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RJ
@theuglycoder.bsky.social
👨‍💻 Senior Java Engineer
🎮 Video games are my jam
🚀 Dreaming of that Principal/Staff Engineer role someday
📚 Love a good sci-fi read
🌍 Always up for a travel adventure
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I was raised in a culture that never really had a binary conception around gender; people who very obviously didn’t fit within the confines of what western culture would assign them were part of our community for as long as I could remember. Then, when I was old enough to be intentional about it…
cis folks, i'm curious for you to share answers, if you want:

what made you start caring about trans rights? who'd you know/what happened? tell me the story.
April 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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MCP is rapidly gaining adoption: OpenAI, GitHub, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code all added support for it.

And now Gemini!

Pretty incredible how it all started by two Anthropic software engineers scratching their own itch to build better dev tools.

My deepdive:

newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/mcp
April 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
"Be curious, not judgemental"
April 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties

Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.

Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors
April 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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March 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I have invented a new word: plagiarism.
March 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I went to a therapist recently because I have had difficulties socializing my entire life, and it has become more difficult since I moved. I just cannot talk to people no matter how much I try. The therapist deadass told me to just start talking to people. Wow, I didn't know it was that easy. 🤦🏽‍♂️
March 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I am in utter amazement of this country!
March 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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February 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I want to build a backup and media server at home, preferably with a NAS, but everything is so expensive and I have no idea which one to choose to get started.
February 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
At last, a couple of pleasant days after enduring those harsh, long winters, but I just couldn't bring myself to go outside. Why does my brain work against me?
February 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I dearly miss Australian summers 🥲
February 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
January 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Settings - Accessibility - Require alt text before posting - Enable
January 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I haven't posted many pictures, but alt text is crucial for accessibility. It ensures visually impaired users can understand images via screen readers. By adding descriptive alt text, I aim to make my content more inclusive for everyone and hope others do too.
January 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
He was a Maven boy, stuck in XML land, his builds as predictable as Monday rain. She was a Gradle girl, grooving with Groovy flair and wild spins. One day, he tripped into her flexible world, trading his XML for a Groovy ride. "Welcome to the dance floor," she laughed!
January 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Happy New Year! 🥳
January 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
December 28, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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Tap
December 17, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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Apparently, this is now a routine
I just had an afternoon nap
December 13, 2024 at 9:48 PM