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Customer Engineer at Google. Co-organizer @CommitConf.
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Daaaamn
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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The research was hard
You can't see stars in moon landing photos because the cameras were set to expose for the brightly lit lunar surface and astronauts, which meant the faint stars were not captured. This is similar to why you can't see stars during the day on Earth; the sun's intense light overpowers them.
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Guess how I discovered that it's pronounced "Balrog", not "Walrog"
An AI-generated image of a Walrus with horns, wings, and a glorious mane of fire. The floor is ice, but somehow it's also on fire. Everything is on fire. The Walrog contemplates what he's done, and you can tell that He is pleased.
October 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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TIL every app on Android runs under a separate, isolated Linux user account developer.android.com/guide/compon...
An extract of the Android documentaton: Each Android app lives in its own security sandbox, protected by the following Android security features: The Android operating system is a multi-user Linux system in which each app is a different user. By default, the system assigns each app a unique Linux user ID, which is used only by the system and is unknown to the app. The system sets permissions for all the files in an app so that only the user ID assigned to that app can access them. Each process has its own virtual machine (VM), so an app's code runs in isolation from other apps. By default, every app runs in its own Linux process. The Android system starts the process when any of the app's components need to be executed, and then shuts down the process when it's no longer needed or when the system must recover memory for other apps.
May 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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#commitconf is a tech event full of bright people with great, insightful ideas.
Also #commitconf:
April 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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A symptom of the times we live in, is the new words that appeared for the first time on NYT
Two skeets with a single word: doomscrollers, backstabbery
March 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I have never hated a political figure before. (Source: Financial Times)
A text extract from an article: "Will it work? American officials told US media that the minerals deal would not be enough for Donald Trump to resume aid and intelligence sharing. The reports added that the US president also wanted Zelenskyy to change stance on peace talks, including concessions such as giving up territory to Russia, and to move towards elections in Ukraine itself or even step down as president. "
March 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Should we be talking about how a defense provider in Europe is up 126% over the last year?
The stock price chart of Rheinmetall AG, a company in the defense and security space, which has increased the stock valuation 126% over the last year
February 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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This is the official job description, list of requirements, responsibilities, and application link for the positions open at DOGE.
A tweet from Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE that says: Recruiting for a very small number of full-time salaried HR, IT, and Finance positions. If interested, please DM us your resume and a few bullet points about why you are interested in DOGE.
January 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Once you have worked ten minutes with a LLM to generate text for a website, you cannot unsee it. The unnecessary exclamation marks. The unnecessary emojis. The whole sentence could be scraped, "Contributing" is the section just below.
A snippet from a README.md file: "If you're interested in contributing, please start with our dev setup guide: dev_setup.md. Next Step! Continue with the Contributing 👇 section to contribute to prompt flow."
December 18, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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I have a new favorite way of debugging, discovered when playing with Firestore rules.
TypeScript code that uses an echo function that prints the passed value in the console and returns the passed value. function echo<T>(o: T) { console.log(o); return o; } const foo = (echo(data[0]).values['bar']?.revenue || 0) / 100; const foo2 = (echo(data[0].values['bar'])?.revenue || 0) / 100;
November 3, 2024 at 4:17 PM