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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 25/09/2026

I feel like something is missing here, but I can't quite put my finger on it

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 17/09/2026

The tragedy of it is that utilitarianism is liberating in its simplicity (just try to reduce the net amount of suffering in the world!) and deserves a framework that _doesn’t_ serve to launder practically any selfish act into being moral

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 10/09/2026

When you start using keyboard with a new layout, how long does it take your brain to adjust? Not “new layout” like Dvorak — I mean subtle differences like “the arrow keys are farther away than they are on my laptop keyboard.” Trying to decide how much longer I continue my current, uh, experiment.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 08/09/2026

RETAILER: Your thing shipped and here’s the tracking number COURIER (when given tracking number): I don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about. This “tracking number” is no more meaningful to me than if you had simply mashed on the keyboard COURIER (24–36 hours later): Yeah, this is a package

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 31/08/2026

Blog comment spam is getting clever! I can see how this one flew under the radar.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 26/08/2026

The meanest thing anyone was willing to do to Dolly Parton was cast James Woods as her love interest in a movie. Don’t know whose call that was, but I hope they apologize to her as part of a daily ritual

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 21/08/2026

TEAMS: Look, I get it. You don’t want to be using Teams; you wish you were using Slack. Here’s a preset to make all my keyboard shortcuts match Slack’s. ME: Thanks! A pleasant surprise. But… how do I move up and down the channel list via the keyboard, like in Slack? TEAMS: I don’t know what that is

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 20/08/2026

My earliest years of web dev trained me to recognize “URL in address bar changes several times before reaching destination” as an anti-pattern. Even though now I see it half a dozen times per day, it’s been hard to re-train myself to recognize this as “normal and safe authentication flow”

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 12/08/2026

OK, let's see what the Nextdoor folks are talking about tod—

A line in an email client.

From: Your Southeast Pasadena neighbors
Time: Yesterday
Subject: TAXES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 10/08/2026

If you try to log into something at work and it fails inexplicably, eventually check to see if you’re typing in an email address that belonged to you three jobs ago

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 05/08/2026

Is this a “normal” thing to post on Nextdoor? Sure; I’ve read far stranger. Is this a “normal” thing to post on Nextdoor in response to someone else’s lament that a beloved local restaurant is closing? A harder question to answer.

A Nextdoor comment: “Somehow people will survive like they did in 1930 during the depression.” It has three positive reactions from other users.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 04/08/2026

As AI inserts itself into how humans produce things with computers, at what point do we ensure that nobody misuses “its”/”it’s” again? I would’ve guessed that’d be way closer to the beginning than “brainrot deepfake TikTok engagement bait,” but maybe that’s why I’m not a “thought leader”

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 01/08/2026

You’re right. You’re absolutely right. I feel silly for bringing it up. I’ll just accept _the mother of all coincidences_ and we can restart this whole news cycle. You can proceed with your plan to _further_ monetize the World Cup and let’s please never speak of my faux pas again

On Tuesday, a source close to Thrive Capital told CBS News that criticism of the firm's involvement was unjustified.

"I think the first assumption is that Trump was involved in FFE in any capacity, which is just not accurate," the source told CBS News. "Josh himself does not have any links with the administration, he does not have any political roles, he has not donated to them, he is not involved in any capacity. If you look at his donation record, all of the causes he has donated to are Democrat ... it's kind of unfair to assume a lot about somebody just because of what their brother does."

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 30/07/2026

I have an involuntary reaction to text formatted with seemingly RANDOM capitalization like this. I know it's because Nextdoor (like most sites) doesn't offer richer formatting options than this — but my brain is trained to believe that this is simply how NIMBYs type.

Excerpt from a Nextdoor comment (note the sudden bouts of CAPITALIZATION):

“While local ordinances are allowed to override those SB79 percentages, local ordinances allow developers to bypass building ANY affordable units if they pay an in-lieu fee, which goes into a fund to build affordable housing IN THE FUTURE. In other words, nothing affordable would be built in the present, and the only building types that could be built are 100% affordable units. Many years could pass before a city would see such a development.”

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 17/07/2026

Discord’s business model is aimed at making money from people who use it for reasons other than I do (open-source work). It’s as if I were able to use Pinboard for free because it had decided its only revenue would come from charging a small fee every time someone bookmarked erotic fan fiction.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 15/07/2026

I am not English; but I have followed the New Orleans Saints for most of my life, so I get it

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 14/07/2026

I am paralyzed by the sheer number of ways a modern employer can put badges on my dock icons that, when pursued, lead to content that could not be less relevant to me

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 12/07/2026

No more threatening words from a World Cup commentator than these: “Wonderwall is playing; let’s listen in.”

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 06/07/2026

In other news, the phrase I never want to hear again after this World Cup is “I've seen it given before.” I bet you have! An individual referee has about 500% more leeway than they deserve to have; if anything, VAR is showing the seams in the rulebook

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 06/07/2026

Today we all get to enjoy these distinctly American ideas: * Seeing Trump fuck up something you like and being powerless to stop it * Watching other authority figures play along rather than tell him “no” * Expecting other people to be adults when Trump acts like a child

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 02/07/2026

Nextdoor emails me regularly with summaries of recent discussions. That’s fine. I’m a weirdo who likes to know what my neighbors are irrationally paranoid about. But “here’s a prompt from our robot that we think you might like to answer” is among the more sociopathic emails Nextdoor sends.

An email from Nextdoor: “What's a Fourth of July tradition from your childhood that you still think… [See more]” posted by a user named “Ask Pasadena.” (This is an automated user that posts anodyne questions on Nextdoor; Nextdoor thinks this is worth emailing me about.)

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 02/07/2026

We have prevailed through adversity. Time to celebrate the only way I know how

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 01/07/2026

Non-US readers: if “David Beckham goes to Home Depot to help a random dude renovate his back yard” strikes you as a dumb idea for a commercial, then perhaps you understand why American fans _especially_ dislike hydration breaks

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 01/07/2026

Happy for England, but I'm curious how they're going to play even a half in Mexico City — in four days! — without dying of exhaustion. Rice might spontaneously combust

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 30/06/2026

“The crowd have just seen how tight that offside call was… and it did _not_ go over well.” *proceeds to show a graphic of Mbappe being obviously offside, raising the question of just what the fuck these French fans want* (Look, I'm a USMNT homer, but I would not boo if Balogun was caught offside)

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 30/06/2026

If you said “Erling Haaland has 64 teeth” to my face, I’d probably believe you

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 30/06/2026

That’s at least the third time that an announcer has heard boos at the beginning of a hydration break and suggested that the boos were related to something _other than_ the hydration break. “Oh, they must not have liked _that_ call from the referee!”

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 30/06/2026

Paraguay is happy now but won't be when they realize they have to play… uh, maybe Sweden, the way things have been going

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 30/06/2026

Look, I'm not an “expert,” but has anyone considered just running up and kicking the shit out of the ball

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 20/06/2026

I’m thrilled to watch USMNT fans like myself have to grapple with optimism — we weren’t expecting a start this good! — but I’m gonna need us to find a level _between_ “I have no expectations whatsoever for this team” and “I guess we could win the World Cup?”

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 18/06/2026

"It makes no sense to get the best goal scorer in world football out in a game that you need goals." — the Portuguese manager, describing a guy who scored 0 goals in the last World Cup and 0 goals in the last Euros, and failed to get any shots on target today

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 15/06/2026

Spain/Cape Verde was about as exciting as a scoreless draw can possibly be. One of the tournament favorites can't break through against an island country with 1% of its population.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 12/06/2026

Seems like someone on Nextdoor has cracked the secret to going viral

Post from Nextdoor marked as “Trending Post”: “I hate Pasadena ! I would never take anyone there.”

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 19/05/2026

Arsenal has won the Premier League. This feels strange. I don’t know what to do. The house is empty except for me and the dog, and it would do no good to yell in her presence. Consider this a placeholder for however a normal human being would celebrate.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 30/04/2026

Jira, I try not to be precious about my own prose… but when you’ve got a button in the toolbar with a magic-wand icon labeled “Improve writing,” you’re writing a check you cannot cash

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 28/04/2026

If you’re trying to sell me your software, I am unsure what you hope to convey by including the phrase “built by former Palantir engineers.”

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 22/04/2026

Paranoid NIMBYs on Nextdoor love posting “follow the money” without ever, ever, ever following the money

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 22/04/2026

I need browsers to stop promising to restore my windows and tabs after an update/relaunch. I would prefer if you did not. I am a hoarder and you should not enable my self-destructive behavior

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 14/04/2026

I get it, but this is not what is happening in that podcast. This makes it sound as though NYT columnists are _just now finding out_ that the orange man is bad. It’s more about how best to illustrate, on an ongoing basis, how the orange man continues to be bad.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 13/03/2026

Me: *typing a comment on Confluence* Atlassian: Check out the throbbing purple button Me: *typing* A: purrrrrrple buttonnnnnnnnnnn Me: Trying to focus A: So you're not at all curious about the throbbing purple button? Me: No, I just— ugh, fine, what is it for A: You can take a screencast now!

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 18/02/2026

Part of what sucks about the zeitgeist is waking up every morning and seeing the same A.I. debate in my timeline. Of course it’s worth talking about! But it won’t resolve any time soon, and it’s so hard to keep my own focus on the aspects of tech that I find energizing rather than exhausting

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 18/02/2026

Why did I get this email. Why did anyone get this email. Can you please just send me things related to my money or lack thereof

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 12/02/2026

In two-person luge competition, the athlete on top handles steering and the athlete on the bottom is mainly there for weight distribution and stability. I’m gonna be honest: that really doesn’t feel like a compelling reason to stack two guys on a sled

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 09/02/2026

Ways to prove your age to Discord: 1. Submit sensitive credentials 2. Let it photograph your face 3. Show it how many hours you’ve spent playing video games about Hanseatic League trade routes

However, some users may not have to go through either form of age verification. Discord is also rolling out an age inference model that analyzes metadata like the types of games a user plays, their activity on Discord, and behavioral signals like signs of working hours or the amount of time they spend on Discord.

“If we have a high confidence that they are an adult, they will not have to go through the other age verification flows,” Badalich says.

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 28/01/2026

Cool, thanks for the insult. I will seriously consider using your product now that you’ve insulted me

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 19/01/2026

Hi, folks. I’m getting married in a few days. As a wedding gift, I was wondering if everyone who looked at this post could internalize the grammar rules about using commas for direct address: www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/comm...

grammar-monster.com

Commas for Direct Address

Use a comma to offset a name being addressed directly. (That person or thing being addressed is said to be in the vocative case.)

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 12/01/2026

“Pelicans should’ve drafted Ja Morant instead of Zion Williamson,” said everyone in hindsight. Well, the monkey’s paw has granted my wish to shut those people up… albeit not entirely how I intended. (I wonder if that’s its whole gimmick. Must investigate.)

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Andrew Dupont @andrewdupont.net · 09/01/2026

Replaying the Zelda games since I got a Switch 2 for Christmas, and it occurs to me that “Rusty Claymore” would be a great name to give at Starbucks if you’re bored

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