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"One can believe in a story without believing it happened." - Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer Software Developer, dad, animal person. Maybe not in that order? […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hachyderm.io/@b4ux1t3, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Blegh. We are on day # “just use a dirty tshirt as a tissue” of whatever novel plague we have. 😭

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17h

#inktober day 7: Panic

A black-and-white ink drawing labeled "Day 7 - Panic." A bald, smirking devil with tall curved horns, pointed ears, a small hoop earring, slit-pupil eyes, and a pointed goatee leans toward the viewer with one eyebrow raised. A speech bubble says "WANNA" in neat letters and "ROLEPLAY?" in jittery, warped letters. His clawed hand is raised palm-up, and above it floats a d20 showing a 1, wrapped in wispy flames drawn in fine lines.

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

So…I let the HR department know I’m leaving in about three weeks, and moving to another job I haven’t heard back from them yet. Uhhhhh.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I am disapppojnted that there are no metal covers of Danny Go songs. I guess I need to buy an electric guitar.

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Lenny @f09fa681.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

(Boosts welcome!) Hi there! @theova and I are two software engineers with a combined 11+ years of experience building privacy-focused communication systems at @threemaapp in the Protocols and #Security team, now looking for our next opportunity. Our background spans protocol design, applied […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

So, uh, job search update: About a month ago now, I pleaded on mastodon for help. I didn’t really have a goal in mind. I was just miserable at work, not getting paid enough to do too much work. I posted a big long, rambling post that ended with, effectively, “will someone please help me” A […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Well, they opened a Dublin next to the highway, and now our local coffee shop is closing down. They were doing fine until the county decided to let them build a bunch of fast food at our exit. Good job America. Great job. 👏

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Gotta say, I’m liking Theo of golden well enough. It’s a little pretentious, and generally I prefer my pretentiousness with a heaping helping of space lasers and shamelessly stereotyping whole alien species to fit exactly one group of earthlings to make a point. But it’s well written and […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

So, since I’m behind a day, I decided to go with “miniature effort” on a miniature horse for day 3 of #inktober. This is the best work I’ve ever done in less than five minutes.

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Here is my wife’s day one, apple, for #inktober #art #digitalArt #procreate #apple

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

#inktober day two: relic.

Hand-drawn black ink map on white paper, viewed from above, labeled "Inktober 2026 #2: Relic." A road enters from the top through a gate in a long perimeter fence, past a guard booth, a watchtower, sandbag walls, and anti-vehicle hedgehog barricades. It opens into a dirt staging yard with a row of parked vehicles, a fuel tank, supply crates, a tent, and a truck beside shipping containers. From the yard, a wide dirt road curves around and spirals down into a deep, terraced excavation pit, its tiered walls drawn with tick marks and heavy hatching. On the pit floor, among crates and a small work site, a huge skull is half-unearthed, its dark cross-hatched eye sockets and nose cavity staring up, dwarfing a tiny figure standing nearby.

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I’m catching up on #inktober. This is day one. I kinda…screwed it up by trying to add texture to the roads. My wife looked at it and didn’t understand why it was on-theme. Maybe I’m just weird, but i dislike taking themes literally.

A top-down map of an orchard at harvest. Rows of apple trees, gaps where trees died or were replanted, a tractor hauling bins down one lane, and a farm building by a gravel lot. A fence surrounds all of it, and an automated gate closes the only road in. Seems like a nice place. Nobody's said why the gate is there.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I don’t know if I’ve complained about this specific thing on mastodon before, but I bet it’s something that resonates with a lot of folks on here: You don’t have to be a serious person. Hold on, that’s not the whole thing. You don’t have to be a serious person to be…serious. Let’s preface […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I don’t know if I’ve complained about this specific thing on mastodon before, but I bet it’s something that resonates with a lot of folks on here: You don’t have to be a serious person. Hold on, that’s not the whole thing. You don’t have to be a serious person to be…serious. Let’s preface […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Listen, if you can’t mosh to super Mario world EDM remixes, we can’t be friends.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

[B4ux1t3 gets introspective again] Yesterday I finally sat down and setup the Minecraft server again for family and friends. This time it’s a properly proper, permanent server, complete with actual world backups, multiple worlds via multiverse, and geyser/floodgate to play from any device in […]

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

This is a modern motherfucking website. And it’s still fucking perfect. modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamsta…

modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamstation.systems

This is a modern motherfucking website.

Zero of the bullshit.

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I always feel like I’m much better at being Dad than I am at being me.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

In recent months, as the kids have finally (finally!) gotten better at sleeping in their own beds, I’ve started to wake up earlier and earlier. I’m now back to “pre-kid” sleep habits, for the most part. That means I’m up at roughly 5 am most days, regardless of when I go to sleep. I missed […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Just read the giving tree to my son for the first time. I made it through. Barely. My son is trying to make me feel better. It makes me so happy. I have made such a caring, powerful little dude. … I’m never reading that damned book again.

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Matt Dinniman does it again. He lets you sit with the feelings just long enough to feel them. Then he makes you laugh, while not cheapening the moment. Bravo dude. Bravo. 😭

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Things you shouldn’t have to explain to a product owner: You are building a product, you have to lock in a design, or else you will always be chasing the dragon of features. Ideas for features are easy, and no one is impressed by them, no one buys ideas. Build the product, let people _buy it_ […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Hey #Pokemon, did you know that #PkHex is an open source nuget package? WHich you could totally spend half a weekend building a Blazor front-end for, fully WASM-powered? Yeah, I learned that a little while ago: pkfiddle.bauxite.tech Enjoy! Currently supports gens 1-5; 6+ are a little […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Heard this #ttrpg hot take today: > I hate it when everyone assumes their character is some big deal. My friend, first of all, there are entire systems that are premised on the concept of being perfectly normal, wtf mate. Secondly _how common do you think people who fight monsters would be in […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Doing a presentation soon, and needed a sight gag. And yes, of course the text is recoverable in the actual PDF, what do I look like, an amateur?!

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

And instead of playing Pokémon, I ended up rewriting a big chunk of the parser for a project of mine. Sigh. I need fewer hobbies.

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

How my night has gone so far: “Is Alpha Sapphire good?” “Modern Pokémon difficulty is philosophically interesting.” “I want Dark Souls Platinum.” “NPCs should exchange imperfect scouting intelligence.” “Could Zig implement an adversarial search engine on ARM9?” “I found 28 MB in the ROM.” […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Record is up to 3-0 in ticket to ride against wife this weekend. I’m in trouble. She even cheated! (By accident)

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I’ve been forced to take on more…I guess the term is “leadership”-related duties at work lately. This is despite every effort to remain at the level that I’m actually paid to work; I’m not getting paid enough to have to worry about things like “product direction” and “resource allocation”. This […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I am 2 - 0 against wife tonight at ticket to ride. I expect to be sleeping on the couch. I deserve it I have been a very sore winner. #tabletopGames

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Cripes what is this game?! This first area has had, in order: - lillipup - riolu (?!) - psyduck - azuril I can’t in good conscience do my challenge run with a team that includes my wife’s favorite pokemon, a…like, really rare pokemon, and pikablu’s baby form. My only regret is that I must […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

I walk a fine line between 1053 and 386. I promise that my intention is almost always 1053.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Rules for my Pokemon black 2 run (I beat black tonight! Didn’t do that the first time I played back when it came out): - Catch the first new (unseen) wild species on each route — it joins your team. - Statics/gifts/fossils don't count, no forced rotation. - when full, longest-serving member is […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

> oh, no, I would have mopped the floor with you in high school. I was…not a pushover. > oh stop bragging > telling you I peaked in high school is pretty much the opposite of bragging. > fair.

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

#justAISlopThings

A message from a user named Chris expressing frustration and curiosity about what someone named Claude drafted. The background is dark, and there is an illustration of a character. The text reads, “For the sake of absolutely all the fucks, Claude, what did you draft”

The words “absolutely all the fucks” is emphasized.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I miss Old Internet a lot, but admittedly a major part of that is that the early internet had a very weird opt-in procedure that you can't recreate, the result of which is that the default user was a curious dorkwad. Plus, there was no money to be made, so no branding/positioning all the time.

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Don’t mind me, just boiling water to refill the water bottles we picked up from a charity event in our community, because our wells were poisoned by the actions of a private water company. “Wow, you must live in a third world country” Yep. It’s called the a United States of America.

Aforementioned water bottle, with a funnel.

It’s steamy.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

That awkward moment where you're writing a talk about a project of yours, but you end up forgetting about the talk because thinking about describing the project made you want to work on the project again, instead of writing the talk.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

How do you store graphs? Neighbor lists? ❌ Adjacency matrix? ❌ Make neo4j do it? ✅

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

[Impassioned personal stuff about family and a home in reality that needs closing.] So like, I always said I’d never be the stereotypical son-in-law. It has felt like a personal failing since I’ve been married. But the fact of the matter is that my mother-in-law broke my wife long before I […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Booted up elite dangerous for the first time in…years. Tried to take off. Couldn’t figure out what was going on, no power, no nothing. Couldn’t take off before the timer expired. Got blown up. Out 10 million credits. Turns out they completely changed how all of that works, so must ship was […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

I think this is the first time coming back to a game after a long break where the break is less than a year. And yet I still have no idea what I was doing back in March in SDV.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Base coats mostly done. My third ever mini. I really need to do this more often, it’s fun. This makes three in the last…6 years. More or less one every two years. If I jut do one more this year I’ll break my record. #ttrpg #miniaturePainting #art #paint

A painted miniature figure of a knight or warrior, featuring silver armor and a blue skirt. The figure holds a sword in one hand and a shield in the other. It is displayed on a blue tack, mounted on a red cap. The background is plain white.

A detailed miniature figurine of a knight in armor, holding a sword in one hand and a shield in the other. The figure stands on a blue tack base (to hold it in place), showcasing a metallic paint and intricate armor design.

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Is this a game to you?! What do you know, _author of Starforged Shawn Tompkin_?! This is a way of life.

An excerpt from an ebook. It is talking about “mechanics and fiction”

The very first sentence is Starforged is a game”

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

The problem with being a Disney parent is that, in all the movies, the parents are dead. Every movie these kids watch glorifies our deaths as, effectively, a super hero origin story. I’m a little worried the younger one is going to …take matters into his own hands. 😬

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/1160… Worth pointing out to folks, Jeff Atwood is a Rich White Dude™️ who is currently spending his retirement(? That may be an overstatement or mischaracterization) trying to save the world via every vehicle he has available (that is not […]

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I hate the non-answer “they’re just responding to incentives”. That’s like saying airplanes are “just falling due to gravity”. It’s a useless statement that is technically true.

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Not gonna lie, “I trust us more than I trust me” is a solid bit of rhetoric for no-caffeine b4ux1t3.

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@b4ux1t3 Nature Conservancy (I am a former employee) and DIV Fund (formerly a division of USAID) jump to mind as especially promising but this isn’t a space I have studied as much as others www.div.fund/about

About ┋ DIV Fund

We work with urgency to foster, test, and scale innovative ideas that improve the health and welfare of people living in poverty around the world.

b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

As a reminder, in a less ranty post, I’m looking for water-related charities to do some kind of big flashy event to make our water company look bad and try to get rid of them in favor of municipal water. Basically, “look how much money we can raise for other people, we could have municipal water […]

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