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https://sls.name / active on mastodon; just a reply guy here

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block-rocking skeets??

10.03.2026 04:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did the hotel manager graduate from business school with really good grades?

06.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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brat Brutal Runner for Automated Tests, a parallel TAP testing harness for the POSIX shell

Just released: Brat v0.9.0, a parallel TAP testing harness for the POSIX shell. codeberg.org/sstephenson/...

19.02.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I keep thinking about this one bsky.app/profile/slow...

12.01.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

lmao it looks like the banner you make when you first get home with Print Shop and your new ImageWriter

05.11.2025 18:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

congrats!!

22.10.2025 18:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

how's that boot tasting?

03.10.2025 20:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Straight from the horse’s mouth: bsky.app/profile/ruby...

03.10.2025 20:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

oh yeah. I got a lot out of that post, none of which the author intended, lol

02.10.2025 16:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

wow I had not made this connection yet!

02.10.2025 15:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

[signing for another shipment of Toe Toner] copilot, please help me budget this. my family is dying

02.10.2025 15:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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rbenv-vars/bin/rbenv-vars at master Β· rbenv/rbenv-vars An rbenv plugin that safely sets global and per-project environment variables - rbenv/rbenv-vars

I’ve written some horrifying regexes, that one is pretty tame by comparison github.com/rbenv/rbenv-...

30.09.2025 22:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh hey

30.09.2025 22:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

what a good boy πŸ’”

10.09.2025 20:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ahh, okay - thanks for the pointer to Wadler’s Law, I’m not surprised I was missing some PLT context :)

either way, as a layperson, I think the post does an excellent job of showing how syntax informs semantics and is more than just a surface-level concern!

10.08.2025 18:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this was a fascinating read! although I don’t understand how someone could write such a post while claiming syntax is the β€œleast interesting detail.” reminds me of how back-end web devs often dismiss HTML and CSS, or how tech workers in general feel about β€œsoft skills”

10.08.2025 17:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

[looking for my Hackers DVD] it’s in that place where I put that thing that time

03.08.2025 17:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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youtu.be/15kWlTrpt5k?...

01.08.2025 23:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.

26.07.2025 01:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

incredible show, and (at least in my circles) queer canon

27.06.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Speaking of shelves, I noticed a glaring omission in the Home Goods section

25.06.2025 19:46 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
photo of outside calipers

photo of outside calipers

skin tone chart from the family guy meme

skin tone chart from the family guy meme

Of COURSE intelligence is measurable, Thomas

25.06.2025 16:12 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

how embarrassing for you

28.05.2025 15:23 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And when you point this out, Mini Me and the flying monkeys will call you a hater, accuse you of being ungrateful, and tell you about how full their plates are

26.05.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

my guess: Dear Leader did a ten-minute investigation and determined plain contenteditable to be β€œgood enough” now.

26.05.2025 15:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Tfw you bought a sauna. Which one doesn’t matter. You barely know. You don’t even care. Model number? You couldn’t tell me. Maker? You’d pronounce it wrong

25.05.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bob Nystrom (@munificent@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image Nothing says "rebel" like a corporation hiring a consulting company to conduct a user survey to determine if the new design enables brands using it to appear sufficiently more "rebe...

did you see this mastodon.social/@munificent/...

17.05.2025 18:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

great song and absolutely one of my favorite music videos! (by Michel Gondry, who did the video for Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar, similarly fun and recursive)

16.05.2025 01:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*pinning my used toilet paper to the community bulletin board* We apologize that you find our research objectionable

04.05.2025 22:18 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the all-time great soundtracks imo

10.04.2025 21:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0