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  Most relatable meme I've seen in a while

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  I'm toying a bit with partykit.io this weekend, and I suddenly realized why the default port for their dev server is 1999. Genius! https://i.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExZmthMHN1YWdlcTd5b3FlbHgxY3IxaHYwcnZpNTFrZmR4cXA2eHBvOCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/2t9jvKZfOdwTLeLKU1/giphy.gif

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  I never thought I'd ever cry over election results in another country. Yet, here I am. But this also makes me feel a bit weird. Why didn't I cry for {country} when people came in power who would take people's rights away and endanger many of its own citizens, and cause havoc internationally? I guess cause it's easier to empathize with people you encounter often. My online life is filled with Americans, and I'm gutted by what's happening in their...

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  In case I have any fellow Planet Coaster 2 players among my followers. This just blew my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUasz9Bb3Yg

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  I'm going through the Advent of Code, trying to solve each day with a different programming language. I'm doing it at my own pace, because my time is limited, and I'm wrecking my sleep schedule enough already, but I've just finished day 14. For the languages I don't know, I learn just enough to be able to solve the problem, and it still gives some interesting insights into each language's strengths and quirks. You can find all my code at: https:...

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  I just found out @tomscott will be on the next season of Jet Lag: The Game, and I'm hyped! Always nice to see some of my fav internet people make stuff togeher.

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  A conversation with a colleague lead me to dig this back up: an episode from a now defunct podcast by @stephenfry that was hugely influential in how I think about language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmEfxunVG2c

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  I'm watching Severance with Audio Description enabled. Props to whoever wrote the descriptions for the surrealistic fever dream that is the Severance intro.

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  Ensuring you never mess up is hard. Setting things up to minimize the impact of mistakes is a lot easier. This is true beyond software development, but specifically for software, this means you should: - set secure and sane defaults - make it so you have to opt out of security checks, not opt in to them - have a security checklist as part of code reviews.

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  I sometimes play a game on twitch called WhatsAMusic, where people pick songs and then everyone tries to guess the songs based on clips. It's a great way to discover new music. So thanks to a player on there, I'm diving into a Buckethead rabbit hole tonight. https://open.spotify.com/artist/0fDF0jjmdouCIeWhNnblwV?si=w2C60AmqQ7OxyhBMS4LEzw