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Omer van Kloeten🎗️

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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 07/10/2026
So sorry to hear that. I wish all the best to you and the wonderful team you assembled in what comes next.
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Xe @xeiaso.net · 21/05/2025
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 16/04/2025
Morning Hot Take: AI is built on mimicking past training data, so all of the people joking about how them thanking ChatGPT means it'll spare them in the robot uprising is actually them biasing the future dataset. In the off chance of an uprising, you now *have* to thank your AI.
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 11/04/2025
Forgot I bought this, picked it up and was mesmerized. Far: Lone Sails is slow paced and has heaps of ambience. It’s a great change of pace from what I usually play when I have the time. I really like it and a couple of hours in I’m also quite appreciative of how “easy” it is.
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 10/04/2025
לא יודע למה אבל נראה לי שישראלים כתבו את הפיצ׳ר הזה
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 01/04/2025
"bribecoding is a new phenomenon where you pay open source developers a living wage to work on projects that your business uses" src: fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/11...
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 01/04/2025
On the virtue of stating the obvious www.seangoedecke.com/saying-the-o...
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Engineers should state the obvious
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 31/03/2025
We're having work conversations about work things, why do you ask?
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 18/03/2025
hachyderm.io/@simontatham...
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED BUT REPULSIVE", "WRONG BUT WROMANTIC", "FREQUENTLY MISUNDERSTOOD", "NOBODY BOTHERS WITH THIS BIT", "SHOULDN'T REALLY BUT WE WON'T JUDGE", "REQUIRED IN ORDER TO WORK AROUND EVERYONE ELSE'S BUGS", "YOU DO YOU", and "OBVIOUSLY ABSURD BUT VERY COMMON FOR SOME REASON" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 18/03/2025
It's really valuable to be familiar with it and come back to it when your intuition tells you things are coupled and you're not sure how to explain it. connascence.io
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 18/03/2025
"Coupling" is a term we all throw around every day. We all agree it's not all black and white, and sometimes high coupling is a good thing. Coined in 1992, "connascence" is a finer way of exploring how, and how strongly, things are coupled.
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 18/03/2025
You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free - idiallo.com/blog/listen-...
idiallo.com
You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free
The MP3 format, once the gold standard for digital audio files, is now free. The licensing and patents on MP3 encoders have expired, meaning you can now include them in your applications without payin
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 16/03/2025
This is pretty freaking neat (automatic animation of SVG line art) maxwellito.github.io/vivus/
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vivus.js - svg animation
SVG Drawing Animation
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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 15/03/2025
the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 12/03/2025
OH: “The guy’s essentially an LLM: writes extremely confident nonsense.”
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 08/03/2025
‏זה מגניב ממש (ומתכוונן מספיק כדי שיעלה גם על היד שלי וגם על שלו). יש פה גם מלא אפשרויות התאמה אישית נוספות 🤩
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 08/03/2025
כן גם אני רוצה אחד עכשיו
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 08/03/2025
קניתי את זה בשביל בן10 ב-Target, ונכון לעכשיו אנחנו בשעה החמישית ברצף של בניה. הקיט הזה מדהים! מלמד על בוכנות ומנגנונים פניאומטים והידראולים שהילדים אשכרה בונים מאפס ובן10 בטירוף. מומלץ בחום.
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻
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Amy Tobey @renice.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
remember, signal is the only decent dm platform. all the others exist for sharing a signal handle, the way internet explorer is there to install chrome
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 15/02/2025
Just finished reading the trilogy. Great, gripping read - really recommended. Particularly loved how the plot was exposed in layers. I might want to reread them all some day to see how knowing all of the secrets changes them. Only bit I didn’t appreciate was that the very end felt a bit… rushed?
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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I'm going to business hell for this one
A "demystified" Gartner hype cycle graph including points like "trough of zero real adoption" and "slope of enterprise marketers jumping on the bandwagon too late"
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Paul Butler @paulbutler.org · 14/02/2025
Someone asked me about the difference between UTF-8 and Unicode, here's my explanation in case others find it helpful.
Hi! The way to think about it is that Unicode is just a way to encode text as a series of numbers (codepoints), but Unicode itself doesn’t specify how those numbers are stored on disk or sent over the wire in a network.

One obvious way to store the numbers is to encode them as four-byte integers (Unicode codepoints will never exceed the limit of what can be stored in four bytes), which is what UTF-32 does.

That’s inefficient though, because frequently-used and infrequently-used codepoints all take up four bytes. UTF-8 is an encoding scheme for Unicode that lets you encode frequently-used codepoints with as little as one byte (in the case of ASCII chatacters).

UTF-16 falls in between, representing everything as either two bytes or four bytes.
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 07/02/2025
Ordering matters a lot, too
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 06/02/2025
Crossing my fingers for you
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bad internet @badinternet.oracularhades.com · 04/02/2025
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/b...
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Google erases promise not to use AI technology for weapons or surveillance | CNN Business
Google’s updated AI ethics policy removes its promise that it won’t use the technology to pursue weapons and surveillance.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 03/02/2025
Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a...
Paper with all caps writing:

A computer can never be held accountable

Therefore a computer must never make a management decision
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 03/02/2025
Even more impressive when you use the 24h time format (I had to reread your post haha)
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Tomer Gabel @holograph.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I need to tap someone for expertise and am happy to pay for it. Specifically I'm looking for working experience integrating a C++ and Python (cmake+pybind11) with a proper local setup (Python project depending on bindings built from local repo). LLVM experience a bonus. Takers?
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 01/02/2025
מזדהה
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 31/01/2025
Already on my to read list - thanks for pushing it up a few ranks!
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 28/01/2025
אני סיפרתי למטרופולין על אוטובוס שהחליט לא לעצור לי ולא שמעתי מהם שנית
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 24/01/2025
If you’re in a leadership position and you don’t know how to do good, solid storytelling, you’re sorely missing out on a superpower.
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 17/01/2025
It’s not often that you can point at the exact time when you first learn of the weirdness that is the American date format. For my son it was the moment right after he burst in the room excitedly shouting “SWITCH 2 IN THREE WEEKS!”
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 15/01/2025
I thought it was more about it being an influence campaign…
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 15/01/2025
Incident upgraded in severity
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Kevlin Henney @kevlin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 14/01/2025
Not only is there a Production incident, I’m accidentally on call for two of the rotations that deal with it at the same time lol
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
wait do we know for sure which one zuck was referring to
wikipedia article "DEI (disambiguation)" says "Dei or DEI may also refer to... Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated, a fictional company in the Phineas and Ferb animated TV series"
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 11/01/2025
When someone asks me if I’m *intentionally* on the longest consecutive leg of my career (4 years and counting)
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Kevin Parry @kevinbparry.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 09/01/2025
Hear hear
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Almog @almog.xyz · 09/01/2025
I was playing around with a few other things to see if anyone owns other funny domains, and I think someone bought timeout.ms and redirected it to Kafka's docs 🤣
timeout.ms
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka: A Distributed Streaming Platform.
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Know Your Meme @knowyourmeme.com · 09/01/2025
On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
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vortex @vortex.au · 07/01/2025
I refuse.
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 07/01/2025
Amazing three-part deep dive by my colleague Doron Yaacoby on how we optimized cloud costs at Forter and saved literally millions of dollars tech.forter.com/saving-milli...
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How we saved millions on AWS - Part 1 – TECH.FORTER.COM
How we saved millions on AWS and lived to tell the tale. Part 1 - Building a Cloud Strategy.
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parker higgins @xor.blue · 02/01/2025
I think probably 95% of speculation that your phone is secretly listening to you is overblown, but man the tech industry really does not do itself any favors with that 5% arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M
Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 03/01/2025
Oh wow I do so want to see that
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Omer van Kloeten🎗️ @bsky.omervk.com · 03/01/2025
“Thank you for your cold approach, please fill in the following form to continue:”
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