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Mitchell Volk

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Twin Cities, MN based Software Engineer. Dad to two toddlers. Haver of ADHD. I write C# and React for my day job. Someday I’ll get past my executive dysfunction and finish my website. He/him/his

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Had to doublecheck the date on this

07.03.2026 16:00 👍 11681 🔁 3311 💬 363 📌 230

I too have noticed this. I’m not sure when exactly but I think for at least the last month or so

04.03.2026 14:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks!

03.03.2026 14:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My 6 y/o son to me this morning

son: I know everything about Pokémon and I can beat you in a battle.

me: *pushing my glasses up my nose* boy I’ve been playing since 1998.

son: *blank stare*

me: you know…like almost 30 years?

son: dad you’re old

announcer: son used insult. It’s super effective!

03.03.2026 14:42 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From: “The Vulgar Chef”

Miniature eggs he calls egg cereal. Pouring them into a bowl.

From: “The Vulgar Chef” Miniature eggs he calls egg cereal. Pouring them into a bowl.

From: “The Vulgar Chef”

Miniature eggs he calls egg cereal. In a bowl with milk.

From: “The Vulgar Chef” Miniature eggs he calls egg cereal. In a bowl with milk.

Sheesh. Sounds like they’ve never heard of eggs cereal.

03.03.2026 14:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah exactly.

Plus no built in file upload/attachment malware scanning. And Salesforce only has synchronous API endpoints with the exception of a few async bulk upload endpoints.

So…who exfiltrated 30Gb of customer data from our new API?!

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

03.03.2026 14:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks XD

tl;dr another staff engineer suggested we build a thin API wrapper around the Salesforce Platform APIs and expose it as an enterprise solution for all internal teams… which implicitly trusts and forwards Salesforce JWTs from clients.

It’s been an uphill battle saying no we can’t do that.

03.03.2026 14:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Being asked to do the work of a software architect as a sr software engineer for a team with no manager for a project with no owner, requirements, or budget in order to build a case for a promotion to staff engineer sucks butt. This easily falls in the top 3 most dysfunctional things I’ve ever done.

03.03.2026 13:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Next let’s reverse the decision to add more “air” to 3 Musketeers candy bars

03.03.2026 13:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Statement on unlawful assembly, arrests at Whipple Building:
This morning, our deputies issued dispersal orders at an unlawful assembly outside the Whipple Building after individuals blocked roadways, blocked access to local businesses, dumped glass into the street, and threw rocks, ice chunks and water bottles at law enforcement creating a serious public safety hazard.
Arrests are being made.
Freedom of speech and peaceful assembly is a right.
Endangering the public is not. Unlawful activity including blocking roads, intentionally creating hazards and assaultive behavior will not be tolerated.

Statement on unlawful assembly, arrests at Whipple Building: This morning, our deputies issued dispersal orders at an unlawful assembly outside the Whipple Building after individuals blocked roadways, blocked access to local businesses, dumped glass into the street, and threw rocks, ice chunks and water bottles at law enforcement creating a serious public safety hazard. Arrests are being made. Freedom of speech and peaceful assembly is a right. Endangering the public is not. Unlawful activity including blocking roads, intentionally creating hazards and assaultive behavior will not be tolerated.

From what I saw today firsthand it was the sheriffs today constantly escalating at people protesting peacefully. The sheriffs were masked up like ICE while working hard to agitate and provoke the residents they were sworn to protect, all so they could provide security for ICE who murders people.

01.03.2026 17:41 👍 341 🔁 144 💬 9 📌 22
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Kansas invalidates driver’s licenses, birth certificates of over 1,000 transgender residents The Kansas state government has invalidated the driver’s licenses and birth certificates of transgender residents who changed the gender on those documents, in accordance with a law that took effect o...

When fascists take rights away from a group of people, they never stop there. Eventually, they come for everything. Invalidating the drivers licenses of trans people in Kansas is just the start. Who will be next?

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

27.02.2026 13:38 👍 1070 🔁 426 💬 57 📌 45
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FBI and other law enforcement to conduct drug trafficking warrants across the metro The Federal Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement agencies will execute multiple warrants across the metro on Wednesday.

Probably old news by now, but heads up all the same Twin Cities folks.

kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

25.02.2026 18:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

wfh jobs are super cool until the nanny you depend on to watch your 4 y/o is out sick. And then you’re stuck trying to be productive and lead meetings while your child demands your attention.

That’s 8-10 hours of feeling like a bad dad and not being in top form for work.

24.02.2026 14:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Also humming considering that the typical ambient noise generated is that of a fleet of push mowers 24/7

21.02.2026 18:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“.. Shameful — but in a way useful,” he wrote in a post on X on Thursday. “No one should any longer pretend we have a ‘Department of Justice.’ We have a Department of Trump.”

@financialtimes.com @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/6eca...

20.02.2026 00:56 👍 1142 🔁 369 💬 52 📌 23

Damn. The people least deserving of a platform always seem to get one to the detriment of society.

19.02.2026 23:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a cartoon character with red hair and a mustache stands behind a podium and says that 's not a bad idea Alt: A dude from South Park with red hair and a mustache stands behind a podium and says that 's not a bad idea
19.02.2026 19:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

19.02.2026 04:53 👍 4568 🔁 1708 💬 28 📌 37
Jesus, I see what you’ve done for other people, and I want that for me

Jesus, I see what you’ve done for other people, and I want that for me

every American reading the UK news this morning

19.02.2026 10:50 👍 65 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a sign that says " the situation is uncertain " Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a sign that says "the situation is uncertain"

If anyone out there has advice for how to not F-up my first ever chaperone duty for my son’s kindergarten field trip to the Minnesota children’s museum, I’d consider writing you into my will. 5-6 kids seems like a lot of kids to keep track of for half a day.

19.02.2026 02:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Where do you think all that money is coming from Tim? Folks have been out of work for fear of being abducted. People are literally fundraising to help pay their neighbors’ rent because SOMEONE won’t broach the subject of eviction moratorium.

19.02.2026 02:28 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well that’s easily one of the most fucked up things I’ve ever heard of.

17.02.2026 14:22 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That tracks with everything else they’ve done like in the CDC and BLS as well. “The numbers are bad—therefore we won’t be showing the numbers anymore”

14.02.2026 15:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gotta love company town hall meetings

Me:
Hmmm no recording and chat is disabled. I wonder if they’ll address the 40% dip in stock price over the last 12 months and slashing our maximum RSUs from 10% to 5%

Them:
LOL. Let’s do a rapid fire round talking about your favorite colors and things to eat!

12.02.2026 02:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Full stack software development makes me weep a little more every day. I just want to be writing code. Instead I get to muck around in Argo CD to try and figure out why the pods are using a different Postgres connection string than expected. Time for a kubectl crash course I guess

11.02.2026 14:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
US state patrol airplane doing laps

US state patrol airplane doing laps

Yeah actually just checked to see if any of them are marked. Looks like state patrol is getting their laps in tonight.

10.02.2026 01:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m not a plane expert but there have been some pretty damn quiet well lit slow flying planes tonight. I guess they needed something to balance out the drones.

10.02.2026 01:29 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Set off?! You mean further compound?

Jamar Clark (2015)
Philando Castile (2016)
George Floyd (2020)
Daunte Wright (2021)
Amir Locke (2022)
Renee Nicole Good (2026)
Alex Pretti (2026)

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time” -Maya Angelou

#ACAB

08.02.2026 19:52 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Hard hats and dummy plates: Reports of ICE ruses add to fears in Minnesota As the sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota continues, legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of federal agents impersonating construction workers, del...

“At the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis … activists told The Associated Press they had seen agents leaving in vehicles with stuffed animals on their dashboards or Mexican flag decals on their bumpers. Pickups with lumber or tools in their beds were also frequently spotted.”

08.02.2026 19:23 👍 9 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 3

idk how many government drones a person has to see in their residential neighborhood to start googling “potato cannon drone net” but I’m definitely past that threshold

08.02.2026 18:13 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0