Jonathan Woodard
@woodardj.bsky.social
Software Engineering Leader
Board Game Designer: Potemkin Empire, Time Chase
Video Game Developer: Galactic Impact www.galacticimpact.com
Board Game Designer: Potemkin Empire, Time Chase
Video Game Developer: Galactic Impact www.galacticimpact.com
What do you call one of these fish after it successfully fends off a rival and then goes back to its cave to relax?
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…a Battlegar Stalactica
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…a Battlegar Stalactica
NEW episode of MeatEater Podcast chatting gars & native fish conservation!
Grateful for the opportunity to chat stewardship of freshwater natural resources with Steve Rinella and the hunting & fishing crew! youtu.be/xLDSV5qbyzw?...
Grateful for the opportunity to chat stewardship of freshwater natural resources with Steve Rinella and the hunting & fishing crew! youtu.be/xLDSV5qbyzw?...
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
What do you call one of these fish after it successfully fends off a rival and then goes back to its cave to relax?
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…a Battlegar Stalactica
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…a Battlegar Stalactica
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Make the world a better place this festive season by not giving money to billionaires. (Solid advice for any season tbf)
There's a small business option for just about any gift you need.
Use it or lose it.
There's a small business option for just about any gift you need.
Use it or lose it.
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Make the world a better place this festive season by not giving money to billionaires. (Solid advice for any season tbf)
There's a small business option for just about any gift you need.
Use it or lose it.
There's a small business option for just about any gift you need.
Use it or lose it.
Every time I get behind the wheel of a car I’m increasingly bewildered and angry about how we’ve let them take over every aspect of our lives and cities.
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Every time I get behind the wheel of a car I’m increasingly bewildered and angry about how we’ve let them take over every aspect of our lives and cities.
Lol, I feel like a Product Manager at Venmo saw this and decided to torture me by not just not implementing this, but now they're only identified by last two digits ("XX##") instead of last four ("####") 🤣
Wild to me that #Venmo, as a product, has been around for sixteen years, and yet I still cannot nickname my linked bank accounts.
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Lol, I feel like a Product Manager at Venmo saw this and decided to torture me by not just not implementing this, but now they're only identified by last two digits ("XX##") instead of last four ("####") 🤣
Any #GithubActions experts out there? I'm curious if it's possible to set up a workflow that pings a service to get info about the build. E.g. I want to block merges to `main` (and associated auto-deploys) while the @galacticimpact.com is busy resolving a turn update.
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Any #GithubActions experts out there? I'm curious if it's possible to set up a workflow that pings a service to get info about the build. E.g. I want to block merges to `main` (and associated auto-deploys) while the @galacticimpact.com is busy resolving a turn update.
A macOS build
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
A macOS build
Amazing election results nationally paired with rough local election results is a weird mix.
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Amazing election results nationally paired with rough local election results is a weird mix.
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Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
Oh no, they recorded my @rmrubyconf.bsky.social talk about @galacticimpact.com and put it on YouTube 🫣 😅
I'm not ready to watch it myself yet, so I need all of you to tell me how I did:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HkS...
I'm not ready to watch it myself yet, so I need all of you to tell me how I did:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HkS...
Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025 - Ruby on Rails is a Game Engine by Jonathan Woodard
YouTube video by Confreaks
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Oh no, they recorded my @rmrubyconf.bsky.social talk about @galacticimpact.com and put it on YouTube 🫣 😅
I'm not ready to watch it myself yet, so I need all of you to tell me how I did:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HkS...
I'm not ready to watch it myself yet, so I need all of you to tell me how I did:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HkS...
Infuriating that Chrome has injected "AI Mode" into the tabbing order *between* typing into the omnibar and the [Switch to this Tab] dropdown.
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Infuriating that Chrome has injected "AI Mode" into the tabbing order *between* typing into the omnibar and the [Switch to this Tab] dropdown.
Sexy Big Domino Meme Gamergate
Sexy Local Railway Museum
Sexy Cosmological Big Rip
October 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Sexy Big Domino Meme Gamergate
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Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history
I spent 10 weeks in Split, Croatia a few years ago, and managed to avoid getting any Nazi iconography inked on my person.
October 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I spent 10 weeks in Split, Croatia a few years ago, and managed to avoid getting any Nazi iconography inked on my person.
I know an elaborate viral marketing campaign for the upcoming season of "Lupin" when I see one.
Thieves steal jewels from Louvre in Paris, media reports reut.rs/43u2cX1
Thieves steal jewels from Louvre in Paris, media reports
A robbery has taken place at the Louvre museum in Paris early on Sunday, French Culture Minister Rachida Dati said, with the newspaper Le Parisien reporting several thieves have stolen pieces of jewellery from the Napoleon collection.
reut.rs
October 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I know an elaborate viral marketing campaign for the upcoming season of "Lupin" when I see one.
Christmas 2016, my wife and I got drunk with a bunch of Swedish metalheads we had just met at in a Stockholm bar.
On of them designated me "King of America" for detailing why the Electoral College was responsible for the recent catastrophe.
So I'm feeling a little attacked with the protests today.
On of them designated me "King of America" for detailing why the Electoral College was responsible for the recent catastrophe.
So I'm feeling a little attacked with the protests today.
October 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Christmas 2016, my wife and I got drunk with a bunch of Swedish metalheads we had just met at in a Stockholm bar.
On of them designated me "King of America" for detailing why the Electoral College was responsible for the recent catastrophe.
So I'm feeling a little attacked with the protests today.
On of them designated me "King of America" for detailing why the Electoral College was responsible for the recent catastrophe.
So I'm feeling a little attacked with the protests today.
First time finishing one of these! Neat!
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 17th 2025) in less than 23 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 17th 2025) in less than 23 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
First time finishing one of these! Neat!
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 17th 2025) in less than 23 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 17th 2025) in less than 23 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
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Software engineer salaries are going to be crazy high after the LLM companies spend years enabling everyone to create mountains of technical debt then go bankrupt.
Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...
October 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Software engineer salaries are going to be crazy high after the LLM companies spend years enabling everyone to create mountains of technical debt then go bankrupt.
Are we about to get a front row seat to history with a modern Schism/Reformation as all the MAGAs who recently found Catholicism race for the door?
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Are we about to get a front row seat to history with a modern Schism/Reformation as all the MAGAs who recently found Catholicism race for the door?
Does Lifetouch just have like, ironclad, thousand year contracts with every school system in America? Their prices are wildly out of whack with the cost of goods sold, and the buying experience is terrible.
September 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Does Lifetouch just have like, ironclad, thousand year contracts with every school system in America? Their prices are wildly out of whack with the cost of goods sold, and the buying experience is terrible.
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In a different and sane world, the Democratic establishment would be working behind the scenes to get Cuomo and Adams to drop out so the actual Democratic nominee can run away with this thing and claim a big mandate as a very public rebuke to Donald Trump and fascism.
Zohran Mamdani has nearly twice the support in the New York City mayoral race as his closest rival, a New York Times/Siena poll found.
Mamdani Holds Huge Lead in Mayor’s Race, Times/Siena Poll Finds
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee in the New York City mayoral race, is way ahead of his three rivals, but his lead would diminish considerably if the field shrank to a two-man race.
nyti.ms
September 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In a different and sane world, the Democratic establishment would be working behind the scenes to get Cuomo and Adams to drop out so the actual Democratic nominee can run away with this thing and claim a big mandate as a very public rebuke to Donald Trump and fascism.
I’ve just finally uninstalled most of this software from my own brain, how exciting that I could reinstall via wearable! The future is amazing.
The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy. www.wired.com/story/i-hate...
I Hate My Friend
The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.
www.wired.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I’ve just finally uninstalled most of this software from my own brain, how exciting that I could reinstall via wearable! The future is amazing.
Somebody get Cordelia Cupp on the line, quickly.
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House
wtaf
wtaf
September 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Somebody get Cordelia Cupp on the line, quickly.