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Jonathan Woodard

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Software Engineering Leader Board Game Designer: Potemkin Empire, Time Chase Video Game Developer: Galactic Impact www.galacticimpact.com

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Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 11h

(I’m still holding out a dream for some kind of Vehicle-Weight-Miles-based fee for transportation funding, but that’s a state-level thing obviously)

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 11h

Nice job!

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Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 16h

don’t u mean gnumbers

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 1d

Are we about to get a front row seat to history with a modern Schism/Reformation as all the MAGAs who recently found Catholicism race for the door?

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 2d

smol bean

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 2d

1861-1864

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 2d

“Driving ON California” is a fantastic phrasing choice 😅

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 8d

“I’ll worry about it when my Heroku bill is > a full time DevOps salary” is my usual reply on that kind of pushback 🤣

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve spent the last two weeks in Scandinavia, where drivers know and respect their proper place as #4 on the road hierarchy and man this hits.

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Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 9d

“Most ambitious crossover of all time” etc etc

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 12d

Fun and definitely boats/tacking is an idea I’d love to see in something, but wouldn’t this be a little fiddly to keep maintained during turns/changes of wind?

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Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 14d

I’d always taken this book to be an indictment of how the Army used feelings of alienation on account of social change they’d been away for as a way to re-enlist Vietnam vets as they returned home, but it’s been a while since I read, could be a rosy memory.

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 14d

Aim? Align?

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 14d

The internet as a structure definitely biases toward the Gish-gallop.

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 21d

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 21d

Here’s the install guide: guides.rubyonrails.org/install_ruby...

And then for these kinds of projects, I only usually use Step 3 of the quickstart so I have access to `rails console`: guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_star...

(I usually put code in a Model and then invoke from the console)

Install Ruby on Rails Guide — Ruby on Rails Guides

Install Ruby on Rails GuideThis guide will walk you through installing the Ruby programming language and the Rails framework on your operating system.While your OS might come with Ruby pre-installed, ...

guides.rubyonrails.org

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Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 21d

I would use Ruby (and have), I also usually run the single-command rails setup script to give me an interactive console and some other niceties.

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Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 24d

Might get tired of the jokes, u might say 🤔🤔🤔

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Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 27d

Very weird to see what the shape of History ends up being from one’s own time.

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 28d

Does Lifetouch just have like, ironclad, thousand year contracts with every school system in America? Their prices are wildly out of whack with the cost of goods sold, and the buying experience is terrible.

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 29d

It is objectively an abomination.

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 29d

That’s a lot of parents

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · 29d

> funny that the martian is in a movie with batman and supergirl

I see you too subscribe to the "IMDb Cinematic Universe" theory of film. 😆

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Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · Sep 10

👏

Jonathan Woodard @woodardj.bsky.social · Sep 10

Cc: @snipe.lol