Sign in

Brian Hicks

@brianhicks.bsky.social
519 followers 424 following 727 posts

Programmer and maker and general tinkerer. bytes.zone

PostsRepliesMedia
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@leaflet.pub hey do y'all do POSSE anyhow? (I admit I'm not super familiar with the product but I keep seeing it and I'd love to replace my mailing list thing. 😆)
020
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
wow I am so surprised that an NFL owner has done something bad. wow, that has never happened before. who could possibly have predicted this.
020
Reposted by Brian Hicks
leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
i’ve been solving a lot of problems lately with my calculator like 5 + 8 and 12 x 3. but now i’m starting to think it’s alive
251328187
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 09/09/2026
decided metroid+kirby today means that all upcoming games involve eating things. ocarina of time? you're gonna be able to eat the ocarina now gta6? you eat the cars now the next part of FF7HD? Sephiroth eats Aerith. 500 finger fillet? YOU EAT THE FINGERS
715017
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
www.gocomics.com/nancy/2026/0...
Nancy for Labor Day 2026: Four panels featuring the title character in various poses. The panels are titled "8 hours for work," "8 hours for rest," "8 hours for what we will," and "Happy Labor Day," with Nancy holding a banner that reads "Happy Labor Day."
051
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
do not into that good night be gently guided--
a sign on a green metal door reading "Refuse to be stored in black plastic sacks and placed in the containers provided"
129265
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
.@1password.bsky.social I've paid for your services for a decade and had no plans to switch, but today I'm looking for alternatives. Knowing what DHH stands for *and supporting him anyway* is an incredibly bad look, and I cannot remain as a customer of yours with this donation.
030
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
227147372820
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
UUID should be pronounced "wee-weed"
020
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
WOWWWWW (caption: firey setting sun behind a bare tree, making it appear that the disk of the sun is caught within the tree's branches.)
030
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.
9955331133
Reposted by Brian Hicks
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
macromedia shockwave, print ad (1999) archive.org/details/eu_W...
prominent text:
shockwave makes your website groovy, baby!
photo: austin powers and felicity shagwell back to back, holding pistols, smiling, against a shagadelic background of coloured flower outlines.
smaller text:
austinpowers.com uses
the shockwave player to deliver the
web's most shagadelic experience.
when you want more of the world to visit your site and return more often,
reach for the director 7 shockwave internet studio. it's the secret agent
of engaging and entertaining sites that add life to the web.
www.macromedia.com
add life to the web
3238641078
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I do not know if we have or have not reached peak AI. I do, however, notice that my garbage company is hiring for a "Staff Engineer - Agentic AI."
020
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca
29595651527
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
317254966965
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Just got my site working on a new VPS host, only for the whole host to experience a crippling DDoS for 14 hours yesterday and another one ongoing today. What luck!
100
Reposted by Brian Hicks
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/07/2026
woke: national hot dog day bespoke:
the liturgical hot dog calendar

four seasons are broken down into ordinary time (plain hot dog) advent (chili dog) lent (corndog) and easter (chicago style dog, or, refional style)
492586652
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Micah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2026
the biggest positive story on climate is that it doesn’t seem to matter how much of the world is run by reactionary fascists: the rise of solar is unstoppable
4953181298
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
as if the red card shenanigans weren't bad enough, now the NYT says Trump is playing???????
Headline of the New York Times as seen in Google News: Trump asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player's Suspension. Now He's Eligible to Play.
010
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Retroist @retroist.com · 04/07/2026
Great moments in U.S. History.
Comic panel showing the Kool Aid Man walking past children with Benjamin Franklin. A child asks, “Excuse me sir, aren’t you Benjamin Franklin?” Franklin answers, “Yes I am. I’m also hot and thirsty.”
10073811830
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
haaah… Argentina has a defender named Paredes? World Cup scriptwriters are getting lazy. 😆
020
Reposted by Brian Hicks
John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
138137364419
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
our pool is bigger than skyscrapers bigger than cars bigger than the moon! you can tell, at night! the moon falls all the way in you can see it at the bottom our scientists are working on a way to extract the moon from the pool and unlock its resources (cheese, footprints, discarded flags)
2159584
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 30/05/2026
The point is not to write the best book ever objectively in the history of mankind. The point is to write the best book that can come out of YOU & hope it clicks in some way that others see it. There is no YOU in writing you produce with AI!
024148
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
6085401016197
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
sure you can *center* a div, but are you really *celebrating* the div?
040
Reposted by Brian Hicks
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Wrote entire books about how people who believe fairies live in gardens are idiots only to fall in love with a calculator that calls him smart
333129617
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
doing a side project where I mostly use gen ai to see how it's going now not unrelated… swearing at the computer a lot more recently. Wonder what's going on there.
100
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
is anyone I know using tangled? It seems super cool but I'm pretty hesitant to run my own nixos CI workers again. 🥴
000
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
since I no longer pun on blue sky, i am forced to find puns in the wild and beam them to you
Stickers on a street sign, one of which depicts Worf, from STNG, wearing fishing gear. It reads “Fisherman’s Worf.” Ha!!! SF joke!!!
918649
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Somehow managed to force Zod to behave like a decent form validation library? Huh! Only problem is that the error messages show up pretty aggressively (the form is covered in 'em as soon as you open it.) gist.github.com/BrianHicks/d...
gist.github.com
README.md
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
010
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
WAITER: would you care for dessert JEFF: i’ll have the jello GEOFF: i’ll have the geollo JEFF: jesus christ not this again GEOFF: geosus christ
343041648
Reposted by Brian Hicks
melissa capriglione @ HOODIE KICKSTARTER @mcapriglioneart.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
yeah i have stability get the sticker here: mcapriglione.art
preview of a sticker of a gray cartoon striped cat holding a knife. the caption reads "yeah i have stability, ability to stab"
0745262
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
🐁☁️🎈💕
4383432625
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A story in two acts.
@bombsfall says who is cavicler and then about 20 minutes later says oh this is weird and sad
81829257
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It has happened more than once that a Man has told me he is training an AI model of himself to give people access to his thoughts without him having to be present. It's only a matter of time before I tell such a Man that I already have too much access to what is going on in his brain, thank you.
2387
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The replies include some creative wrong answers like “duck on a buck,” “quack on a rack,” “elk is the shelf,” and my favorite “gander on an antler” 😂
1223
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 05/04/2026
“I have gun”
52576
Reposted by Brian Hicks
ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹
33297372295
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
i'm sorry but the moon is a complete boondoggle that should never have been put up there in the first place. we still have to send repair missions up there a hundred-plus years later all because taft was trailing in the polls and decided to learn magick. i don't know why he thought it would help him
442667381
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
One of the great slogans of our age.
Industry fair banner for Allegheny shredders that reads:
The future is here and everything needs to be destroyed. 
Don't fall behind the times.
15606145
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
found out today that my bar's pinball group submits to the international flipper pinball association. That's how I came to find out that I'm the 36,075th-ranked pinball player in the world. Huh!
000
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Gwen!!! @poodlewool.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
A watercolor color image of a dark eyed junco in a huge pair of barrel legged jeans with a studded belt and chain. Text on an orange field reads "Dark Eyed JNCO"
6462951835
Reposted by Brian Hicks
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
@sarcasm_inc

[a spider watching soccer when someone kicks a ball into the net] hell yeah, now eat it
11967351
Reposted by Brian Hicks
👻 Ghoul Named Cru 🦇 @carnitas.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
what absolute fucken nimrod didn’t name this PROTINI????
Box of barilla Protein + Rotini pasta
760391
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
blue-eyes white dragon can't lose … help all my jokes are from 2007
020
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
So I've been working in finance for the last little bit and… you may not be surprised to know that folks in the industry think Jim Cramer is a total fraud in an exquisite amount of dimensions.
100
Reposted by Brian Hicks
leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers
324310829
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Heart grew two sizes? Cool, good, they'll make a movie about you even if you did steal all those presents. Tendon grew two sizes? That's plantar fasciitis bro, now you've got a day brace AND a night brace.
100
Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
(Playing hangman) Me, relieved: yes that’s right, Tony Hawk. You know who that is then? 9yo: no, who’s that. Was he in the war???
000