Cory Fitz
@coryfitz.bsky.social
Web dev, Python, etc
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Nate Silver is right about most things - especially Bluesky
September 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Nate Silver is right about most things - especially Bluesky
@mkonnikova.bsky.social Gerry’s name is pronounced with a hard G
August 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
@mkonnikova.bsky.social Gerry’s name is pronounced with a hard G
What is this like noble savage view of women that imagines they don’t have agency
August 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
What is this like noble savage view of women that imagines they don’t have agency
Don’t make policy based on sound bites
This is one of those things that sounds good but the actual policy is completely incoherent and likely to make things worse.
If a global company is paying its workers so little that they need federal benefits, that company should lose eligibility for tax incentives.
August 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Don’t make policy based on sound bites
Glad we’re not saying unhoused anymore - that’s dumb
August 11, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Glad we’re not saying unhoused anymore - that’s dumb
@histphilosophy.bsky.social I love your podcasts - I’d just like to give a suggestion on your pronunciation of dao in Chinese - it’s a 4th tone but sometimes it sounds like you’re saying it in 3rd tone
August 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
@histphilosophy.bsky.social I love your podcasts - I’d just like to give a suggestion on your pronunciation of dao in Chinese - it’s a 4th tone but sometimes it sounds like you’re saying it in 3rd tone
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Fun fact: If you taxed every U.S. billionaire into oblivion—wiped out their entire net worths—you could fund the federal government for…less than a year. And like it or not, many of them built things that vastly improved people’s lives.
I know it’s trendy to hate billionaires, but many didn’t get rich by accident.
Jeff Bezos made goods cheaper & quickly accessible. Bill Gates put computers in homes. Sergey Brin gave the world a search engine that works. I could go on.
So yes…they should exist.
Jeff Bezos made goods cheaper & quickly accessible. Bill Gates put computers in homes. Sergey Brin gave the world a search engine that works. I could go on.
So yes…they should exist.
NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said Sunday that billionaires shouldn’t exist
June 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Fun fact: If you taxed every U.S. billionaire into oblivion—wiped out their entire net worths—you could fund the federal government for…less than a year. And like it or not, many of them built things that vastly improved people’s lives.
The best thing I can say about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is that he wont be able to accomplish most of what he campaigned on
June 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
The best thing I can say about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is that he wont be able to accomplish most of what he campaigned on
@byzantienne.bsky.social I love this book so much, but can you please complain to your publisher about the weird truncated front cover? I will buy another copy if I can have a real full cover
June 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
@byzantienne.bsky.social I love this book so much, but can you please complain to your publisher about the weird truncated front cover? I will buy another copy if I can have a real full cover
are closures just like the functional programming version of class methods
June 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
are closures just like the functional programming version of class methods
As a critic of Trump but a supporter of monarchy I’m a bit conflicted about the protests tomorrow
I stayed up late illustrating something for no real reason. I definitely didn't give out a google drive link with a high res version of it among friends and family for printing purposes.
June 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
As a critic of Trump but a supporter of monarchy I’m a bit conflicted about the protests tomorrow
Your books are very good @byzantienne.bsky.social; thank you for them
June 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Your books are very good @byzantienne.bsky.social; thank you for them
Temu might be spyware but this is literally just React Native
June 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Temu might be spyware but this is literally just React Native
I feel like MQTT should have more device types (or at least include a generic "button"
June 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I feel like MQTT should have more device types (or at least include a generic "button"
Machiavelli doesn’t believe in wfh
May 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Machiavelli doesn’t believe in wfh
The differences in software communities are often stark - for example, Django is as good as Rails in building SaaS products, but the Rails/Ruby community (like the JS community) seems more open to talking about business than the Django/Python community
May 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The differences in software communities are often stark - for example, Django is as good as Rails in building SaaS products, but the Rails/Ruby community (like the JS community) seems more open to talking about business than the Django/Python community
Oh what could have been
Did you know Python almost replaced JavaScript before JavaScript even existed?
during @pauleveritt.org's "Python 1994" talk, @pumpichank.bsky.social explained how JavaScript's (eventual) creator asked Guido to allow for braces in Python. Guido declined. LiveScript/JavaScript came soon after.
during @pauleveritt.org's "Python 1994" talk, @pumpichank.bsky.social explained how JavaScript's (eventual) creator asked Guido to allow for braces in Python. Guido declined. LiveScript/JavaScript came soon after.
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May 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Oh what could have been