Jonathan Woodard
@woodardj.bsky.social
Software Engineering Leader
Board Game Designer: Potemkin Empire, Time Chase
Video Game Developer: Galactic Impact www.galacticimpact.com
Board Game Designer: Potemkin Empire, Time Chase
Video Game Developer: Galactic Impact www.galacticimpact.com
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Viral Marketing for the new season of #Lupin is getting out of hand.
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
stzl.ink
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Viral Marketing for the new season of #Lupin is getting out of hand.
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nuzzi / lizza misconduct imo enabled the destruction of so much public health & scientific research — and a resurgence in measles in the US. this is not petty tabloid gossip or inside baseball. that they went undetected or were rewarded while great reporters were laid off? it’s a huge system failure
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
nuzzi / lizza misconduct imo enabled the destruction of so much public health & scientific research — and a resurgence in measles in the US. this is not petty tabloid gossip or inside baseball. that they went undetected or were rewarded while great reporters were laid off? it’s a huge system failure
Anyone else seeing a ton of their podcast subscriptions rekeying episodes or porting hosts or whatever it is that causes the full back-catalog to show up as "unplayed" in the podcasts app? Yeesh. It's happened to me with Science Friday, Lexicon Valley, & TAL in the last few weeks and now Radiolab. 🥴
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Anyone else seeing a ton of their podcast subscriptions rekeying episodes or porting hosts or whatever it is that causes the full back-catalog to show up as "unplayed" in the podcasts app? Yeesh. It's happened to me with Science Friday, Lexicon Valley, & TAL in the last few weeks and now Radiolab. 🥴
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A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
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Any #GoogleCalendar API experts out there? Is calendar.settings really only a read-only OAuth scope?
This section (developers.google.com/identity/pro...) of the OAuth Scopes seems to suggest that.
This section (developers.google.com/identity/pro...) of the OAuth Scopes seems to suggest that.
OAuth 2.0 Scopes for Google APIs | Google for Developers
developers.google.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Any #GoogleCalendar API experts out there? Is calendar.settings really only a read-only OAuth scope?
This section (developers.google.com/identity/pro...) of the OAuth Scopes seems to suggest that.
This section (developers.google.com/identity/pro...) of the OAuth Scopes seems to suggest that.
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Do I know anyone who works at GitHub anymore? Our redirect has stopped working and people are freaking out. (Repo moved several months ago, but the redirect was fine up until today.)
a man in a suit and tie is saying help help
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is saying help help
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Do I know anyone who works at GitHub anymore? Our redirect has stopped working and people are freaking out. (Repo moved several months ago, but the redirect was fine up until today.)
Any #GoogleCalendar API experts out there? Is calendar.settings really only a read-only OAuth scope?
This section (developers.google.com/identity/pro...) of the OAuth Scopes seems to suggest that.
This section (developers.google.com/identity/pro...) of the OAuth Scopes seems to suggest that.
OAuth 2.0 Scopes for Google APIs | Google for Developers
developers.google.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Any #GoogleCalendar API experts out there? Is calendar.settings really only a read-only OAuth scope?
This section (developers.google.com/identity/pro...) of the OAuth Scopes seems to suggest that.
This section (developers.google.com/identity/pro...) of the OAuth Scopes seems to suggest that.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What do you call one of these fish after it successfully fends off a rival and then goes back to its cave to relax?
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…a Battlegar Stalactica
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…a Battlegar Stalactica
NEW episode of MeatEater Podcast chatting gars & native fish conservation!
Grateful for the opportunity to chat stewardship of freshwater natural resources with Steve Rinella and the hunting & fishing crew! youtu.be/xLDSV5qbyzw?...
Grateful for the opportunity to chat stewardship of freshwater natural resources with Steve Rinella and the hunting & fishing crew! youtu.be/xLDSV5qbyzw?...
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
What do you call one of these fish after it successfully fends off a rival and then goes back to its cave to relax?
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…a Battlegar Stalactica
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…a Battlegar Stalactica
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Make the world a better place this festive season by not giving money to billionaires. (Solid advice for any season tbf)
There's a small business option for just about any gift you need.
Use it or lose it.
There's a small business option for just about any gift you need.
Use it or lose it.
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Make the world a better place this festive season by not giving money to billionaires. (Solid advice for any season tbf)
There's a small business option for just about any gift you need.
Use it or lose it.
There's a small business option for just about any gift you need.
Use it or lose it.
Every time I get behind the wheel of a car I’m increasingly bewildered and angry about how we’ve let them take over every aspect of our lives and cities.
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Every time I get behind the wheel of a car I’m increasingly bewildered and angry about how we’ve let them take over every aspect of our lives and cities.
Lol, I feel like a Product Manager at Venmo saw this and decided to torture me by not just not implementing this, but now they're only identified by last two digits ("XX##") instead of last four ("####") 🤣
Wild to me that #Venmo, as a product, has been around for sixteen years, and yet I still cannot nickname my linked bank accounts.
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Lol, I feel like a Product Manager at Venmo saw this and decided to torture me by not just not implementing this, but now they're only identified by last two digits ("XX##") instead of last four ("####") 🤣
Any #GithubActions experts out there? I'm curious if it's possible to set up a workflow that pings a service to get info about the build. E.g. I want to block merges to `main` (and associated auto-deploys) while the @galacticimpact.com is busy resolving a turn update.
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Any #GithubActions experts out there? I'm curious if it's possible to set up a workflow that pings a service to get info about the build. E.g. I want to block merges to `main` (and associated auto-deploys) while the @galacticimpact.com is busy resolving a turn update.
A macOS build
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
A macOS build
Amazing election results nationally paired with rough local election results is a weird mix.
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Amazing election results nationally paired with rough local election results is a weird mix.
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Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR
November 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
Oh no, they recorded my @rmrubyconf.bsky.social talk about @galacticimpact.com and put it on YouTube 🫣 😅
I'm not ready to watch it myself yet, so I need all of you to tell me how I did:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HkS...
I'm not ready to watch it myself yet, so I need all of you to tell me how I did:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HkS...
Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025 - Ruby on Rails is a Game Engine by Jonathan Woodard
YouTube video by Confreaks
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Oh no, they recorded my @rmrubyconf.bsky.social talk about @galacticimpact.com and put it on YouTube 🫣 😅
I'm not ready to watch it myself yet, so I need all of you to tell me how I did:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HkS...
I'm not ready to watch it myself yet, so I need all of you to tell me how I did:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HkS...
Infuriating that Chrome has injected "AI Mode" into the tabbing order *between* typing into the omnibar and the [Switch to this Tab] dropdown.
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Infuriating that Chrome has injected "AI Mode" into the tabbing order *between* typing into the omnibar and the [Switch to this Tab] dropdown.
Sexy Big Domino Meme Gamergate
Sexy Local Railway Museum
Sexy Cosmological Big Rip
October 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Sexy Big Domino Meme Gamergate
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Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history
I spent 10 weeks in Split, Croatia a few years ago, and managed to avoid getting any Nazi iconography inked on my person.
October 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I spent 10 weeks in Split, Croatia a few years ago, and managed to avoid getting any Nazi iconography inked on my person.
I know an elaborate viral marketing campaign for the upcoming season of "Lupin" when I see one.
Thieves steal jewels from Louvre in Paris, media reports reut.rs/43u2cX1
Thieves steal jewels from Louvre in Paris, media reports
A robbery has taken place at the Louvre museum in Paris early on Sunday, French Culture Minister Rachida Dati said, with the newspaper Le Parisien reporting several thieves have stolen pieces of jewellery from the Napoleon collection.
reut.rs
October 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I know an elaborate viral marketing campaign for the upcoming season of "Lupin" when I see one.