Saddro
saddro.bsky.social
Saddro
@saddro.bsky.social
Just thinkin', like you probably.

Texan reddit idiot nerd with some level of data and systems background. Loves HEB, bougainvilleas, night, user-focused everything, and rhubarb.
Pinned
Shout-out to whoever invented blueberries.

Top notch work
I'm boring, but I was screwing around with graphing and made a fun visualization for quadratics - that line is Euler's n2+n+41!
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Complete side point, this website makes me feel nostalgic in a good way: posthog.com
PostHog – We make dev tools for product engineers
All your developer tools in one place. PostHog gives engineers everything to build, test, measure, and ship successful products faster. Get started free.
posthog.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Career question for data/analytics folks!

~8 mo in a "data analyst" role and a higher-up asked me to define my real role, the D/A stack, and our hiring plan

Does designing the warehouse/modeling/orchestration/BI/tracking architecture count as Architect? Engineer? Something else?
November 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Why does negative feedback feel more helpful than positive feedback/praise?

The only thing I can come up with is that critique gives a boundary for the performance space, but positivity is open-ended.
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Researchers at UCSD found, with a few hundred dollars of equipment, that many seemingly critical satellite communications are unencrypted.

2005 being like, "whoops!"

satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu
🛰️ SATCOM Security
Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.
satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I feel like online college course catalogs are, almost universally, bad user experiences.

Are there any examples of well-designed versions of these systems?
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Shout-out to whoever invented blueberries.

Top notch work
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Happy Halloween y'all!
October 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
RSS feeds are from a bygone internet, but they are somehow even more convenient now.

News, weather, government, social, etc, in one plaintext feed is a nice change from high-engagement sites
October 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"The reference to pilot programs and … port limitation hinder DHS's ability to expand and fully implement … biometric exit solution. Therefore, DHS is … removing … limit, allowing DHS to establish a general biometric exit requirement for aliens." - DHS Rules Change
DHS expands biometric entry-exit, CBP to photograph all noncitizens at US borders | Biometric Update
The measure takes effect December 26 and authorizes CBP to photograph “all aliens” at all ports of entry and departure, and “any other point of departure.”
www.biometricupdate.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Here's random history for Halloween!

"Plastromancy or the turtle-shell oracle is probably the earliest recorded form of fortune telling"

"Oracle bones bear the earliest known significant corpus of ancient Chinese writing [1250-1050 BCE]" - Wikipedia

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/art...
What are oracle bones? - BBC Bitesize
Lots of oracle bones have been found in China which were created during the Shang Dynasty. Find out what they are in this Bitesize Primary KS2 history guide.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Ugh, Halloween is so close and we aren't finished decorating. I just need someone to pause time for, like, a few days..
October 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Reposted by Saddro
If your people have been on Country for over 65,000 years, you have knowledge of climate change.

70 meter sea level rise ✅️
End of a ice age ✅️

The knowledge of Australias' first nations people
is 🤯

🧪⚒️

www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...
The epic story of Australia and its first peoples — like you've never seen it
The story of Australia and its peoples is vast and deep. It's one you should know, but possibly one you've never been told. Well, not like this anyway.
www.abc.net.au
October 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Seeing the demonstrations across the US yesterday reminded me that people are still aware and trying. I'm glad.
October 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Google Drive and other "already owned" Cloud Data APIs are underutilized for freebie web app data offloading IMO. Why touch user data if that makes you a target?

The "tool" is often the connective logic for user data anyways
October 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Reposted by Saddro
No Kings-Austin,TX
October 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Reposted by Saddro
H-E-B’s Death Metal T-Shirt Sells Out In Minutes, Proceeds Donated To Austin Musicians Charity

themosh.net/heb-death-me...
H-E-B’s Death Metal T-Shirt Sells Out In Minutes, Proceeds Donated To Austin Musicians Charity
H-E-B’s death metal T-shirt with Connor Dwyer sold out in minutes, with all profits donated to HAAM to support Austin musicians.
themosh.net
October 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Isaac Newton was buried in Westminster Abbey, with various heads of state serving as pallbearers. He has a fancy statue that still marks his tomb.

Do you think we'll ever have sciencey folk held in that high of a regard again?
October 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
So if you're feeling nerdy and have a Raspberry Pi sitting around, it's pretty easy to make a self-updating PiHole local DNS server to filter network traffic by list (IoT chatter, web tracking, etc) pi-hole.net
Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
pi-hole.net
October 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Is not spending money a type of lazy protest? If so, I'm protesting so hard
October 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Oooof
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Also, to karmically even out what I add to the Internet tonight, here's my favorite image that I questionably authored:
October 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I saw this random person on a Facebook group define what "woke" meant to them, in terms of a Ren faire raising prices. It stuck with me enough to share..

IDK how these things got conflated, but such is life
October 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Humans max out around 3 to 5 mental objects/concepts that they can keep in their working consciousness at a given time. At least in research environments.

That's instructive for a ton of stuff: UX, training, therapy, memory bolstering, etc.
October 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Reddit still has cool stuff here and there! www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/...
October 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM