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Iā€™ve been wrongly reading ā€œcodesignā€ as ā€œco-designā€ instead of ā€œcode signā€ :smh:

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Did the Mr. Robot team ever release this song without the show sounds?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw3PtAg7b4A

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@manton .bar == ā€¦backup archive?

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@evan ak.

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I have two more domains registered there.
Iā€™m moving both.

But one needs a dozen real email accounts (not just forwarding aliases).

šŸ“¬ What is a better and non-Google hosted email option?

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They claim that their $150 renewal fee is out of their control and set up by the upstream TLD owner which is not true šŸ¤®

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āŒ I can no longer recommend domain registrar HoverĢ².com āŒ

They pulled some GoDaddy level shit on me.

Phone support was adversarial with me and wanted $300+ (fee + renewal) for a domain I let expire.

I waited until their registrar hold expired, then re-registered with DNSimple for way less. šŸŽ‰

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I donā€™t know non-English languages well enough to make a broader statement about linguisticisms in general

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:Exclamation! Adjectives adverbly enter chat:

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English is always verbing nouns and nouning verbs in America. Am I right.

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Future water wars will include a Battle of Lake Vostok front

And other under ice lakes in Antarctica

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Idea: EOL planning built into software ownership

A human centric *end of life* planning

When a maintainer goes radio silenceā€¦
When a code owner diesā€¦

Who inherits it?
What are we doing about this?
In Ruby land, could we put this into .gemspec files?
In a signed EOL.md/LEGACY.md file or something?

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3D satellite maps are pretty dang cool

\"Screenshot

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Portland, Oregon has a Heat Advisory for May 3, 2026

> HEAT ADVISORY remains in effect
> from 8AM to 11PM PDT Sunday...
>
> WHAT...temperatures up to 90 degrees F expected.
> Significant cooling expected overnight.

Heat advisory. In May.

\"Screenshot

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Itā€™s exhausting and insulting. The creators who do this think so little of their viewers that they assume we wonā€™t clock this pattern.

Just do better.

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Itā€™s so blindingly obvious when an LLM wrote/edited a YouTube video script. Even when itā€™s performed by a human.

Not detectable, not noticeable, not apparent. Obvious.

That negative triple pattern.

But *hereā€™s the really thing*, I can also tell because it uses this pattern too.

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I reeeeally hate me some video thumbnail clickbait!

If you have to lie in your thumbnail to get me to click (and maaaaaybe watch) your video, then:

A) Make better videos
2) Rethink your life choices

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25,950

Days since Chicago Cubs won a World Series home game and Game 5, 2016: 25,950

71 years
1945ā€“2016
25,950 days

---

I have lots to say about Cubsā€™ 2015 & 2016 postseasons, but just this right now.

25,950 days.

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Happy May Day! šŸ–¤šŸ“

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ā€œas if there were two columns, but the second column is nothingnessā€

ā€¦dark

time to sign off and go touch grass

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@pointlessone friendly unsolicited communication advice: dial back your confidence setting by ~20% :)

we agree that making cross platform native apps was/is hard, with crummy results

but, *I* don't care about cross platform with unified UI. *I* only care about macOS/iOS (for certain things).

I even said as much in my post that you're replying to:

> - letā€™s assume macOS/iOS only for now

so. if we forget cross platform, for a moment, does that change your perspective?

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ā‰ļø What would it take for there to be an ā€œElectronā€ but actually native?

- letā€™s assume macOS/iOS only for now
- I donā€™t mean ā€œwrite a native app in JS (+HTML+CSS)ā€
- I mean ā€œthe thing that people reach for when making a native app quickly easilyā€

Is the answer just ā€œlearn Swift/SwiftUIā€?

2/2

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āš›ļø A not fully formed thoughtā€¦ about Electron apps.

People use Electron to build ā€œnativeā€ apps.
Because itā€™s there.
Itā€™s cross platform.
Itā€™s Javascript land.
And thatā€™s what they know.

1/2

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ā€œItā€™s like podcasts ā€” but for reading\"

Funny turn of phrase / sign of the times.

- - -

Whereas in mid-aughts, it was:

ā€œItā€™s like blogs ā€” but for listeningā€

\"Screenshot

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šŸŽ A radical idea: Apple should open source Xcode (and friends)

Let the massive user base of iOS/macOS developers help make the tooling better faster stronger

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Congratulations to everyone who worked toward Zed 1.0!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Bns1T77HM

\"Your last next editorā€

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0

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Today I was reminded that: Too Many Cooks šŸŽ¶

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8

Remember that day when it came out, with no preannouncement or explanation? What a different a different time on the (social) internet! RIP.

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Iā€™ve spent all weekend researching flamingos, and itā€™s been an absolute blast!

And Iā€™ve actually been keeping notes, not just hyperfixated rabbit holing!

Exclamation!

šŸ¦©

(not gonna talk about it online yet, but if you wanna know about it, ask me in person sometime)

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Flamingo collective nouns:
- Accepted: colony, stand
- BEST: flamboyance

šŸ¦©āœØ

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@pointlessone @drbrain my point was not at all about feasibility or fear or whatever

It was about YouTube ding dongs always doing their tropes

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:45 minute really well produced youtube about the potential existential danger from quoteunquote super intelligence to humans, civilization, and all of life:

> So what can you do about it? Head over here to take a 3 minute survey and sign up for our newsletter. We donā€™t sell your data, promise!

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IMO, dropping support for a recent minor version of Rails in a gemā€™s patch/tiny version is absolutely unhinged šŸ˜³

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What is this kind of dancing called?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8X2bcjTELs

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Today I settle all family businessā€¦

- Wash dishes
- Cycle laundry
- Mow lawn

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Head cannon: Joy Kwon is post-grad Annie Kim

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@apptorium got it. Thanks!

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@apptorium So any process that can read files on disk can read the Apptorium storage of licenses, et al?

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@apptorium is it encrypted at all?

","url":"https://ruby.social/users/veganstraightedge/statuses/116401263501365007","date_published":"2026-04-14T04:52:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Shane Becker","url":"https://ruby.social/@veganstraightedge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Frubysocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F255%2F431%2F217%2F481%2F068%2Foriginal%2Fcc3337871c54cd27.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"veganstraightedge@ruby.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-14 04:52","date_timestamp":1776142326,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88208181","content_html":"

@apptorium How does Apptorium store any licenses/info that I add to the app?

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And most importantlyā€¦

Whatā€™s with today today?

https://youtu.be/LkoOfEyMUkM

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https://youtu.be/YQyaFKi2L8k

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I am guided by a force much more powerful than luck

https://youtu.be/49lmleNp4a4

","url":"https://ruby.social/users/veganstraightedge/statuses/116370873377544664","date_published":"2026-04-08T20:03:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Shane Becker","url":"https://ruby.social/@veganstraightedge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Frubysocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F255%2F431%2F217%2F481%2F068%2Foriginal%2Fcc3337871c54cd27.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"veganstraightedge@ruby.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-08 20:03","date_timestamp":1775678609,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87862176","content_html":"

ā€œDamn the man, save the Empireā€

https://youtu.be/_pAII6UO810

","url":"https://ruby.social/users/veganstraightedge/statuses/116370873276451310","date_published":"2026-04-08T20:03:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Shane Becker","url":"https://ruby.social/@veganstraightedge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Frubysocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F255%2F431%2F217%2F481%2F068%2Foriginal%2Fcc3337871c54cd27.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"veganstraightedge@ruby.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-08 20:03","date_timestamp":1775678608,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87862177","content_html":"

https://youtu.be/fJmrWN_kCqs

","url":"https://ruby.social/users/veganstraightedge/statuses/116370873310687192","date_published":"2026-04-08T20:03:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Shane Becker","url":"https://ruby.social/@veganstraightedge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Frubysocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F255%2F431%2F217%2F481%2F068%2Foriginal%2Fcc3337871c54cd27.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"veganstraightedge@ruby.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-08 20:03","date_timestamp":1775678608,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87862175","content_html":"

Sugar High

https://youtu.be/jwIYdlO7yWk

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*ā€” even though parts of the US government still say itā€™s not a quoteunquote Warā„¢ and Congress never declared war šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø

","url":"https://ruby.social/users/veganstraightedge/statuses/116366496616738094","date_published":"2026-04-08T01:30:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Shane Becker","url":"https://ruby.social/@veganstraightedge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Frubysocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F255%2F431%2F217%2F481%2F068%2Foriginal%2Fcc3337871c54cd27.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"veganstraightedge@ruby.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-08 01:30","date_timestamp":1775611825,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87809246","content_html":"

@Ashedryden I continue to be _shocked but not surprised_

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Asking for a me. For a project.

","url":"https://ruby.social/users/veganstraightedge/statuses/116359784556715608","date_published":"2026-04-06T21:03:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Shane Becker","url":"https://ruby.social/@veganstraightedge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Frubysocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F255%2F431%2F217%2F481%2F068%2Foriginal%2Fcc3337871c54cd27.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"veganstraightedge@ruby.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-06 21:03","date_timestamp":1775509407,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87622179","content_html":"

This YouTube video (1hr) tells the long story of Moebius and his impact/influence on many genres

This link goes to the little part about just Star Wars and George Lucas

https://youtu.be/QWaCsteIYig?si=bIVcR-J9Vt5T-ssc&t=2123

","url":"https://ruby.social/users/veganstraightedge/statuses/116349890994828654","date_published":"2026-04-05T03:07:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Shane Becker","url":"https://ruby.social/@veganstraightedge","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.masto.host%2Frubysocial%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F255%2F431%2F217%2F481%2F068%2Foriginal%2Fcc3337871c54cd27.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"veganstraightedge@ruby.social"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-05 03:07","date_timestamp":1775358444,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87622180","content_html":"

I noticed this today while watching a video by @mikaylajlaird.bsky.socialā€™s YouTube channel all about comics, which Iā€™m really enjoying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh15Rh9frF0&t=169s

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