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Software developer (php mostly) | reluctant engineering manager | photographer | cyclist | history nerd | certified short king đź‘‘ | Nashville, TN
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Wasn’t expecting Devers to SF. I’m not mad about it though. #redsox #baseball

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I’ve seen three cyber trucks today. My family is entitled to some sort of financial compensation for the emotional stress we’ve gone through.

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here is your fun fact of the day. The top three listened songs from the Star Wars: A New Hope soundtrack are (according to Spotify): 1. Cantina Band - 45.8 million listens. 2. The Throne Room and End Title - 12.7 million listens 3. The Main Title - 11.8 million listens #starwars

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Nashville has Taylor Swift

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Robert E. Lee and his men killed over 110,000 US Army soldiers. Here's why that same Army must rename its military bases after him. by Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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Every time I go to run a python script I type “pythong”. Every time. #python

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I'll take dense dogs over just about anything else.

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Today’s project: replacing the brick molding around a door. Wish me luck. #homeimprovement

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The #PHP 30 anniversary splash screen for #phpstorm is pretty fucking good:

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I’m on a mission to read about as many interesting people in American history as I can. Already have read about: Grant, Washington, Sherman, and John Lewis Currently listening to “Mark Twain” by Ron Chernow and reading “The Swamp Fox” about Francis Marion. Who else should I add to the list?

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

As a huge history nerd, the period from May 25th to July 4th has so many events that are incredibly consequential to American History.

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"No build frontend is so much more fun" from @simonwillison.net simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/... #webdevelopmenet #frontend #javascript

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"The status of the delete operation is successful if the response is empty and the HTTP status code is 204. Otherwise, the response will include an HTTP error, and its body will include the corresponding details." apichangelog.substack.com/p/http-204-i...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I’m a little worried that AI will lock in whatever best practices are most popular at this moment and we won’t evolve as easily from here

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

✨ I’ve got a couple of extra General Admission tickets to @renderatl.com and I’d love to give them to folks who might not otherwise get a chance to go. If you’re from an underrepresented group in tech and want to be in the room or know someone who should be DM me!

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I know some of these words.

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nothing gets the adrenaline going quite like a cat causally laying on cmd/ctrl+z and you dont notice it immediately.

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