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ceej @ceej.online · 25/09/2026

ME: (crawling out of the sea) Oh thank god! There’s been a terrible shipwreck! Please, I need water GUY ON SHORE HOLDING A GIANT BOOK: Not so fast, bitch. This is Puzzle Island

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Federico Viticci @viticci.macstories.net · 21/09/2026

I reviewed the M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB of RAM. It’s the dream Mac for local AI agents. And I’ve gone local-only with Hermes. My story, with LOTS of interactive charts: www.macstories.net/stories/m5-u...

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M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The Dream Mac for Local AI Agents

For the past few days, I’ve been testing the (currently) top-of-the-line M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB of RAM. I’ll cut to the chase: the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is a dream machine for local AI agents. ...

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 10/08/2026

Photos app brought me this memory from 10 years ago.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 24/07/2026

2026 really is a momentous year

Photo of the side of a Mr. softee ice cream truck with a sticker next to an illustration of a shake that says it’s the company’s 70th anniversary. There’s the ice cream cone man with the years 1956 and 2026 on the left and right. Below that it says 70 years of serving the very best.

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 11/12/2025

Talk to your kids about safe impact play before they learn it from their AI toys

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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 14/11/2025

Yawns are weird. You're tired? Why don't you open your mouth really big about it? What's that? You're not tired, but you saw someone else open their mouth big? Well, guess what.

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 12/11/2025

“Oh no! I accidentally clicked the unsubscribe link on a marketing email!” - nobody ever. I would love to see the metrics on how often someone clicks the “resubscribe now” button on the “sorry to see you go” unsubscribe confirmation screen.

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 03/11/2025

iOS dev hot take: MVVM is just a re-brand of MVC. MVC got a bad rap because it was so frequently misused.

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 02/11/2025

I’m apparently a Snapchat girlie again

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

October 31st November 1st

ITYSL sketch: it was also the night that the skeletons came to life!

ITYSL sketch: my life is nothing I thought it should be and everything I was worried it would become.

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🌷 Fidget/Vesper 🌷 @fenn-boy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This is actually incredibly interesting

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 28/10/2025

When a family member shares a calendar with me, why do I inherit to their reminder notifications? I don’t need to be notified that it’s “time to go” to an event I’m not attending (but it’s helpful for me to know what my people are up to on a given night)

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 28/10/2025

But this only works when they send it directly to the protonmail dot com address, not the aliases like pm dot me or proton dot me.

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 28/10/2025

Almost everyone I know uses Gmail. But I use proton mail. But I use my proton mail email address to create a Google account, which supports calendar. So when someone sends me a calendar invite to my protonmail address, it shows up in my Google Calendar. Cool! But also, what?

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 28/10/2025

Man, calendar apps have got to be like the most difficult problem space in the world, right? And I’m not talking about weird holiday patterns, I’m talking about sharing events and calendars, how to handle multiple platforms and services.

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 28/10/2025

And the SCALE! Why does the graphic have to be so huge compared to the tiny people in the corner? 🤢

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 28/10/2025

I can’t even tell what they were going for if not… *that*. A fist-bump? Is it supposed to be a fist-bump?

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 25/10/2025

When the business logic is tightly coupled with the UI layer (which is true for most UIKit MVC and MVVM apps), then you can’t switch to another UI framework without re-writing 90% of the app.

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 25/10/2025

Transitioning from UIKit to SwiftUI is hard enough. It is so much more complicated than “slapping a different UI on”.

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 24/10/2025

Neat! But the “business logic” is arguably the least difficult part of building a mobile app. Every app I’ve worked on has been 90% UI code 😕

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 11/10/2025

One of those weird weeks where I feel exhausted, and I can’t tell if it’s because I’m struggling to keep up, or because I’m setting my own bar too high for myself.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

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Natalia Panferova @natpanferova.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Here’s my custom stretchy() SwiftUI modifier built with visualEffect(), powering the stretchy header in @brevecoffeeapp.bsky.social ☕️ I shared the code for it earlier in my blog post: nilcoalescing.com/blog/Stretch... #iOSDev #SwiftUI

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Panic @panic.com · 22/09/2025

Just two more days until Blippo+ lands on your computer (or switch) in full color. Get ready for Tuesday! blippo.plus

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 19/09/2025

This spam needs to STOP! 😩 how many times do I need to respond with “stop” before the messages stop coming?

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 16/09/2025

The word “Paraphernalia” is the nastiest word in the English language. The word’s definition could apply to pretty much any specialized tool, but we only use it when we talk about drugs because everybody knows it sounds like an STD.

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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 14/09/2025

Some people take feedback as useful suggestions (whether they accept it or not); some take it as a personal attack. The latter take much longer to learn anything. Sometimes too long. I know it sucks but it’s the fastest way to get better.

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 14/09/2025

Love to eat a fish with the face still on

Plate of food. In the middle is a fried fish, whole.
Around the fish is lettuce, garlic bread, french fries, rice, and sauce.

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 12/09/2025

And this is how I find out that Justice has a new album I haven’t heard yet 🙈 (What a great album, though!)

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Riley Testut @riley.social · 12/09/2025

SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE. THIS IS NOT A DRILL

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Deno @deno.land · 10/09/2025

Deno 2.5 is out — ⭐ Permission sets in config ⭐ Setup and teardown APIs to Deno.test ⭐ HTML entrypoint support in deno bundle ⭐ Runtime API for deno bundle deno.com/blog/v2.5

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Deno 2.5: Permissions in the config file | Deno

Simpler permission management with permission sets, new Deno.test APIs for setting up and tearing down test cases, specifying custom headers in WebSocket connections, runtime APIs in deno bundle, and ...

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 10/09/2025

Good luck to all iOS developers who haven’t tested their apps with liquid glass yet. I’m anticipating a lot of customer feedback. Stay strong 💪

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Deno @deno.land · 02/09/2025

Fresh 2 has graduated to beta releases - essentially release candidates before a stable release. Fresh can now act as a Vite plugin, opening the door to HMR, faster boot times, and Cloudflare deployments. deno.com/blog/fresh-a...

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Fresh 2.0 Graduates to Beta, Adds Vite Support | Deno

Fresh 2.0 beta introduces optional Vite integration - with hot reloading, faster boot times, seamless React aliasing, and the full Vite plugin ecosystem

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 09/09/2025

Disagree that refactor = distractor. Refactoring a complex system can make it way easier for other devs to wrap their head around it, which is super valuable in the long run, especially on larger teams.

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Andy Allen @andy.works · 04/09/2025

The world needs more hand-drawn software

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 04/09/2025

I haven’t tried Dia, but Arc is my daily driver. Huge kudos to the whole team at the Browser Company!

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 23/08/2025

It’s technically “Consumer News and Business Channel”, which is a little more clunky, and kinda proves the point that that it was chosen to fit the NBC letters in there.

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svenning🌲 @svenning.io · 22/08/2025

I've birthed life into an old Medium account of mine. Read my latest article here if you don't trust my own shady domain 😃

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Build for Joy, Not Work

How Building Out of Passion Boosts Craftsmanship

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 22/08/2025

I love this post! 😍 It really nails a sentiment I’ve had for a while. Thanks for sharing!

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 22/08/2025

Did not expect Cracker Barrel to be the next woke battleground. Everybody dye your hair and pierce your septum, we’re eating country fried steak and meatloaf tonight.

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 22/08/2025

Oh my god, is there actually a full-on boycott over the new logo?

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Rosie Sherry @rosiesherry.com · 19/08/2025

The opposite of anxiety isn’t calm, it’s trust. Trust in yourself. Trust in your people. Trust that you can move through uncertainty together. Source: leadershiplearning.org/the-opposit...

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The opposite of anxiety is trust. - Leadership Learning Community

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 20/08/2025

My latest obsession: I connected a landline telephone to a self-hosted AI model running on my computer 🤩

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Liquid Lobster Engineer (they/them) @avery.omg.lol · 19/08/2025

This is typical for a lot of corporate software: the people who decide what tools to pay for are not the same people who actually have to *use* the tool. 😕

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