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keyboard.io. In past lives, I helped run VaccinateCA, created K-9 Mail for Android, created Request Tracker, and was the project lead for Perl. I can usually be found in #Berkeley [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] was @obra on Twitter
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Really?

Way back on that Other Social Network, I had a long-running thread of weird stuff I found on AliExpress. There's something delightfully wrong about a "Roman Warrior" costume being advertised as perfect for a Jewish holiday.

You just know they’re wearing a black Stetson.

Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

I've been missing 'Wordiest', my favorite Android word game. (I'm on iOS & it's been unpublished from the Play Store.) Tonight, while watching a movie, I had Perplexity Deep Research to research the game based on published sources, had Claude write a spec & had cursor write the code. It's playable.

So, in this reboot, where are we thinking for St Helena?

This is the new “Going back in time to kill Hitler”

going back in time to tell myself this image is going to end the human race

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

This photograph is not a political allegory

“We know they said they were going to eat our faces, but we didn’t expect the face eating leopards would actually eat *our* faces.”

I hate trying to reverse engineer the news from my friends freaking out on social media.

Well this is fucking grim. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Finally bit the bullet and drilled a hole in an exterior wall so I could get a non-mesh access point upstairs.

Earthquake a moment ago in Berkeley.

Humans are great at seeing patterns.