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mvolk.bsky.social
Twin Cities, MN based Software Engineer. Dad to two toddlers. Haver of ADHD. I write C# and React for my day job. Someday I’ll get past my executive dysfunction and finish my website. He/him/his
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I was thinking today that in the next few years Tump and Elon are gonna bring back NAMBLA…not because they revived it directly, but because everything keeping it shoved to the far reaches of society will have dissolved.

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Man looking up hosting options for a modern MERN stack is a hoot. Frontend? Deploy as static if you can. Backend? Deploy to Render, Fly, Hostinger, Railway etc. Document DB? Atlas. Seems like since no one is making guides for it, bundling the full slice in a container isn’t recommended #MERN

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For folks out there that are tea drinkers, what are some good brands or kinds of tea to try? Coffee makes my stomach turn now. Caffeinated or uncaffeinated. I’ve tried raspberry which isn’t bad and chamomile which is meh. #tea

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What’s having ADHD like Mitch? Well, I’m on a VERY tight deadline at work and considering how much work I have left I…started dismantling my keyboard because I noticed a hair sticking out between the keys and I had to clean it all out so I could do my work better. 🤦🏻‍♂️

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Fuuuuuuuuck

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Hats off to all the dads out there this morning that cleaned up their child’s poop explosion because they didn’t want to go in their diaper and instead pulled their pants down to blow mud all over the blankets in their bed.

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Waking up to the national archives news today is probably the best argument I’ve heard for making and maintaining a decentralized digital library

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Is no one else freaking out about the implications of stalled shipments to/from China? Like pharmaceuticals in particular

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It’s maddening that between Amazon selling all the things, and Googles search engine intentionally prioritizing their own results, you can’t find small businesses to buy from directly. I just need to buy a computer and driving to micro center is such a long drive

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

fascist nerds name drop!

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

Are there any software folks, data scientists, librarians etc. out there that know of a national USA, “library book checkout and card holder” API/SDK? I’ve looked and looked and have not found anything useful. I’m hoping to build an app. #software #api #sdk #library #librarian #data #datascience

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Being a father is wild man. So many of the interactions I have with my kids wouldn’t ever be covered in a book. Like, “when potty training your daughter try giving her an emotional support tampon.” She says it’s a magic wand that helps her do her business.

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hey question, is this bad?

submitted 22 days ago • 2955 comments

#DataSky If you don't know what's going on today, govt data sets are under attack and entire sites are coming down, removing extremely important data from public access. This is it, data folks. This is our domain!! Let's get archiving! I'll be over at @catalyst.coop writing scrapers, hbu?

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t have the proper vocabulary to express exactly how fucked this is. We’re going to have to start getting cliff notes from the Chinese youth on how to stay out of the spotlight in a surveillance state.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment