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Allie the Icon

@allietheicon.com
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An odd, borderline pretentious art film that has taken human form 💁🏼‍♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Loudly and proudly polyamorous and neurodivergent 💪🏻 🏡 SF Bay 🔗 allietheicon.com/links

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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 24/09/2026
This is blowing my mind I playtested it pre-release as a kid because my dad worked on it
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 24/09/2026
HOLY SHIT YOU KNOW MARIO’S TIME MACHINE
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 26/08/2026
I trusted and I did not regret
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 17/08/2026
Today I had the absolutely delightful experience of seeing the look on my kid’s face when they learned that “Indie Games” is not the name of a game studio
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Two security researchers shipped me a pink plastic kid's smartwatch from Amazon. When I wore it, they tracked my movements, surreptitiously took photos of me, even listened to my conversations. The same backend they hacked is used by 30+ watch brands for kids. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/hacker...
wired.com
Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 28/05/2026
When I went to Singapore, one of the things that stood out to me was how many tripping hazards and other injury-risk aesthetic choices were all over the place! I interpreted it as a symptom of a less litigious society
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 23/05/2026
We fight, we mine for rock and stone
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"This is a kids' game, and it's layering multiple currencies atop one another to obfuscate the cost of things, as well as using pop-ups, timer bars, and "buy" buttons to offer temporary boosts and, generally speaking, remove the game's in-built friction."
pcgamer.com
I've been playing games for 40 years, writing about them for 20, and I'm here to say parts of Roblox need to be legislated out of existence
This platform is a disgrace, and regulators need to act.
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 21/04/2026
I love them all, but that last one stands out to me especially. I love the bisection down the torso, and the gradient from total darkness to just a hint of dimension on the left side. So much to appreciate in that one
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Lena (they/them) 🩷💛🩵 @petalsketch.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein
“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein

[an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]
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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 26/02/2026
Also, more games should have release parties.
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 23/02/2026
This is one of my favorite writeups you’ve done 🥺
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 14/02/2026
ios-countdown.win
ios-countdown.win
Fix the iOS Keyboard
A countdown for Apple to fix the iOS keyboard or lose a customer.
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 02/02/2026
The time has finally come for me to spend a couple hours learning how to make my iTerm2 windows and tabs and panels look awesome and easier to find at a glance. Gonna generate some custom terminal backgrounds for each project folder
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 02/02/2026
Just saw that Claude Code added the ability to explain a command it's asking to run with a risk assessment, which is a really great idea
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 19/01/2026
You're absolutely right,
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 21/12/2025
I just suddenly figured out the Blue Prince / Blueprints pun
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 16/12/2025
Okay but Tactical Breach Wizards securing the number three slot is well earned
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 16/12/2025
Haha I like your prediction way, way more than where my mind went which was someone still experiencing regular nightmares of having to do time tracking in the HR software Kronos
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 16/12/2025
lol @steampowered.com's Wrapped-like thing misspelled Chronos, I wonder how many people have noticed
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 29/11/2025
I watched Tank Girl and I am a changed person
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Bob Lord @boblord.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
📢 Announcing hacklore.org 📢 It’s time to retire outdated cyber advice! More than 80 cybersecurity veterans have signed an open letter urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. 🔐 Blog: medium.com/@boblord/let... Site: www.hacklore.org
hacklore.org
Stop Hacklore!
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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 19/11/2025
It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...
crowdsupply.com
PicoIDE
An open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 06/11/2025
If you ever forget the order of the days of the week, simply use this handy mnemonic: So Maybe Tails Wants To Fuck Sonic
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 02/11/2025
Before even watching the video, I find myself in immediate intuitive agreement. Apps seems much more aligned to what they are (and the importance of considering using them) which would be a huge help for new users understanding the ecosystem!
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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 28/10/2025
Immutable releases announced at GitHub Universe! Once tagged, releases can’t be changed. No more worrying about malicious actors swapping out assets or moving tags. Single-use version tags with signed attestations. This is the supply chain protection open source really needs 🔒 #GitHubUniverse
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 26/10/2025
My 10 year old just landed their first craft on Duna and I couldn't be more proud The lander had a rocket descent system inspired by Curiosity They didn't even use a transfer window calculator, they did it by eye based on looking at diagrams. That's more hardcore than I ever did it
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 23/10/2025
I need someone to tell me if Season 2 of Fionna and Cake is anywhere near as mindblowingly fantastic as the first. Season 1 lives as a top 3 show ever in my mind, and I was actually bummed they announced a season 2 because it's just so *complete* I gotta know S2 is world class before I risk it
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 20/10/2025
I like this take
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 17/10/2025
I have never so swiftly taken an opinion as absolute fact
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 17/10/2025
Back in 2002 I implemented an A* pathfinding algorithm in a custom Neverwinter Nights map to allow NPCs to walk between their homes and shops and anything else, along the roads. I was recreating the town of Hommlet from Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 14/10/2025
I think this is my favorite shot I've seen of yours.
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 02/10/2025
Still thinking about the guy playing Warhammer at our local gameshop who, when my 4-year-old asked why they were fighting, turned his head to look at them with the enthusiasm of someone who had waited their entire life for someone to ask and said stoically “in the grimdark future there is only war“
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 01/10/2025
I feel like this is serving as a subtle yet deep allegory for life in 2025
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 01/10/2025
Tonight, for the first time, I played Kerbal Space Program multiplayer with my kid. I docked with the station they put in orbit! What a dream come true a decade in the making.
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 01/10/2025
But Jeff it's a container for expansion
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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Why is it evil and a risk to credit card payment processors when it’s one adult woman making CNC kink videos but it’s a pop culture phenomenon when Khal Drogo rapes Daenerys after being sold to him by her brother?
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 05/09/2025
The latest @home-assistant.io update brought an amazing improvement to automation editing. By putting the node config in a separate frame, it's so much easier to edit parameters while still keeping view of the overall automation flow. Such a seemingly small change with massive usability impact!
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 27/08/2025
This is your regularly-scheduled reminder to exercise your right to download archives from the services you use and archive them in your backups. Don't let a service shutting down (or legislation backsliding) cause you to lose years of data that belongs to you.
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 19/08/2025
Every day I move closer to self-hosting every bit of digital architecture in my life. Today's project: Standing up Syncthing to replace Dropbox/iCloud/Google/One Drive.
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 18/08/2025
Oh hell yes, I've been waiting for thisssssss Going to test it by creating a Base to track the 3D printing filament I own and have tried, with notes on performance etc
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Home Assistant @home-assistant.io · 11/08/2025
‼️ ONLY 48 HOURS left before we show you why Z-Wave isn't dead 🌊 Join us on YouTube, August 13th @ 12:00PM Pacific / 3:00PM Eastern / 20:00 CEST, as we reveal the next device in the Connect series making waves. Click that ~Notify Me~ 🔔 so you don't miss it!
youtube.com
PRODUCT LAUNCH 🌊 Z-Wave is not dead
Home Assistant
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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 11/08/2025
[spends less than the price of a movie ticket on a video game] this better entertain me for the rest of my life or i will be so mad
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 07/08/2025
Oh god I made this same joke 9 months ago bsky.app/profile/alli...
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 07/08/2025
Taking a break for tokens to refresh is the new taking a break for code to compile
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 04/08/2025
I have come to really love MacOS, but I hate Finder with a fiery passion Tell me how to fix this, is there some third party option that makes it not the worst file management experience on the planet?
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Allie the Icon @allietheicon.com · 03/08/2025
It’s never too early for Halloween
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