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Jim Flanagan

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This one time, a real engineer called me a “software guy.” These days, I do my best work from the cockpit of a kayak. Mastodon: @jimfl@hachyderm.io Blog: https://jimfl.github.io/everything-burns/posts/

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This is a zero-sum game, and someone else is going to end up with elevated aplets

14.12.2024 01:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Laughing politicians

Laughing politicians

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02.12.2024 16:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Very cool!

30.11.2024 15:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No more unhelpful than trying to be the first to walk a straight line, however it be defined

29.11.2024 04:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A general in the American Revolution says “Nobody knows”

A general in the American Revolution says “Nobody knows”

28.11.2024 17:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I laughed when I got to the Shun part. Then I cried

24.11.2024 20:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A cartoon man, wearing a suit, arms akimbo, says “You see, it is the goal of power to destroy everything that has a soul!”

A cartoon man, wearing a suit, arms akimbo, says “You see, it is the goal of power to destroy everything that has a soul!”

From “Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to His Musical Language”

23.11.2024 01:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Comprehensive Guide to Elixir's List Comprehension

Here is a wonderful write up of the sheer power of the list comprehension special form in #Elixir

www.mitchellhanberg.com/the-comprehe...

21.11.2024 17:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Public safety alert

Skagit county department of emergency management: PSE siren is sounding. This is a siren failure. The dams are not failing. Do not evacuate

Public safety alert Skagit county department of emergency management: PSE siren is sounding. This is a siren failure. The dams are not failing. Do not evacuate

Good news everyone!

18.11.2024 16:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

👋

18.11.2024 15:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Had you done that in my shop, I’d have rung your bell.

21.07.2023 16:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hearing disturbing rumors that some of these protestors on the picket line are professional actors

18.07.2023 22:16 👍 3666 🔁 863 💬 56 📌 40

This single gag was worth signing up to Bluesky for.

19.07.2023 00:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

THIS MACHINE GIVES MUSIC APPRECIATORS PTSD ukulele

04.07.2023 16:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is an important event in history: coinage of “Musked up”

02.07.2023 00:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You make it sound like you made sour cream flavored ice cream on purpose.

19.06.2023 21:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The members of DEVO with red, non-repeatably tiling tiles on their heads.

The members of DEVO with red, non-repeatably tiling tiles on their heads.

Are we not tiles? We are EINSTEIN.

19.06.2023 21:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Wait. Why is the favicon for Bluesky the American Broadcasting Company logo?

10.06.2023 23:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Boy, the web experience for BlueSky needs work on mobile. After scrolling a while, it gets super jittery.

Please don’t tell me about the app.

10.06.2023 17:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I upgraded Apollo to Ultra, deleted my Reddit account and then removed the Apollo app. Thought about adding Reddit domains to the pihole, but that seems extreme.

10.06.2023 17:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Let’s see if I understand this correctly: both Stack Overflow and Reddit are blaming “LLMs are being trained on our precious content!!!” for their sudden insular postures regarding access to content that isn’t really theirs anyway.

The Bullshit Machine is eating itself.

10.06.2023 17:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I see the trajectory. They’re gearing up to sell it to Elon Musk, who will re-brand it to X.

26.05.2023 14:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

must have been an accelerator project

26.05.2023 14:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Filibustering requires a lot of standing.

20.05.2023 19:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Macroeconomics: A rising tide floats all boats

Microeconomics: A hole below the waterline tends to stay below the waterline

20.05.2023 19:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

300 chars isn’t even enough for a decent shitpost.

20.05.2023 14:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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20.05.2023 14:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If Pez were invented today, they would be Xanax bar dispensers to wean kids off opioids.

19.05.2023 18:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Why not, like, “big-ass chunk-o-glass?”

19.05.2023 18:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I broke down and read the article. It implicates the pandemic period surge in remote work opportunities and high interest rates, yet never mentions the perceived risk of being laid off after an impactful relo. Because of course it doesn’t.

17.05.2023 18:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0