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@hopsandsmoke.bsky.social
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I write code and occasionally it works.
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Not sure if it directly counts as memorabilia, but my grandparents had custom engraved pewter cups made for a random Bengals game in 1972 vs the Raiders. There was nothing on the line as far as I can tell and the Bengals lost. My grandparents kept them for another 30+ years before giving them to me.
A pewter cup that has "Bengals vs Raiders 11-12-72" engraved on it
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The smoked turkey was damn good. Both the white and dark meat was juicy and decadent. The skin was a tiny bit darker than I would like but part of that was the bird itself (pretty red skin from a local farm). The @actioncookbook.com hot cranberry sauce was an excellent addition.
Smoked turkey laying on a wooden cutting board before carving. The skin is a glistening dark brown Post-carving shot of the turkey on the wooden cutting board from the previous shot. The breast meat is laying on the cutting board while the wings, legs, drumsticks, and thigh meat are on a white platter in the back of the frame Action cookbook's hot cranberry sauce in a stainless steel saucepan
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Dry brine commenced. Thanks for the reminder. It's been thawing since Thursday and still pretty solid.
A whole turkey sitting on a metal sheet tray and covered with salt for a dry brine
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This asshole, Ringo (2007-21) ate 4 chicken carcasses (one of which was raw) and a pork shoulder bone across his lifetime and never had any ill effects. After the second chicken, @peatandpastry.bsky.social stopped saying we should take him in to get X-rays.
A brown and white Australian cattle dog mix sleeping on a dark purple couch with a Christmas tree in the background
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Cloudflare: please stay down
Screenshot of tech radar's live blog: November 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM (CST) An interesting side-note - it now looks like ChatGPT may also be affected by the Cloudflare outage. The chatbot's site is currently displaying the error message telling users: "please unblock challenges cloudflare.com to proceed" that we've seen elsewhere - so maybe things aren't dying down just yet.
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The Fox feed for the U-17 world cup is going great
A test pattern for a Hitomi MatchBox with a private IP address, QR code, signal strength, and the FS2 logo on it
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
AT&T Fiber is having a major outage across Alabama. Yay.
Small map of Alabama showing outages in and around Huntsville, the Shoals, Birmingham, Mobile, and Auburn Screenshot of AT&T outage notification showing that the internet is down and "we're working to fix a network issue in your area. We expect things to be back to normal by Tue 11/4/2025 4:00 AM CST"
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Serendipitous timing from @effinbirds.com and @defector.com
Screenshot of two blue sky posts: first the defector story titled "get a job, asshole!" With a picture of Trump followed by an Effin' Birds painting: "what is this motherfucker up to now?"
October 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It would be fun to see this chart for Louisville without Lamar Jackson
A table showing Florida State by starting QB since 2013: Jameis Winston and Jordan Travis combined for an 84.4 win percentage, 80.1 total QBR, 162 touchdowns, 52 turnovers, and 8.45 yards per dropback. Everyone else combined for a 49.5 win percentage, 52.5 total QBR, 141 touchdowns, 101 turnovers, and 6.22 yards per dropback.
October 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Which is also something I say to my dog multiple times a day
A black and off-white great Pyrenees mix laying on a brown laminate floor with just his nose perched on the soft gray dog bed in front of him and his tail wagging in the background. He's looking at the camera with a slightly confused expression.
October 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Am I doing something wrong?
A box showing the question "what state is this school in" with the response "UNABLE TO ANSWER. I can only answer questions about location (state/city), conference, enrollment, stadium capacity, region, and founding year. Please try a different question"
October 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Go with the full College GameDay sign approach
black letters hand-glued onto a neon green posterboard reading "ICE hacked its algorithm to detain my other sign" in all caps
October 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Heads up: your code snippets get truncated on mobile
A screenshot of the blog post I'm responding to showing a code snippet that is horizontally truncated due to my phone being in portrait orientation
October 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
We did it!

It's time for #DjangoCon closing remarks from Keanya. @djangocon.us
Keanya tries to fix her laptop display settings at the lectern while an A/V tech stands to her left
September 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Last talk of #DjangoCon! @flipperpa.bsky.social is going to give us a talk titled "what a decade!"

@djangocon.us
Tim gets ready at the lectern while a plush octopus-like creature gives us a mischievous look sitting on the lectern
September 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Second to last talk! It's time for Eric to talk about django-simple-deploy @ehmatthes.bsky.social

@djangocon.us #DjangoCon
Eric looks down at the confidence monitor off-frame from the lectern
September 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
No pressure, but Micah has to follow up the #DjangoCon panel with a talk on Django without the GIL @djangocon.us
Micah standing where the lectern would be (it got moved to the side for the panel) reaching to his right
September 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Time for the #DjangoCon panel! We'll have @webology.bsky.social, @rachellcalhoun.bsky.social, @veldakiara.bsky.social, @bajoran.engineer, @nessita.bsky.social, Peter, and Tim talking about 20 years of Django

@djangocon.us
The panelists on stage with Velda conveniently blocking Natalia along with Kudzayi checking his phone before introducing everyone
September 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Next up: Mario talking about A(I) modest proposal #DjangoCon

@djangocon.us
Mario plugging in his laptop at the lectern
September 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Next up: Peter from @lincolnloop.com talks about ten years of High Performance Django (great book!)

@djangocon.us #DjangoCon
Peter applauds Emanuel, who introduced him, for saying it was his first time at DjangoCon US Emanuel stands in front of the stage introducing Peter
September 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Next up, we have @jacobian.org @thibaudcolas.bsky.social @fwiles.bsky.social @paulox.net giving a community update from @djangoproject.com

#DjangoCon @djangocon.us
Thibaud hooks his laptop up while Afi introduces them and Frank, Paolo, and Jacob talk behind her
September 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Time for #DjangoCon day 3! After a great intro by Afi, it's time for a keynote by Marlene: Django in the Age of AI

@djangocon.us
Marlene setting her laptop at the lectern while Peter watches from behind and Afi walks off to the audience left
September 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Last #DjangoCon talk of the day: @ryancheley.bsky.social talking about model comments

@djangocon.us
Ryan standing behind the lectern waiting for his talk to start
September 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Second to last talk of the day: @kattni.bsky.social on how making open source communities better starts with you @djangocon.us #DjangoCon
Kattni standing away from the lectern holding a tablet with her slide notes in one hand and a remote in the other
September 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
NGL, running the debug toolbar on production kind of scares me.

@djangocon.us #DjangoCon
A slide with white text on a black background: "what is proactive profiling" - profiling to understand rather than to fix - looking at broad patterns across a site, e.g. very basic data analysis - combined with drill downs - ideally on production data - third party services: sentry, new relic, data dog - alternatives: use open source or roll your own for low fidelity stats, django-debug-toolbar on production - profiling regularly
September 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM