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Aaron
@aaronheld.com
Technology leader living in Philadelphia. Trying to make the world a little better, one bit at a time.
Excited to be the 2,830th 💩 on www.backerkit.com for Enshittification: the DRM-free audiobook.

craphound.com/podcast/2025...
Cory Doctorow's craphound.com | Cory Doctorow's Literary Works
craphound.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Meta-post alert! 🤖

I used my AI workflow to write a detailed guide on my AI-assisted blogging workflow (Claude Code + Hugo).

See the commands, screenshots, and my 4-window setup that got me to stop procrastinating and write!

www.aaronheld.com/post/streaml...

#Blogging #AI #Dev #Hugo
Streamlining Blog Writing with Claude Code: My Complete Workflow
Introduction For over 25 years, I’ve blogged through countless iterations of my writing and technical processes. Recently, I’ve found something that makes writing enjoyable again: Claude Code. This is...
www.aaronheld.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
10 minutes into the new 20,000 leagues under the sea, and they changed the origin story of the Nautilus to have it built by the East India trading company.

iRobot remains the worst live action remake of a book I enjoyed.

Let's see how this compares
June 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Attending #ALAAC25 in Philly this weekend?
Visit us at Booth #2108 with our literacy partner, Better World Books! 📚 Grab a free #WaybackMachine sticker & chat with us about the future of libraries.

📅 June 26–30
📍 Pennsylvania Convention Center
🎟️ Register: 2025.alaannual.org
June 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Thank you @lauralangdon.io, I'm enjoying your keymapping for my #ZSAVoyager

www.lauralangdon.io/blog/my-ultr...
My Ultra-Ergo Keyboard Setup
How I set up my keyboard for unparalleled ergonomics *and* portability
www.lauralangdon.io
June 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Help fund a movie that needs to be made.

Growing up with annual Passover feasting, I love stories where my people are protected from an unstoppable supernatural death.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
White Meat: Appetizer
What if enslaved people came back from the dead as zombies but only ate white people?
www.kickstarter.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
February 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Dad's escape from persecution

1956 November 20th. The revolution was raging in the whole country, but after the betrayal, this revolution was lost. One day, while listening to Western radio broadcasts, the number of refugees had risen to 70,000, and that's when I decided that I, too, would go West
February 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Joy and hilarity of public medical treatment in the 1650s, courtesy of great Dutch humorist Jan Steen. Today is his day.
February 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Programmers, Surgeons and Carpenters are the only professions where I've seen people practice their craft. I've never seen someone get up early on a weekend to practice B2B sales....

Clickbait programming language was written by a CS student who didn't want to do his homework

tabloid.vercel.app
Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language
Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by cilckbait headlines.
tabloid.vercel.app
February 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Curious about the resurgence of patriarchal ideals in 1930s Germany? Interested in how structural misogyny proved deadly? Ever wondered why you know the names of so many male scientists who escaped the Nazis but not female scientists? HAVE I GOT A BOOK FOR YOU! SISTERS IN SCIENCE is out Dec. 31
Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History (Original) a book by Olivia Campbell
The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring escape out of Nazi Germany In the 1930s, Germany was a hotbed of scientific thought. But after the...
bookshop.org
November 16, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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If you're wondering why scientists are freaking the fuck out about what's being described as a pause in spending, I have written an article just for you:
Science at risk: The funding pause is more damaging than you might think
Research that helps drive our economy is on hold and may face new ideological limits.
arstechnica.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Delighted to see these brilliant engineers develop an exoskeleton.

Disappointed to learn that it is not for being a superhero. It is designed to allow people my age continue to work in factories.
Introducing Industrial Wearable Robot 'X-ble Shoulder' | Hyundai Motor Group
YouTube video by Hyundai Motor Group
youtu.be
December 22, 2024 at 2:39 AM
It's a new year and a new set of puzzles. The last few years I've done kotlin, go and rust. This year I don't want to work that hard so I'll give it a go in Python

"Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024
adventofcode.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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Hot take: Articles like this make the discourse better. Either they are right and we have to accept that issues related to technology are nuanced, or they are wrong about specific things for specific reasons and we can gain clarity about our own concerns in #AIethics /Data ethics.

#philtech #sts
November 12, 2024 at 11:00 PM