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jamesnl.bsky.social
Software Engineer / San Diego / 🏳️‍🌈 / craving an espresso martini / have a cat https://jamesnl.com
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Cursed phrase I just read: "... an url ..." Pronouncing URL like "curl" is extremely cursed, even though I pronounce cURL like "curl"

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

That a dude with a couple cameras and a plate of appetizers can make something worth $82.5 million and a media company looks at that and goes "couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?" tells you exactly how stupid these people are

submitted 77 days ago • 277 comments

I got my third immersive! I somehow have more three star than two star cards now. Yet all I want is that damn Mew. Nine away 😭

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Why have I gotten incredible luck on this Venusaur event (five!!) and yet I'm still ten away from Mew 😭

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Work is making me try GitHub Copilot. I'd really rather not send out proprietary code to another service, utilize unethically trained models, or need a crutch to do my job less well than I could.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning, my fresh haircut. May it restore my gay powers for another week please 🙏

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

I am very happy right now

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

When I’m interviewing I have a neat trick to sus out the culture really quick: Ask the interviewer “when was the last time you were paged?” If they look at their watch, run.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

I should probably have at least one selfie on here

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

he’s picking his cabinet like this is an episode of the celebrity apprentice. he’s gonna put judge judy on the supreme court & nominate lightning mcqueen for secretary of transportation.

submitted 101 days ago • 38 comments

Seeing my applications to work at Apple slowly wither away to "Not Available" as they're being filled

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

A glimmer of hope 💖

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

I have two immersives. This isn't going to become unhealthy at all. No certainly not.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

What are some config languages that support schemas well? I like the ergonomics of HCL (Terraform) but the VS Code extension on its own only does syntax highlighting. Cue looks promising but unwieldy, and no way to store config file schemas referentially. JSON and YAML are too boring.

submitted 122 days ago • 2 comments

Do you write code for Apple platforms like iOS, macOS, visionOS, etc? If you are, let me know! I’d love to add you to a starter pack I can share with others so they can get started on Bluesky.

submitted 127 days ago • 95 comments

I wrote a blog post on the HTML <time> element, and my thoughts on how it could be upgraded to deal with timezones and locales. blog.jamesnl.com/posts/html-t...

submitted 159 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #983,463!

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

Microsoft in 2006: *sweaty and clapping* "DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS" Microsoft in 2024: "we must plan for when, not if, Clippy says the N word"

submitted 276 days ago • 11 comments