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benwis @benw.is · 01/09/2025

Got one of our first AI generated PR contributions today. +6k lines of code that introduced several painful bugs while trying to fix an error. Real issue: `resolver="1"` in Cargo.toml. The compiler said that in the first line of the returned error!

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benwis @benw.is · 03/07/2025

In 1981 the LA Herald posited that "feminine bicyclists are becoming extremely cruel" and was "a form of insanity"; caused by " the intense exhilaration rapid riding brings about." We laugh at it now, but news today is just as capable of falsehoods. cdnc.ucr.edu?a=d&d=LAH189... #cycling #news

A black and white drawing of a woman in formal 1980s wear callously rolling her bike over another women and their bike while they look on pleadingly

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benwis @benw.is · 01/07/2025

If you had to pick one, do you consider yourself an uphill or a downhill person? #cycling #running #life #fitness

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benwis @benw.is · 10/06/2025

Also see biking

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Val @ BOOM Goes the Bride!! @valwrites.ca · 17/04/2025

Very cool. Dimethyl sulfide--a compound that, at least on Earth, is exclusively produced by marine algae--has been found on an exoplanet for the first time, and in large quantities. Current explanation is a giant ocean filled with algae, otherwise it requires an unknown abiotic process. LIFE!!

On Earth, the only known source of dimethyl sulfide is life. In the ocean, for instance, certain forms of algae produce the compound, which wafts into the air and adds to the sea’s distinctive odor. Long before the Webb telescope was launched, astrobiologists had wondered whether dimethyl sulfide might serve as a sign of life on other planets.
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Last year, Dr. Madhusudhan and his colleagues got a second chance to look for dimethyl sulfide. As K2-18b orbited in front of its star, they used a different instrument on the Webb telescope to analyze the starlight passing through the planet’s atmosphere. This time they saw an even stronger signal of dimethyl sulfide, along with a similar molecule called dimethyl disulfide.

“It is a shock to the system,” Dr. Madhusudhan said. “We spent an enormous amount of time just trying to get rid of the signal.”

No matter how the scientists revisited their readings, the signal stayed strong. They concluded that K2-18b may in fact harbor a tremendous supply of dimethyl sulfide in its atmosphere, thousands of times higher than the level found on Earth. This would suggest that its Hycean seas are brimming with life.

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Guy Warley @warls.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

#PortfolioDay Sci-fi, ruins, and odd plants

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 05/04/2025

🦀 Hello World! The Rust project now has an official presence on Bluesky! ✨ We'll be posting the same on our Mastodon and Bluesky accounts, so you won't miss anything on either platform.

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 05/04/2025

Rust 1.86.0 has been released! ✨🎊 🦀 This release adds trait upcasting, get_disjoint_mut on slices and hashmaps, #[target_feature] for safe functions, debug assertions for null pointers, Vec::pop_if and more! Check out the blog post and release notes for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/04/03/R...

blog.rust-lang.org

Announcing Rust 1.86.0 | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 04/04/2025

wokeness was keeping the economy afloat. wokeness kept planes in the air. wokeness kept us all safe

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Michael @scottgoblue314.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

General PSA: this move, called "filtering", is not only a safety maneuver, it is generally legal and often ENCOURAGED. Many places like SF deliberately paint "bike boxes" to situate cyclists ahead of queued cars at lights. Assuming drivers aren't stopped in it by the time you get up there.

Screenshot of Market Street in San Francisco from Google Maps street view. A black BMW sedan is sitting on a green painted area in front of a crosswalk. Barely visible on the far side of the green box is a thick white line that would typically indicate "stop here on red." A dashed green bike lane leads up to the box alongside the car. In fairness to the driver, the car is likely in motion on a green light and not stopped in the bike box, but this illustrates a common practice when drivers are stopped and a cyclist hasn't already taken the box.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 19/03/2025

Ray Blanchard and his fetishistic fever dream masquerading as scholarship should always be mentioned alongside: 1. The GIC where this 'study' was carried out more or less coerced trans women into participating, on pain of compromising their access to healthcare 2. They faked the results

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benwis @benw.is · 28/02/2025

All programmers have felt like this at one point or another in their lives

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benwis @benw.is · 27/02/2025

Accepting captions

Womain in business suit holding big fun and pointing at computer

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benwis @benw.is · 19/02/2025

I'm in London this week for Rust Nation UK. Y'all are welcome to reach out if you'd like to connect #rust #rustlang #rustnation

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benwis @benw.is · 30/01/2025

It's fascinating to read as a discussion. Earlier versions of Leptos were not Send/Sync and our biggest issue was easy integration with Axum. Now that it is, the pain comes from non Send/Sync browser types in web_sys and running Futures in specific threads

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benwis @benw.is · 03/01/2025

More should be done to deal with the huge influx of throttle e-bikes that are basically unregulated motorcycles. Good to see California taking some steps: electrek.co/2025/01/01/s...

electrek.co

Starting today, California is coming for your e-bike throttles

Last September, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB-1271, which redefines and adds to several electric bicycle regulations in...

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benwis @benw.is · 30/12/2024

Wax and kitchen sinks do no mix. Ask me how I know 😆

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benwis @benw.is · 19/12/2024

I wonder what software engineers would be like if they had to do residency(i.e spend time working on open source). Maybe they'd be a bit nicer to OSS maintainers

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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes

A TNG scene. We're in the Enterprise conference room, where Picard is holding a meeting with Data, Troi, and Dr Crusher. Barclay is also there, for unknown reasons. Maybe he wandered into the meeting and just sat down, and everyone was too polite to mention it. That happened to me once. I was visiting an office location I didn't normally go to and I wasn't quite sure which conference room I was supposed to be in. I walked into one and sat down and it took me five minutes to realize I was in the wrong meeting. From the perspective of the people in that room, halfway through that meeting, a stranger walked in, sat next to the boss, took notes for five minutes, then walked out without saying a word.

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Frank Foster @frankefoster.com · 04/12/2024

Winning 1st place in a programming competition must feel terrible. You were so close.

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benwis @benw.is · 04/12/2024

I wonder what the US would be like with a good public education system and a proper social support system.

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benwis @benw.is · 03/12/2024

First day of new job is almost over! Could not be more excited to be writing Rust at work, using Leptos, and having paid time to work on open source!

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benwis @benw.is · 27/11/2024

You are all invited to join us on Sunday Dec 1 at 9am PT for our monthly virtual Leptos Meetup. We'll be celebrating the release of Leptos 0.7, Mikkel will be back talking about the newly released Spin 3, and more! A great way to learn about Rust for frontend web development! lu.ma/3lzsc59h

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Gul Dukat @realguldukat.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Proud to announce that I will nominate Kai Winn as Secretary of Education where she will oversee the Federation Department of Education which guides the direction of schools and education across the United Federation of Planets member worlds. CONGRATULATIONS KAI WINN! #StarTrek

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence. More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop. Now.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Asilisaurus is a puzzling little reptile. The Triassic creature has some traits that look dinosaur-like, and might indicate it’s an early relative of dinosaurs like Edmontosaurus and Triceratops, but it also has some ancient traits that would make it a protodinosaur. Either way, it’s adorable. 🧪

A fossil reconstruction of a reptile called Asilisaurus, a small reptile on two legs with long forelimbs, a long tail, and skull ended with a rootless tip

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benwis @benw.is · 18/11/2024

Coming back to Bluesky after a hiatus, love to see all the new faces! I post about cooking, cycling, software engineering and politics mostly. #intros

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/06/2023

the best thing about the volcano snail is that it looks EXACTLY how you’d want a volcano snail to look

Red and black volcano snail that actually lives on volcanoes - known as the scaly-foot snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum) or sea pangolin

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benwis @benw.is · 04/06/2023

It's cursed and I love it

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 28/05/2023

As someone who has faced death threats and targeted harassment by the far right I can tell you that @jay.bsky.team put many in danger with the team’s moderation face plant. These decisions go further than banning accounts they set precedent for behaviour on these platforms

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(GDHitless) PT @pleasantlytwstd.blacksky.app · 28/05/2023

y'all lean into the most un impacted, unaffected, and unbothered groups fod advice on safety then want to be surprised when y'all constantly get dragged for shit tier safety. You got all of Black BlueSky, most of queer BlueSky, and a good chuck of tech BlueSky all saying "no this is a mess----"

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benwis @benw.is · 28/05/2023

@jay.bsky.team @why.bsky.team There is no repentance, it's not accidental. It's not "heated discussion". This is why people who engage in this have to be banned. Because they will just double down, it condones the behavior, and they're still free to harm their targets

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benwis @benw.is · 26/05/2023

Death threats being an instaban is such a low bar that if Bluesky fails to clear it promptly it poisons their entire moderation strategy. I too will jump ship

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 26/05/2023

I am a software engineer and I will state it now: Technical solutions can't solve everything. I have done community work HEAVILY. This isn't a solution.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/05/2023

So, anyway, just so you know: 1. Extremists ARE using California’s harassment restraining order system as lawfare to harass and abuse people who report on their activities. The form-based layperson-friendly format of the system lends itself to this. /1

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benwis @benw.is · 23/05/2023

It's one of those days

A string of Github commit messages on a PR, to the tune of Somewhere Over The Rainbow. The CI is failing for every commit except the last, which has the line "Really Do Come True"

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benwis @benw.is · 23/05/2023

Did you know getting COVID is a foreseen event? I know I'm going to get it 3 months from now on the first Tuesday. Thanks United!

United Travel Guard Insurance Plan, which states that COVID-19 is a foreseen event and it won't cover it

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benwis @benw.is · 22/05/2023

What if, in addition to custom feeds, we implemented Circle Posts? Encrypt posts, build a custom feed for them, and then you can do all sorts of private content.

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benwis @benw.is · 22/05/2023

Looking for the next thing to make me feel like the Warthog Run mission at the end of Halo 1

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benwis @benw.is · 22/05/2023

Renewing my plea for some Rust tool to scan the DB or my SQL migrations and generate sqlx CRUD functions

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benwis @benw.is · 21/05/2023

Fascinating talk! Definitely worth a watch and listen

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benwis @benw.is · 20/05/2023

I think the biggest competitor to Bluesky will be whatever Meta calls their Twitter clone. Details are scarce, but it'll be federated, built on ActivityPub, and you'll be able to use your Insta account

techcrunch.com

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benwis @benw.is · 19/05/2023

Goodnight Bluesky!

Hermes the Black Cat resting on his side with his legs extended

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 19/05/2023

I'd like to share a skeet with those of you thinking about suicide. In 2017 I ordered a shotgun online for delivery to a dealer nearby. I picked an abandoned lot I had driven by. I bought a tarp to make it easier to cleanup. I really bad about it. And one day, sitting in my cube, I got a call.

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benwis @benw.is · 19/05/2023

This will really revolutionize social media. Custom algorithms carry great potential and a lot of open questions

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