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Christian Hammond
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Created @ReviewBoard, one of the first code review products (https://reviewboard.org) at Beanbag (https://beanbaginc.com). CEO, developer, sales, support, janitor.

COVID data reporter at @bc19.live.

Long-time open source dev.

Blog: https://chipx86.blog
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If we're gonna get a watercooled iPhone, the least they could do is stick one of these on the back.

Actually, hold on. I have a case idea.
A collection of 4 water ring toss games from Tomy from the 1990s: "Kittens", "Kellogg's Frosties", a blue "Pocket Waterfuls", and an orange "Pocket Waterfuls."
September 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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August 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Livestream of the town nearest where the 8.8 #earthquake occurred, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, #Russia. Faces West into the Bay.

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Satellite photo of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia.
July 30, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Graph of today's steep stock market drop and impacts on the S&P, Nasdaq Composite, Russell 2000 Index, and NYSE Composite, with the "Mission Accomplished" banner from the Bush Administration below.
April 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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This is how you poker.
Me, wearing 4 pairs of glasses on my head (3 sunglasses) and one on my collar during a poker competition.
April 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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This is by far the neatest book I own.

Egyptian Grammar, third edition by Gardiner. Published 1973.
A page showing the casual writing style and formal hieroglyphic styles for different dynasties. A chapter on "The Divisions of Time and Method of Dating," discussing the measurement of time (365 days, divided into 12 months of 30 days), with translations to hieroglyphics. Sample writings exercises to study that show passages in both English and hieroglyphics. Some vocabulary for words like "see", "ferry across", "rejoice", "son", "daughter", and others, with an exercise for transliteration.
March 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Image classification is basically a solved problem now.

Man, I could really go for a dozen hot dogs with sprinkles right about now.

Source: Photos app on my iPhone.
iOS classification of 4 photos: 1. Squirrel labeled as “Dog.” 2. Squirrel labeled as “Prairie Dog.” 3. Myself and an alpaca labeled as “Poodle Dog.” 4. Donuts labeled as “Hot Dog.”
January 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Time to hide some ghosts. #TheGreatGlobalGhostHunt
Over a hundred cute ghosts cut out and ready to hide. Ghosts hiding in pumpkins. Glowing ghosts hovering over lit candles. Ghosts wrapped like mummies. Elegant ghost ladies with purple hats and purses. Dapper ghost men with blue top hats and bow ties.
October 16, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Taken in Northern California. Never seen these in person before!

Admittedly, it wasn’t this vibrant in person. The camera picks up what the eyes can’t. But we could still see the streaks of light, the fire in the sky. It was amazing.

#aurora #auroraborealis #northernlights #photography #photos
May 11, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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Why yes, I should use D3.js.

BUT I now have experience writing code to generate a SVG containing a multi-segment donut graph with different inner and outer radiuses, uniform gaps around segments, and minimum segment sizes.

Bonus: "Maximum Donut."
Three donut graph SVGs, each with three segments. The first, "Standard", shows a donut graph with an inner radius half the size of the outer radius, a 50% segment, 33% segment, and 17% segment. The second, "Minimum Donut", show the same but with a minimum donut graph and maximum inner radius. The third, "Maximum Donut," shows no inner radius.
April 17, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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I love getting fish trophies 🥰🐠

@reviewboard
A banner on a Review Board review request showing a cute golden fish trophy, stating "Christian Hammond got a fish trophy!" This is on a review request for "Add dark and light mode support for CodeMirror and text fields."
April 16, 2024 at 5:30 AM
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I have some bad #news and I have some good #news.
Two news alerts. From CNN: “Research shows accelerated aging could be linked to cancer risk in younger adults.” From The Wall Street Journal: “one way to stay young forever: type in lowercase”
April 8, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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One of my personal all-time favorites.

This was not an eggcelent poker hand.
A diorama of three eggs playing poker on a tiny poker table with tiny cards. The table had cards 2 of Hearts, Queen of Clubs, 9 of Spades, King of Diamonds, and Queen of diamonds. One egg is dressed in a blue dress, with a necklace, yellow hair, and a flower in her hair. She has a King of Hearts and a Queen of Hearts. Another is dressed in a brown coat and brown hat, with a mustache. He has a Queen of Spades and a 9 of Hearts. A third has spiked hair and sunglasses and a dark coat, and is quite unhappy with the 2 of Spades and 7 of Clubs he played.
March 30, 2024 at 1:45 AM
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#Easter's one of my favorite holidays. I love the creativity I get to inflict upon eggs.

Sadly, I'm not inflicting any creativity on eggs this year, just on an upcoming software.

So I'd like to see your #egg-dying, #rabbit-posing, and #chocolate-gathering works for this year!
A bag full of colorful plastic eggs, each with happy little faces drawn on them, looking at the sky with excitement for Easter.
March 30, 2024 at 1:43 AM