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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Vlad Patryshev aka Juan Gandhi @vpatryshev.bsky.social · 14h

It’s 2k miles east of California and Oregon.

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José A. Alonso @jalonso.bsky.social · 17h

Computing is indeed a discipline in crisis. ~ Moshe Vardi. www.bakerinstitute.org/research/com... #CompSci

Computing Is Indeed a Discipline in Crisis | Baker Institute

While Silicon Valley invests tens of billions in artificial intelligence, U.S. academic computing research faces declining funding, fewer international students, and uncertain career prospects. In thi...

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 20h

"prompt engineering"

a monkey stuffed animal is hanging from a crane

ALT: a monkey stuffed animal is hanging from a crane

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Vlad Patryshev aka Juan Gandhi @vpatryshev.bsky.social · 14h

My las attempt with claude was for it to transform chunks of HTML to .md. It wrote a bunch of regexes. More, e.g. with “<p.*>”, which means <pre> is ignored. That’s the feature of bots: no ability for abstraction.

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Vlad Patryshev aka Juan Gandhi @vpatryshev.bsky.social · 1d

As Claude wrote me a code for parsing html chunks via regexes, and as it duplicates a bunch of functions, instead of abstracting, I now come closer to the suspicion that bots can'd abstract, and it's a chronic defect. Meaning, the real programming will still require good programmers. For how long?

Vlad Patryshev aka Juan Gandhi @vpatryshev.bsky.social · 9d

Just rediscovered

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[WIP 0/8] Algol 68 GCC Front-End

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Vlad Patryshev aka Juan Gandhi @vpatryshev.bsky.social · 11d

Il est difficile à vendre ça aux mathématiciens.

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Why @why.bsky.team · 12d

A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.

GitHub - whyrusleeping/konbini

Contribute to whyrusleeping/konbini development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Vlad Patryshev aka Juan Gandhi @vpatryshev.bsky.social · 11d

Just learned about this amazing project:

github.com/zio/izumi-re...

See also its claude.md file

GitHub - zio/izumi-reflect: TypeTag without scala-reflect. Supports Scala 2 and Scala 3.

TypeTag without scala-reflect. Supports Scala 2 and Scala 3. - zio/izumi-reflect

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Vlad Patryshev aka Juan Gandhi @vpatryshev.bsky.social · 14d

Imagine, today I asked him to make changes in about 220 .md files. He said: "I'll write a script." I was absolutely impressed: that's what I would do, but I didn't expect it from a machine. My deepest respect to Claud, my colleague.

Vlad Patryshev aka Juan Gandhi @vpatryshev.bsky.social · 14d

Friends asked me to restore the code in myjavatools.com

That code was written for Java version 1.3.1 to 6, and it was only running on Windows. But ok, if someone wants it, here it is.

Also, I have to thank Claude that helped me a lot, for just about $10, in two days.

github.com/vpatryshev/m...

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Vlad Patryshev aka Juan Gandhi @vpatryshev.bsky.social · Sep 10

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The Last Programmers || Xipu Li

We're witnessing the final generation of people who translate ideas into code by hand.

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Vlad Patryshev aka Juan Gandhi @vpatryshev.bsky.social · Sep 7

I find this article very beautiful:

www.irif.fr/~mellies/mpr...

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Vlad Patryshev aka Juan Gandhi @vpatryshev.bsky.social · Sep 7

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xkcd Bot @xkcd-bot.bsky.social · Sep 6

Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure
https://xkcd.com/3138/

A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches.

Explain xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3138

A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches.

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Kris Nuttycombe @nutty.land · Sep 5

Nepal is banning a swath of social media and communication platforms. BlueSky is not on the list, but given the scope of the law that’s probably just an oversight. www.medianama.com/2025/09/223-...