Dan Lyke (he/him)
@danlyke.bsky.social
Software developer, woodworker, pedestrian & cyclist, former whitewater guide, urbanism activist. Blogger since 1998, software I've written has touched your life.
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please submit a talk idea
limited time remains
it will definitely make the event better
ok?
pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2026/cfp
limited time remains
it will definitely make the event better
ok?
pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2026/cfp
North Bay Python 2026
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for North Bay Python 2026
pretalx.northbaypython.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:13 AM
please submit a talk idea
limited time remains
it will definitely make the event better
ok?
pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2026/cfp
limited time remains
it will definitely make the event better
ok?
pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2026/cfp
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THIS is how it's done.
"...we must not stop until ICE is completely abolished, and no more families are ever separated again."
"...we must not stop until ICE is completely abolished, and no more families are ever separated again."
I am proud of you and our immigrant residents. Your resiliency, strength, and dedication have led to the announcement that “Operation Metro Surge” will end soon. 1/
February 12, 2026 at 5:02 PM
THIS is how it's done.
"...we must not stop until ICE is completely abolished, and no more families are ever separated again."
"...we must not stop until ICE is completely abolished, and no more families are ever separated again."
Spent the morning fighting with Gemini CLI to get it to do what I asked. As I see people talk about how productive they are with LLM code generation, I'm mostly struck by how overly complex we've made software development, and how it's been made inaccessible to people that should be finding it easy
February 12, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Spent the morning fighting with Gemini CLI to get it to do what I asked. As I see people talk about how productive they are with LLM code generation, I'm mostly struck by how overly complex we've made software development, and how it's been made inaccessible to people that should be finding it easy
While I'm being annoyingly prescriptivist about language, if we can stop referring to "updating the language in the prompt" to "training", that too would help me take AI proponents more seriously.
February 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
While I'm being annoyingly prescriptivist about language, if we can stop referring to "updating the language in the prompt" to "training", that too would help me take AI proponents more seriously.
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Come see what the fuss is about. Join us (in person or virtually) for a virtual talk with @carterlavin.bsky.social next Thursday. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 12, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Come see what the fuss is about. Join us (in person or virtually) for a virtual talk with @carterlavin.bsky.social next Thursday. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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"Hang on, your country has a social safety net that allows people to literally just die freezing in the street?"
Now that's not fair. We also have a healthcare system that allows beloved generational celebrities to die penniless.
Now that's not fair. We also have a healthcare system that allows beloved generational celebrities to die penniless.
February 12, 2026 at 12:52 PM
"Hang on, your country has a social safety net that allows people to literally just die freezing in the street?"
Now that's not fair. We also have a healthcare system that allows beloved generational celebrities to die penniless.
Now that's not fair. We also have a healthcare system that allows beloved generational celebrities to die penniless.
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I limited interactions to this post once it started taking off as I really don't have time to respond to people.
Please do not tell Minnesotans what we should be doing or about how bad things are (we know).
Here's a useful post with useful links you may find of interest. We need help. 🧵
Please do not tell Minnesotans what we should be doing or about how bad things are (we know).
Here's a useful post with useful links you may find of interest. We need help. 🧵
Want to help people in Minnesota? The best place to start is: www.standwithminnesota.com
You can donate money to people who need it, donate airline miles, send supportive messages, & read about other things to do to help or prepare your own community:
www.standwithminnesota.com/actions-to-t...
You can donate money to people who need it, donate airline miles, send supportive messages, & read about other things to do to help or prepare your own community:
www.standwithminnesota.com/actions-to-t...
February 12, 2026 at 5:09 AM
I limited interactions to this post once it started taking off as I really don't have time to respond to people.
Please do not tell Minnesotans what we should be doing or about how bad things are (we know).
Here's a useful post with useful links you may find of interest. We need help. 🧵
Please do not tell Minnesotans what we should be doing or about how bad things are (we know).
Here's a useful post with useful links you may find of interest. We need help. 🧵
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Sometimes I'm posting things to get the word out to people who aren't in Minnesota, but a lot of the time my posts are aimed at folks here. Part of that is because 95% of the time when I'm reading Bluesky these days, I'm only reading posts from people in Minnesota (via the MSP Feed or lists).
Whenever I start writing about what is going on here and aim for an audience that isn't people who are here, I'm at a loss. I don't have the words to explain very well and what words I do find sound ridiculous.
It will hit me hard that this is real and not stuff in fiction or history books (yet).
It will hit me hard that this is real and not stuff in fiction or history books (yet).
February 12, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Sometimes I'm posting things to get the word out to people who aren't in Minnesota, but a lot of the time my posts are aimed at folks here. Part of that is because 95% of the time when I'm reading Bluesky these days, I'm only reading posts from people in Minnesota (via the MSP Feed or lists).
"Inspiration without technique - if it exists at all - is merely flair. If inspiration is all you have it will abandon you when you need it most."
-- David Ball in "Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays"
-- David Ball in "Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays"
February 12, 2026 at 4:37 AM
"Inspiration without technique - if it exists at all - is merely flair. If inspiration is all you have it will abandon you when you need it most."
-- David Ball in "Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays"
-- David Ball in "Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays"
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If GenX would stop using "f/u" to mean "follow-up" in email subject lines, I wouldn't complain.
February 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
If GenX would stop using "f/u" to mean "follow-up" in email subject lines, I wouldn't complain.
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There are so many on this list that AI is terrible at.
February 11, 2026 at 12:50 AM
There are so many on this list that AI is terrible at.
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You don't "reform" a culture of abuse on par with the Nazi Schutzstaffel.
You burn it to the ground. If you need some of the functions it once performed, you create new agencies.
And you perform responsible oversight.
You burn it to the ground. If you need some of the functions it once performed, you create new agencies.
And you perform responsible oversight.
No one can deny that ICE under this Administration is being overly aggressive, violating people's rights, and endangering the lives of U.S. citizens and law abiding immigrants. We cannot move forward without commonsense reforms.
February 11, 2026 at 10:54 PM
You don't "reform" a culture of abuse on par with the Nazi Schutzstaffel.
You burn it to the ground. If you need some of the functions it once performed, you create new agencies.
And you perform responsible oversight.
You burn it to the ground. If you need some of the functions it once performed, you create new agencies.
And you perform responsible oversight.
Wishlisting cameras to replace our Ring system, and holy shit marketing departments are failing. Looks like Reolink is the leader, but digging through each product description and trying to figure out how these things fit together is a total pain in the ass.
User stories, folks. Use them.
User stories, folks. Use them.
February 11, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Wishlisting cameras to replace our Ring system, and holy shit marketing departments are failing. Looks like Reolink is the leader, but digging through each product description and trying to figure out how these things fit together is a total pain in the ass.
User stories, folks. Use them.
User stories, folks. Use them.
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Those who do not remember Jorn Barger are condemned to believe Sam Altman.
August 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Those who do not remember Jorn Barger are condemned to believe Sam Altman.
Thinking about those videos that came out of the occupation of Iraqi cities of US forces shooting up commuters and people just trying to get around and live their daily lives, and how somehow our political process decided that it was a good idea to bring that chaos domestic policing.
February 11, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Thinking about those videos that came out of the occupation of Iraqi cities of US forces shooting up commuters and people just trying to get around and live their daily lives, and how somehow our political process decided that it was a good idea to bring that chaos domestic policing.
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Need to stress that, like the Pretti killing, this terrorism is happening in extremely mixed use residential neighborhoods. Cafes and restaurants just down the street. The St. Paul Curling Club that's put out so many Olympians competing *this week* is like two blocks away.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Need to stress that, like the Pretti killing, this terrorism is happening in extremely mixed use residential neighborhoods. Cafes and restaurants just down the street. The St. Paul Curling Club that's put out so many Olympians competing *this week* is like two blocks away.
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Massie Meme Face
Massie: "She didn't answer anything. She came here ready to talk about the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq, which seems kind of crazy to me."
February 11, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Massie Meme Face
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Putting out press releases doesn’t change the factual record. The nyt misleadingly characterized policy statements here to conform to its anti-trans narrative.
For years it’s ignored and misrepresented evidence to fit its bias. When you have to call in flacks, u are losing. The nyt is untrustworthy
For years it’s ignored and misrepresented evidence to fit its bias. When you have to call in flacks, u are losing. The nyt is untrustworthy
February 11, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Putting out press releases doesn’t change the factual record. The nyt misleadingly characterized policy statements here to conform to its anti-trans narrative.
For years it’s ignored and misrepresented evidence to fit its bias. When you have to call in flacks, u are losing. The nyt is untrustworthy
For years it’s ignored and misrepresented evidence to fit its bias. When you have to call in flacks, u are losing. The nyt is untrustworthy
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The Times has been quietly promoting transphobic viewpoints, treating the existence of trans people as a "question" or "debate," and spotlighting exclusively cisgender writers for years. It was bad enough for me to lose faith in the paper and cancel my subscription two years ago. Integrity lost.
February 11, 2026 at 2:06 PM
The Times has been quietly promoting transphobic viewpoints, treating the existence of trans people as a "question" or "debate," and spotlighting exclusively cisgender writers for years. It was bad enough for me to lose faith in the paper and cancel my subscription two years ago. Integrity lost.
On the bus in 101 northbound traffic. Fuck your reduced HOV lane hours.
February 10, 2026 at 9:57 PM
On the bus in 101 northbound traffic. Fuck your reduced HOV lane hours.
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So, if you like swing jazz, and you like taiko drumming, you will like this three minutes of exuberant joy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2swY...
Swing Machine | San Jose Taiko and Wesley Jazz Ensemble with Epic Immersive
YouTube video by San Jose Taiko
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:13 AM
So, if you like swing jazz, and you like taiko drumming, you will like this three minutes of exuberant joy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2swY...
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seriously though if you steal my words at least fix the fucking typos
February 10, 2026 at 7:53 PM
seriously though if you steal my words at least fix the fucking typos
Those of us of a certain age remember the covers to Byte Magazine very fondly: "Robert Frank Tinney, of Washington, Louisiana, passed away peacefully at River Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center on February 1st, 2026, at the age of 78."
tinney.net/in-memoriam
tinney.net/in-memoriam
In Memoriam – Robert Tinney Illustrations
tinney.net
February 9, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Those of us of a certain age remember the covers to Byte Magazine very fondly: "Robert Frank Tinney, of Washington, Louisiana, passed away peacefully at River Oaks Nursing & Rehabilitation Center on February 1st, 2026, at the age of 78."
tinney.net/in-memoriam
tinney.net/in-memoriam