Spot Allen
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Spot Allen
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Curious. Senior Engineer. History buff. Gamer. (Bay Area)
Got some #synthwave visuals up here from our condo balcony. My shitty iPhone 12 unfiltered zoom providing a proper 1980's vibe. 🤘
December 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Ultracrepidarian is a word we should be using more these days.
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I predict this will be wildly successful. Just like that other famous metric of worker performance: lines of code.
Meta is about to start grading workers on their AI skills
Meta employee performance will be assessed by AI-driven impact starting in 2026, as the company prioritizes AI adoption across its workforce.
www.businessinsider.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
@brave.com How about allowing tab pinning.. (wait for it) ..inside groups?

(thanks for your great work)
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November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Wedge discovering the new condo. #cats
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Moving. Downgrading from full gigabit fiber to... Xfinity cable.

Can you even call copper a real internet connection these days?
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October 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Air Traffic Control Simulator: Government Shutdown Update
October 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
AI feels like it'll eventually be a longbow to crossbow situation, as far as offensive security is concerned. 😒
October 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
@dashlane.com Where did the Friends & Family dashboard move to? It's not in the account menu. Also your support article for this is out of date.
October 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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September 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"iOS 26. We bring the bounce!"
September 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Great time to start using snollygoster regularly.
September 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Anyone interested in starting a cul-church?
I bought the domain

brainrot.church

a while back. I have no use for it now.

DM me your use case. Will transfer* it to you if your idea makes sense.

boost appreciated

*I own the domain. I don't know what transfer entails in terms of cost. For my part, I'm giving it away and don't want anything
September 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Strange things are afoot, at the Circle K.
September 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The whole point of being an adult, and your spouse being out of town, is you get to eat whatever you want. Right?
August 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Back in 2018 I said the following, and it's still a perennial fave: #tariffs are just taxes for people who hate taxes but are bad at synonyms
August 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Still can't see/hear `MCP` without thinking..
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August 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Interesting idea.
August 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Two centuries ago, people would travel days (round-trip) to talk to someone.

These days, most people consider real-time voice calls as one of the more annoying ways of communicating (incl. myself).
July 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Inquiry for #PHP / #Laravel package maintainers. Do any of you choose not to use `strict_types` in your package? If so, is it a special use case, or something else?
July 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
While I don't generally play them, it feels like 4A's #Metro universe (esp before Exodus) is a wonderful opportunity for an extraction shooter which could have a lot of variety, and strong built-in lore for why players are venturing into danger.

Thinking closer to GTFO, than like.. Raiders.
July 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hot take: CDPR is building up to compete with GTA via #Cyberpunk 2 (or whatever it's named).
July 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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This is good news (nice for OSINT purposes). It would also be nice if they added the content of executive and congressional staffers/aides, SCOTUS clerks, etc.

Helps build out the relational graph...
July 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM