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\n iPhone Trade In-flation: b10g.xyz
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/codybrom/97174457","date_published":"2026-09-08T17:12:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Cody Bromley","url":"https://b10g.xyz","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F31%2F1322340.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"codybrom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-08 17:12","date_timestamp":1788887567,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"97170985","content_html":"Getting Back on My Fictional Horse: b10g.xyz
","summary":"A decade of reading for knowledge made me forget how to read for fun. I thought I was a bad reader, but I just hadn’t found what I liked yet.","url":"https://b10g.xyz/2026/09/08/getting-back-on-my-fictional/","date_published":"2026-09-08T16:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Cody Bromley","url":"https://b10g.xyz","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F31%2F1322340.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"codybrom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-08 16:00","date_timestamp":1788883200,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mstdn.social/@codybrom/117236230115588677","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3fj6fblfrzeth5sjkxw22wcd/post/3muzf35yjsq23"]}},{"id":"97170662","content_html":"@manton And if I can throw in one more idea, it’d be to allow themes from private repos!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/codybrom/97170662","date_published":"2026-09-08T15:46:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Cody Bromley","url":"https://b10g.xyz","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F31%2F1322340.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"codybrom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-08 15:46","date_timestamp":1788882415,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"97170267","content_html":"@manton An API for updating/publishing theme updates! Would love to be able to deploy a new version of my site theme via a GitHub action.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/codybrom/97170267","date_published":"2026-09-08T15:37:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Cody Bromley","url":"https://b10g.xyz","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F31%2F1322340.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"codybrom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-08 15:37","date_timestamp":1788881854,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"97130176","content_html":"Book Report — The Small Stuff: b10g.xyz
","summary":"","url":"https://b10g.xyz/2026/09/07/book-report-the-small-stuff/","date_published":"2026-09-07T22:03:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Cody Bromley","url":"https://b10g.xyz","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F31%2F1322340.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"codybrom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-07 22:03","date_timestamp":1788818600,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mstdn.social/@codybrom/117232016976312764","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3fj6fblfrzeth5sjkxw22wcd/post/3muxj7d2bva2v","https://www.threads.com/@codybrom/post/DdAI_u6m8sG"]}},{"id":"97129612","content_html":"I still haven’t been meeting my personal writing goals, but I’m not gonna mope about it in blog posts anymore. Just gotta write more.
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\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3fj6fblfrzeth5sjkxw22wcd/post/3muwy76mgnk2k","date_published":"2026-09-07T16:59:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Cody Bromley","url":"https://b10g.xyz","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F31%2F1322340.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"codybrom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-07 16:59","date_timestamp":1788800364,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96895299","content_html":"@manton I’m a Thunder fan so I get it and have similar feelings about KD. The key difference is the league has limited options under the CBA for Kawhi, but his trade is still under their review and its hard to imagine they allow the Clips to get draft picks from it when they just took so many away.
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","summary":"I don’t typically write movie reviews, but after seeing Coyote vs. Acme I only had one real grievance I felt kept it from being an all-timer. (No spoilers ahead.)","url":"https://b10g.xyz/2026/08/30/shade-of-the-art/","date_published":"2026-08-30T19:51:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Cody Bromley","url":"https://b10g.xyz","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F31%2F1322340.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"codybrom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-30 19:51","date_timestamp":1788119474,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mstdn.social/@codybrom/117186200233624891","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3fj6fblfrzeth5sjkxw22wcd/post/3mud647k5tp2m","https://www.threads.com/@codybrom/post/DcrTjCeGxdF"]}},{"id":"96628126","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/photos/100x/https%3A%2F%2Fa.ltrbxd.com%2Fresized%2Ffilm-poster%2F1%2F0%2F8%2F9%2F0%2F8%2F8%2F1089088-coyote-vs-acme-0-600-0-900-crop.jpg%3Fv%3D735eb10cc7\")
\nPeter Lorre stars as a MacGuffin in a maul-teasing, fowl-conning farce about the lengths people will go to for the things they want.
\nThe film is a love letter to golden age cartoons and film. Exactly what a no-taste exec would want to kill.
\nI give it 4 beep beeps out of 5.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/codybrom/96588917","date_published":"2026-08-29T03:32:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Cody Bromley","url":"https://b10g.xyz","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F31%2F1322340.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"codybrom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-29 03:32","date_timestamp":1787974347,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96335104","content_html":"'Til the Clouds Come Home: b10g.xyz
","summary":"My family first got online with Prodigy dial-up when I was 8. We connected to it via a local phone number, and so I thought that meant the offices of our local phone operator down the street was where “internet” lived. As I got older I began to understand it was far more complex than that.","url":"https://b10g.xyz/2026/08/24/til-the-clouds-come-home/","date_published":"2026-08-24T23:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Cody Bromley","url":"https://b10g.xyz","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F31%2F1322340.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"codybrom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-24 23:00","date_timestamp":1787612400,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96046804","content_html":"@matthewhurst They’re not 100% deterministic, but fiddling with options can get you to a small number of very semantically equal outputs. (See: speakerdeck.com/codybrom/…).
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\nAnother revealed his name:
\n“You can call me Bruce the Wonder Yak”
\n#Apple50
@codybrom.com If you left older versions of Final Cut Pro running for 12 hours or more, you might come back to a small brown creature grazing a patch of grass on your timeline. There were other ways to intentionally trigger him, but this was the most fun one.
\n#Apple50