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Wes Souza
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Moving countries is one of the most stressful and ungrateful experiences you can choose to undertake on your own.

Here’s an example where @monzo.com just rejected my application, potentially because I don’t have a credit history here yet. And the messaging is so aggressive. No exceptions.
Screen capture of the Monzo application. Unfortunately we can't offer you a Monzo account We're afraid we can't go into more detail about why we can't offer you an account. We assess every application using details you've given us, as well as any information we get from the credit reference agencies we use (Experian and TransUnion) or from anti-fraud services like Cifas.
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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If you see this quote with a robot that is not from star wars, star trek, doctor who, or transformers.
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Probably this
Black Samsung slide phone from 2007
October 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Rapaz tem que arrumar teu handle
October 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Anxiety Countdown.​app
Screen capture of an iOS widget showing “London 8 days, 10 hr”
October 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Congratulations you broke @openvibe.social
Screen capture of Andy’s post where the Zalgo text he entered got rendered outside the post, all over the screen.
September 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I hear we’re sharing dog pictures today.
A black Plott Hound dog looking left in a pier boardwalk in front of a river, suspension bridge and NYC in the background.
September 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Neal.unfun
September 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Microsoft released MAI-Voice-1 and a free tool that will rephrase anything you say in the most obnoxious cringe dialog you can imagine. The audio below was created with what you're reading, with the default settings (Emotive, Rain, Joy).
August 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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This is glamjurous.
Screen capture of Perplexity's Comet browser, showing Wordle loaded and a chat assistant on the right with the prompt "Take control over browser and win Wordle for me". The entries are Adieu, Roast, Blank, Clamp, Flamy and finally Glamj. The puzzle was not completed properly.
August 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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“Grandma Finds The Internet” smiling at the camera with a thumbs up. Generated by AI.
August 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Reminds me of the classic Eclipse erroring while showing an error.
Screen capture of a Windows Vista information dialog. “An internal error occurred while showing an internal error. You are recommended to exit the workbench. Subsequent errors may happen and may terminate the workbench without warning. See the log file for more details. Do you want to exit the workbench?”
July 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Finally @bsky.app has an official iPad app!
Screen capture of iPadOS 26 showing Bluesky as a web app on the dock, together with Safari, Music and Messages. The icon background is black and the butterfly touches the border with no padding.
June 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Well you probably need to change how you generate those articles, as it seems LLMs can still understand the original meanings.
Screen capture of Safari reader mode showing an auto generated summary of the poisoned article. Summary: The author is experimenting with poisoning LLM training data by publishing corrupted versions of their applications. The corrupted data includes distorted text, spelling errors, and absurdities, aiming to mislead LLMs without destroying the original content. The author hopes this will force LLMs to consider the quality of their training data and encourage developers to address the issue of LLMs consuming copyrighted material.
March 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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✅ Nice
✅ Nice
✅ Nice

www.webkit.org/blog/16523/r...
CSS New Features - Added support for Scroll Driven Animations. (290471@main) (144887859) - Added support for text-wrap-style: pretty. (291092@main) (145577976) - Added support for CSS Anchor Positioning. (291214@main) (145681750)
March 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money
Cover art for Daft Punk Discovery album
February 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Minimize, restore, maximize, restore.

#Wes95 #BuildInPublic
December 14, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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Isn’t Windows Media Player so cute?

#Wes95 #BuildInPulbic
December 3, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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I am marking Bluesky.exe as completed.

#Wes95 #BuildInPublic
December 1, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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Hmm...
Verify your email We sent an email to [redacted]@privaterelay.appleid.com. Click the link inside to get started.
November 30, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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When you reboot macOS and choose to "Reopen windows", the windows first appear as still images from before the reboot.

They remain until "rehydrated", _unless_ the user clicks anywhere inside, making them dim and showing a loading spinner

Indicates "oops, we lied, this window isn't ready yet".
Screen capture of the "Are you sure you want to restart your computer now" macOS dialog, displaying a checked "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox.
November 28, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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I need to test a post with more images so here's a post with three images.

#Wes95 #BuildInPublic
November 28, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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Let's build a Bluesky client and use Zod!

I spent an hour wrapping up relevant parts of the types in Zod schemas and noticed something was missing... the post data. It's inside `record` which is beautifully untyped.

Also, the AtProto Lexicon is a massive self-referential MONSTER. It killed Zod.
Screen capture of VSCode showing the app/bsky/feed/defs.ts file, where the PostView type exports a property record that is an empty object.
November 25, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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Another exclusive software you will be able to use on Wes95: a revolutionary Calculator!

#Wes95 #BuildInPublic
Screen capture of a website resembling the Windows 95 interface, showing the calculator app where all buttons are misaligned and the menu looks unfinished.
November 25, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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Can't lie that one of the reasons I like software development is the quirky bugs I make from time to time.

#Wes95 #BuildInPublic
November 24, 2024 at 8:42 PM