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Mark Fletcher

@wingedpig.com

Founder: Groups.io. Previously: Bloglines, ONElist/eGroups/Yahoo Groups. Twins dad. #golang stan.

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I was in a New York Times article once about single guys who have cats. (Not single for a long time now, still have cats).

05.03.2026 03:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh man, my pre-teen self thought Cathy Lee Crosby sure was pretty.

05.03.2026 02:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Couldn’t get tickets, so we’re going to try for Jan 2027.

04.03.2026 05:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Once again trying to trap the stray cat. It went in the trap all the way, but somehow didn’t trigger it! Is the cat too small/too light? Maybe. Feral cat trapping is hard.

03.03.2026 11:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I got my printer at Micro Center in Santa Clara today, and honestly it was great. Real Fry's Electronics at it's peak vibe (minus the weird stuff that Fry's always had). Happy that my kids were able to experience something like that, and they loved it.

01.03.2026 04:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It already helped me achieve my first goal: stopping me from doom-scrolling today.

01.03.2026 03:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

if the media had any integrity β€” and it doesn’t anymore β€” they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

28.02.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 4901 πŸ” 1610 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 47

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

28.02.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 26179 πŸ” 8859 πŸ’¬ 286 πŸ“Œ 331

Really tired of being angry all the time.

28.02.2026 06:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ugh. Here we go.

28.02.2026 06:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

lol. If my son sees that….

28.02.2026 06:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Other than for whistles, do you find yourself using it a lot?

28.02.2026 05:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sitting here looking at 3D printers. Talk me into or out of getting one.

28.02.2026 05:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Evergreen, I know, but fuck this drunken asshole.

27.02.2026 20:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hyperion was a great book. RIP.

27.02.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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If AI Is Doing the Investigation, Version the Investigation AI sessions contain the reasoning behind your commits. That reasoning should be versioned alongside the code.

New Blog Post: wingedpig.com/2026/02/26/i...

26.02.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I spent a good chunk of my 20s working for a couple of startups that failed. Which was painful. But I’m still friends with several of the people I worked with then, and it taught me that I needed to be in charge of my own destiny, work wise.

18.02.2026 23:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Groups.io | Email Discussion Groups & Listserv Alternative Groups.io is a modern email group service and listserv alternative with no ads. Create mailing lists with calendars, files, wikis, and more. Better than Google Groups or Yahoo Groups.

If you want to get off Google Groups or otherwise need a group collaboration platform, I humbly submit the service I run, groups.io.

15.02.2026 04:55 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Our Comcast internet was down most of yesterday because copper thieves took down some utility lines leading into town.

Kinda feels like a metaphor.

12.02.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you are of age, or if you are genetically predisposed, please get a colonoscopy. It could save your life.

11.02.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Code has always been the easy part When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in...

A good essay by Kellan on AI and change, in software. laughingmeme.org//2026/02/09/...

10.02.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting. They’ve developed these techniques, but what are they actually building with them?

07.02.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I was behind him in line at the grocery store about a year ago. Of course didn’t say anything to him, but after he checked out, I was like β€œdo you know who that was?!” to the kid doing the checkout. The kid had no idea. And that was my brush with greatness.

06.02.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is surprisingly stressful watching the cat sniff around the trap, but not enter it.

03.02.2026 05:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Watching the security camera to see if the stray cat will enter the trap I’ve set up.

03.02.2026 04:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If I worked at SpaceX, I would be highly unpleased by these financial shenanigans/dilution. But also, I’d never work at SpaceX (or any of Musk’s companies).

02.02.2026 23:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(This is the list, not sure why that didn’t come through.) The thing to keep in mind β€” Big Tech doesn’t define the internet. There is *still* a healthy, thriving independent internet of creators, just like there are stores beyond Walmart and restaurants beyond McDonald’s. Find them, support them.

28.01.2026 13:55 πŸ‘ 127 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

25.01.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 41800 πŸ” 10725 πŸ’¬ 728 πŸ“Œ 328
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Trellis A web-based control plane for your development environment. Manage terminals, services, logs, and git worktrees from one keyboard-driven interface.

Over 11 years running Groups.io, I got tired of rebuilding the same local dev tooling. So I extracted it into an open source project called Trellis β€” services, logs, worktrees, debugging, no containers.

trellis.dev

Would appreciate early feedback if this is your world.

22.01.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Watching the security camera to see if the stray cat comes for the food I just left out. Like a crazy person.

24.01.2026 06:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1