ Friday #36
Don't want to speak too soon, but I think I might be cooking with this API design...
February 13, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Don't want to speak too soon, but I think I might be cooking with this API design...
GIVE IT TO MEEEE
honestly, "multiple arguments of a function are of the same type" would be a pretty dope clippy pedantic lint
February 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM
GIVE IT TO MEEEE
Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸
February 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸
I want to know who at GitHub is responsible for this absolutely infuriating placement.
February 13, 2026 at 12:10 AM
I want to know who at GitHub is responsible for this absolutely infuriating placement.
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the xlibre guy is forking git to remove Rust from it
why do all of these people have the same set of beliefs. x good. Wayland bad. Trans people bad. C good. Vaccines bad. rust bad. Etc etc
github.com/Libre-WD-40/...
why do all of these people have the same set of beliefs. x good. Wayland bad. Trans people bad. C good. Vaccines bad. rust bad. Etc etc
github.com/Libre-WD-40/...
GitHub - Libre-WD-40/git: Git with WD-40 applied
Git with WD-40 applied. Contribute to Libre-WD-40/git development by creating an account on GitHub.
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February 12, 2026 at 7:09 PM
the xlibre guy is forking git to remove Rust from it
why do all of these people have the same set of beliefs. x good. Wayland bad. Trans people bad. C good. Vaccines bad. rust bad. Etc etc
github.com/Libre-WD-40/...
why do all of these people have the same set of beliefs. x good. Wayland bad. Trans people bad. C good. Vaccines bad. rust bad. Etc etc
github.com/Libre-WD-40/...
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all the best things in the python ecosystem in the last 5 years have come from rust devs being annoyed at it
February 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
all the best things in the python ecosystem in the last 5 years have come from rust devs being annoyed at it
After coming across loggingsucks.com over the Christmas break and being inspired by it, I finally had the time yesterday to sit down and start moving Zed Cloud over to wide events.
Logging Sucks - Your Logs Are Lying To You
Why traditional logging fails and how wide events can fix your observability
loggingsucks.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:24 PM
After coming across loggingsucks.com over the Christmas break and being inspired by it, I finally had the time yesterday to sit down and start moving Zed Cloud over to wide events.
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dear doctor,
is it bad to eat an entire 2.5 lb bag of dried mango from costco every week?
love,
daniel
is it bad to eat an entire 2.5 lb bag of dried mango from costco every week?
love,
daniel
February 11, 2026 at 8:36 PM
dear doctor,
is it bad to eat an entire 2.5 lb bag of dried mango from costco every week?
love,
daniel
is it bad to eat an entire 2.5 lb bag of dried mango from costco every week?
love,
daniel
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It's not because your agent can do something with 12 tool calls and 20k tokens that it should.
For example, Obsidian CLI has a command called "orphans" that finds files with no incoming links.
Now your agent can get a deterministic answer in 1 millisecond instead of 4 minutes.
For example, Obsidian CLI has a command called "orphans" that finds files with no incoming links.
Now your agent can get a deterministic answer in 1 millisecond instead of 4 minutes.
February 11, 2026 at 9:09 PM
It's not because your agent can do something with 12 tool calls and 20k tokens that it should.
For example, Obsidian CLI has a command called "orphans" that finds files with no incoming links.
Now your agent can get a deterministic answer in 1 millisecond instead of 4 minutes.
For example, Obsidian CLI has a command called "orphans" that finds files with no incoming links.
Now your agent can get a deterministic answer in 1 millisecond instead of 4 minutes.
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the wild thing is that while there's good reasons to not use one language across your entire software stack from bare metal microcontrollers to web front-end, the one language you can do this with and have it not be an objectively stupid choice is probably rust.
legit I use (micro)Python a fair bit for rapid prototyping on embedded, especially if I *know* for sure i am going to throw away the prototype or perf just does not matter one bit. if I think the prototype might become production I will often try and write it in rust.
February 11, 2026 at 2:33 PM
the wild thing is that while there's good reasons to not use one language across your entire software stack from bare metal microcontrollers to web front-end, the one language you can do this with and have it not be an objectively stupid choice is probably rust.
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Incredible how every single feature that Go has deliberately omitted in the name of simplicity makes Go code more complicated and difficult to reason about
Listen I know I'm unbearably Rustpilled but I really quite resent that I'm working on this Go code and trying to do an analysis of whether I can get rid of a deep-copy or whether the data behind this pointer might be mutated anywhere.
February 11, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Incredible how every single feature that Go has deliberately omitted in the name of simplicity makes Go code more complicated and difficult to reason about
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me: cancel the build
github: can't
me: why
github: it hasn't started
me: so?
github: so I can't cancel it
me: bu-
github: it's not that complicated
github: can't
me: why
github: it hasn't started
me: so?
github: so I can't cancel it
me: bu-
github: it's not that complicated
February 11, 2026 at 6:55 PM
me: cancel the build
github: can't
me: why
github: it hasn't started
me: so?
github: so I can't cancel it
me: bu-
github: it's not that complicated
github: can't
me: why
github: it hasn't started
me: so?
github: so I can't cancel it
me: bu-
github: it's not that complicated
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Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
February 11, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young
February 10, 2026 at 7:51 PM
sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young