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Will Slattum
@wrslatz.bsky.social
Software engineer 💻 Casual gamer 🎮
Asheville, NC 📍
Hiking ⛰️ beer 🍻 and cats 🐈‍⬛🐾
he/him/his
https://github.com/wrslatz
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Crockett: This is not what we should be doing. I don’t even know why we’re fighting with Greenland. We’re fighting with Greenland, Canada, and Mexico—yet we’re in love with Putin?!
March 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to
March 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.

It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.

They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.

I’m happy to invest and/or help
March 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Brutal.
March 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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What’s the opposite of a Nobel Peace Prize?

I think we have a winner.
February 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy.

Let that sink in.
February 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Trump and Vance showed a level of crassness and vulgarity never seen before in the White House with a foreign leader and guest. They were the worst kind of ignorant disgusting bully. They’ve turned our nation into a global embarrassment. And a global threat.
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?

VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
February 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The Art of the Deal.
So the deal was, we wrecked trust with the EU, which is remilitarizing (and talking about going into Ukraine?), in exchange for no minerals.
February 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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I’d like to speak up
February 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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“The free world needs a new leader.”
‘Free world needs a new leader’: Europe defends Zelenskyy after Trump attack
France, Germany and Poland all make prompt declarations of support as Europe fears Trump’s alignment with Putin.
www.politico.eu
February 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care.

They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely.

This won’t just harm people. This will kill people.

They own this.
February 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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In this rambling babble, Trump says that they sent the email to see “if people exist.” He also said they have to go to Fort Knox to see if the gold really there.

Never expected “object permanence” to be a problem for a sitting president, but here we are.
Trump on the "name 5 things you've done this week" email to federal workers: "It's somewhat voluntary but it's also if you don't answer it, I guess you get fired."
February 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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"Data doesn't lie"?

It's amazing how much the same people who mocked pre-eminent scientists during COVID are now blindly following a ketamine-fueled hustler and the teenage DOGE dorks.
Johnson: "Elon's cracked the code. He's now inside these agencies. He's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data & as he told me in his office, data doesn't lie. We're gonna be able to get the information. We're gonna be able to transform the way federal govt works."
February 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Issues + Actions on github are actually pretty great as a todo list management workflow.
February 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.
February 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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there’s a type of person who doesn’t “sweat the small stuff” bc “things will just work out,” who doesn’t see that things “just working out” is the result of others stretching to accommodate them and their failure to “sweat the small stuff,” so the person and/or their plan doesn’t go off the rails.
February 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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I DON'T NEED TO SEE THE TOE SUCKING VIDEO ANY MORE THANK YOU
February 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.
February 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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With longer-running projects like this, it can be so hard to track status/progress.

I try to jot notes and make todo lists as I think of them, and of course review code.

But by the end, I sometimes just have to trust that Past Me has done the due diligence already and it really is ready to ship :)
I am thrilled to announce that RTKQ's infinite query support is now officially available in RTK 2.6.0!

github.com/reduxjs/redu...

RTKQ now supports the same infinite query API design as React Query, which offers flexibility in defining query behaviors. It also auto-generates infinite query hooks.
Release v2.6.0 · reduxjs/redux-toolkit
This feature release adds infinite query support to RTK Query. Changelog RTK Query Infinite Query support Since we first released RTK Query in 2021, we've had users asking us to add support for "in...
github.com
February 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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This site that shows which senators voted for Trump’s nominees is very helpful.
How senators voted on Trump Cabinet nominees, 2025
Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics
ballotpedia.org
February 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Arielle Kane was hired to work on a program at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid that was trying to reduce maternal deaths.

Last weekend, she was let go.

“This model that has a lot of potential is just being gutted. What does that mean for all of the potential impacts we could have had?"
February 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM