Jamie Powers
james-powers.bsky.social
Jamie Powers
@james-powers.bsky.social
Oh god - Brick Boy @ Databricks
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I’ll never forget the feeling of going into a Meta SEV review call, and being grilled during the post-mortem by a security engineer’s dead-faced avatar.
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oh for sure. no grown man replaces a mouse cursor with a giant plus without knowing he's being extra as hell. but leaning into camp is my privilege as a homosexual
January 14, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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Have you heard about Gas Town? No? Well I'm gonna explain what it is anyway.
www.todayintabs.com/p/all-gas-to...
All Gas Town, No Brakes Town
You sling beads to a hook which activates a polecat according to GUPP.
www.todayintabs.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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The kinds of databases:

• Fancy files
• 1970s stays winning
• This would be so cool if it worked at scale
• Oh, that's why google has a monopoly on search
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I’ll never forget the feeling of going into a Meta SEV review call, and being grilled during the post-mortem by a security engineer’s dead-faced avatar.
July 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Listen. Everything is bad but there is no force on earth that can stop you from singing a little song to your cat about it being dinner time, and how good his dinner is gonna be.
July 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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I like to think of the AI tool / agent in my IDE as some kind of weird alien, and avoid mental models like "intern", "junior developer" or similar.

This is because an intern would not do the same dumb thing twice after figuring out that it was dumb. This thing does.
May 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
May 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
How is that asteroid looking?
April 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM