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Happy Friday!

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I was not prepared for this, but it slaps: music.youtube.com/watch?v=tjsC...

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TFW you start a mobile OS update on the toilet.

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This is getting out of hand. techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/f...

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Weird thing HGTV hosts do: Alright, I'm going to leave and show myself out of your house. Yeah, I'm sure that happens.

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It must be difficult to write a book about AI only for so much to change by the time it gets published.

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Being a Software Engineer Pro: If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself. Con: If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself.

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A downside of working with a laptop on my lap is that my belly hangs over a wee bit, causing the touchpad to think we're doing a multi-touch gesture now.

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Looking at all the people in my life who are sick:

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My favorite part of going to DC today was when somebody pointed at the White House and said, "Look, there's the Tesla dealership."

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

EXPLORER 1: what should we name this new land we found EXPLORER 2: how bout Newfoundland EXPLORER 1: damn that’s fucken good

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After spending days designing an authentication system for SMS and social login, I completely understand why services like Auth0 exist. However, I do like the freedom of not having to learn that service's APIs and SDKs and how to get our custom UI to work with those instead of using their UI.

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I finally heard back from a company I applied to! It was a rejection, but at least I know that one of these companies exists, and I'm not just throwing my resume into the vast void.

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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

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Hell yeah

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Back from a 5-day flu bout and greeted with a 3-6 inch snow forecast. Perfect.

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OpenAI right now

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Let me pull down deepseek-v3 into ollama to see if I can run this thing locally. >ollama run deepseek-v3 >sees the model is 404 GB >panic Ctrl-C's Nope, that's not happening.

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What's with this trend of US companies seemingly only hiring European software engineers? #software

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I need to tell somebody, so I might as well redirect this to the /dev/null that is my Bluesky followers: I fucking love the glove80. This keyboard has singlehandedly changed my life. I'm not even kidding. No more hand pain; I type more efficiently than ever. I love this thing.

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My experience with Google Gemini summed up. (Yes, I know I'm using an experimental model that is probably a bit messed up, given that it's even warning me that it may not work as expected, but... I'm trying to be funny, folks.)