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@timmy-cakes

I help researchers do work "in the cloud" at a Big Ten University in the US. I program as a hobby. Play video games. Read books. Woodworking. Lots of pets. ...what else?

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Like most of my projects, I got distracted and never finished.
I did create a very basic front-end for BlueSky where I was viewing my feed.
I think I quite when I figured out I'd have to keep track of likes on posts myself. lol

17.11.2025 21:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today I learned about collections.Counter from a BlueSky thread.

This kinda blows me away. How did I not know about this until now?

12.09.2025 04:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nice! Looks like something I'd play

10.08.2025 17:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting.

06.08.2025 02:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Playing Civ 6 on switch 1. Been contemplating upgrading to a switch 2 or, more likely, a steam deck. Performance on switch 1bis mediocre.
But also been playing Valheim on PC. 🀷

05.07.2025 04:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

+1.
I'm a manager now so I do very minimal tech work at work. But my personal project is to create a custom BlueSky feed... Which is how I came across this post! 😁

01.07.2025 21:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Neat!

30.06.2025 23:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love his art. Love it. β™₯️

27.05.2025 22:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

❀️

23.05.2025 00:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ohhhh! I actually have this one! First appearance of silver age catwoman.

16.05.2025 17:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“Œ pinning so I can come back later

09.04.2025 22:37 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Best Programmers I Know I have met a lot of developers in my life. Late…

Overall excellent advice if you’re wanting to really standout in a development career. endler.dev/2025/best-p...

08.04.2025 01:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Generative AI and the Future of Research Speaker Series: Diyi Yang Diyi Yang will present, "Enabling and Evaluating Human-AI Interaction."

Diyi Yang presenting about Human-AI interaction, online "at" UIUC next Wed morning, 9am Central Time. #MLSky

12.02.2025 20:47 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

04.02.2025 18:39 πŸ‘ 41234 πŸ” 7291 πŸ’¬ 1277 πŸ“Œ 719

I do this in emails a lot. If others are like me and my default mode is to skim, this helps to highlight the points I want them to notice.

04.02.2025 18:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I almost feel like it's necessary to hear what the other side is saying. If we ignore them for so long, then... Well, our current situation happens.

04.02.2025 01:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Any word from past/current (whatever state they may be in right now) employees from USDS? I haven't seen anything.. Very little, about this.

04.02.2025 01:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I use runbox with my own custom domain names.

03.02.2025 01:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Unlock Creativity with Our Exquisite Book Nook Kits Explore the magic of our book nook kits! Transform your reading space with our exquisite designs and unlock endless creativity.

They seem pretty popular at the moment. My son got one from Barnes and Nobles last week. booknookkit.com/collections/...

31.01.2025 18:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nice!
It's not Lego, but I've been considering getting one of those 'book nook' kits. They are small, tedious to put together, but cute as hell.

31.01.2025 15:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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From the fednews community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the fednews community

This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

29.01.2025 05:41 πŸ‘ 20420 πŸ” 3855 πŸ’¬ 574 πŸ“Œ 648

Thank you so much! It worked.
I can't wait to get started! πŸ˜€

26.01.2025 15:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Warning: Don't forget to add the bonuses to your cart when making your purchase.

Warning: Don't forget to add the bonuses to your cart when making your purchase.

Hey, @dsebastien.net. I was wondering if you could help me out. I'd like to purchase Knowledge Worker Kit (because that includes everything, right?). On the store page, it has the following warning. I've added all of the bonuses to my cart but it still includes the price for all of them ($371)

25.01.2025 22:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Somewhere, some time ago, I heard that DuckDuckGo backended by Bing. Ya know if that is true? (I mean, I _could_ try to look that up myself..)

24.01.2025 02:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The purchasing process in general is insane. Half jokingly, I told my director to cut my salary by $5k and hire a student worker to manually fill in all the necessary forms (and boy, are there a lot of redundant forms). I feel like I could be providing so much more value than tedious form entries.

24.01.2025 01:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! That was it!

22.01.2025 21:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
My Linux Desktop
My Linux Desktop YouTube video by timmy111

youtu.be/OzGCEgK6a5w?...

22.01.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I remember running Linux with the 3d cube desktop thing. I don't remember what it was called, but it was cool, fun, and useful.

22.01.2025 18:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“Œ So I can come back and find these books of yours.

20.01.2025 16:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0