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Steve Dunham
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father, computer programmer, hobbyist computer scientist, he/him. Currently dabbling in dependent type theory.

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edwin.type-driven.org.uk
Today I discovered, quite by accident, that if I have to interact with too many people in a day then deciding which Muppet would play them is a good strategy.

I definitely met Bunsen and Scooter and possibly a Swedish Chef. Thankfully no Statler and Waldorf. I wish to be played by Kermit please.
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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mcphee.com
Get 20% off all our candy canes if you order before midnight PST on Sunday! Includes Salmon, Pickle and Chicken Soup flavored candy canes! Online only sale.
mcphee.com/collections/...
A box of Pacific Northwest Salmon Candy Canes, featuring orange and white striped candy canes, is displayed alongside an illustration of a salmon. The packaging prominently features the product name and a graphic of the fish. These taste like salmon.
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan. Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know. Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. You don't get to say that in retrospect. Halligan: Yes I do. Off record. Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story? Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record. There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.
October 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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reneefrench.bsky.social
bub?
graphite drawing on vellum of a sink with eyes
September 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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orcishlaw.bsky.social
Just gonna repost this for no reason at all.
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · Sep 6
Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!
September 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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robpike.io
This is pretty much a précis of my lecture to software engineering students.
lookitup.baby Ian Coldwater 📦💥 @lookitup.baby · Aug 12
If you understand what software engineering as a career actually entails (lots of people and organizational problems, understanding legacy code and tradeoffs) you are at a career advantage over those who understand the job as just producing code.

Those jobs could be replaced. But that ain’t the job
August 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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joeyeremondi.bsky.social
Summer Undergraduate Internship - reposts welcome!

Are you a senior undergrad, interested in Programming Languages? Do you want to visit Canada for a paid 12-week internship?
August 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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reneefrench.bsky.social
morning
drawing of a whale with an armpit fold
July 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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reneefrench.bsky.social
i got to make these cutie bat friends for the nytimes for kids section of the new york times this sunday.
July 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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milessabin.com
Happy to have my biases confirmed in this way ...
metr.org METR @metr.org · Jul 10
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com #science #mattdamon
Caption: Our team is working on these unsolved mathematical problems, but also pitching them as a trilogy of action movies starring Matt Damon Images: Posters for the three movies The Riemann Hypothesis starring Matt Damon (image of Matt running heroically surrounded by elements of a formula) The Yang-Mills problem starring Matt Damon (image of Matt fearlessly jumping a motorbike surrounded by eparts of a quantum equation) The Goldbach Conjecture starring Matt Damon (image of Matt falling bravely from a building surrounded by numbers and symbols.
July 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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kthorjensen.bsky.social
The singularity is awesome
Google search for “all you can eat buffet near me” Al Overview To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your
June 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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sarahgibbs.bsky.social
Omg it's a wee bunny having a little strawberry snack!!

I wish I was a wee bunny having a little strawberry snack.
June 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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bwjones.bsky.social
This is not the future that 15 year old me imagined back in 1985.

Somehow being logged out of one’s toothbrush hits me as incredibly dystopian.
robmesure.bsky.social 🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · May 29
I have been logged out of my toothbrush.
An Oral-B login screen.
May 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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zoomar.bsky.social
Our new neighbors threw their takeout containers in the trash, and the raccoons dug in and got the good bits. The squirrels had a feast for days on what was left. When they rolled the can to the curb, the alpha squirrel turned aggressive and tried to stop the garbage men from taking its pantry away.
Two raccoons are seen rummaging through an open trash can in a grassy area. Their tails and backs are visible as they search for food. A squirrel is perched menacingly on top of a black garbage can on a street. A parked car is visible in the background.
May 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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silha.com
Quite the payoff
May 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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swordsjew.bsky.social
if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean
April 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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thatmc.bsky.social
Among my regular passengers on the 44 are two young boys who ride with their grandma from California and 6th Ave all the way to Silver and Palou. The older brother is possibly a 2nd grader. Last night as they were getting off my bus, he handed me this hand made envelope.
A pink construction paper envelope with children’s handwriting that reads “To: Bus driver From: Me”
April 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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wolfcat.bsky.social
Norfolk Island is an Australia Territory (population 1748), and Heard and McDonald Islands are literally volcanoes near the Antarctic with NO population.

Talk about padding out your homework.
Chart showing Tariffs including Norfolk Island, Tuvalu and Heard and McDonald Islands
April 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
dunhamsteve.bsky.social
My five year old: “I never get popcorn! I think it’s not popcorn season yet. When is popcorn season?”
March 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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reneefrench.bsky.social
here's one from 2022 the #stinkeggs song with the velvet voice of @tinybabbyboy.bsky.social and piano accompaniment by @sarahlynneguthrie.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM
dunhamsteve.bsky.social
They're onto me
in-otter-news.bsky.social In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · Feb 25
Suspicious Steve is suspicious.
February 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM