Scott Sweeny
@ssweeny.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Software engineer from #Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Opinions are my own, not those of my spouse, employer, child, or pets. In fact there are few areas in which we agree […]
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Are you a megalodon or a megalodoff
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Are you a megalodon or a megalodoff
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"The question isn’t whether the current AI investment cycle will face a reckoning. It’s what form that reckoning takes — and what comes after." #ai https://werd.io/what-happens-after-the-hype-lessons-from-mobile-internets-long-road-to-success/
December 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"The question isn’t whether the current AI investment cycle will face a reckoning. It’s what form that reckoning takes — and what comes after." #ai https://werd.io/what-happens-after-the-hype-lessons-from-mobile-internets-long-road-to-success/
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If you won't listen to me, listen to him.
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If you won't listen to me, listen to him.
Sitting at OTB in the South Side and just watched two of the loudest, drunkest dudes become BFFs in real time.
Warms my cold, dark heart.
#pittsburgh
Warms my cold, dark heart.
#pittsburgh
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Sitting at OTB in the South Side and just watched two of the loudest, drunkest dudes become BFFs in real time.
Warms my cold, dark heart.
#pittsburgh
Warms my cold, dark heart.
#pittsburgh
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I have made a Blog Post about my recent relationship with the internet, Technology, and how I think I want to use it going forward.
#blog #writeas #WriteFreely #doomscrolling #forums #oldweb #rss
https://write.as/rambles-well-written/reevaluating-my-relationship-with-the-internet
#blog #writeas #WriteFreely #doomscrolling #forums #oldweb #rss
https://write.as/rambles-well-written/reevaluating-my-relationship-with-the-internet
Reevaluating My Relationship with The Internet
(AKA I need to to stop doom scrolling)
> WARNING: I get a little vulnerable here in the beginning here. You have been warned.
I’m sure I’ve said something to this effect in the past, even on this very blog. But I think its time I start to re-evalutate my relationship with Tech and the Internet.
2025 has been rough for a few reasons. I can just gesture at “The Horrors” that’s been making me more anxious for months now, when hurt my back by, no joke, coughing funny, and then coughing too hard that hurt it again, fighting with my allergies, and work being… work.
During the summer and most of fall, I got super depressed there for a while. and during that time I was doing a lot of doomscrolling. At home, in public, and in worse in bed! This was especially bad on Youtube Shorts and on Bluesky. With YT Shorts I was mindlessly scrolling through videos for that dopamine hit, and Bluesky I was basically reposting ever anxiety that I was having.
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write.as
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I have made a Blog Post about my recent relationship with the internet, Technology, and how I think I want to use it going forward.
#blog #writeas #WriteFreely #doomscrolling #forums #oldweb #rss
https://write.as/rambles-well-written/reevaluating-my-relationship-with-the-internet
#blog #writeas #WriteFreely #doomscrolling #forums #oldweb #rss
https://write.as/rambles-well-written/reevaluating-my-relationship-with-the-internet
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my advice to every new software engineer out there: if you ever have a choice between writing a parser and not writing a parser, for the good of us all, please choose to not write a parser.
November 2, 2025 at 2:59 AM
my advice to every new software engineer out there: if you ever have a choice between writing a parser and not writing a parser, for the good of us all, please choose to not write a parser.
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the epic orchestra arrangement of "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" would be "The Hour Of Peanut Butter And Of Jelly Is At Hand"
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
the epic orchestra arrangement of "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" would be "The Hour Of Peanut Butter And Of Jelly Is At Hand"
I still have that damn Edmond Fitzgerald song stuck in my head.
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I still have that damn Edmond Fitzgerald song stuck in my head.
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You know those banners on news sites that are like “This article is THREE YEARS OLD YOU WEIRDO, please act accordingly”? We need that for social but measured in hours.
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
You know those banners on news sites that are like “This article is THREE YEARS OLD YOU WEIRDO, please act accordingly”? We need that for social but measured in hours.
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
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in UNIX, everything is a file except for the beating heart of the serpent, which is an ioctl
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
in UNIX, everything is a file except for the beating heart of the serpent, which is an ioctl
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I think that many of us are starved for participation in small-scale systems in which we interact with other humans, and are treated like humans in return
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I think that many of us are starved for participation in small-scale systems in which we interact with other humans, and are treated like humans in return
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115230439826570897
For devs implementing Quote Posts, I've compiled my own doc here, probably useful https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/discussions/1294
#phanpysocial should cover most features, maybe just 95% of them(?) 🤞
Unlike the official site […]
For devs implementing Quote Posts, I've compiled my own doc here, probably useful https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/discussions/1294
#phanpysocial should cover most features, maybe just 95% of them(?) 🤞
Unlike the official site […]
November 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115230439826570897
For devs implementing Quote Posts, I've compiled my own doc here, probably useful https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/discussions/1294
#phanpysocial should cover most features, maybe just 95% of them(?) 🤞
Unlike the official site […]
For devs implementing Quote Posts, I've compiled my own doc here, probably useful https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/discussions/1294
#phanpysocial should cover most features, maybe just 95% of them(?) 🤞
Unlike the official site […]
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Again:
Don't believe them: LLM text generators creating lots of slop web sites *does not damage the Web*. It just makes search engines useless. #google is simply pivoting from a) providing Web search to b) letting you query a pre-trained LLM. This means that we’ll be back to hand-curated links […]
Don't believe them: LLM text generators creating lots of slop web sites *does not damage the Web*. It just makes search engines useless. #google is simply pivoting from a) providing Web search to b) letting you query a pre-trained LLM. This means that we’ll be back to hand-curated links […]
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archaeo.social
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Again:
Don't believe them: LLM text generators creating lots of slop web sites *does not damage the Web*. It just makes search engines useless. #google is simply pivoting from a) providing Web search to b) letting you query a pre-trained LLM. This means that we’ll be back to hand-curated links […]
Don't believe them: LLM text generators creating lots of slop web sites *does not damage the Web*. It just makes search engines useless. #google is simply pivoting from a) providing Web search to b) letting you query a pre-trained LLM. This means that we’ll be back to hand-curated links […]
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study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
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infosec has a lot to learn about understanding failure conditions and accurate, understandable error messages from roadies
November 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
infosec has a lot to learn about understanding failure conditions and accurate, understandable error messages from roadies
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Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology?utm_content=buffer4253c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology?utm_content=buffer4253c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer
If you're in #pittsburgh or even if you're not, #wyep's Halloween music show is always amazing and it's going on right now! 91.3FM or https://wyep.org
91.3 WYEP: Pittsburgh’s indie & classic rock music station
WYEP is an independent public radio station, playing indie rock, Americana, blues, roots, & classic/modern rock. Listen to your favorite artists and discover new music.
wyep.org
October 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If you're in #pittsburgh or even if you're not, #wyep's Halloween music show is always amazing and it's going on right now! 91.3FM or https://wyep.org
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Software people will laugh while scrolling this. They won’t admit it’s to keep them from crying: https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge
Cursed Knowledge | Immich
Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew.
immich.app
October 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Software people will laugh while scrolling this. They won’t admit it’s to keep them from crying: https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge
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Once again glad to be posting on the most resilient social network in the world (several computers in france rented from a guy named hugo)
October 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Once again glad to be posting on the most resilient social network in the world (several computers in france rented from a guy named hugo)
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Whenever I see "GenAI basically can do the work of a junior dev", I assume that those people are using junior devs very differently from me. To me, the value of a junior developer is maybe like 20% the code they write, and 80% is a down payment to a future where they no longer are a junior. I […]
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infosec.exchange
October 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Whenever I see "GenAI basically can do the work of a junior dev", I assume that those people are using junior devs very differently from me. To me, the value of a junior developer is maybe like 20% the code they write, and 80% is a down payment to a future where they no longer are a junior. I […]
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official diagnosis
October 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
official diagnosis
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Hey, for anyone looking for an alternative to #meetup, just a heads up that there's a Fediverse alternative. It's called Mobilizon.
https://mobilizon.org
I'm starting to use the US instance (mobilizon.us) for tech and dance events here in the DC area.
And hey, #elixir people? It's written in […]
https://mobilizon.org
I'm starting to use the US instance (mobilizon.us) for tech and dance events here in the DC area.
And hey, #elixir people? It's written in […]
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wandering.shop
October 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Hey, for anyone looking for an alternative to #meetup, just a heads up that there's a Fediverse alternative. It's called Mobilizon.
https://mobilizon.org
I'm starting to use the US instance (mobilizon.us) for tech and dance events here in the DC area.
And hey, #elixir people? It's written in […]
https://mobilizon.org
I'm starting to use the US instance (mobilizon.us) for tech and dance events here in the DC area.
And hey, #elixir people? It's written in […]