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Anthony Accioly
@anthony.accioly.social
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Always curious. Eventually consistent. Strongly opinionated, intermittently technically correct.

Labels & self-deception: Computer geek, people builder, world […]

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Happy Holidays Fedifolks. See you in 2026!

https://youtu.be/4uymCMVXgqs
December 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@TheDonRaab/115713700736196874

If you haven't done so, go grab your copy. The book goes beyond Eclipse Collections, offering great ideas on how to categorise functions and documentation, how to build fluent, intuitive, testable, and easy-to-evolve APIs in the open […]
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accioly.social
December 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
anthony.accioly.social
🎶 It's the last Aspiring Speakers Lightning Talk of the year! 🎶

Join the Aspiring Speakers Community online on 16 December at 12:00 pm GMT in our first Aspiring Speakers Ignite talks

It's free and open for all. See you there!

https://luma.com/egw6pht0

#publicspeaking #aspiringspeakers […]
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accioly.social
December 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
anthony.accioly.social
RIP MinIO. This is a bit sad. MinIO has served me well for quite a while. I'm very grateful to the maintainers, and fingers crossed that forks and alternatives will emerge:
https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/27742d469462e1561c776f88ca7a1f26816d69e2

Just a reminder not to take any software […]
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accioly.social
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
anthony.accioly.social
This is a brilliant udda. As someone who used to spend a lot of time with ROI-obsessed bean counters controlling, well, every budget on 🌎, hear me out: Make the magic conversion metrics plummet and you kill the main incentive driving companies not only to slurp up everyone’s data, but also to […]
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accioly.social
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
anthony.accioly.social
1/2 - Here’s my FOSS tool recommendation of the day:

https://github.com/schollz/croc

Croc is my CLI file transfer tool of choice for many reasons:

1. Simple and intuitive enough to pass the "Anthony didn’t use it in 3 months and can still get it working first time" test.
2. Fully end-to-end […]
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accioly.social
October 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
anthony.accioly.social
How it feels to spend a Sunday playing racing games with frens using an FPGA emulator that you’ve forked and tweaked yourself.

https://youtu.be/QliDNIc6Stw

Top Gear is pure perfection.

#music #gamingsoundtracks #nostalgia #gaming #emulation #fpga #retrogaming #topgear #thegame […]
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accioly.social
October 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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cryptadamist.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy
new ayn rand just dropped

#argentina #milei #javiermilei #bailout #uspol #aynrand #atlasshrugged #meme #memes
Cover of Atlas Shrugged, but with new title "Atlas needs you to spot him like $20 billion", 1st argentinian edition
October 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
FYI, the best place to check and see what that cool fireball you saw in the sky was, is this website: https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/browse_events

You can even report your sightings! This helps scientists to find meteorites, though I think a lot of the sightings now are […]
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mastodon.social
September 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
anthony.accioly.social
Captain Janeway over here is still a better debugging tool than all the top-notch AI models combined (even when armed with a gazillion MCP tools and augmented with every kind of documentation imaginable). Plus, it’s a far better user experience overall. If […]

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Captain Janeway, boldly rubberducking where no dev has debugged before
October 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
anthony.accioly.social
Oxford is such a nice place. The wifey (@sigrid) and I are having a great time. I wish the weather were a bit better for some punting, but there’s still plenty to enjoy with the Uni buildings and museums. Histotical & University cities >>>> "Alpha" cities […]

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My wife Sigrid at St. Mary's Church gates in Oxford
September 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
anthony.accioly.social
Some good news for a change. I’ll hold off on celebrating until the studies are further peer-reviewed and reproduced, but for anyone with family or friends affected by this terrible hereditary disease, this is brilliant news.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro

#gm #science […]
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accioly.social
September 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
anthony.accioly.social
Hey Fedi People. If anyone else is a DevOpsDays London 2025, give me a shout.

#devops #techconference #london
DevOpsDay conference room!
September 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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There's a lot going on in Firefox and Thunderbird land this week! First, we're taking part in Mozilla Support's Ask-A Fox event this week! (https://community.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/ask-a-fox/) Check out how you can get involved and help fellow Thunderbird users on desktop and Android!

Second […]
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mastodon.online
September 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
Night time. Three figures walk up a set of stairs. They are in fact Penrose stairs, an impossible object which one can walk up endlessly. Low on the side of the stairs is a window. Another figure leans out and shouts up at the walkers: “Guys! I'm sure it's not easy being trapped in an endless paradox representing the limited nature of human perception, but some of us are trying to sleep down here!”
September 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
anthony.accioly.social
Long shot, but I know there are quite a few Java folks around here. Anyone familiar with JOL, JEP 519 (compact object headers), and JVM internals who can give @TheDonRaab a hand, shed some light, and confirm whether JOL is misreporting the object footprint here (and why)?

#java #java25 #jol #jep519
September 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
anthony.accioly.social
Public service announcement: The calculator memory leak is just one of a gazillion problems with macOS Tahoe. To anyone relying on macOS for work, I’d recommend delaying the update for a couple of months.

Meanwhile, I’m running Fedora 43 (KDE) Beta with zero issues and would recommend most […]
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accioly.social
September 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
anthony.accioly.social
Hey there Fedi. This is a complete, runnable app:

void main() {
var feature = Runtime.version().feature();
IO.println("👋 Hello, ☕ " + feature);
}

You can save it to a file and run:

$ language FileName.language

And it will work.

Question: What programming language is this? […]
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accioly.social
September 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
anthony.accioly.social
These "erasable" pens are my childhood dream come true. Finally, I can use pens for to-do lists and bullet journals as intended.

Useless trivia time: In Brazil there's a famous dual-colour rubber called Mercur.
There's a popular myth that one side of the […]

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September 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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If Forbes is right, then the wealth of top 0.000118% increased by 22% last year.

Did YOUR wealth increase by 22% last year?

No? Then maybe billionaires' interests are not aligned with yours.
Inside Forbes’ ranking of the richest billionaires in the United States. Another year, another set of broken records for the 400 richest Americans. They're worth a record $6.6 trillion in all, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past 12 months. It now takes a record $3.8 billion to make the ranking, $500 million more than the minimum in 2024.
September 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
anthony.accioly.social
[US Politics + Tech CEOs + Trump + South Park. You know where this is going.]

Hey Free World. I just want to take the time to say that Trump is great and he definitely doesn’t have a small peepee.

https://youtu.be/dsl_sKYywEI
https://youtube.com/shorts/f8oT52ewOsY

#politic #southpark
September 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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alttexthalloffame.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Everyone wins!

#alttext #accessibility
A variation of the "Epic Handshake" meme from the 1987 sci-fi movie Predator, showing a close-up of four men (instead of the original 2) greeting each other with an arm-wrestle handshake. Each arm is labeled with the following text: - Blind and vision-impaired people - People with temporarily impaired vision - People with slow internet connection - People wondering WTF they're looking at The words "alt text" are shown in the center where all four hands meet.
September 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
anthony.accioly.social
Hey Fedi. Folks on LinkedIn (and unfortunately a few here on Nostr as well): I just vibecoded a blockchain-enabled, quantum-resistant, autonomous B2B CRM ERP thingy. I’ll be selling it for billions and ruling the world.

Me: Hey, "accibot" just opened a PR to […]

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"accibot" and renovate commits on a coding challenge repo. accibot created the very first commit of the day updating the module version of Go to 1.25.1
September 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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How do I merge two Mastodon lists into one easily? #FediQuestion
August 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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chip-unicorn.im-in.space.ap.brid.gy
This is the completely unofficial Mastodon Cat Verification Service.

If you have or are a cat, please verify by posting photos.

Failure to do so will have no effect on your Mastodon service. I just want to see photos of cats.
August 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM