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Michael C

@unixgeek.com

Programmer nerd. Mostly ruby, python, java, *sh, SQL; secondarily React; tertiarily Next or Solid. Maybe Gleam, Vue, HTMX, Datastar... someday. I use the Oxford comma, & 2 spaces after sentences. Food groups are coffee, chocolate, cheese, and caramel.

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Good day 1 (and 1/2) @devnexus.bsky.social today. Good talks, got to reconnect with some ex-colleagues. Was exposed to hilarious LLM generated opera by @kousenit.com. See y'all tomorrow!

06.03.2026 00:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Overheard at #DevNexus today.

> I'm glad everyone is talking about AI. Because they are no longer talking about MicroServices -- @venkats.bsky.social

Banger talk!

06.03.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Given a *nix `/etc` directory, do you say "et-see" or "ee-tee-see" (or something else)?

How about SQL? "see-quel", "ess-kyoo-ell", "squeal", something else? (Yes, I see you @primeagen)

16.12.2025 14:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I saw a post that reminded me of an ex-colleague. I remember he had a habit of using "up arrow" to redo commands. But he would hit up-arrow more times than the # of letters the command was, for almost ANY command.

14.12.2025 14:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Time's "People of the Year"'s businesses are based on theft. Quite the look.

12.12.2025 15:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Time person of the year cover for 2025

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

12.12.2025 04:00 πŸ‘ 24048 πŸ” 4385 πŸ’¬ 877 πŸ“Œ 668

She's spending too much time trying to look and be Melania.

11.12.2025 21:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Seen today:

> The vibe coding tax must be paid. The only question is if this is before or after your customers have gone.

09.12.2025 18:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For funzies, or safety? (Are you afraid of them exploding?)

09.12.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing makes me skip a video quicker than any instruction to "watch till the end".

09.12.2025 18:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
"GUl's are a lie, they're just front-ends to the shell.
Through the shell, I gain sudo.
Through sudo, I gain power.
Through power, I gain root.
Through root, my chains are broken. uid=0 shall free me....."
-Unknown

"GUl's are a lie, they're just front-ends to the shell. Through the shell, I gain sudo. Through sudo, I gain power. Through power, I gain root. Through root, my chains are broken. uid=0 shall free me....." -Unknown

#linux #unix

12.04.2025 14:34 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

As an Atlantian (suburbanite), #welcome!

03.03.2025 12:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Pedantic, but at least with "$", the symbol precedes the number. "$0", not "0$".

02.03.2025 16:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem Marp (also known as the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) provides an intuitive experience for creating beautiful slide decks. You only have to focus on writing your story in a Markdown document.

I wrote a quick presentation today with #emacs, #markdown, and #marp. It is suprisingly ... fun! Never used Marp before, but it's going to be my go-to for preso's going forward.

marp.app

20.02.2025 00:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
What Game Theory Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything
What Game Theory Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything YouTube video by Veritasium

@kousenit.com I saw a Veritasium video about the Evolution of Cooperation recently - thought you might like it (or add it to your resources). www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScp...

19.02.2025 03:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As having just watched this talk, a banger! Scribbling notes furiously. Great one, @kousenit.com! #AJUG

19.02.2025 03:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Praise be.

09.02.2025 01:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#linux user trying out a new text editor πŸ˜…

08.02.2025 23:56 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 2

TIL: when you create a JavaDoc.jar with the JavaDoc command, the resulting jar contains Oracle code licensed under the GPL (even when you don’t use the Oracle #jdk ) I had to cpr legal when they saw it. #Java

Luckily there is #jetbrains dokka command as a drop-in replacement Apache-2.0 licensed

06.02.2025 11:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We've had a mandate through that they would like all employees to have used the copilot button in office at least 20 times by year end.

Might be me but a truly useful thing doesn't usually require forcing people to use it πŸ™„

06.02.2025 13:27 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

It Just Works(tm)

01.02.2025 00:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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28.01.2025 17:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_Ar...

28.01.2025 18:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just like "WTF's/hour" is a good metric, the "How did this ever work? / week" is one to track from time to time.

28.01.2025 15:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Dali Clock

That is cool; now do one like `jwz`s clock screensaver. (www.jwz.org/xdaliclock/) ;-)

28.01.2025 15:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Even as an IC there is so much stuff in corporate life that is performative dancing like a monkey in a circus hoping to grab a peanut from the crowd. #NotLookingForwardToToday

28.01.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And the remnants of Jony Ive.

26.01.2025 19:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can't help feeling a "game-changing" technology that's going to "transform" the way we work wouldn't need to be sneaked into products without the user's consent.

All I see is posts asking "How do I switch this f**king thing off?"

Copilot's the U2 album nobody asked for, except it's not free.

25.01.2025 10:48 πŸ‘ 3344 πŸ” 488 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 20
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22.01.2025 18:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Don't ask to ask, just ask

This link is popular in a slack I frequent, for the reason you state: dontasktoask.com

24.01.2025 19:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0