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Adam Holisky

@adam.holisky.com
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I make 1s and 0s as a technical product manager and software engineer. I used to (and still do!) write words. Once caught a level 21 Pikachu, it was awesome. Minneapolis. Consultant. Ex: Blizzard, Penske, AOL All opinions are mine.

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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 14h
I was going to say how the backdrop reminded me of Star Trek's Encounter at Farpoint... but given Mr. Testosterone over here, this is more appropriate:
Q as a solider in the post apocalyptic army, getting high.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 04/10/2026
One of the most perfect plays I’ve ever made. Flashed a 1/1 in right before my turn, then on my play loaded him with 2 enchants + card actions, then got a double strike. Turned into an 11/11 monster. Instant win, literally. Things like this feel like they rarely happen to me...
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 02/10/2026
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched all The Matrix movies. A lot? And I never noticed this until now. In Reloaded, the Oracle’s candy she gave Neo and took herself is a RED PILL.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 30/09/2026
My own, probably blasphemous, version of red curry chicken. Yummmm.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 23/09/2026
So Crusader Kings 3 is *very* playable via Linux+Browser over wifi. It's not as responsive as if sitting on the desktop, but it's not at that annoying/an-issue level. This just seems weird though. Cognitive dissonance running like this.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 23/09/2026
With GPU enabled, getting ~60fps with MTGA. Notably this isn't exactly graphics intensive, and I have settings way down. There is some occasional stutter happening somewhere along the pipeline that's not showing up in latency measurements, so that's weird. Good enough to play, easily.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 23/09/2026
13 fps on MTG:A's loading screen. Time for some GPU configuration...
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 23/09/2026
So far so good... Sign in works with the QR code + iOS app (as it should).
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 22/09/2026
[Werner Herzog voice] Each day the celestial alignment of cat-cat-dog takes place. It signals the consumption of the evening’s dinner. Soon chaos will erupt, a cacophony of talk only understood by the mighty beasts.
Two small cats and a gigantic wolfhound in celestial alignment.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 06/09/2026
I'm doing a strict F2P account on MTG Arena so I can practice my drafting once or twice a week. With the fresh account and using the wildcards available from the start, I've made this tribal cats deck... and it's winning in the mid 60% for some reason? I mean, cool, okay. But I don't get it.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 03/09/2026
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 01/09/2026
Today is back to school, yay! I’d like to thank whomever designed the single best parenting app ever.
Alarms for child responsibilities
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 27/08/2026
Y no preload/bg download? 😩
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 26/08/2026
I found this image (copypaste everything fml) on Facebook via Google. But it’s good info! Star Trek: Picard s2 & 3 LCARS colors.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 26/08/2026
I am stupidly happy with my home lab setup... Been using this setup daily for months now and it's an absolute win. Well worth the time and effort it took to set it all up.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 21/08/2026
Tonight was a rare night out by ourselves for Katie and I. Sushi and drinks, outside at Wakame (our favorite sushi joint in Minneapolis). We celebrated 14-years married together. Seems ... wow. We're old? But it's cool, too.
Sushi
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 21/08/2026
My bedside book stack right now.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 10/08/2026
omg lolololol PERFECT WoTC. PERFECT. SERIOUSLY.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 06/08/2026
I’m going to read into this way too much and choose insane conspiracy theory (again). This is just another subtle hint we’ve gotten lately that Doctor Who and Star Trek share a universe. “a Doctor” — the in-universe term is “Medical Officer”, using Doctor as a class is borderline non-canon.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 31/07/2026
First episode of Bourdain's No Reservations: Anytime you hear the word "purity" come up too often in conversation, the sound of jackboots can't be far behind. Just... wow. We had to pause it for a minute just to let the sheer weight of that prescience sink in.
Anthony Bourdain: Anytime you hear the word "purity" come up too often in conversation, the sound of jackboots can't be far behind.Anthony Bourdain: Anytime you hear the word "purity" come up too often in conversation, the sound of jackboots can't be far behind.Anthony Bourdain: Anytime you hear the word "purity" come up too often in conversation, the sound of jackboots can't be far behind.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 30/07/2026
Every time I get a code like this… I just don’t want to ruin the artwork.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 26/07/2026
Alright... new King of the Hill has a Jurassic Bark episode. Going to get it out of the way. Let's do it. After? Weed.
The real ending to Jurassic Bark.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 25/07/2026
Yay! Email and self-hosted push notifications working from my homelab to the public internet. The notification setup was an oddly complex task at the end of the day. Troubleshooting isn’t straightforward.
A ntfy notification triggered by a self hosted system.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 24/07/2026
On the verge of switching to nvim... I *really* like VS Code, especially my ability to modify it exactly. But nvim feels more, pure? I was a vim/emacs kid in college, so this is a return to form in a way. neovim + tmux + repo with my dot files is a really great multi-system setup.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 16/07/2026
Yup.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 16/07/2026
It wasn’t supposed to be this bad when I watched the six o’clock news…
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 16/07/2026
The air in Minneapolis smells like forest fire too. Ugh.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 01/07/2026
Been trying out Claude more, and it's interesting in that this is the "right" answer, but is also the most obvious that anyone who has done linux setup with xdotool would know where to go instantly. Again, AI is just parroting "jr engineer" -- which isn't bad, but it's not revolutionary.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 30/06/2026
This link to a safe online tool to verify information you probably only do a couple times a year, if that, is really great. Wonderful use of good dev tech best practices.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 21/06/2026
Bunny
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 20/06/2026
I like sky
Blue sky and rain clouds
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 16/06/2026
Got to be in the presence of a rosary that belonged to Jim Lovell that was with him on Apollo 13. It’s in the private (and well cared for) collection in an upstate NY convent. Really cool just to sit and look at it. History at my fingertips. The kids had no idea why a few grownups were in awe.
Rosary on Apollo 13
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 14/06/2026
RAIN
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 12/06/2026
Old libraries in small towns are cool. Nice collection of Xbox 360 games, too. Vintage now? It’s in really good condition.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 11/06/2026
Front of the boat for Maid of the Mist. Kiddo did so good!! I was expecting a meltdown, he’s not a fan of rain. But he loved it. ❤️
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 11/06/2026
Have some Niagara Falls sound
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 07/06/2026
Being able to consistently play Progenitus is all kinds of fun for me. A known card, but rarely used/seen. It's fun to play it! I'm also ~55% win rate on the deck now after some learnings. Just miiiiight try to hit mythic this month.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 02/06/2026
To anyone who says Magic The Gathering is a serious card game... I present to you this. He conceded, I won. (not a bad thing it's not serious fwiw)
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 28/05/2026
Have some flying toasters. It never got better than this. #MacOS9
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 28/05/2026
I love that this works. Mac OS 9.2 on a 23-year old Mac PPC connected via ssh to a modern Linux desktop, editing code I’m actively working on every day. And it’s responsive. This feels like it shouldn’t work. But does.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 27/05/2026
Picked this up today. Let’s get Mac OS 9.2 on it!
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 23/05/2026
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 22/05/2026
Oh this is fun. When it works, it works.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 22/05/2026
Time to learn a new MTG deck... Haven't ever played a 4-color standard before, always been a bit intimidated. Might just be because "back in the day" they were impossible to play well (imo).
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 16/05/2026
There are now a total of three posts to the #MacsBug hashtag, and that’s a damn shame. This debugger was my gateway drug into low level software engineering. bsky.app/hashtag/Macs...
MacsBug
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 12/05/2026
My cat has lost her mind.
Rabbit and cat.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 01/05/2026
Space Ghost sighted in NE Minneapolis.
Space ghost painting
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 30/04/2026
I don't know why I don't use Chrome's side-by-side view more. It's cool.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 30/04/2026
Taking turns with box. As cats do.
Cat sitting in box. Box is good. Cat happy.
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Adam Holisky @adam.holisky.com · 29/04/2026
Had several very productive days in a row where everything came together. OS is now in a very happy place with GUI + shell + file system + apps. And I ported a PNG library in an hour tonight and gave my gui a desktop image. If you recognize the image, please join me on my old person lawn.
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