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Mandy Mitchell

@mandymitchell.me

πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆSoftware engineer & raconteuse. Probably autistic? My dog thinks I write cool code. https://mandymusings.com/ for my tech blog

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It took me *so long* to realize that they were supposed to *be* Klingons

09.03.2026 00:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Climb every mountain

Shave every yak

08.03.2026 19:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was shocked that it went so long without getting the correct response πŸ˜‚

08.03.2026 02:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

WHAT DOES IT MEAN???

08.03.2026 01:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I caught a snippet of this on TV once. I had no idea what it was, but I was entranced, and I’ve spent the last ~3 decades wondering if it was some kind of fever dream.

Thank you so much for sharing this.

07.03.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What if your process scheduler was an LLM

06.03.2026 02:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tired: Downloading Gentoo so you can compile your whole OS

Wired: Vibecoding your whole OS

I mean, what could go wrong?

06.03.2026 02:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds pretty darn ambitious.

04.03.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

State of the pantry > State of the Union

In other words, we’re going to Costco

25.02.2026 02:58 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is how I found out

24.02.2026 06:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s incredible to see that level of accidental honesty

23.02.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If body wants food, why does it tell brain β€œew, food”? πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ

23.02.2026 02:43 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Important life lessons!

21.02.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

WHAT

19.02.2026 00:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Whoah

17.02.2026 14:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My wife and I watched it for the first time yesterday because it was playing at a local theater; I giggled through all the lines that have since become cliches, but it was still *so* good!

15.02.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you’ve upgraded to β€œeffing”, it must be *really* bad. Hang in there 😣

14.02.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oof. I remember their mid-90s tech support being **so** good

11.02.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fine. I’ll do the age verification meme.

I manually reconfigured dip switches to fix IRQ conflicts between the add-on cards in my Gateway 2000 PC in order to resolve freezes in my video games.

11.02.2026 17:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I hear they call it β€œSlack” because it will take all of yours

10.02.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Had a dream that they added a β€œgrudge” badge as an alternative to β€œfollows you” on profile pages, and I crushed to discover folks I’d never interacted with holding grudges against me. 😭

10.02.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Probably my favorite adaptation of [spoiler]

09.02.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am confused. In the pre-smartphone era, I remember charges like this for texts and having unlimited texting as an add on. So this guy’s dad had purchased unlimited texting but not told his kid?

22.01.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, didn’t he die?

18.01.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Same, tbh

16.01.2026 03:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

At least you did not purchase 18,500 battery holders…

15.01.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This isβ€”with little hyperboleβ€”one of the greatest personal tragedies for me in the LLM era.

04.01.2026 22:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I am so excited for the experience you are about to have!

04.01.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I had no idea this existed, and I’m so glad it does

28.12.2025 05:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Okay, that’s fair. I suppose I would probably not spend $600 on backup headphones, either.

Probably πŸ˜‚

27.12.2025 23:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0