Laura Abbott
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Laura Abbott
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getting my kid a book about rust for christmas that way when they unwrap it i can tell them they arent following best practices
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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The four horsemen of internet service outages are DNS, BGP, the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe, and a fucked up config file getting propagated through the network, and the result is in: the fourth horseman is what got Cloudflare this time blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
blog.cloudflare.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Normal opinions on programming languages week
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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cool job at a very special computer company

- write TypeScript and Rust
- everyone makes $235k
- fully remote
- everything is open source
Product Engineer / Oxide
oxide.computer
November 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Screw it, I’m installing Linux
Screw it, I’m installing Linux
It’s the year of Linux on my desktop.
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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found my Thanksgiving turkey 🦃
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The HPV vaccine is so good that opportunities to teach colposcopy and LEEP are decreasing because there is far less need.

Yay!
I never tire of seeing the amazing success of HPV vaccination. We are seeing the elimination of a leading oncogenic virus pathogen in real time
(Source: GAVI)
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Is this 404 related to the cloud flare outage or is this vendor support just really bad? Eternal mystery.
November 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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chatgpt is down, post handmade em dashes
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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I don't have "too many tabs open." My tabs are flourishing. Healthy. Bountiful. The ecosystem is thriving.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Toddler is learning about community helpers (teachers fire fighters etc) and announced that astronauts are community helpers
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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speaking of writing, my current contract as a writer at a tech company is up on 12/26 and i don't know if they're renewing me yet so if you are looking for a writer please let me know. i can write a coherent sentence and i've never been romantically entangled with any major political figures
November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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its another terrible day to know how to read
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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what i really want to know is whenaburger
November 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Semiannual reminder that if the holidays are reminding you that you want to help your neighbors, pick a day and put it on your calendar. My homeless friends have told me that they could eat 30 free meals on Thanksgiving if they wanted to, but mid- February or March it all dries up!
November 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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For a brief period in the 1990s, Apple let third parties license its software. What made the program possible, and why did Apple cancel the clones?
The Rise and Fall of Apple’s Mac Clone Experiment
The forgotten, short-lived era of Mac clones: How Apple briefly opened its doors to other manufacturers.
spectrum.ieee.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Office Space was Jennifer Anniston’s best performance
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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My feed right now
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.

So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM