Patrick DeWind
@dewind.bsky.social
Nothing exciting, really. TTRPGs, medieval reenactment, woodworking, programming, philosophy, and a whole lot of reading.
Why don't you put her in charge, Charlie Brown?
Charlie Brown, you’ve lost another submarine?
I see dead people, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Why don't you put her in charge, Charlie Brown?
Book #47 - Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (@tkingfisher.com).
Part fairy tale, part revenge story, completely delightful.
Kingfisher writes interesting characters. The dust-wife was worth the price of admission alone. And don't get me started on the chickens.
Part fairy tale, part revenge story, completely delightful.
Kingfisher writes interesting characters. The dust-wife was worth the price of admission alone. And don't get me started on the chickens.
November 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Book #47 - Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (@tkingfisher.com).
Part fairy tale, part revenge story, completely delightful.
Kingfisher writes interesting characters. The dust-wife was worth the price of admission alone. And don't get me started on the chickens.
Part fairy tale, part revenge story, completely delightful.
Kingfisher writes interesting characters. The dust-wife was worth the price of admission alone. And don't get me started on the chickens.
Oh damn, that's funny.
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Oh damn, that's funny.
I saw one of the campus squirrels climbing a tree with most of a cookie in its mouth. He then proceeded to go at it with gusto.
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I saw one of the campus squirrels climbing a tree with most of a cookie in its mouth. He then proceeded to go at it with gusto.
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 AM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- The whole world is dark and damp
- Villain is the best character
- The inexplicable presence of a cowboy hat
- Gym rats in tinfoil armor
- Grossly rewarded for extremely bad behavior
- The whole world is dark and damp
- Villain is the best character
- The inexplicable presence of a cowboy hat
- Gym rats in tinfoil armor
- Grossly rewarded for extremely bad behavior
What are your top 5 movie genres? mine are:
- spot the BBC actor historical
- Utena and things that are basically Utena
- US-Japanese horror movie cross-pollination had a monster baby
- Derek Jacobi is in this, right?
- cosy mystery, or Gundam, why not both?
- spot the BBC actor historical
- Utena and things that are basically Utena
- US-Japanese horror movie cross-pollination had a monster baby
- Derek Jacobi is in this, right?
- cosy mystery, or Gundam, why not both?
What are your top 5 movie genres? mine are:
- men having a big fight and a cute little car chase because they’re in love probably
- when there’s a vial of something
- big poofy dresses
- the scary and also hot ones
- when someone doesn’t know they’re a ghost
- men having a big fight and a cute little car chase because they’re in love probably
- when there’s a vial of something
- big poofy dresses
- the scary and also hot ones
- when someone doesn’t know they’re a ghost
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 AM
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- The whole world is dark and damp
- Villain is the best character
- The inexplicable presence of a cowboy hat
- Gym rats in tinfoil armor
- Grossly rewarded for extremely bad behavior
- The whole world is dark and damp
- Villain is the best character
- The inexplicable presence of a cowboy hat
- Gym rats in tinfoil armor
- Grossly rewarded for extremely bad behavior
I love how Shirley Jackson looked exactly like the kind of person who would write Shirley Jackson stories.
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I love how Shirley Jackson looked exactly like the kind of person who would write Shirley Jackson stories.
Ahhhhh that's why it has gone to complete shit.
Good thing I have options as to where I get my old man prescriptions filled.
Good thing I have options as to where I get my old man prescriptions filled.
private equity buys a company and immediately starts torturing their employees and the money
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Ahhhhh that's why it has gone to complete shit.
Good thing I have options as to where I get my old man prescriptions filled.
Good thing I have options as to where I get my old man prescriptions filled.
Name a film with a forest
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Name a film with a forest
All said, the bothersome thing about Copilot is how dodgy they are on details about exactly what data they're collecting.
We're supposed to adopt a zero trust mindset when programming, and yet they're constantly pushing a "trust us" narrative when it comes to precisely how safe our data is.
We're supposed to adopt a zero trust mindset when programming, and yet they're constantly pushing a "trust us" narrative when it comes to precisely how safe our data is.
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
All said, the bothersome thing about Copilot is how dodgy they are on details about exactly what data they're collecting.
We're supposed to adopt a zero trust mindset when programming, and yet they're constantly pushing a "trust us" narrative when it comes to precisely how safe our data is.
We're supposed to adopt a zero trust mindset when programming, and yet they're constantly pushing a "trust us" narrative when it comes to precisely how safe our data is.
Make more money than your female colleagues for precisely no reason?
Problematic wage gap.
Problematic wage gap.
Your tiger is out?
Problematic cage gap
Problematic cage gap
Your thanksgiving stuffing doesn’t taste right?
Problematic sage gap.
Problematic sage gap.
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Make more money than your female colleagues for precisely no reason?
Problematic wage gap.
Problematic wage gap.
Oh boy, I do not understand the appeal of VSCode.
November 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Oh boy, I do not understand the appeal of VSCode.
"Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken." -Lynch's Dune
Anyway, I wrote my first C# program yesterday. Just a wee Fisher-Yates shuffle that outputs markdown for the daily standup meeting. First step in automating the morning workflow.
Anyway, I wrote my first C# program yesterday. Just a wee Fisher-Yates shuffle that outputs markdown for the daily standup meeting. First step in automating the morning workflow.
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken." -Lynch's Dune
Anyway, I wrote my first C# program yesterday. Just a wee Fisher-Yates shuffle that outputs markdown for the daily standup meeting. First step in automating the morning workflow.
Anyway, I wrote my first C# program yesterday. Just a wee Fisher-Yates shuffle that outputs markdown for the daily standup meeting. First step in automating the morning workflow.
Such a fun band.
November 19, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Such a fun band.
Reposted by Patrick DeWind
The majority on a federal court in El Paso, Texas, found that the new map used race to redraw congressional districts.
US court blocks new Texas congressional map while state officials appeal
The majority on a federal court in El Paso, Texas, found that the new map used race to redraw congressional districts.
bit.ly
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The majority on a federal court in El Paso, Texas, found that the new map used race to redraw congressional districts.
Man, Visual Studio is SO GODDAMN HELPY.
Like, seriously, can I just type without you popping up some new and incredibly incorrect suggestion with every keystroke? Maybe wait until I ask?
Like, seriously, can I just type without you popping up some new and incredibly incorrect suggestion with every keystroke? Maybe wait until I ask?
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Man, Visual Studio is SO GODDAMN HELPY.
Like, seriously, can I just type without you popping up some new and incredibly incorrect suggestion with every keystroke? Maybe wait until I ask?
Like, seriously, can I just type without you popping up some new and incredibly incorrect suggestion with every keystroke? Maybe wait until I ask?
I've reached the point in my Obsidian journey where I'm writing an external program to prepare my daily notes just so.
I'm sure I could find the right plugins to do the same thing, but honestly it is WAY easier for me to write an external program to manipulate the files to match my daily workflow.
I'm sure I could find the right plugins to do the same thing, but honestly it is WAY easier for me to write an external program to manipulate the files to match my daily workflow.
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I've reached the point in my Obsidian journey where I'm writing an external program to prepare my daily notes just so.
I'm sure I could find the right plugins to do the same thing, but honestly it is WAY easier for me to write an external program to manipulate the files to match my daily workflow.
I'm sure I could find the right plugins to do the same thing, but honestly it is WAY easier for me to write an external program to manipulate the files to match my daily workflow.
Glad I don't work at Cloudflare today...
Again.
Again.
The Songs: The System is Down
YouTube video by ebyam93
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November 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Glad I don't work at Cloudflare today...
Again.
Again.
I had a hot date there, but she never showed. 🤔
November 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I had a hot date there, but she never showed. 🤔
Reposted by Patrick DeWind
I have been tinkering with Obsidian for a while and it is really awesome, but in the woods out back I can sometimes hear the Tin Woodsman saying "org-mode" through his frozen jaw.
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I have been tinkering with Obsidian for a while and it is really awesome, but in the woods out back I can sometimes hear the Tin Woodsman saying "org-mode" through his frozen jaw.
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
That looks fun.
this looks fun! good to see something new from Gore Verbinski, a weirdly underrated filmmaker considering how many massive movies he's done
GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE | Teaser Trailer | February 13 - Only in Theaters
YouTube video by Briarcliff Entertainment
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
That looks fun.
Murder on the Orient Express but it is 1970's Bell Labs with Brian Kernighan trying to solve the mysterious death of a visiting scholar at the hands of one of the luminaries of computer science.
November 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Murder on the Orient Express but it is 1970's Bell Labs with Brian Kernighan trying to solve the mysterious death of a visiting scholar at the hands of one of the luminaries of computer science.
"We want our code to be comprehensible because that is the first step on the way to maintainability."
-Bjarne Stroustrup, a man who has both been there and done that in the world of programming.
Also, lolsob.
-Bjarne Stroustrup, a man who has both been there and done that in the world of programming.
Also, lolsob.
November 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"We want our code to be comprehensible because that is the first step on the way to maintainability."
-Bjarne Stroustrup, a man who has both been there and done that in the world of programming.
Also, lolsob.
-Bjarne Stroustrup, a man who has both been there and done that in the world of programming.
Also, lolsob.