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Jesse Tomchak
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Firm believer that technology is awesome, the the ability to create and contribute to software is possible from anyone.
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current mood
July 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.
March 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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mercedes, porsche, and volkswagen having to fight for the silver medal of "most socially fraught cars to own re: perceptions of nazi ties" is the greatest upset in business history
“so i bought a mercedes,” this country is amazing
"Two weeks ago, I was called a Nazi.”
March 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Coming to grips with American imperialism.
a man in a military uniform is asking are we the baddies .
ALT: a man in a military uniform is asking are we the baddies .
media.tenor.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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✅ Hidden costs & complexities of serverless architectures
✅ Why serverless doesn't actually mean no servers
✅ When serverless makes sense
✅ How to balance simplicity, cost & performance

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Riverside.FM | Webinar
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February 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Using React in 2025 is longer “simple” and “fast” i think of it as legacy software.
February 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Serverless as thee core building block for applications is an absolute dead end.
February 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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no one wants to work anymore
January 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
www.youtube.com/live/8u2MkQX...
Transforming Composition by Kyle Simpson
First Func Prog Sweden 2025
YouTube video by Func Prog Sweden
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I asked chatgtp to summarize the recent Jack Smith report in a more palpable style

Opening Scene:

Done Done

Voiceover:
“In the criminal justice system, the pursuit of justice often collides with the corridors of power. This is the story of one such case.”
January 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Pretty these is a scene from Blade Runner 2049
Los Angeles January 2025
January 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Secondhand cars kill. Especially children.
Like smoking a cigarette, driving a giant SUV/pickup endangers anyone nearby.

The narrative power of secondhand smoke galvanized the anti-tobacco movement in the 1980s – and it could do the same for car bloat today.

My deep dive, in Vox 🧵

www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.
www.vox.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The new train will connect Beijing and Shanghai in just 3 hours and 20 minutes.

Here are some US city pairs that are a similar distance apart:
- NYC-CHI
- CHI-ATL
- DC-ATL
- ATL-NYC
- ATL-MIA
- CLT-BOS
- ORL-DC

www.scmp.com/news/china/a...
China unveils the future of high-speed rail with a next-gen prototype
The CR450 is expected to become the fastest commercial vehicle of its kind and has been several years in the making.
www.scmp.com
December 30, 2024 at 4:03 PM
The truth real does hurt
happy “I’m gonna start a side project” holidays
December 22, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Well that’s fun.
December 21, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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How do you design an app that handles dense information but still feels fast and intuitive? That’s exactly what @liss.bsky.social and @benricem.bsky.social achieved with Callsheet. Learn how they built a beautifully crafted tool for movie and TV fans using Sketch. https://skt.ch/callsheet
December 20, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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I guess I am always making progress 😃
December 21, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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today's wtf javascript moment brought to you by document.all
December 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM
machinelearning.apple.com/research/red...

Hell freezes over after Apple works with Nvidia for the first time since ‘06 GPU overheating debacle torched their working relationship.
Accelerating LLM Inference on NVIDIA GPUs with ReDrafter
Accelerating LLM inference is an important ML research problem, as auto-regressive token generation is computationally expensive and…
machinelearning.apple.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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NEVER underestimate the power of self-adhesive vinyl.
December 20, 2024 at 12:00 PM
That is one hell of a productive year!
expo.dev Expo @expo.dev · Dec 18
👏 Trying to narrow down the highlights from 2024 is a harrowing endeavor. But @jonsamp.dev, our Head of Product, knows that sometimes you have to look back before you can look forward.

Enjoy this buffet of 2024 𝝠 Expo highlights and a sneak peek at our plans for 2025.

expo.dev/blog/2024-ye...
2024 year in review
2024 was a big year at Expo. We shipped SDK 50, 51, 52 and plenty of other new tools and services. Let's take a look at the highlights.
expo.dev
December 19, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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"Stop asking why schools don't have bulletproof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That's the question that needs to be asked,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes
December 17, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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Touching to have Spotify celebrate the 1-year anniversary of my layoff by demonstrating that they could not, in fact, still do Wrapped just as well without me.
December 4, 2024 at 5:41 PM