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🇨🇦 Staff Software Engineer - Datadog APM (he/him/his) Dad Royal Oak, MI, USA bryanenglish.com

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bryan english @bengl.dev · 5h
lmfao
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Nico Kaiser @nico.kaiser.me · 29/09/2026
📸 #NodeConfEU @bengl.dev: The Past, Present, and Future of Node.js Observability
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 22h
Forget lifehaven, Node.js is the real cult
The napkin tradition at nodeconf
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/09/2026
"we can't uninvent this" we can't uninvent my car either but it still doesn't go anywhere without gas in the tank
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 27/09/2026
My step brother had a cardiac arrest last week and now suffers brain damage. His recovery will not be short, and might not ever be complete. If anyone has a few bucks to spare to help pay his bills, that would be fantastic and much appreciated. Goal is almost hit! gofund.me/2840bca26
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Donate to Get Ben Back On The Mic, organized by Joe Guttridge
Hello, my name is Joe and for the last decade, I have had the distinct pleasure of calling Ben… Joe Guttridge needs your support for Get Ben Back On The Mic
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 27/09/2026
I'll be in AMS schengen departure area tomorrow for about 3 hours. What should I fill the time with? I know the non-schengen KLM lounge is better.
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joao @joao.omg.lol · 27/09/2026
itsnotyouits.ai
itsnotyouits.ai
What Makes Us Human
That uneasy feeling you have about AI is real. An initiative from the Center for Humane Technology.
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 27/09/2026
My step brother had a cardiac arrest last week and now suffers brain damage. His recovery will not be short, and might not ever be complete. If anyone has a few bucks to spare to help pay his bills, that would be fantastic and much appreciated. Goal is almost hit! gofund.me/2840bca26
gofund.me
Donate to Get Ben Back On The Mic, organized by Joe Guttridge
Hello, my name is Joe and for the last decade, I have had the distinct pleasure of calling Ben… Joe Guttridge needs your support for Get Ben Back On The Mic
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Jesse Mac @jessemackinnon.com · 26/09/2026
uwu i’m just a little fascist Tamagotchi uwu
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
NO ONE - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELTEN WHOS TORRENTIND SOME REAL SHYT, "NO ONE WANTS TO WATCH AI MOVIES, IF I GAVE A SHIT WHAT THE COMPUTER WANTED, I WOULDENT OBSESSIVELY BLOCK ADS AND REFUSE TO UPDATE MY SOFTWARE" - MAYBE I WOULD BELIEVE THE COMPUTER KNOWS WHAT I WANT TO WATCH IF IT DIDNT USE 20 YEARS OF STEALING MY DATA TO TRY TO SELL ME THE SAME THING I BOUGHT LAST WEEK - MAYBE I WOULD BELIEVE AN ALGORITHM WOULD ENTERTAIN ME IF EVERY SOCIAL MEDIA SITES ALGORITHM WASNT DETERMINED TO SHOW ME DUMB BULLSHIT TO MAKE ME MAD - MAYBE I WOULD BELIEVE THAT "AI" COULD MAKE SOMETHING OF WORTH IF IT HAD EVER DONE SO EVEN ONCE AFTER READING EVERY BOOK AND WATCHING EVERY VIDEO IN EXISTANCE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 24/09/2026
It's my pleasure to inform you that Wendy's (yes, Wendy's) has released an emo album and it's full of bangers. open.spotify.com/album/4q4KzQ...
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Songs to Listen to in a Wendy’s Parking Lot - EP by Wendy's | Spotify
Wendy's · EP · 2026 · 6 songs
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Scott Riley @scott.is · 21/09/2026
i don’t think you get to simultaneously call yourself a leftist and champion ai. i am not the socialism police. i am not lieutenant engels. but i don’t know how you can square away ‘mass theft of labour in the name of further labour exploitation’ as anything other than deeply orthodox capitalism.
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 22/09/2026
Folks. This referendum is divisive nonsense but you MUST vote. Brexit happened because "normal" people thought It couldn't happen so didn't bother.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 19/09/2026
Joel Spolsky, 2002
The law of leaky abstractions means that whenever somebody comes up with a wizzy new code-generation tool that is supposed to make us all ever-so-efficient, you hear a lot of people saying “learn how to do it manually first, then use the wizzy tool to save time.” Code generation tools which pretend to abstract out something, like all abstractions, leak, and the only way to deal with the leaks competently is to learn about how the abstractions work and what they are abstracting. So the abstractions save us time working, but they don’t save us time learning.
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 14/09/2026
At least the Delta IFE has not gone all stupid yet.
Picture of flight tracker of Delta flight, showing Lake Ontario.
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 14/09/2026
Resisting the urge to call out some specific friends of mine here. You know who you are. Get off the CSAM website.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2026
There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A scene from wolf of Wall Street wheee Leo asks someone to sell him a pen. In the meme that person is labeled anthropic, and he says it’s going to kill everyone
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 13/09/2026
What if GitHub Sponsors, but the money source was tollbooth/tax on bigcos instead of pocket change from fellow underpaid maintainers?
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merritt @merrittk.com · 12/09/2026
it rocks that people talk like this now
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potch @potch.me · 12/09/2026
"no you HAVE to say it's okay and not just okay but cool and exciting that I like and use it. you have to like it and me or it is you who is bad and wrong and dumb and history will agree with me" is some pathetic musk-grade insecurity. if we're being left behind stop looking back at us! orpheus ass
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i saw "can't tell the pro/anti people apart" but it's really easy people who are afraid of losing their job tend to hate it, i.e artists, writers, musicians people whose job it is to fire people, like managers or small business owners, or people who hate their job, like programmer, tend to like it
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports.
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 10/09/2026
Grammatical hill I will die on: Collective nouns should generally be considered singular for the purposes of verb forms and whatnot. "The company has decided to go all in on AI." not "The company have decided to go all in on AI."
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 06/09/2026
Students hate AI. Teachers hate AI. Parents hate AI. ... why is AI in classrooms?
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 09/09/2026
apple never gave a shit about privacy other than as a marketing slogan
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 10/09/2026
Right, so, adding @digitalocean.com to the list of companies I need to find a replacement for. This one stings a bit. It's gonna be a pain in the ass to migrate these servers elsewhere.
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 10/09/2026
Is there research on the venn diagram between "ai is real thought" people and those who claim to have internal monologues as their primary form of thought?
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 08/09/2026
don't mind me, just hand coding like a delusional liar
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 04/09/2026
Oh sweet!
Screenshot from mu.social showing that I'm verified.
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 03/09/2026
What's the best offramp from 1password for me and my family?
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 28/08/2026
Yesssssss
HP 15c scientific calculator. In box.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
At the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 27/08/2026
Still correct on Google Maps
Google Map of Lake Ontario
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 10/08/2026
I don't even remember why we're supposed to hate Flock. I'm not saying I don't or that you shouldn't, I just literally forget because these too much nasty shit in the world to keep track of.
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
HEY BC — sign this! Every politician in BC and #yyj needs to slam the brakes on AI until we understand what it’s doing to our brains — and what’s at stake for students’ privacy. SIGN IT! SHARE IT, and no just here — on every platform. #bcpoli
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I love that AI companies are all like "we just have a marketing problem" when regular people are having AI experiences like this all over the place every single day
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Chris Arter @arter.dev · 03/08/2026
I like how my professional choices are now: A) Stay employed but be waterboarded by AI forever B) Sleep under a bridge.
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Ryan Cavanaugh @searyanc.dev · 03/08/2026
Panel 1: Writing some code? I'll show you something interesting
Panel 2: There are two types of languages: C, and Lisp
Panel 3: Python? Lisp. Go? C. Despite looking like C, JavaScript is a Lisp
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 04/08/2026
Gonna get some stickers printed for @nodeconf.eu. Are 2inch hexagons still the way to go or are we doing something else these days?
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Out of Context Mickey Mouse Comics @oocmickeycomics.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
From IDW's Mickey Mouse #3: Reform and Void

Dr. Ecks shows Mickey a robot with a dome-ish head that's busying typing into a machine.

Mickey: What's this one doing?

Dr. Ecks: Figuring out how you're going to pay you electric bill.
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bryan english @bengl.dev · 28/07/2026
On this day in 2013, I was stuck on the border between Russia and Kazakhstan, all day.
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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 27/07/2026
this is your weekly reminder that: ⚪ intelligence != wisdom ⚪ correctness in sphere <a> doesn't port to <b> ⚪ being unchallenged leads to very dark places ⚪ be very careful of trajectory and dhh is racist much love my friends
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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 27/07/2026
IDK who needs to hear this, but you shouldn't buy promises of utopian futures with abundance and UBI from dudes who spend a considerable fraction of their time figuring out how not to pay their taxes.
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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Honestly no one of my generation should be allowed to act like gender and sex aren’t able to change because every single goddamn one of us has seen Jurassic Park.
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