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Drew
@drewking.dev
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Frontend developer and recent grad from University of Washington Allen School for Computer Science.

Queer, Disabled, and Unapologetic.

GitHub.com/andrewpking

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fmarx.com
“My personal website is not an emergency service, so I’ll optimize the CSS when I get to it. Which is never.” — @ohhelloana.blog reminding us to set realistic expectations for our side projects #btconf
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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schock.cc
As Ring announces increased partnership with Flock and law enforcement, do not be fooled by reassurances that you can 'opt out.' Here's evidence that ICE tapped flock from local agencies sometimes without consent: www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
Border Patrol, ICE tapped into Washington police surveillance systems for potential immigration enforcement
Federal law enforcement agencies accessed data collected by some local police and sheriff’s offices automated license plate cameras around Washington, a University of Washington Center for Human Right...
www.spokesman.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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I started collaborating on a project that uses Yarn managing node packages. Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to Node Version Manager available for managing Yarn versions in the command line?
October 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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I bought some Dutch licorice while I was on Granville Island from the Licorice Parlor. My only regret is I only bought 300 grams and not 3 kilograms.
A big clear bag of Dutch licorice on a countertop. There is a sticker that says, “Licorice Parlor” in blue text on a pink and green background. Behind the bag is a display of licorice in many colors.
October 22, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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bytevagabond.com
Open Printer: an open-source inkjet printer with no DRM, no subscriptions, and repairable parts.

Sometimes the best innovation is just making things work the way they should have all along.
October 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Built a PC out of mostly used/free parts. It’s pretty fast and I’m happy with it. Gonna move my #homelab over to it soon. Next step will be getting some hard drives and an NVME boot drive.

I hate #e-waste and micro$oft obsoleting good hardware worked out in my favor for this build.

#DIY
A photograph of a bunch of pc parts sitting on a coffee table. They are plugged in and running. There is a power supply, motherboard with RGB fan, a graphics card, and a monitor in the background. There is also a white case that ended up not working out due to IO shield incompatibility. The PC, assembled in a black and red compatible case with some glass to show the RGB fan spinning. Benchmarks from the PC in blender on Ubuntu. Samples per minute rendering: Monster, 47.4 Junkshop, 32.8 Classroom, 23.3
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Probably migrating my #homelab from a Rasberry Pi 4 running bare metal Jellyfin with caddy to an old mini PC I had returned to me.

I want to use docker + caddy on Ubuntu to host nextcloud, Jellyfin, and an XMPP server. Any tips or docs for newbs?

#selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost #privacy #foss
October 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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aardrian.bsky.social
“A threat model for accessibility on the web”
alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

A deep, well-researched & cited piece detailing systemic failures down the web stack (standards bodies, browsers vendors, etc) which marginalize #accessibility and its voices — but with proposed solutions.

#a11y
A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice
A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community
alice.boxhall.au
October 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Went on a work trip to Maine and explored downtown Portland. First time on the east coast and I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to next time.
A photograph of an intersection with a wedge shaped building. In the foreground is a street light which displays the word, “free”, in the background is the building. It is dusk in this photo. A photograph of a statue in downtown Portland. There is a steel man in a robe on top of the statue and below is cement reading, “Portland, to her sons who would have died for the Union” A photograph of the author of this post. They are standing in front of an alleyway. The author has brown hair, blue eyes, some scruff and is smiling candidly. They are wearing a black jacket and tortoise shell patterned glasses. A photograph of a clock wall. The clocks are shaped like animals and are in many bright colors. They are painted with animal features like eyes and they have a tail hanging from the bottom.
September 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Throwback to the time I met Robert Redford on a ski day. Rest in peace.
marckskier.bsky.social MarcKSkier ♿️ 💙🇺🇦 ⛷️ 🌵🏳️‍🌈 Ally @marckskier.bsky.social · Sep 17
May he rest in peace and thanks again for letting us take this picture.
September 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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zaneselvans.org
I really need to edit the @wikipedia.org more. It's amazing what one focused person can do.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess_Wade
September 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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a11yawareness.bsky.social
Capitalization affects how people read hashtags or how people hear them on screen readers. Use #camelCase or #PascalCase in hashtags instead of lowercase. You could have #DoctorWhoRewatch ("Doctor Who Rewatch") or #doctorwhorewatch ("doctor whore watch.")
September 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Updating LineageOS the old fashioned way using adb and fastboot. It worked!

Giving the phone away to someone in need. I will miss 12 (music player) and the headphone jack though. Hopefully it is happy in its new home.

@lineageos.org thanks for the mmrs. 😎
A macbook air running ubuntu connected over USB to a google pixel phone. They are both sitting on a dark brown wooden coffee table. The phone shows the lineage OS recovery screen in purple and black. There are terminal commands being executed below. On the computer is some open browser tabs with a terminal window open in front. The terminsl window shows progress with the flashing of the updated ROM.
September 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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bsky.app
If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts.

Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app
pin2saved for Bluesky
Migrate your Bluesky 📌 replies to saved posts.
pin2saved.vercel.app
September 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Fixed a friends problem with apt on Ubuntu yesterday. Apparently nextcloud from snap and Mariadb don’t play nice together. I uninstalled nextcloud and mariadb. Then apt reinstalled mariadb using fix-broken install that seemed to fix the problem.
September 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Just installed @grapheneos.org on my Android phone. Set it up with F-Droid and another App Store so I can install apps. Now what? 😎
September 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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But surely DEIA is the problem! /s
usafacts.org USAFacts @usafacts.org · Aug 27
Are hate #crimes rising or falling in the US?

Since 2014, reported hate crimes more than doubled — from 5,597 to 11,974 in 2023. A 114% increase. #DataViz
August 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Finally got @jellyfin.bsky.social and copyparty setup on my @raspberrypi.com board. Great setup for an inexpensive local NAS. Especially since copyparty makes uploading easy and there are many clients that support Jellyfin.

I’m glad I held on to all of my old purchases for this!
August 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Accessibility matters, especially when it comes to accessibility of information on how to build accessible documents and applications. Glad this resource exists.
August 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I made my grandma a nice custom email, only to find out her inbox is full. I should have wrote a card but I cannot art my way out of a box with pen and paper. 😭

#html #css #techproblems #epicfail
Screenshot of a birthday email in the Apple mail app. It has lots of emojis and the header has a pink/purple gradient background. Photograph of a send message error in Thunderbird, indicating that the recipients mailbox is full. The email is redacted to protect privacy.
August 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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I was working on improving a contact form for a website I manage and everything worked on localhost, but was failing in prod. I thought my code was bad. But it turned out my server was running an old php version. Upgrade php and solved. 😄
Screenshot of the contact form for therapy with Diana in dark mode on a phone. The page shows a contact form asking for first name, last name, email, phone number, an open text field, and a submit button. The fields are equal width and stacked vertically.
August 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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I tend to agree with these points. Do you?
lizthedeveloper.bsky.social Future Infinitive ☸️ @lizthedeveloper.bsky.social · Jul 27
ChatGPT can make zines oh no- I will now proceed to make this everyone's problem
July 27, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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karenho.bsky.social
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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deconspray.bsky.social
In her latest post, Sheri Byrne‑Haber shares 8 skunkworks projects anyone can start to make a real impact—no sign-off required.

buttondown.com/access-abili...

#Accessibility #A11y #InclusiveDesign #Skunkworks #DigitalInclusion #WebAccessibility #DigitalAccessibility
Eight Skunkworks Projects That Advance Accessibility Without Approval
Person carrying binders labeld Documents, Information, Skunkworks The term “skunkworks” comes from Lockheed Martin and originally referred to a secretive...
buttondown.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
drewking.dev
I did some web scraping with selenium. It all started when some data I needed was provided as a paginated HTML site.

Apparently there is not a way to find therapists licensed in multiple states. I had to do an inner join on license data in two states to find one.

@psychologytoday.com explain
July 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM