Vadim
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Belarusian in Aotearoa 🇳🇿
Platform Engineer | ex- Xero, Linktree
Platform Engineer | ex- Xero, Linktree
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Please enjoy today, 25/9/2025, the last square date until 2116 (5^2/3^2/45^2).
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Please enjoy today, 25/9/2025, the last square date until 2116 (5^2/3^2/45^2).
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Music To Refine To: A Remix Companion to Severance
ODESZA · EP · 2025 · 7 songs
open.spotify.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtu.be
March 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
You have to see this.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
so so good even better than s1 finale
March 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
so so good even better than s1 finale
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1/ The Trump Administration's apparent intention to destroy Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty leads to a bleak conclusion: the United States is no longer interested in promoting democracy, because it's no longer interested in democracy.
March 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
1/ The Trump Administration's apparent intention to destroy Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty leads to a bleak conclusion: the United States is no longer interested in promoting democracy, because it's no longer interested in democracy.
When less is less
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
When less is less
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your outie uses git checkout -b rather than git switch -c
February 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
your outie uses git checkout -b rather than git switch -c
this is the way
Google auto opted in *every* paying Google Workspace user to Gemini. Also adding a nice increase in price, even though no one opted into it.
You cannot turn off / opt out.
Except... if you open a support ticket.
Only then does Google enable the setting to turn it off!
I did:
You cannot turn off / opt out.
Except... if you open a support ticket.
Only then does Google enable the setting to turn it off!
I did:
January 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
this is the way
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Increasingly I’m about as likely to post on Twitter / “X” as I am on 4chan.
A sad end for a platform that basically launched my current career.
A sad end for a platform that basically launched my current career.
January 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Increasingly I’m about as likely to post on Twitter / “X” as I am on 4chan.
A sad end for a platform that basically launched my current career.
A sad end for a platform that basically launched my current career.
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Try this in chatGPT and be disturbed.
“Format this neatly. Do not change the text”
Just that prompt.
“Format this neatly. Do not change the text”
Just that prompt.
December 20, 2024 at 5:43 AM
Try this in chatGPT and be disturbed.
“Format this neatly. Do not change the text”
Just that prompt.
“Format this neatly. Do not change the text”
Just that prompt.
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One of the things that I’m enjoying the most about bluesky is the fun little apps people are making with the API. Remember Twitter circa 2007 to 2009? Remember having a fun web friendly open API that you can play with? It’s back baby
This is kind of cool. If you have a long thread, you type everything into one box and it divides it up into individual posts and posts it for you. bluesky-thread-composer.pages.dev
Bluesky Thread Composer - Split and Post Threads Easily
Free tool to compose, split, and post threads directly to Bluesky. Preview your threads, secure local storage, and no data collection.
bluesky-thread-composer.pages.dev
December 11, 2024 at 2:18 AM
One of the things that I’m enjoying the most about bluesky is the fun little apps people are making with the API. Remember Twitter circa 2007 to 2009? Remember having a fun web friendly open API that you can play with? It’s back baby
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Massive away win for the little fella.
December 2, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Massive away win for the little fella.
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Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.
November 18, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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