Jordan Running
@swirlee.bsky.social
He/him • Dad, software engineer, karaokeist, recent Minnesota transplant
Repost with an iconic fictional band
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Repost with an iconic fictional band
Watching Fantasia with the kids. They mostly tuned out the second half until the part with the mostly-nude cherubs and centaurs and satyrs. Lots of giggles.
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Watching Fantasia with the kids. They mostly tuned out the second half until the part with the mostly-nude cherubs and centaurs and satyrs. Lots of giggles.
I even specified “bird.” Thanks Google.
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I even specified “bird.” Thanks Google.
Uhh okay, thanks Google AI. 🙄
October 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Uhh okay, thanks Google AI. 🙄
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October 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾
October 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾
I tried implementing a server-side #atproto auth client from scratch and gave up after a few days because it turns out it’s just… not possible?? Not without a pretty deep understanding of OAuth and JWTs and JWKs and PKCE and PAR and DPoP and and and…
Skill issue, maybe, but not a great experience.
Skill issue, maybe, but not a great experience.
October 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I tried implementing a server-side #atproto auth client from scratch and gave up after a few days because it turns out it’s just… not possible?? Not without a pretty deep understanding of OAuth and JWTs and JWKs and PKCE and PAR and DPoP and and and…
Skill issue, maybe, but not a great experience.
Skill issue, maybe, but not a great experience.
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More alternatives:
- Surge
- Railway
- Render
- Tiiny
- Fly dot io
- Surge
- Railway
- Render
- Tiiny
- Fly dot io
fuck vercel, fuck Next.js, fuck Svelte, fuck Turborepo, fuck SWR, fuck SWC
Posing with the architect of a genocide for sales leads is an insane and deeply immoral stance
these projects cannot separate themselves from the CEO of the company who funds them
Posing with the architect of a genocide for sales leads is an insane and deeply immoral stance
these projects cannot separate themselves from the CEO of the company who funds them
September 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
More alternatives:
- Surge
- Railway
- Render
- Tiiny
- Fly dot io
- Surge
- Railway
- Render
- Tiiny
- Fly dot io
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Alternatives:
- Netlify
- GitHub Pages
- Cloudflare Pages
- GitLab Pages
- Coolify
- Netlify
- GitHub Pages
- Cloudflare Pages
- GitLab Pages
- Coolify
Trump has relentlessly attacked trans people throughout his campaign. Will Vercel and Next.js distance themselves from his repugnant comments?
November 6, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Alternatives:
- Netlify
- GitHub Pages
- Cloudflare Pages
- GitLab Pages
- Coolify
- Netlify
- GitHub Pages
- Cloudflare Pages
- GitLab Pages
- Coolify
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Additionally, there’s an open letter calling for the forking of Rails, and a pledge to adopt the alternative: github.com/Plan-Vert/op...
GitHub - Plan-Vert/open-letter: An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence
An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence - Plan-Vert/open-letter
github.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Additionally, there’s an open letter calling for the forking of Rails, and a pledge to adopt the alternative: github.com/Plan-Vert/op...
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Heathcliff, but it's "Fingertips" by They Might Be Giants, a thread:
July 31, 2023 at 3:04 PM
Heathcliff, but it's "Fingertips" by They Might Be Giants, a thread:
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A series of Opus 4 self-portraits, from a conversation with itself
September 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A series of Opus 4 self-portraits, from a conversation with itself
Tech blogs that have 10pt text (i.e. all of them for some reason) and don’t play nice with the browser’s font size adjustment.
a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a group of people and says `` right to jail '' .
Alt: Fred Armisen’s character Raul from Parks & Recreation in a military outfit saying “Right to jail”
media.tenor.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Tech blogs that have 10pt text (i.e. all of them for some reason) and don’t play nice with the browser’s font size adjustment.
POV: You’re doing Project Euler with @gleam.run but you’re not a math whiz.
September 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
POV: You’re doing Project Euler with @gleam.run but you’re not a math whiz.
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hi, cis folks!
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid
September 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
hi, cis folks!
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.
the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.
we need you to call senators: reps.fyi
more info & script downthread.🧵
My then-7-year-old made this a few years ago. Better than any art I’ve made in my life and I have an art degree.
September 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
My then-7-year-old made this a few years ago. Better than any art I’ve made in my life and I have an art degree.
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Don’t leave the boxed up leftover pizza on the restaurant table when you leave challenge level: impossible.
September 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Don’t leave the boxed up leftover pizza on the restaurant table when you leave challenge level: impossible.
Update: I went to the gym five times and walked and ran on the treadmill very slowly, which still turned out to be too much too soon, and I injured my knees. Now I get to do physical therapy for a couple months. 🎉
I went to the gym. 🎉
Not me googling “how to go to the gym.”
September 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Update: I went to the gym five times and walked and ran on the treadmill very slowly, which still turned out to be too much too soon, and I injured my knees. Now I get to do physical therapy for a couple months. 🎉
I did not expect the future to be this dumb.
The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy
In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.
www.nbcnews.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I did not expect the future to be this dumb.
What’s the best Bluesky @-name: @jordanrunning.com, @jrunn.ing, or @running.wtf?
August 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
What’s the best Bluesky @-name: @jordanrunning.com, @jrunn.ing, or @running.wtf?
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Have another. (by hand-drawn-square.tumblr.com)
August 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Have another. (by hand-drawn-square.tumblr.com)