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Software Engineer, Writer, curious about distributed social media applications

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a drawing of a cockroach with glasses and a beard with chinese writing below it ALT: a drawing of a cockroach with glasses and a beard with chinese writing below it
09.03.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the first nice days of the year... I step outside and a stinkbug lands on my neck!! 😭

09.03.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Whatever happened to JavaScript Service Workers? | Mastro Blog What's the right way to think about Service Workers in 2026? Are they HTTP proxies, offline-capable web apps, or free frontend servers?

Remember Service Workers?

What's the right way to think about them in 2026? Are they HTTP proxies, offline-capable web apps, or free frontend servers?

New post: mastrojs.github.io/blog/2026-03...

09.03.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

dark money groups can keep donors secret indefinitely. super PACs exploit loopholes nobody enforces. real-time disclosure exists technically β€” nobody uses it.

we're changing that: donationtransparency.org/show-us

02.03.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Should I camelCase bookmark as bookMark or is it one word? πŸ€”

Cause currently I have a mix in my codebase and the autocomplete is more confused than me for once 🀣

23.02.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Upgrade from ancient nextjs 13 to nextjs 15...

App loads slower (at least in dev)

🀣😒

18.02.2026 00:43 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

we had an llm that flattered people's delusional world views and we considered that fact very bad actually

16.02.2026 03:45 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

bluesky's brilliant developer community playing 5d chess by fighting as much ass possible to put pressure on atproto devs to implement permissioned data as fast as possible

09.02.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

So now that the dust has settled... web3 was a meme right? 🀣

02.02.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands | TechCrunch Bluesky's first transparency reports tackle moderation, regulatory compliance, account takedowns, and more. The number of government legal requests went up fivefold.

Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/b...

02.02.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm teaching a new course at Stern on AI in Finance and opening it up!

Syllabus/slides on Github: github.com/arpitrage/ai...

Weekly summaries on Substack
arpitrage.substack.com/p/1-three-ru...

First post is on Amdahl's Law, Jevons' Paradox, and why finance was slow to learn the bitter lesson

02.02.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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simple curtain shader
#godot

26.01.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of the pixel art program Aseprite with some pixel art assets including a big tree, tufts of grass and various rocks and flowers. may or may not be related to a godot project for a current game jam

A screenshot of the pixel art program Aseprite with some pixel art assets including a big tree, tufts of grass and various rocks and flowers. may or may not be related to a godot project for a current game jam

Cooking something, but I am yet to find out what

22.01.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with a computer and the word and written on it ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with a computer and the word and written on it

Aaaand that database library you just learned is now deprecated

14.01.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Truly in the final stretch of #gamedev now. Loads of balancing, tweaking and small bug fixes. Both nervous and exited about it.

#wishlistwednesday #indiedev #solodev #gamemaker

14.01.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/f... tuxie was very fast 🀣

07.01.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How about a game that's nothing but slide levels from mario 64? πŸ€”

07.01.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Backend change vs the Client change πŸ’€
#gamedev #enginedev #indiedev #indiegame #reburn

05.01.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Penguins in #PlatinumKill used to fly straight at you, we added a little wave pattern for fun. #GameDev #IndieDev #RetroGaming #PCGaming

29.12.2025 06:05 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

'Clair Obscur' game award revoked; UK actors refuse scans; Known's voice AI dating tech

22.12.2025 17:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Atproto is the "protocol" that bluesky is built on 😎

22.12.2025 17:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s ok if progress is slow.
Progress is still progress.
And you’re learning more than you think.

#indiedev #gamedev

15.12.2025 16:30 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I like to come on bksy for the positive vibes and get sucked into a CSS or web components hole. I mean really I could do a lot worse and have done with alternative platforms in the past. I like how my "time wasted" here is generally still net positive. πŸ‘ Keep up the good work folksπŸ‘

08.12.2025 16:50 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

some days i feel like i could pull up java and code the world on a rock, and other days i feel like i forget to blink both eyes at the same time

03.12.2025 17:16 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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some visual development for a game about dawgs #gamedev #gameart #art

01.12.2025 23:30 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cute desserts are dangerous to model…
They make me hungry every single time 😭
Some cozy cupcakes I made for Kitari🧁

#gamedev #lowpoly #gameassets #indiedev

17.11.2025 15:59 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Embrace. Extend. Enshitify.

I'm honestly worried about the future of the internet. Maybe atproto can help? 🀞

19.11.2025 20:36 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

zoomers don't know about ad blockers 🀣

pathetic.

19.11.2025 00:54 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

😱

15.11.2025 06:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0