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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 20/08/2026

Recharge time up north 🚤🌲🎣🌅

Sitting in front of a fire by the lake with a beer.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 28/05/2026

I’m at OSN! Come say hi at the IBM / HashiCorp booth if you’re around

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 02/04/2026

YouTube comment of the year

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 01/04/2026

👨‍🍳💋 alex000kim.com/posts/2026-0...

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 24/03/2026

The AI is getting a little *too* realistic and human-like.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 21/02/2026

I usually rant about bullshit normalizing headlines from @npr.org so I should give credit where it’s due for an accurate, appropriate one. Nice work.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 15/01/2026

My favorite local coffee shop, owned by a wonderful person who's also an immigrant. My favorite local diner, owned by a white woman. Absolutely fuck the assholes that currently run this country and anyone that empowers them.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 23/10/2025

> Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains. 👨🏻‍🍳💋 www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, "What is your stance on AI?" and my answer was very short. I said, "I'd rather die." --Guillermo del Toro

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 21/10/2025

I used to play a whole lot of guitar. After finishing Dave Grohls memoir I’ve been eyeing my local music shop and today picked up this pretty thing. I still had some pedals in my basement, including my loop back - and I found several tracks I recorded still on it from *20 years ago* Surreal.

A picture of a wood tone Les Paul guitar.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 08/07/2025

Me on a recruiting platform, apparently. Extremely proud of that ❌

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 04/07/2025

I love it when Claude tries to placate me by matching tone.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 29/05/2025

My new coworker @aspleenic.bsky.social at Open Source North, nice logo.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 03/04/2025

From a Salesforce marketing email. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

A headline reading "Welcome to the era of agentic productivity."

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 31/03/2025

What?!?!? Never mind, not buying it.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 20/03/2025

Oh boy. Swag official now.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 20/03/2025

Looks like Anthropic released a preview for Claude 3.7 Sonnet to search the web; excellent. The only thing I missed from OpenAI's offering.

A screen showing the enablement button in settings for Claude's new web search preiew.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 24/02/2025

Man, @zed.dev is such a delightfully good piece of software. I've tried many different editors in the past to wane me off of nvim but nothing's ever stuck. It feels right at home but with all the modern goodies, my daily driver for several months now. Some really great engineers building this thing

A screenshot of the Zed editor, which has completely replaced my use of vim/nvim.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 20/02/2025

What even is this world we live in.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 10/02/2025

*squints* yeah, yeah it is. Literally that same guy, doing all the expected dumb shit

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 27/01/2025

Another successful year at the US Pond Hockey Championships in Minneapolis for the Dangling Pointers - undefeated in our pool, and many a Coors and pizza slice shared amongst friends and family. 🏒 w/ @jphenow.com

Our pond hockey team, the Dangling Pointers, on a rink at the 2025 US Pond Hockey Championships

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 20/01/2025

A great day for making ice on the rink!

A homemade Zamboni, which is basically a yard cart with a tote full of water, PVC piping, and a wet towel.

The weather in St Paul, MN. It’s 20 below zero with wind chill.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 04/01/2025

Played for 5 hours(!) out in the single digit temps today. 🫨 The Dangling Pointers return to the US Pond Hockey Championships in a few weeks!

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 02/01/2025

New and improved Zamboni design this year. Braided tubing, tethering to support turns, and an easier “off ice” lift. Runs on the same fuel though (pictured) #odr #pondhockeyszn

Back view of a homemade Zamboni, which is essentially a yard cart with pvc piping and a towel.

The towel assembly “lifted” off the ice.

The fuel for the Zamboni (a picture of cases of beer)

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 16/12/2024

I’m fortunate to be taking several weeks of time off right now, and extremely happy to be thinking about homemade ice rink brackets and new Zamboni components instead of cloud services. The rink is soup right now but it’ll cool off soon! #odr

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 10/12/2024

Lovely day for a pond-wide skate with no snow! Gonna need to zam the rink a fair amount with lillies pokin' through, after getting some boards and lights set up. #odr

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 07/12/2024

Ordered a “flash puck” for the outdoor rink and I’m very excited to try it #odr

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 28/11/2024

I’m guessing outdoor rink Bluesky is an _exceedingly_ small community at this point, but… #odr season begins! Sorta. It’s still water in the insulated shoreline and only 2” thick in open water. Nonetheless, all measured and shoveled down to the black ice to hopefully solidify this weekend.

A picture of Oak Ridge Pond in White Bear Lake, MN

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 26/11/2024

Got to catch lunch in NE Minneapolis today with one of my favorite people during his visit in the Twin Cities this week! @davidcel.is #rubyfriends

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 18/11/2024

I’ve been around the sun 36 times now; here’s two bits of wisdom at this point: - There are very few things in life that are black and white. There’s nuance in everything. That’s what makes it hard. - Do what makes you happy. Seems easy, but it’s actually difficult to figure out what truly does.

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Chris Arcand @chrisarcand.com · 12/11/2024

Decided to spruce up the ol' blog. So 'old' that when I joined Bluesky it didn't have a real logo yet, and I was kidding myself that I'd actually use Mastodon.