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Ben
@modayil.me
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Software Engineer. Single father to two cats.

About me:
💻 Coding, 🎮 PC Gaming, 📖 Anime/Manga, 🏴‍☠️ One Piece TCG, 🛠️ Crafts, 🧠 ADHD
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I know the Dia browser is supposed to get the old features it had from Arc, but I'm pretty confident it will actually get all those cool features Arc had.
January 1, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Wow. I didn't know you could commit symlinks to a Github repo. I didn't test it on a different computer, but looks like the relationship is preserved when you symlink files locally.
CLAUDE.md symlinked to AGENTS.md but also in a Github repo
September 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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I'm so disconnected from news and weather reports that I often learn there's a storm or hurricane happening from messages from family and friends in other states asking if I'm okay.
August 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Github needs the ability to collapse comments. I have a few long ones from code review bots and the outdated ones still show which makes me scroll to find the actual current one.
August 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The repeated "Your" in each menu item is bothering me this morning. Would be a cool cleanup opportunity with a little UX/UI magic @github.com
Github menu when you click on your profile picture in the top right. There are three main sections and in the first are nine menu items prefixed with "Your" like "Your profile", "Your repositories", "Your Copilot", and so on. Similar for the third section with the repeated "Github" prefix
August 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I had a funny moment with Claude Code while it was updating all the documentation with a new Git workflow for pushing changes to remote. It ended up using the normal method instead of the one it documented. 🙃
August 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
modayil.me
Cloudy days > cloudy rainy days > sunny days

I am debating if I like cloudy rainy days better, but now that I drive I rather the road not be wet.
July 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
modayil.me
so many tabs. help
July 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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brandrick.bsky.social
Unfortunate thumbnail / play button combo
‘Liquid Glass’ text, but the play button obscures the text so it actually reads ‘Liquid ass’.
June 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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isaiahrmartin.bsky.social
Has anyone noticed that the Republican discourse about North Carolina’s storm recovery vanished after the election? Nothing. Not a peep from them.

Probably because they don’t want you to know THEY LITERALLY DENIED FUNDING FOR NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK!

Crazy how that works!
April 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Honestly, me too.
unraveledpress.com unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Apr 19
An important message.
Sign reading "so tired of living in an Onion article"
April 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
modayil.me
I left my job two weeks ago (after a two weeks notice). It’s been so peaceful doing hobbies and life in general because I don’t have to structure my time under the weighted notion of “Ugh. I have work in the morning” type of feeling.

But I do need to figure out next steps soon.
April 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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I want to learn Vim but I screwed myself with custom movement shortcuts that contradict the vim “hjkl” movement and it’s so hard to unlearn. I’m used to smaller keyboards so I use a layer/fn key plus “jikl” to move around.
April 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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I find it crazy that Toyota’s car OS has a button to set the time automatically, but you have to hit a “Daylight Savings” toggle separately when it is is daylight savings…
March 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Okay. I “have to” upgrade my 8gb Macbook air M2 to an M4.

Running a Svelte monorepo and OS management apps is driving me insane. I think it mostly boils down to TypeScript hitting over 200-300% CPU usage. There is a two second delay on keypress.

Wish that 10x TypeScript Go port was ready today 😭
March 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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It genuinely pisses me off that so many websites don't default their light/dark mode to your system settings.

I'm looking at you LinkedIn.
March 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Cats are so weird. Mine start to groom each other lovingly, but then decide to sneak a bite/grapple in and then proceed to go back to grooming.
#cats
February 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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unusualwhales.bsky.social
BREAKING: Spain plans to cut workweek to improve work-life balance, per Bloomberg.

The cap on hours will be 37.5 as of the start of next year, down from 40 at present.
February 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Why can't we use one markdown spec between all services 😭

Unless there's a live preview, it's annoying to know if your delimiter is actually doing what you think it is doing...
February 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Woah. There's a Raycast app for posting to BlueSky. Nice!
February 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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The worst part of coming back to a side-project is remembering where you left off...
February 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference, a letter from an alleged X whistleblower.

"What started as US election interference has now spread to other countries. We're currently doing the same thing in Germany and other European nations."

theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
I'm writing this with a heavy heart and no small amount of fear. As a former X (formerly Twitter) employee on an H1B visa, I can't reveal my identity without risking everything, but I can't stay silent any longer about what I saw and was made to do. When Elon Musk took over, everything changed. What started as a social media company became something much darker. I was part of a team that was directly ordered to manipulate Twitter's systems to influence the 2024 US presidential election. It wasn't subtle, and it wasn't ethical. We completely changed how the algorithm worked, pushing pro-Trump and right-wing posts to the top of people's feeds. To make it look balanced, we also boosted some left-wing critics of Democrats, but it was all carefully calculated. These changes didn't just affect Americans - they impacted users worldwide. One of the most disturbing things we did was create thousands of fake accounts using advanced AI systems called Grok and Eliza. These accounts looked completely real and pushed political messages that spread like wildfire. Havn't you noticed they all disappeared? Like magic. We also knowingly allowed foreign governments to manipulate the platform. State-backed groups from Israel, Iran, and Russia were running their own influence campaigns, and because their goals aligned with ours, we looked the other way. Even when they clearly broke the rules, we didn't stop them. Perhaps the most unethical part was how we manufactured news stories. One team would write completely fake articles, while another team would artificially boost their engagement metrics to make them go viral. We specifically targeted certain groups of people, knowing exactly how to manipulate their views and emotions. The moderation team became a tool for our agenda. We systematically silenced anyone who got in our way, enforcing the rules when it suited us and ignoring them when it didn't. Elon Musk himself was deeply involved in these decisions, often joking about being "Black Hat MAGA." What started as US election interference has now spread to other countries. We're currently doing the same thing in Germany and other European nations. The damage we've done is immeasurable, and I don't know if it can ever be fixed. People don't know what's real anymore, and that's exactly what we wanted. The pilot program for the Eliza AI Agent, was election interference. Eliza was release officially in October of 2024, but we had access to it before then thanks to Marc Andreessen. I'm terrified to be writing this, but I had to speak up. I just hope that someone with the power to do something about this sees this letter. You'll know what i’m saying is the truth by Elon's actions to the news someone spoke out. For more evidence look at the docs of Eliza AI Agent software. We left bread crumbs. Yours sincerely, A former employee who can't sleep at night.
January 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Cat fort with a lap desk pillow.
January 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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It makes no sense for websites to not set dark/light mode themes to auto/system by default.
January 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Most problems in the world could be solved if we got rid of Ads.
January 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM