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Dane
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Software engineer in Colorado 🏔️
Imagine my surprise when I opened an outlet with a phone jack to discover live 120VAC and no phone line
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Was the Cloudflare thing DNS again? Please tell me it was DNS again 😂
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I had been experimenting with an immutable Linux distro on a dev machine and unfortunately the tooling, documentation, and processes are too disruptive and I've retreated back. I love the concept though.
October 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I think of Georgette from Amélie each time I use eyedrops 😂
October 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Encoding some video on my M4 Pro Mac Mini and it's just happily running at 100% fan and 105° C 😳🔥
October 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Rest in Power Miss Major. We all owe you so much. Thank you for everything.
Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.
www.ebar.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I feel like this is a useful strategy for confronting fascism that we are seeing play out currently.
October 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Today I needed a bit of code, but instead of asking an LLM I tried writing it myself and wow, this could be a new paradigm
October 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Who could've guessed the desktop environment that uses a racist term to describe customization would be problematic in other ways? 😶
October 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Larry Ellison is a scumbag. Oracle is a terrible company. Owning more than one piece of media is sus
September 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Forget AI, cute lil comics explaining hard technical topics have been way more formative to my experience
September 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Here’s a convenient way to find alternatives to Uline for your business: refuseuline.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The current incarnation of Spicy Clippy we have at work is "agentic" which I've come to understand means it can directly trash all the files on your drive instantaneously. I don't like it.
September 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
There's a joke about Larry Tesler going around, but his video and his oral history with the CHM are great viewing: youtu.be/OW-atKrg0T4
Origins of the Apple Human Interface
YouTube video by Computer History Museum
youtu.be
September 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Building security in from the start is significantly easier than retrofitting
September 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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excuse me what
August 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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August 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is your reminder to clean your keyboards, ya filthy animals 😎
August 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
If you're looking to learn German, Spanish or French, check out Seedlang. Built by humans for humans. Not AI slop.
August 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Tonight’s reminder
August 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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On Monday, August 4, Denver, Colorado became the next city in the U.S. to eliminate parking minimums! Getting rid of parking minimums will make it easier to build new houses and businesses, and encourage active transportation.

Read the full story here: buff.ly/e37FTWj
August 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I am once again begging podcasters to put their episodes through dynamic range compression. My poor ears are dying.
July 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...

Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
From the OpenAI community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community
www.reddit.com
July 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Nothing like a lil data loss to keep you on your toes 🫠
July 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM