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Adam

@ardeguire.bsky.social

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I’m your dad. Sitting too close to the screen since 1990.

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Adam @ardeguire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

@paulrobalino.bsky.social I am so sorry, but this came to me in a dream: Paul Roblox-ino

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"We should never forget that Dolly Parton chose not to be a billionaire."

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

HELL NO - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SHREIKING SKELETEN "IM NOT GUMPY IM SLEEPY AND NO I AINT TAKIN A NAP EITHER!!!!!!!!!" I WILL SLEEP WHEN I WANT AND I ACTUTALY GET MORE ENERGY AROUND 1.00 AM SO I HAVE TO BE AWAKE FOR THAT OR OTHER WISE I HAVE NO ENERGY AT ALL , SO ITS NOT A PROBLEM - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Adam @ardeguire.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I was so surprised to get this gift, and I absolutely love it!

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 28/06/2026

This looks cool as heck. makerspet.com/blog/buildin...

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Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet oomwoo - Makers Pet

I’m starting a new build-in-public project: oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself. Raspberry Pi, ROS 2, 2D LiDAR, Home Assistant, 3D printed, local-first — and open from the first com...

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gabby @fullmoon.id · 16/05/2026

new blog post incoming

Type out the code

Back in the day I read one of Zed Shaw's "Learn X the hard way" courses (I think it was his C++ course) and he began the course with a disclaimer that said something like "do not copy and paste the examples; type them out" because he believed strongly that doing so improved your comprehension of the material.

These days he recommends something even stronger:

> The best way to do this is when you complete an exercise delete what you did and do it again, but try to use your memory. If you get stuck then look at the exercise for clues, but try your best to recreate what you just did from memory. At first you'll be constantly referring to the exercise and the code, but eventually you'll get to where you can do it on your own. This will also improve your ability to remember more code, your ability to summarize how something works, and generally improve your skills faster than if you did it once and moved on.

This is known as the generation effect in cognitive psychology: the active generation of new content improves comprehension compared to passive consumption of the same material. Or as Richard Feynman put it: "What I cannot create, I do not understand".

I'm not a researcher, but I would still like to add my own spin as a lay programmer on why I believe this phenomenon matters for improving programming ability, even in the age of agentic coding. In fact, I think it's even more important now than ever for people to reacquaint themselves with this "ancient wisdom" because otherwise we'll end up with an entire generation of programmers wondering how anyone ever programmed without the help of a coding agent.

In this post I will lay out the case for why you should do the drudgery of occasionally typing out the code, character-by-character, as best as possible from memory. That doesn't mean that you should never use developer tools of any sort to accelerate the coding process, but you also need to occasionally do the boring parts by hand and by memory

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Slate @slate.com · 06/05/2026

That Druski skit you liked was likely brought to you by a gig worker. slate.trib.al/IoHaCIB

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They’re Low-Paid. Big Companies Exploit Them. They’ve Made All Your Favorite Viral Videos.

Unfortunately, it's why you know who Clavicular is.

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

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Mons @dennismons.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Is it #TransDayOfVisibility Celebrating with short thread of historic trans slavs 🏳️‍⚧️🥟 Starting with Czechoslovak transman, Zdeněk Koubek (1913–1986). Olympic golden medallist, caught in crosshairs of Nazis weeding out "hermaphrodites" from the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Two athletes, then Zdena Koubková and Veronika Kohlbach

Zdeněk with Czech flag heading for the Olympics

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

It’s such a laughably bad argument for the war on Iran to say “The people there want regime change.” I want regime change in the US, and I 100% do not want the US to be bombed. F off with garbage arguments.

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