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Alex Akers
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🪪💳 Sr. iOS Engineer, Wallet and Apple Pay
🌊🏝️ Notorious Mastodon instance hopper
🅰️2️⃣ Voted most likely to have a two-letter username
🕺🏻🏳️‍🌈 he/him

[bridged from https://social.lol/@a2 on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Rubber duck debugging with me is always a treat (and thanks to @wunderlich)
Me to Niklas: What if I built my own not-Mastodon-but-ActivityPub-thing Me to Niklas 34 minutes later: Okay I have a solution The answer is “I won’t do that” The Nobel prize for “didn’t do the thing he didn’t have to do” goes to me! 🥳
March 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Who are these people!?
Google search result: People also ask What is the A2 controversy?
March 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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This is me now
“They don’t know” party meme Caption next to the entering person: “They don’t know I self-host Mastodon” Caption next to dancing couple: “Uh yeah you won’t stop talking about it”
March 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time there were only 15 competing social media networks”
https://social.lol/@a2/114135486955392143
Tom Toro’s cartoon “The Planet Got Destroyed” from the New Yorker with the caption “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”
March 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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an evergreen tweet if I ever saw one
Tweet by Twitter user @actioncookbook on Jan 5, 2026 at 6:22 PM USERS: you're alienating the people who actually use your product TWITTER: likes are now florps USERS: what TWITTER: timeline goes sideways
March 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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"Hey Alex, it's daddy."

I thought for sure I was being scammed until I listened to the voicemail. It was someone from GoDaddy returning my call 😂

Though to be fair, sometimes my father has started voicemails that way so I thought maybe it was a scam, that […]

[Original post on social.lol]
Voicemail from unknown caller February 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM Transcription: "Hey Alex, it's daddy. | received your request for a 2.C you can reach me at [redacted phone number] thank you...."
March 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Hiding the evidence
Screenshot from GitHub's web UI showing "a2 edited 4 minutes ago". The text was updated to include an apostrophe in the word "as's" to more explicitly signal the difference from "ass".
February 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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It renders correctly on the GitHub web UI 😭
A screenshot from the GitHub web UI where the substring 'as' is more obviously in a monospaced font on a light gray background indicating a code block.
February 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Today in ✨ FONTS ✨

A teammate shared this screenshot from the GitHub email notification of my review of their PR. I was talking about changing `value as Double as NSObject` to use `NSNumber(value: value)` instead.
A screenshot that shows "Can we reduce the amount of `as`s?" (Backticks are used to show that the substring 'as' is a Swift keyword but, together, it looks like it says "ass".)
February 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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This was a bit suspicious but I cracked the password and it actually was just Spanish verb conjugation information
A screenshot of a Quick Look window showing a password-encrypted file called "Spanish Conjugation" that's 40 KB and was last modified on October 10, 2005
February 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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The last 1% takes 99% of the time to upload
Uploading 1 item (1 byte of 1 byte)
February 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Found this on a CD — sorry, a CD-R — while going through old things. (Arch Day is the name of my elementary school's graduation ceremony.)
Screenshot of a folder's contents: - Alex's Arch Day Movie 2004.wmv - readme.htm - Registration.xls Congratulations on getting your new “Alex’s Arch Day Movie 2004” movie. It will make a great edition to any movie collection, but remember that this is a CD-R, not a CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, or a DVD-R. This movie is ©2004, All rights reserved This movie is Rated-G This movie is 321 seconds long This movie is 5.35 minutes long This movie is 0.089166666666666666666666666666667 hours long This movie will NOT run on Macs You can register by clicking here Screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet with each of the rows' background colors making a rainbow. The rows to be filled out are First Name, Middle Initial, Last Name, Phone Number, Street Address, City, State/Province, Zip Code, Country, Continent, E-Mail Address, and Web Site. There is a link "Click here to send E-Mail" and, below it, the advice "Be sure to include this file as an attachment."
February 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Oops
Me: Where is your laptop lol Boris: Where is your laptop! Boris: Maybe you left it at the concert Me (emphasized by Boris): Holy shit it was in my backpack
February 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Expected yesterday
Screenshot of a notification showing a dark blue quarter zip that says “expected yesterday”
February 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Being gay isn't a phase, but combat main is a phase.
A turn in a Magic game consists of five phases, in this order: • Beginning phase • Pre-combat main phase • Combat phase • Post-combat main phase • Ending phase
February 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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@NeoNacho with the hard-hitting questions
https://social.lol/@a2/114022148406103916
Messages from Boris: "509!" and "Will I understand that if I haven't used 9.508" with "!!" reaction
February 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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if your commit history doesn’t look like this you’re doing it wrong
Screenshot of Tower (Git client GUI) showing a bunch of commits dating back to 2/9/25 and the commit message for every commit is just "tmp"
February 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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When you see this in their Wikipedia TOC you just know it's gonna be good
Mythology - Reign - Conflict with Salmoneus - Cheating death - Punishment in the underworld
February 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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@jn @samhenrigold
Still from "Emperor's New Groove" where Kronk's shoulder angel says "No, no. He's got a point."
February 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Pokemono FajroRuĝa ankaŭ?? Ĝi tro bonega 😂
Ekrankopio montras ke Ĝolteono batalas Golbato kun la dialogteksto en Esperanto Ekrankopio montras la ludanton interagante kun signo en Urbeto Paled. Teksto: "La Urbeto Paled: Nuancoj de via vojaĝo atendas!" Ekrankopio montras la ludanton interagante ĉe la vendejo. La menuaj opcioj estas "Aĉeti", "Vendi", kaj "Ĝis!" La butikisto diras: "Ĉu vi povas fari ion alian?"
January 31, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Dankon Mario! Sed nia princino estas en alia kastel!
Ekrankopio de Super Mario en Esperanto kun la supra teksto
January 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM