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Joshua Wood
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geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky


software • information • systems • dystopia • hope

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Hey new followers! 👋

This is my personal account. I sometimes post about:

- photography, books, movies
- (ex)religion, misinformation/info literacy, political extremism
- business, software, community

My day job is running a SaaS company in the devtools space.

Welcome to Bluesky. 🦋
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shout out @danabra.mov for this very helpful critique thread of @leaflet.pub publishing flow

core issues mostly fixed now w/ our new *looseleaf* publishing!

(let us know if anything still feels confusing! still a few things to figure out for looseleafs, like custom domains & feeds/following)
danabra.mov dan @danabra.mov · Sep 24
cc @leaflet.pub i think this single problem leads to churning normies like me. i open your thing, press create, don't find the Publish button, don't understand your product, close the tab
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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this is happening on Friday!
Wizard Zines is doing another Big Zine Sale again this year on Friday, November 28th! One day only.

here’s a google calendar link for the duration of the sale if you want a reminder: wzrd.page/cal
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Finally we’ve arrived at the enshittification of trust 💀
I wrote about our interview with Roblox's CEO and how platforms got too big to feel shame www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:

- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating

This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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my best code is written in a two-step process:

1. kludge a working prototype together, don’t worry about the code AT ALL. the point is understanding how the requirements function in reality

2. destroy the prototype completely. build the app for real using my better mental model
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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One day after we discussed this at #SFRuby.

Things happen when you get together in person.
Active Agent events are flowing

I created a draft PR that will allow us to finalize the data model, add error handling, and then we can create a default monitoring dashboard! @tonsoffun.bsky.social @rhiannon.io

github.com/honeybadger-...

#SFRuby
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
So Oath Keepers who stormed the capitol get pardons but oath keepers who uphold the constitution get gallows. Got it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Decided to support more open source maintainers by running a merch shop for their community. Excited to launch with Ghostty, fzf, Vue.js, Redux, and... of course... Oh My Zsh.
Something new is coming from the Planet Argon team.
Introducing Commit Goods, official merch that gives back to open source projects.
Stay tuned for Black Friday sales! commitgoods.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Many of us grew up in authoritarian environments that would later become MAGA, and we’ve heard people calling for the kinds of violence and fascistic control Trump now gives voice to.

This has been festering our whole lives and even before. Ignoring that fact only makes this crisis worse.
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Thread
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I’m in San Francisco for @sfruby.com and I’m already making friends

#SFRuby
November 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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After doing nothing for several weeks, California troops will soon return home from Oregon.
Federalized California National Guard to return home from Oregon deployment soon
Federalized members of the California National Guard who deployed to Oregon on orders from President Donald Trump are set to return home “in the coming days."
www.opb.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Is it just me or do half of the films available for purchase through Apple TV no longer have trailers
November 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Can we all agree that tapping out emails on your iPad makes you *some* kind of criminal
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Does anyone know how llms.txt is _actually_ being used by AI models and tooling? In my research so far, the format is very specific, and many people aren't following it correctly. How are these files being consumed in practice?

llmstxt.org
The /llms.txt file – llms-txt
A proposal to standardise on using an /llms.txt file to provide information to help LLMs use a website at inference time.
llmstxt.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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This was such a good essay, I hope every member of the Rails core team will read it.

okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
In Praise of dhh
A reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.
okayfail.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
PLUR1BUS
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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If you're in Europe and have FOMO because you can't attend the amazing @sfruby.bsky.social, there's another conference happening over here in Helsinki 🇫🇮at the same time 😊 helsinkiruby.fi/tinyruby/ from @helsinkiruby.fi - the line-up is great and Mochi will be attending 🐶🐾❤️It's going to be very nice!
tiny ruby #{conf}
A tiny Ruby conference in Helsinki, Finland
helsinkiruby.fi
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This was such a good essay, I hope every member of the Rails core team will read it.

okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
In Praise of dhh
A reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.
okayfail.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I choose kindness and hope that you do as well.

Kindness and action …

okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
In Praise of dhh
A reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.
okayfail.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Me, an average-age Bluesky user playing Battlefield 6: This is so fun, this definitely doesn’t make me nauseous. 🤢
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM