Dan Rabinowitz
@danrabinowitz.bsky.social
Senior engineer at DigitalOcean
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Denver, still waiting on that first snow… but we’re not giving up hope! Colorado winters may be late, but when it comes, we’ll be ready. When do you think Denver will get its first snow?
A) Before Thanksgiving,
B) After Thanksgiving,
C) December
D) Not Until Saturday, January 20, 2029
A) Before Thanksgiving,
B) After Thanksgiving,
C) December
D) Not Until Saturday, January 20, 2029
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Denver, still waiting on that first snow… but we’re not giving up hope! Colorado winters may be late, but when it comes, we’ll be ready. When do you think Denver will get its first snow?
A) Before Thanksgiving,
B) After Thanksgiving,
C) December
D) Not Until Saturday, January 20, 2029
A) Before Thanksgiving,
B) After Thanksgiving,
C) December
D) Not Until Saturday, January 20, 2029
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Her brand these days is as a cruel and toxic termagant, but this is grosteque even using that measure. What is WRONG with her?
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Her brand these days is as a cruel and toxic termagant, but this is grosteque even using that measure. What is WRONG with her?
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The “America First” crowd when you ask them to feed hungry Americans.
a child is screaming with the word nooo on the bottom
ALT: a child is screaming with the word nooo on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The “America First” crowd when you ask them to feed hungry Americans.
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Priceless Jewels Stolen From Louvre In Daytime Raid
https://theonion.com/priceless-jewels-stolen-from-louvre-in-daytime-raid/
https://theonion.com/priceless-jewels-stolen-from-louvre-in-daytime-raid/
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Priceless Jewels Stolen From Louvre In Daytime Raid
https://theonion.com/priceless-jewels-stolen-from-louvre-in-daytime-raid/
https://theonion.com/priceless-jewels-stolen-from-louvre-in-daytime-raid/
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It's wrong to call this "the Justice Department." He wants $230 million from the US taxpayer. Federal dollars. DOJ isn't some private company or NGO.
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It's wrong to call this "the Justice Department." He wants $230 million from the US taxpayer. Federal dollars. DOJ isn't some private company or NGO.
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Weird flex for the peace prize.
October 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Weird flex for the peace prize.
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Printing presses kept their letters in cases.
Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.
This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’
Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?
MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.
This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’
Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?
MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Printing presses kept their letters in cases.
Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.
This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’
Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?
MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.
This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’
Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?
MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
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There's a simpler way to manage your teams. ☁️👥
Organizations is a new top-level account layer designed to unite all your teams under one cohesive structure, providing scalable simplicity without the massive overhead of traditional enterprise cloud providers. 🔗 https://do.co/4pOTjAS
Organizations is a new top-level account layer designed to unite all your teams under one cohesive structure, providing scalable simplicity without the massive overhead of traditional enterprise cloud providers. 🔗 https://do.co/4pOTjAS
October 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
There's a simpler way to manage your teams. ☁️👥
Organizations is a new top-level account layer designed to unite all your teams under one cohesive structure, providing scalable simplicity without the massive overhead of traditional enterprise cloud providers. 🔗 https://do.co/4pOTjAS
Organizations is a new top-level account layer designed to unite all your teams under one cohesive structure, providing scalable simplicity without the massive overhead of traditional enterprise cloud providers. 🔗 https://do.co/4pOTjAS
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When do we get to start replying to agentic PRs with “RTFM”?
August 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
When do we get to start replying to agentic PRs with “RTFM”?
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"I want the world to be simple," I said to the genie.
"How do you mean?"
"Good guys and bad guys, clear answers to all questions, everything is just one thing or another."
"I don't think a world like that would work... No, wait, I know how to do that."
And then he turned me back into a child.
"How do you mean?"
"Good guys and bad guys, clear answers to all questions, everything is just one thing or another."
"I don't think a world like that would work... No, wait, I know how to do that."
And then he turned me back into a child.
July 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
"I want the world to be simple," I said to the genie.
"How do you mean?"
"Good guys and bad guys, clear answers to all questions, everything is just one thing or another."
"I don't think a world like that would work... No, wait, I know how to do that."
And then he turned me back into a child.
"How do you mean?"
"Good guys and bad guys, clear answers to all questions, everything is just one thing or another."
"I don't think a world like that would work... No, wait, I know how to do that."
And then he turned me back into a child.
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If you look up the word in the Oxford dictionary, Edison used the term "bug" in the late 1800s to refer to engineering flaws, so Hopper may have used it first for computers (and gets full credit for the joke mentioned here) but the term in general did not originate with her.
July 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
If you look up the word in the Oxford dictionary, Edison used the term "bug" in the late 1800s to refer to engineering flaws, so Hopper may have used it first for computers (and gets full credit for the joke mentioned here) but the term in general did not originate with her.
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Dear AI coding helper, Sometimes a tab is just a tab and not a request to rewrite the line of code.
June 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Dear AI coding helper, Sometimes a tab is just a tab and not a request to rewrite the line of code.
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i love how apple names their operating systems after pickup trucks and suvs
June 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
i love how apple names their operating systems after pickup trucks and suvs
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Teach a robot to fish and soon you won't remember how to.
June 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Teach a robot to fish and soon you won't remember how to.
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The best resume is your reputation.
June 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The best resume is your reputation.
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"There are protests, your majesty."
"Good," said the Emperor. "What are they protesting?"
"Grain prices. But why are protests good?"
"What would you call a society with no protests?"
"Happy, your majesty."
"I would call it oppressed. Prepare a report on their grievances."
"Good," said the Emperor. "What are they protesting?"
"Grain prices. But why are protests good?"
"What would you call a society with no protests?"
"Happy, your majesty."
"I would call it oppressed. Prepare a report on their grievances."
June 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"There are protests, your majesty."
"Good," said the Emperor. "What are they protesting?"
"Grain prices. But why are protests good?"
"What would you call a society with no protests?"
"Happy, your majesty."
"I would call it oppressed. Prepare a report on their grievances."
"Good," said the Emperor. "What are they protesting?"
"Grain prices. But why are protests good?"
"What would you call a society with no protests?"
"Happy, your majesty."
"I would call it oppressed. Prepare a report on their grievances."
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We oil our butcher block countertop every few months. Over ~8 years, it's soaked up ~12 liters of mineral oil. That's a lot of volume! Where does it go?
June 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We oil our butcher block countertop every few months. Over ~8 years, it's soaked up ~12 liters of mineral oil. That's a lot of volume! Where does it go?
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Opened Claude Code today. It presents me with a prompt. There is only one thing I can type
> look around
> look around
May 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Opened Claude Code today. It presents me with a prompt. There is only one thing I can type
> look around
> look around
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Republicans in Congress want to sacrifice nearly 14 million Americans’ access to health care and 17 million kids’ access to food so that they can give more tax breaks to billionaires.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
May 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Republicans in Congress want to sacrifice nearly 14 million Americans’ access to health care and 17 million kids’ access to food so that they can give more tax breaks to billionaires.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
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you can always do the “5 whys” in your incident review but be careful about going past that because after like 8 whys it’s just “capitalism”
May 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
you can always do the “5 whys” in your incident review but be careful about going past that because after like 8 whys it’s just “capitalism”
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Have you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast?
Now, the `constrast-color()` function in CSS does just that.
webkit.org/blog/16929/c...
Now, the `constrast-color()` function in CSS does just that.
webkit.org/blog/16929/c...
How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS
Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color?
webkit.org
May 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Have you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast?
Now, the `constrast-color()` function in CSS does just that.
webkit.org/blog/16929/c...
Now, the `constrast-color()` function in CSS does just that.
webkit.org/blog/16929/c...
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They let me organize the slack, which means they empowered me to choose the naming convention, which means they submitted to my terrible iron rule of channel prefixes. You wanted to create a "law" channel? I am the "law" channel. And it should have a chat- prefix.
May 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
They let me organize the slack, which means they empowered me to choose the naming convention, which means they submitted to my terrible iron rule of channel prefixes. You wanted to create a "law" channel? I am the "law" channel. And it should have a chat- prefix.
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nobody ever talks about how the rebellion doesn't have an HR department
May 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
nobody ever talks about how the rebellion doesn't have an HR department
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gonna start a video series called SECRETS THE GOVERNMENT IS COVERING UP and its just taped economics 101 lectures
May 2, 2025 at 3:24 AM
gonna start a video series called SECRETS THE GOVERNMENT IS COVERING UP and its just taped economics 101 lectures
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Honored to speak at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute workshop on #LongCOVID. I am energized by our 2 days of brainstorming about the road ahead. The challenges are real, but I’m leaving hopeful. Millions living with Long Covid are counting on our progress—we must keep keep pushing forward!!!
April 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Honored to speak at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute workshop on #LongCOVID. I am energized by our 2 days of brainstorming about the road ahead. The challenges are real, but I’m leaving hopeful. Millions living with Long Covid are counting on our progress—we must keep keep pushing forward!!!