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Justin Hunter

@polluterofminds.com

Writer. Tinkerer. Co-founder of Orbiter. https://orbiter.host https://polluterofminds.com

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Write the "stupid" code

Stupid code is useful code spikepuppet.io/posts/write-...

29.09.2025 11:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The AL Central and the final NL Wild Card will be decided on the last day of the season. I love baseball!

28.09.2025 02:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m rebuilding a 1980 Suzuki GS850 with my son and I have never known shit about electrical. But I’m determined to learn and I’m already learning so much. It’s a great project. Reminds me a lot of coding

27.09.2025 17:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My only concern with atproto’s development or Bluesky more generally is that funding is from venture capitalists. I can’t think of a historical web or internet protocol that was funded with capitalist returns expected (maybe I’m wrong?). I’m not sure how this can work in the long run

27.09.2025 12:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Open Social β€” overreacted The protocol is the API.

Fantastic article by @danabra.mov overreacted.io/open-social/

27.09.2025 12:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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"the internet is forever" <font size=1><b>current mood:</b> nostalgic</font> I've grown up hearing the cautionary tale that "anything that goes on the internet is forever!" I'm s...

The internet is only as forever as you make it. This is why I don’t like blogging on closed platforms. I want every one of my blog posts in HTML or markdown format that I can have forever and recreate anywhere. tallywinkle.bearblog.dev/the-internet...

26.07.2025 12:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nova The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.

A couple of years ago, I paid $99 for Nova, a Mac only IDE. I didn’t give it much time tbh, but I’m thinking about giving it another shot. It’s made by Panic, and it’d be cool to support them. nova.app

25.07.2025 12:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Small Web July I am putting this out into the ether to see if anyone wants to join me, in any capacity, in some kind of accountability structure (following each others blog...

People want the small web. We are building for those people. Host your sites, build your apps, never be locked in. smallcypress.bearblog.dev/a-small-web-...

orbiter.host

24.07.2025 11:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We just updated Orbiter's custom domain infra to be decidedly faster and more resilient. Our original setup used a traditional NGINX reverse proxy. Now, we're using Cloudflare proxies. This gives us the full benefit of Cloudflare's CDN as well as bot and DDOS protection without manual configuration

23.07.2025 18:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Funtions Host your server on Orbiter

In addition to having the simplest static site/SPA hosting out there, Orbiter also supports serverless functions. We tried to maintain the simplicity when we designed this backend functionality. orbiter.host/functions

22.07.2025 10:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for sharing!

22.07.2025 10:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Orbiter looks awesome for deplying dweb sites πŸ˜€πŸ‘
That and ipcm.dev, solves dynamic IPFS content with smart contracts pinata.cloud/blog/ipcm-so...

22.07.2025 04:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Orbiter Open Source Web Hosting Without Walled Gardens

For the lovers of the hand-crafted, artisanal web: orbiter.host

20.07.2025 12:36 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Will The Fear Of Being Confused For AI Mean That We Will Now Write Differently? - 3 Quarks Daily by David Beer

I think it’s a good exercise for writers especially to read Ken Liu’s and Ted Chiang’s takes on AI in addition to articles like this. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

20.07.2025 12:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Siddhartha Saxena on X: "Our @vercel bill before @Cloudflare, and after Cloudflare proxy. https://t.co/0XBfpKOcTW" / X Our @vercel bill before @Cloudflare, and after Cloudflare proxy. https://t.co/0XBfpKOcTW

This is basically an advertisement for Orbiter. You can get this kind of discount by using Orbiter directly without any additional proxy. x.com/siddsax/stat...

15.07.2025 20:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A friendly introduction to assembly for high-level programmers β€” Hello A friendly introduction to assembly for high-level programmers β€” Hello

Last year, I read a lot of books on the history of PC and console gaming. It made me start thinking about assembly more than I ever had. Just came across this interactive tutorial and will be diving into during my free time on my vacation. shikaan.github.io/assembly/x86...

14.07.2025 06:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This site is incredible!

08.07.2025 16:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I’ve only done this with an older MBP. Hopefully community support for Linux on the newer models continues to improve.

10.06.2025 11:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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One Year Left: Apple’s Long Goodbye For Intel Macs After two decades, Apple has announced its final version of MacOS for Intel. Guess that means Hackintoshing is done, too.

People should take all their old Intel Macs that will no longer be supported by the upcoming versions of macOS and turn them into Linux machines rather than dump them. tedium.co/2025/06/09/a...

10.06.2025 10:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They CreateΒ Limits A few years ago, I sat across from a friend at a late dinner. He was telling me about his new promotion, the big title, the bonus, the corner office. I remember watching his face as he described it. H...

Time is a valuable constraint that a lot of engineers dislike. Having a deadline changes how you approach a problem. It unlocks creativity. www.joanwestenberg.com/smart-people...

10.06.2025 10:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Finding Shawn Mendes In this day and age, celebrities have a lot of influence over our politics. Garthwaite and Moore estimated that Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama in 2008 netted him an extra 1 milli…

This is the strangest thing you’ll read on the internet today. But you will read it. And you’ll keep reading until the end. And you’ll ask yourself why while still being entertained. ericneyman.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/f...

09.06.2025 10:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content | TechCrunch Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform's content to train large language models.

Lol AI scrapers don’t read terms and conditions. techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/x...

06.06.2025 10:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Shape of the Essay Field

Paul Graham has some really good essays, but its essays like this that make him sound elitist and out of touch. You know why you should write? Because you want to. Simple as that.

03.06.2025 11:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder Historians are finally having their AI debate

The general point of this article is really good. Educators need to personally leverage AI themselves to build learning tools for their students. Use, don’t run from, AI. resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-makes-t...

03.06.2025 10:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Copy Table in Excel and Paste as a Markdown Table Easily create Markdown tables by copying data from Excel or Google Sheets and pasting it into the text box below using Ctrl+V. Alternatively, as a new feature, paste a Markdown table to convert it to...

Pretty neat tool! Markdown tables are hard (for me) so this is great.

02.06.2025 12:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - jchester/bobotw: A stupid waste of time that I enjoyed A stupid waste of time that I enjoyed. Contribute to jchester/bobotw development by creating an account on GitHub.

I’ve felt this way a lot. Next.js especially makes me feel this way. I will still use React quite a bit, but I’ve decided I’m done jumping through the constantly changing bits of Next and would prefer the simplicity of an old client-server relationship.

02.06.2025 12:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is why I won’t let LLMs write for me.

01.06.2025 17:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Orbiter The simplest way to upload and host static sites and apps

Need to share your web project with someone quickly? Upload it to Orbiter for free and have a link in seconds. orbiter.host

31.05.2025 13:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - wzhudev/reverse-linear-sync-engine: A reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine for learning purposes. Endorsed by Linear's CTO. A reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine for learning purposes. Endorsed by Linear's CTO. - wzhudev/reverse-linear-sync-engine

This is a great write-up. Collaborative data syncing is a hard problem and Linear seems to do an awesome job at it. github.com/wzhudev/reve...

31.05.2025 13:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DOGE Days My experience joining the United States DOGE Service as a software engineer, and what I learned along the way.

So DOGE was largely just the same as the Obama USDS but with more chaos and more firing of people. sahillavingia.com/doge

31.05.2025 13:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0