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John Tyler

@jcmtyler

He/him. Doing my part to signal boost by 0.00000000001% Get that dilly on the bonnet! Software engineer (Serverless, Kotlin/Java, Flutter, TDD), squash player, originally from Texas, lived all over the US + Saudi + UK, currently in Maryland.

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Taking the long way around?

06.03.2026 01:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've seen the Crowne Plaza mentioned, any idea about the other one?

06.03.2026 01:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nightmare

28.02.2026 19:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In my case it wouldn't be too bad because we're already mixed Java + Kotlin, but it's totally bad form and should be removed.

28.02.2026 19:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: A programmer's loss of identity

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26.02.2026 21:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: LibreWolf

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26.02.2026 21:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Dave's Paper Notes: A Tutorial for the Sam Command Language

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26.02.2026 21:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Make a Web Font Subset

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26.02.2026 21:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Why I Read Technical Books

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26.02.2026 21:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Faceclick: A lightweight Emoji picker with keyword search

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26.02.2026 21:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Ratfactor's Illustrated Guide to Folding Fitted Sheets

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26.02.2026 21:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Super Easy* 2-Stage Git Deployment

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26.02.2026 21:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Stack Display (cardboard desk toy for small paper notes)

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26.02.2026 21:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Store as HTML, Edit as LML

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26.02.2026 21:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Death to WYSIWYG!

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26.02.2026 21:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: HTML WARDen (a wiki)

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26.02.2026 21:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: SVG Sourcecode Shapes (A Little Ruby Script that can make a self-portrait in SVG)

Read more: http://ratfactor.com/cards/code-shape-rbhttp://ratfactor.com/cards/code-shape-rb

26.02.2026 21:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: The Project Stack! (an actual paper stack)

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26.02.2026 21:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Small Programs and Languages

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26.02.2026 21:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Implementing a Forth

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26.02.2026 21:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Making a first Luanti mod: A new block type appears!

Read more: http://ratfactor.com/luanti/first_modhttp://ratfactor.com/luanti/first_mod

26.02.2026 21:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: The One-Tree Website

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26.02.2026 21:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Forever Worlds

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26.02.2026 21:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Of CSS and Palm Oil

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26.02.2026 21:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: I learned Snobol and then wrote a toy Forth

Read more: http://ratfactor.com/snobol/http://ratfactor.com/snobol/

26.02.2026 21:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Explanation of the Ratfactor Feed

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26.02.2026 21:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Go read Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and then come back and tell me that LLMs can replace human programmers

Read more: http://ratfactor.com/cards/naur-vs-llmshttp://ratfactor.com/cards/naur-vs-llms

26.02.2026 21:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: Famsite - a tiny social site for families

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26.02.2026 21:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me

Read more: http://ratfactor.com/tech-nopehttp://ratfactor.com/tech-nope

26.02.2026 21:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RSS Bot: A programmer's loss of identity

Read more: http://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2http://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

25.02.2026 21:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0