Stephen Ball
@sdball.dev
Software engineer. Can be found trying too hard at Rocket League. I write Elixir when I have the choice. I also release music as sdb-79 on whatever music streaming service you use.
The problem is undocumented immigrants you say? So document them bestie. Imagine if the ICE budget was applied to immigration applications and review and heck why not help out the huge backlog of all court cases while we’re at it.
November 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The problem is undocumented immigrants you say? So document them bestie. Imagine if the ICE budget was applied to immigration applications and review and heck why not help out the huge backlog of all court cases while we’re at it.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
I guess a lot of PC gamers have really wanted a console all along, but only the right kind of console.
November 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I guess a lot of PC gamers have really wanted a console all along, but only the right kind of console.
What is it with political donation solicitation text messages obsession with the phrase “chip in”? Is that some thinktank script at work?
October 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
What is it with political donation solicitation text messages obsession with the phrase “chip in”? Is that some thinktank script at work?
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Love when @hankgreen.bsky.social makes a video screaming what I have screaming in my head. It's good to not feel so alone.
Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.
YouTube video by Hank Green
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Love when @hankgreen.bsky.social makes a video screaming what I have screaming in my head. It's good to not feel so alone.
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Give folks their flowers
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
September 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Give folks their flowers
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier
"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
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Having met with both sides on the current RubyCentral/RubyGems situation, here's my take:
- RubyCentral have managed this exceptionally poorly in many ways including removing literally the most active member of the RubyGems organisation by mistake who has declined to return
- RubyCentral have managed this exceptionally poorly in many ways including removing literally the most active member of the RubyGems organisation by mistake who has declined to return
September 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Having met with both sides on the current RubyCentral/RubyGems situation, here's my take:
- RubyCentral have managed this exceptionally poorly in many ways including removing literally the most active member of the RubyGems organisation by mistake who has declined to return
- RubyCentral have managed this exceptionally poorly in many ways including removing literally the most active member of the RubyGems organisation by mistake who has declined to return
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Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade.
Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.
You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...
Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.
You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...
RubyGems.org | your community gem host
rubygems.org
September 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade.
Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.
You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...
Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.
You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...
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Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪
From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
September 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪
From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
My weekend project! Fun command line games and things starting off with the classic game of life. It was a good project to learn the bubbletea and lipgloss libraries from @charm.sh!
github.com/sdball/funterm
github.com/sdball/funterm
GitHub - sdball/funterm: Command line fun things to run in the terminal
Command line fun things to run in the terminal. Contribute to sdball/funterm development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My weekend project! Fun command line games and things starting off with the classic game of life. It was a good project to learn the bubbletea and lipgloss libraries from @charm.sh!
github.com/sdball/funterm
github.com/sdball/funterm
If you see this, post something monochromatic
August 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
If you see this, post something monochromatic
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If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research
August 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research
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Maybe it’s because I’m a state legislator, but I’m worried about the under reaction here. She didn’t spend the night on the House floor. She’s being DETAINED AGAINST HER WILL BY REPUBLICANS UNTIL SHE FOLLOWS THEIR ORDERS. This is 🦇 💩
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
August 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Maybe it’s because I’m a state legislator, but I’m worried about the under reaction here. She didn’t spend the night on the House floor. She’s being DETAINED AGAINST HER WILL BY REPUBLICANS UNTIL SHE FOLLOWS THEIR ORDERS. This is 🦇 💩
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A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.
And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
August 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.
And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
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Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts
Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it
Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it
August 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts
Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it
Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it
C'mon Netflix I know you have the data.
August 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
C'mon Netflix I know you have the data.
Did they ask an LLM to find flaws in Vault’s logic and security model? No. They thought though the problem and followed inconsistencies through the system. cyata.ai/blog/crackin...
Cracking the Vault: how we found zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, and authorization in HashiCorp Vault - Cyata | The Control Plane for Agentic Identity
Introduction: when the trust model can’t be trusted Secrets vaults are the backbone of digital infrastructure. They store the credentials, tokens, and certificates that govern access to systems, servi...
cyata.ai
August 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Did they ask an LLM to find flaws in Vault’s logic and security model? No. They thought though the problem and followed inconsistencies through the system. cyata.ai/blog/crackin...
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I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.
August 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.
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43 hours to raise $8,205 dollars to publish the first All-Black Women Fantasy graphic novel anthology. Omg I can feel it, please share, boost and support this groundbreaking campaign #sdcc #indiecomics #blerd
Check out Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black W by Burning Phoenix Press on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...
Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black W
A comic anthology featuring ten fantasy stories from Black women creators.
www.kickstarter.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
43 hours to raise $8,205 dollars to publish the first All-Black Women Fantasy graphic novel anthology. Omg I can feel it, please share, boost and support this groundbreaking campaign #sdcc #indiecomics #blerd
“Won’t that be grand? (sarcasticly) Computers and programs will start thinking and the people will stop.” TRON, 1982
July 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Won’t that be grand? (sarcasticly) Computers and programs will start thinking and the people will stop.” TRON, 1982
The real vibing in vibe coding is being done on the AI side as it generates responses that try to best fit the given prompt.
July 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The real vibing in vibe coding is being done on the AI side as it generates responses that try to best fit the given prompt.
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Our govt has disappeared a 82-year-old--decades after he fled torture from Pinochet's regime.
He went to govt office for a new green card
Then, nothing.
"Inquiries to immigration officials, prisons, hospitals and even a morgue yielded no information. Leon’s name was not in ICE’s online database."
He went to govt office for a new green card
Then, nothing.
"Inquiries to immigration officials, prisons, hospitals and even a morgue yielded no information. Leon’s name was not in ICE’s online database."
July 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Our govt has disappeared a 82-year-old--decades after he fled torture from Pinochet's regime.
He went to govt office for a new green card
Then, nothing.
"Inquiries to immigration officials, prisons, hospitals and even a morgue yielded no information. Leon’s name was not in ICE’s online database."
He went to govt office for a new green card
Then, nothing.
"Inquiries to immigration officials, prisons, hospitals and even a morgue yielded no information. Leon’s name was not in ICE’s online database."
The generational trauma meme but realizing the government is largely made up from the leftmost generation.
July 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The generational trauma meme but realizing the government is largely made up from the leftmost generation.
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Imagine. If. Biden. Had. Done. This.
July 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Imagine. If. Biden. Had. Done. This.
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Do any of these reporters writing about how using the a/c is bad for the environment want to write about AI instead or
July 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Do any of these reporters writing about how using the a/c is bad for the environment want to write about AI instead or