matdevdug
@matdevdug.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Security/Devops engineer. Moved from Chicago to Denmark. I’m an expert on nothing but I’m trying.
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A bunch of mostly dads dropping their daughters off for ballet leads to some of the craziest hair styles I’ve ever seen. Like turning a bunch of amateurs loose in a surgical ward. We got too many pins, clips everywhere, elastics flying across the room.
January 24, 2026 at 10:05 AM
A bunch of mostly dads dropping their daughters off for ballet leads to some of the craziest hair styles I’ve ever seen. Like turning a bunch of amateurs loose in a surgical ward. We got too many pins, clips everywhere, elastics flying across the room.
I’ll write a longer thing about it but #clickhouse is the craziest leap forward in observability technology I’ve ever seen. The ability to process queries of billions of logs in 1-2 seconds is unlike anything on the market I have tried. #observability
January 23, 2026 at 3:51 PM
I’ll write a longer thing about it but #clickhouse is the craziest leap forward in observability technology I’ve ever seen. The ability to process queries of billions of logs in 1-2 seconds is unlike anything on the market I have tried. #observability
A book I wish someone would write is a postmortem on the failure of home automation. It is just fascinating to me that everyone I know got some sort of smart home assistant. We all purchased at least one smart thing, be it a lightbulb or blinds or whatever. And even if each component had 99% […]
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c.im
January 22, 2026 at 2:50 PM
A book I wish someone would write is a postmortem on the failure of home automation. It is just fascinating to me that everyone I know got some sort of smart home assistant. We all purchased at least one smart thing, be it a lightbulb or blinds or whatever. And even if each component had 99% […]
Listening to #trump to see if he's going to declare war on #greenland. It is deeply embarrassing how bad he is at public speaking. It's also so fucking pathetic how he bitches and moans about the 2020 election to an international crowd waiting to see if he will declare war.
Being an American is […]
Being an American is […]
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c.im
January 21, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Listening to #trump to see if he's going to declare war on #greenland. It is deeply embarrassing how bad he is at public speaking. It's also so fucking pathetic how he bitches and moans about the 2020 election to an international crowd waiting to see if he will declare war.
Being an American is […]
Being an American is […]
I like how tech words read like pure gibberish on first pass
January 7, 2026 at 12:12 PM
I like how tech words read like pure gibberish on first pass
Modified the backend code for #timewasterpro to take upvotes and downvotes more seriously in the algorithmic selection of the next website to serve up. I'm also categorizing all 616782 individual pages into different genres so I'm hoping I can tune the algorithm to not […]
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January 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Modified the backend code for #timewasterpro to take upvotes and downvotes more seriously in the algorithmic selection of the next website to serve up. I'm also categorizing all 616782 individual pages into different genres so I'm hoping I can tune the algorithm to not […]
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I think it’s maybe a little generous to call making shit up on stage a “strategy” but I do think Apple is going to be able to snap up a company like Anthropic for an absolute song when this is all over. https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115809603842828692
MacRumors.com (@macrumors@mastodon.social)
Report: Apple's AI Strategy Could Finally Pay Off in 2026 https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/30/apple-ai-strategy-could-pay-off-in-2026/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm;_medium=mastodon
mastodon.social
January 3, 2026 at 9:54 AM
I think it’s maybe a little generous to call making shit up on stage a “strategy” but I do think Apple is going to be able to snap up a company like Anthropic for an absolute song when this is all over. https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115809603842828692
So I’m in some sort of #sendgrid hell spiral. I woke up this morning to dozens of alerts that my API access was excessive and being shut down. Except I don’t use Sendgrid and my account from years ago doesn’t have an active API key (so nothing for me to disable). Also […]
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January 1, 2026 at 11:39 AM
So I’m in some sort of #sendgrid hell spiral. I woke up this morning to dozens of alerts that my API access was excessive and being shut down. Except I don’t use Sendgrid and my account from years ago doesn’t have an active API key (so nothing for me to disable). Also […]
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Somehow I purchased like 25 USB-C cables this year and they’re all in use.
December 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Somehow I purchased like 25 USB-C cables this year and they’re all in use.
I wrote a not very serious thing about #3dprinter and #warhammer
https://matduggan.com/the-year-of-the-3d-printed-miniature-and-other-lies-we-tell-ourselves/
https://matduggan.com/the-year-of-the-3d-printed-miniature-and-other-lies-we-tell-ourselves/
matduggan.com
It's JSON all the way down
matduggan.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I wrote a not very serious thing about #3dprinter and #warhammer
https://matduggan.com/the-year-of-the-3d-printed-miniature-and-other-lies-we-tell-ourselves/
https://matduggan.com/the-year-of-the-3d-printed-miniature-and-other-lies-we-tell-ourselves/
If you are in the market for a fountain pen I cannot recommend the Jinhao 777 enough. It costs €1, looks nice and writes like an absolute dream. I’ve refilled the cartridge in this one 10 times and it’s still going strong. #fountainpen #fountainpens
December 29, 2025 at 11:44 AM
If you are in the market for a fountain pen I cannot recommend the Jinhao 777 enough. It costs €1, looks nice and writes like an absolute dream. I’ve refilled the cartridge in this one 10 times and it’s still going strong. #fountainpen #fountainpens
The term “NewSpace” makes me throw up in my mouth. https://hachyderm.io/@ChrisShort/115781862422561044
Chris "Not So" Short (@ChrisShort@hachyderm.io)
Papermoon: A Space-Grade Linux for the NewSpace Era #devopsish https://thenewstack.io/papermoon-a-space-grade-linux-for-the-newspace-era/
hachyderm.io
December 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The term “NewSpace” makes me throw up in my mouth. https://hachyderm.io/@ChrisShort/115781862422561044
In salesforces defense the pre-AI tech stack drove two people I knew closely to effectively on-call madness, so often were they interrupted. So it wasn’t like it was great before the AI got there. https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/115781134344922384
Hacker News 50 (@hn50@social.lansky.name)
Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI Link: https://maarthandam.com/2025/12/25/salesforce-regrets-firing-4000-staff-ai/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46384781
social.lansky.name
December 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In salesforces defense the pre-AI tech stack drove two people I knew closely to effectively on-call madness, so often were they interrupted. So it wasn’t like it was great before the AI got there. https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/115781134344922384
I’m in the process of ripping out the email requirement for #timewasterspro on Firefox. I added it because it’s the authentication flow I’ve used for a ton of jobs (email + password + verification email) but I agree that you shouldn’t have to give me an email. I’ll make the email field optional […]
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c.im
December 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I’m in the process of ripping out the email requirement for #timewasterspro on Firefox. I added it because it’s the authentication flow I’ve used for a ton of jobs (email + password + verification email) but I agree that you shouldn’t have to give me an email. I’ll make the email field optional […]
#ev companies need to play up the real benefit of EV cars. That you get to escape friends and family while sitting in a car at a charger for however long you want and play on your phone.
December 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
#ev companies need to play up the real benefit of EV cars. That you get to escape friends and family while sitting in a car at a charger for however long you want and play on your phone.
Hey you. Got some left over duck in your fridge from Christmas? You are welcome to my favorite duck fried rice recipe. https://honest-food.net/duck-fried-rice-recipe/
Duck Fried Rice Recipe - Chinese Style Duck Fried Rice | Hank Shaw
A simple duck fried rice made with leftover duck, carrots, peas, ginger, scallions and some hot chiles. A great use for diver ducks.
honest-food.net
December 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Hey you. Got some left over duck in your fridge from Christmas? You are welcome to my favorite duck fried rice recipe. https://honest-food.net/duck-fried-rice-recipe/
I love package maintainers but it’s important to remember there’s another more annoying side to this. Package maintainers are another person injected between the developer and the user.
Sometimes package maintainers filter out malware. Sometimes you end up with a random snapshot of the software […]
Sometimes package maintainers filter out malware. Sometimes you end up with a random snapshot of the software […]
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c.im
December 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I love package maintainers but it’s important to remember there’s another more annoying side to this. Package maintainers are another person injected between the developer and the user.
Sometimes package maintainers filter out malware. Sometimes you end up with a random snapshot of the software […]
Sometimes package maintainers filter out malware. Sometimes you end up with a random snapshot of the software […]
You can tell an iOS release is a loser by how many of these “you can upgrade to the last good iOS version” articles you see. And boy am I seeing a LOT for iOS 26. What a dud. #apple #ios https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115747683534159392
MacRumors.com (@macrumors@mastodon.social)
Don't Want to Upgrade to iOS 26? Here's How to Stay on iOS 18 (For Now) https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/19/ios-18-forced-ios-26-upgrade/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm;_medium=mastodon
mastodon.social
December 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
You can tell an iOS release is a loser by how many of these “you can upgrade to the last good iOS version” articles you see. And boy am I seeing a LOT for iOS 26. What a dud. #apple #ios https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115747683534159392
Probably old news but my mind is always blown by all the stuff #curl can do. I had zero idea that curl has a —form argument that lets you simulate filling out a form, complete with a file upload. Let me automate a super annoying task for a friend with a dead simple bash script.
December 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Probably old news but my mind is always blown by all the stuff #curl can do. I had zero idea that curl has a —form argument that lets you simulate filling out a form, complete with a file upload. Let me automate a super annoying task for a friend with a dead simple bash script.
What’s amazing about GitHub charging for self-hosted runners is how incredibly bad the self-hosted runner setup currently is. Like I’d gladly play them a license fee if they hired more people to fix them but I’m not going to pay per-minute for this crap […]
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c.im
December 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
What’s amazing about GitHub charging for self-hosted runners is how incredibly bad the self-hosted runner setup currently is. Like I’d gladly play them a license fee if they hired more people to fix them but I’m not going to pay per-minute for this crap […]
What I find weird about #mozilla pivoting to #LLM is that it’s skating to where the puck was six months ago. Agentic browser capabilities are something plenty of people are throwing lots of cash at. There’s nothing Firefox can add to that conversation and there are plenty of LLM enhanced […]
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c.im
December 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
No #Warhammer40k this week, couldn’t get a match together. Tried Fallout 76 instead. Got it for €5 on the Steam Sale.
It’s a lot of fun! I didn’t do the level skip at the beginning because I sort of wanted to just experience the game. I’m super glad I didn’t buy it at launch because if there’s […]
It’s a lot of fun! I didn’t do the level skip at the beginning because I sort of wanted to just experience the game. I’m super glad I didn’t buy it at launch because if there’s […]
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c.im
December 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
No #Warhammer40k this week, couldn’t get a match together. Tried Fallout 76 instead. Got it for €5 on the Steam Sale.
It’s a lot of fun! I didn’t do the level skip at the beginning because I sort of wanted to just experience the game. I’m super glad I didn’t buy it at launch because if there’s […]
It’s a lot of fun! I didn’t do the level skip at the beginning because I sort of wanted to just experience the game. I’m super glad I didn’t buy it at launch because if there’s […]