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Yeah! My first port of call was to email everyone, give them a heads up about that pitfall. But then I thought why not automate it so people don't have to remember. Writing the rule was a fun end to the week :)

Thanks to everyone at @perfnow.bsky.social for making us feel welcome and putting on a good conference. Really enjoyed meeting you all! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

On dirait une piste Ableton

I’ve got the stream deck and same. I only have it programmed for rearranging windows right now.

I genuinely like my LinkedIn feed, using it as a milquetoast palate cleanser. I go there ~once a month when I need a tiny bit of safe novelty. Mind you, it baffles me how it holds anyone's attention for long when it is so devoid of shitposts

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Ok this is pretty cool actually https://newatlas.com/robotics/learning-robotic-third-thumb/

I know 🥹 💜

don’t fall off

I think one of the things that made RSS beautiful is that the format was simple enough that a curious undergrad CS student could easily build their own tooling for it: there’s a good reason that “blog with an RSS feed” was the default tutorial project for many years!

Earlier this week, I explained to one of my mentees how in the earlier days of the web, all the blogs had RSS feeds and configuring a feed reader was super easy. She seemed shocked at the idea of a continual cadence of good engineering articles, and it struck me how much we’ve lost. 😢

I'm seriously tempted to build an ATProto app view where we all get 3 ❤️'s to give everyday to 3 of our lucky friends. https://media.tenor.com/w6Ow10J0atMAAAAC/how-do-you-do-fellow-kids-steve-buscemi.gif?hh=498&ww=498

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline [contains quote post or other embedded content]

I still remember walking to the corner mart in the small village I grew up in (it sold groceries, books, and rented VHS/Video Games) and seeing the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past golden box and being absolutely in awe of it - it was always on the top shelf lol

I've been leaning more heavily into sharing my science communication work with actual scientists. It's scary since I'm not in the sciences but I LOVE them. So far it's paid off. And by paid off I mean no one has yelled at me or told me I'm a bad person for trying to make science more accessible.

It’s so weird too. I remember when I got backlash for expressing interest in security when I was a frontend dev and ppl said I didn’t know what I wanted to do lol. But I knew when I before I learned how to code that my ultimate goal was infosec. Hence why I followed so many ppl in that space too [contains quote post or other embedded content]

That’s why I fw ppl like @medus4.com & @lookitup.baby. So many ppl like them always made the community seem so inviting for everyone just by being themselves. That’s why I’ll always be around to help others too

He taught me how to make a good tomato sauce in 1992, before I went to university, explaining a spoonful of sugar (if you couldn't afford balsamic) would offset the acidity, and I think of him whenever I make a tomato sauce, which is often, and what a lovely thing that is

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Frameable line @ashokgelal.bsky.social 💙 > since this is a new beginning, I'm also trying to be less of a lurker and more of a contributor I think this is why we're all feeling the experience is so much different. We're back to conversations instead of passively doom scrolling.

I like them. They are pretty 🤷

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All the good people that I care to follow are here. X feels chaotic, full of ads, buggy, NSFW spams, etc. It feels a bit calmer here, less rage. Look, I'm mostly a lurker (sorry), I follow y'll because I care and like what you posts. And if y'll feel better here and my part is to just join? I'm in!

But since this is a new beginning, I'm also trying to be less of a lurker and more of a contributor, for better or worse. Not good at it at all but I'm trying my best. Oh, now I'm following new strangers & half of them so far been cool/interesting. Over there my list was devs only and feeling rot

I'm so happy I can just scroll and scroll and see art and silly one offs people post

Took me 1.5 years, but finally decided to calm myself by blocking some people on this platform who’ve been acting really weird after I came out as trans. Because I’m kinda starting to enjoy the ride here now and not gonna let those folks ruin it for me.

No matter how much dev experience you have, you'll occasionally mess up your branch and panic-try random Git commands from the internet. The other day I just deleted all the files from the PR and my machine too.

Depends on the font you are using, I suppose. Mine shows the triple equals as markedly distinct by using three parallel lines. But I take your general point...