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@aaronmccollum.bsky.social
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💻 Software Developer 🚀 JS/React, Python, Ruby, Pega low-code 👨‍💻 #100Devs participant 🌐 aaronmccollum.netlify.app

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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 15h
Ted Lasso season 4 was fun overall. It was good to see everyone back together. I wouldn’t mind a season 5.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 11/10/2026
as called by Tom Leach on Kentucky Wildcats radio:
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
KENTUCKYYYYYYYYY!!! #BBN
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Finished the Credit problem for CS50 week 1. Having done the Luhn algorithm now in both Python and C, shew C is way more manual. My solution was over 80 lines in C, and I think my Python solution was around 25-30 lines. #cs50
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Going down memory lane watching clips from Community on YouTube. I miss that show. It was so good and NBC didn’t appreciate it like they should have. I hold out a little hope still that the movie actually happens. #Community #SixSeasonsAndAMovie
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One of the greatest computer scientists and software engineers.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
. @katienolan.bsky.social hits the nail on the head re: Watson and the Browns. #browns
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 03/10/2026
"Oh, poor thing, it's costing you *money* to go through the unacceptable mess you have created, unprompted, out of sheer negligence?" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day
Company says it is reviewing 50 petabytes of data after its agents accessed websites including Medicare without authorisation
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Browns 3-0 since the birth of my son. Y'all I think there might be something there. He has successfully overcome the NFL script, bad officiating, and an honest attempt by our QB to sabotage the game.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My favorite part of the Bend site
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ESPN's new dark mode layout is nice. It looks good on a desktop browser, which seemingly is rare these days on sports sites.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Garbage-time stat padding will unfortunately allow Monken to talk about "all the positives we can work from" as he commits to starting Watson for the next decade, and Jimmy Haslam stands in the corner smiling proudly and what he's done. #Browns
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Everyone. Literally everyone in the city of Cleveland and beyond knew what would happen if you started Watson. Except one head coach, who is now finding out the hard way. #Browns
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If I hacked Hugging Face or Ruby Gems, I'd be in a lot of trouble and probably go to prison. But if OpenAI does it, it's great marketing!!! 😀
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Been on @bsky.app for awhile, as long as the public access has been available. Still grateful for the default feed being “following” and not some “for you” algorithm. I’ve avoided a lot of junk that made Facebook and X awful at the end.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I feel like the commercials for social media tech companies (I.e. Meta, TikTok) are our generations versions of those cigarette commercials from the 60s and 70s.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It seems like all the new AI models came out at the same time. Mythos/Fable 5.1, Astra, and Gemini 3.8. And I still have trouble keeping all their names and numbers together and remembering differences. #AI
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just finished Mark Martin’s “Never Lift” autobiography. Great read for any #NASCAR or racing fan. Now back to Dungeon Crawler Carl.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
That being said, I LOVE Vivaldi. It’s probably the best browser I’ve ever used. I appreciate Mozilla for Firefox and what they bring to the web ecosystem and still try to use them too, but Vivaldi is my favorite these days.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good post. I don’t disagree either. I use Firefox Focus on mobile and am trying desktop again. I did turn the AI stuff off though. www.newsonaut.com/articles/han...
newsonaut.com
Newsonaut: Turning inner space into outer space
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I created my first AI Discord bot that connects to Llama 3.2 to talk with you! I had been wanting to do this for awhile, so I sat down over the span of a few days to read, learn, and build. kyaaron.github.io/aaron-blog/#... #ai #coding #learning #discord
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Aaron's Dev Blog
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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/12/2025
The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Very excited for RFK Racing (not named after the guy) and Ryan Preece who get a HUGE win at Daytona today. Good to see the team back in the winners circle. And yes I feel I have to always clarify now that it's not named after the guy. Frustrating but that's how it goes. #nascar
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Most players played like they really wanted that roster spot. Great game to watch. And mad props to DG who took advantage of every opportunity this game. What a half he had. #Browns
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Three things that #NFL officiating still fails to define and call with any sense of stability: pass interference, roughing the passer, and what an actual catch is. They just can't get it right.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There comes a time when booing is appropriate. When a team or player crosses the line to abysmal, with the cost of attending sports games these days, it’s appropriate. And the Browns blew past that line. I’m all in on the fans who want better. #Browns
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The “hide repost in feeds” is my favorite part of Bluesky now.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Cut Watson. Don’t even have him as a backup. Gabriel or Green can be QB2. I know his contract is guaranteed and all. Pay him and cut him. #Browns
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I've been building my first Discord bot using Python this week. I've been wanting to do it for awhile and finally got one working.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I usually don’t go after @npr.org for bad posts, but asking what AI can learn in this situation is not the right question.
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Danny Thompson @dthompsondev.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
AI made everyone faster at producing things nobody verified.
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Adam Copeland @exiledclevelndr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Today’s #Browns preseason game showing what we already knew - there will be no winner of this QB competition. There will only be losers and they are us Browns fans who will have to suffer through QB incompetence for yet another wasted season.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Nearly killed the entire party for the first time in DnD last night. I had to pull out some stops to keep it going. I have never rolled so many nat 20 attack rolls and high damage in my life 😂
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
What's been wild to see is the immense pricing decreases for coding bootcamps. When I was getting into it, every bootcamp was near $20,000. Now? Most are $13,000 at most. App Academy's upfront tuition now is just $3,500.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Been enjoying the new music from Olivia Rodrigo and ROLE MODEL (whose new album is really really good). It's been good to calm me down on the hard days and/or when I'm stuck in traffic getting cut off by taxi drivers.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I've been impressed with @freecodecamp.bsky.social 's new curriculum over the past 1.5 years. Backend content was just released, and the Python content is basically Computer Science 101. It's been really good.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Great article from my morning reading today. Worth time to read. blog.senko.net/code-was-nev... #coding #ai #softwaredevelopment
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"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 07/08/2026
The creator of shadcn-ui, the most popular web component library of the last few years, is frustrated with AI
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Alright. I want you to read this.

Earlier today, I released a new component.

What you see is the finished result.

What you don’t see are the days of planning, research, testing, designing, simplifying, throwing ideas away, and trying again before I felt it was ready.

Within hours, it had been copied and ported to another framework by pointing an agent at my code.

Of course, it’s open source. They were allowed to do it.

And I’ve been around long enough, with multiple successful products, that I don’t care.

But what if this was someone’s first product?

What if they spent months building it, launched on Friday, and by Monday it had been cloned by agents, repackaged, and made free?

What happens when your second product is copied?

Your fifth?

Your tenth?What happens when every new idea immediately becomes the next prompt?

What happens when your roadmap, your changelog, and your launch announcements become someone else input prompts?

What happens when models become good enough to copy bigger ideas?

What happens when “just execute better” stops being the answer?

What happens when “just build bigger” or “think wider” stops being enough?

What happens when both ideas and execution become cheap?

What happens when the creator pays the full cost of creativity but everyone else pays nothing to reproduce it?

What happens to creativity when AI makes copying effectively free?

What happens to the will to create when AI makes copying effectively free?

Look, copying is not new.

Copying at this speed, cost, and scale is.

People will tell you to think bigger.

But nobody starts "bigger".

Every one of us here started by making something small.

You keep going because, somewhere along the way, the work is rewarded.

Maybe people use it.

Maybe they pay for it.

Maybe they simply recognize the thought, effort, and care that went into it.
Copying once demanded effort.

You had to study the work and understand it to copy it.

That effort created appreciation for the person who made it.

Not anymore.

Creativity begins with small steps.

If we make those first steps feel pointless, we don’t just lose small products. 

We lose the people who might have gone on to build the big ones.

We are uniquely positioned here.

We get to use and experience this life-changing technology before almost everyone else.

How we use it will set the default everywhere else.

That default will spread to writing, design, music, research, and every other field where someone still has to take the first creative risk.

We can use AI to build great things.

Or we can use it to strip every new idea for parts.

We decide.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Rest easy Glen Hansard. I really enjoy his rendition of Marvin Gaye’s “Don’t do it.”
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Vader Episode II from SW Theory was really good. I won't spoil anything, but the plot/ending is definitely something I've been wanting to see more of in SW lore/legends storytelling. #starwars
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Brickyard 400 attendance wasn't great. They used to pack it out in Indy. NASCAR is making strides I think, but they still have a ways to go. #nascar
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Um...don't do it lol. Pick literally any other team. This ownership group is going nowhere anytime soon. #Browns www.dawgsbynature.com/cleveland-br...
dawgsbynature.com
Cleveland Browns: What advice would you give to a new fan?
If someone told you they were planning to become a Browns fan, what would you tell them?
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Dungeon Crawler Carl is a fun series. On book 2 now (about 30% in) and have been loving it. I need this to be a video game.
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Brad Whipple @NYCC @bradwhipple.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.
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Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Disappointed to hear that @firefox.com caved and is back on X because "the internet is changing" (but didn't say how it's changing). Market share is a premium for them, and I am pretty sure this isn't going to help their case.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Avengers trailer looks really good. I know it's about time they retire a lot of the cast, but hopefully the upcoming Avengers movies give everyone the swan song they deserve.
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Jermaine Jones isn’t wrong. #usmnt
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Very interesting read about leaded gas and its history. We still make these sort of mistakes today. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/l...
smithsonianmag.com
Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented
For most of the mid-twentieth century, lead gasoline was considered normal. But lead is a poison, and burning it has had dire consequences
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Aaron @aaronmccollum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Probably one of the best articles from Kotaku in awhile. Highly worth a read. kotaku.com/xbox-layoffs... #xbox #playstation #taylorswift
kotaku.com
Xbox, PlayStation, And Taylor Swift Are Not Your Friends
You do not need to carry water for Xbox, PlayStation, or Taylor Swift
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