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Tech lead pretending I know what I’m doing, currently using #Svelte, #Golang, and a bit of #Ruby and #Angular. Into bicycles and urbanism (I just want some better bike lanes […]

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Thoroughly enjoyed Wake Up Dead Man yesterday evening! It felt very much like a return to form for the series
December 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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alright fine fuckit this'll do for now https://danfixes.blog/coolgames:fedi
coolgames:fedi [Dan Fixes Dot Blog]
danfixes.blog
December 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Just seen the new Crunchyroll subs and they're truly dire, aren't they 😢
December 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
[Food]

Is there any meal that isn't improved by the addition of some quick spicy chickpeas
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
RE: https://c.im/@christophberger/115729937898606273

#golang developers love to tell you how wonderful `net/http` is to write your entire backend in, and are weirdly obsessed about binary size for something that will be shipped nowhere except EC2. But I have pages of fixed bugs that are […]
Original post on tech.lgbt
tech.lgbt
December 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rmondello/115729873316805720

Tech people love to say that they don't need passkeys, and then immediately copy and paste their password from their password manager into `g00gle.com` because they 'don't trust autofill'
hachyderm.io
December 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
seriously contemplating returning to #wanikani, somebody stop me
December 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
retro.pizza
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
don't speak to me before i've had my MINMO
December 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Belfast restaurant shoots for French luxury; misses
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Having croquettes for tea on a Friday aka yassified patty to make me feel like I'm home
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
PaperWM isn't working well on Gnome 49, so I'm taking the chance to seriously check out #niri and wow, it's a slick WM! Though I do miss those DE conveniences, having just broken out the systemd juice to achieve automated dark/light mode transitions 🫠
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
RE: https://tech.lgbt/@ShadowJonathan/115616603243987514

I think people underrate the value of this sort of 'get a feel for it' visualisation. You often just need a 'good enough' mental model to think about a problem productively – great software engineers do this too, I think
tech.lgbt
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Children engaging in scientific reasoning, as recorded roughly 2500 years ago in a Daoist (not Confucian!) text:

Confucius was heading east when he came across two little boys arguing, and asked what was going on.

One boy said: "I think that at sunrise, the sun is nearer to us, and at noon, it […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
[Selfie, EC]

The increasingly traditional rainy ferry selfie
November 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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i follow this account of a dutch industrial equipment manufacturer that just posts reels of boxes falling off their very short conveyer belts set to Avicii music. it absolutely rules
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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"they're training malevolent computer systems with your posts" is something people that don't know much about malevolent computer systems say to sound clever, so let me be clear that your posts (I have seen them) have fuckin zero properties that would be of any use to a malevolent computer system
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Excited to report becoming the proud owner of an Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher! 🥚
November 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Hey everyone, we have some pretty big news to share. You might remember that we announced a big restructuring for the Mastodon team earlier this year. Today marks an important milestone in this transition.

#mastodon #fediverse #socialweb
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@burgerbecky/115567480967390871

So long to one of my programming heroines, taken far too soon :heart_trans:
mastodon.gamedev.place
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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I saw a new exhibit of some of hiroshige’s 100 famous views of edo today and this one stopped me in my tracks
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Back to the flat landscape I grew up in
November 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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It was faint, but I got a beautiful view of the aurora last night.
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
emotionally wrecked by blind installation
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM