Fred Zirdung
@fredness.bsky.social
Software Engineering Leader. Teacher of Scripts. Traveler of Waters. Occasional DJ. He/him.
Issa and I are DJing at the Shack15 Happy Hour the next two Fridays — May 9 and May 16. Groovy/soulful/disco-y tunes with one of the best views of the bay. Join us from 5-8p. Also $5 wine before 6p!
HMU for guest list (very limited).
Purchase tickets here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/shack15-af...
HMU for guest list (very limited).
Purchase tickets here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/shack15-af...
May 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Issa and I are DJing at the Shack15 Happy Hour the next two Fridays — May 9 and May 16. Groovy/soulful/disco-y tunes with one of the best views of the bay. Join us from 5-8p. Also $5 wine before 6p!
HMU for guest list (very limited).
Purchase tickets here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/shack15-af...
HMU for guest list (very limited).
Purchase tickets here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/shack15-af...
As a DJ, looking for tracks you’ll play is like pulling on threads and kissing frogs. Once in a while you find a pot of gold.
April 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
As a DJ, looking for tracks you’ll play is like pulling on threads and kissing frogs. Once in a while you find a pot of gold.
“Fake it till you make it” taken to the extreme and gone horribly wrong. 😔
I can’t tell you the amount of contempt real coders have for Musk’s stolen valor at pretending to be technical. His years (decades?) of pseudo-code revealing that he doesn’t actually know how software works are so offensive to genuinely talented developers that they’ve always hated him.
elon could fake being a business and technology genius forever and everyone would have thrown cash at him endlessly, but no, he had to pretend to be a poster and gamer tok and America was like hold up
March 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“Fake it till you make it” taken to the extreme and gone horribly wrong. 😔
Reposted by Fred Zirdung
With the earth being flat, what could go wrong?
I've decided to go totally off-grid. I'm only using polar coordinates now
February 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
With the earth being flat, what could go wrong?
😂😂😂
"This is an engineering sprint whose inevitable finish line is the unwinding of the social contract. Democracy doesn’t die in darkness after all; it dies in JIRA tickets filed by Palantir alums."
February 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
😂😂😂
Do you want to shake your booty? Come to Shelter in Encinitas (San Diego) tonight. FREE. 10p - 1:30a.
February 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Do you want to shake your booty? Come to Shelter in Encinitas (San Diego) tonight. FREE. 10p - 1:30a.
😂😂😂
Spotted in the missed connections section of the local Little Village magazine.
January 28, 2025 at 3:40 AM
😂😂😂
Reposted by Fred Zirdung
Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
More good news for those looking to exit Meta’s social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes. The soon-to-launch app is powered by the same technology that…
tcrn.ch
January 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
Whoa. Here is what a $9 pack of cigarettes cost to have delivered in San Francisco. (I ordered these for a close friend on her birthday)
November 25, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Whoa. Here is what a $9 pack of cigarettes cost to have delivered in San Francisco. (I ordered these for a close friend on her birthday)
Nice try phishers and hackers. Sneaky for sure. I bet many folks would not notice the domain change.
November 23, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Nice try phishers and hackers. Sneaky for sure. I bet many folks would not notice the domain change.
This chart is one of the best examples I’ve seen of how correlation could be confused with causation.
Does organic food consumption cause autism?
No.
But this is how people sound when they try to suggest correlation is the same as causation about other things that aren’t related.
We need better science education and critical thinking.
No.
But this is how people sound when they try to suggest correlation is the same as causation about other things that aren’t related.
We need better science education and critical thinking.
November 15, 2024 at 10:50 PM
This chart is one of the best examples I’ve seen of how correlation could be confused with causation.
Reposted by Fred Zirdung
Remember the rules here: Don’t ever engage, just block.
It’s still a lot of randos coming into posts to antagonize or debate on purpose. Dont fall for the okeedoke. If the vibes are weird block
Also remember that you can detach quotes, hide bad replies, and blocking here is nuclear
It’s still a lot of randos coming into posts to antagonize or debate on purpose. Dont fall for the okeedoke. If the vibes are weird block
Also remember that you can detach quotes, hide bad replies, and blocking here is nuclear
November 14, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Remember the rules here: Don’t ever engage, just block.
It’s still a lot of randos coming into posts to antagonize or debate on purpose. Dont fall for the okeedoke. If the vibes are weird block
Also remember that you can detach quotes, hide bad replies, and blocking here is nuclear
It’s still a lot of randos coming into posts to antagonize or debate on purpose. Dont fall for the okeedoke. If the vibes are weird block
Also remember that you can detach quotes, hide bad replies, and blocking here is nuclear
Reposted by Fred Zirdung
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #134,322!
October 2, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #134,322!
The sun is sssslllllooooowwwwlllly setting. It’s 9:20 and still very light outside.
July 7, 2023 at 4:24 AM
The sun is sssslllllooooowwwwlllly setting. It’s 9:20 and still very light outside.
Happy Father's Day to all the dads who are still with us, and those who are not.
June 18, 2023 at 11:15 PM
Happy Father's Day to all the dads who are still with us, and those who are not.