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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Always curious how sketchy emails come from the real domain. This one’s from PayPal.com, here's how: 1. Sign up for PayPal Developer 2. Click "Invite Your Friends!" 3. Set your Name to "PayPal USDT. You have successfully ..." That shows up as "You have an invite from [x]" Sanitize user input 😱

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"Building a Live Debugger," coming soon

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

save 5 minutes coding to spend 2 extra hours fixing it

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I built an mcp for building mcps for building mcps and now my computer is sentient i hope you all said please and thank you to chatgpt

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

design empty containers to stay upright with a spoon inside

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

someone suggested this SQL trick to bypass the lack of trailing comma support 🤯 SELECT a , b , c FROM ...

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

deepseek sounds like a spacecraft - when will it reach mars?

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Every time my heart wants to use WASM, my brain tells me to suck it up and use JavaScript 😢

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

egg prices continuing to go up is all part of the plan 🙃

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

another day another build failure

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Elon watched the hunger games and said wow the capital seems like a cool fun place

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

First week at Datadog, couldn’t be more excited

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Looking for a responsible NY politician, requirements: don’t spend $800 million on a billionaire’s stadium, don’t hire your family, and don’t pay McKinsey millions to explain how trash cans work. It’s a pretty low bar.

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Is anyone else’s only known fact about Greenland that it’s the “icy” one, while Iceland is the “green” one?

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Park City ski patrol deserve a living wage—and while we’re at it so does everyone else just scraping by

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Microtransactions should automatically make a game 18+

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Passkeys improve the login experience, but many implementations don’t invalidate them after a password change, leaving a backdoor. This happened to me. Whenever one authentication method is updated, all existing sessions and alternative methods should be invalidated.

news.ycombinator.com

Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users | Hacker News

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

What is it about #WiFi7 that makes me want to upgrade my router before I even own a device that supports it? 🤷‍♂️

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The solution “we named our temp files etilqs so people stopped blaming us when apps filled up their disk drives” describes challenges in software perfectly github.com/sqlite/sqlit...

github.com

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

After experiencing phone theft and subsequent fraud, here’s three hard-learned lessons: 1. Set up an iCloud Recovery Key, now. 2. Avoid SMS-based 2FA, use an authenticator app secured by a second password. 3. Remove bank accounts from services you don’t use, like PayPal. Stay safe!

support.apple.com

Set up a recovery key for your Apple Account - Apple Support

A recovery key is an optional security feature that helps improve the security of your Apple Account. If you lose access to your account, you can use your recovery key to reset your password and regai...

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

bring back keyboards with personality and spunk

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

change my mind: updating nodejs dependencies is a form of torture

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Okay, what if schools rebranded english classes to the dark arts? Get kids excited to read the forbidden manuscripts.

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

uv out here making python3 look like python4 with it’s inlining of requirements and portability

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Musicians aren’t using AI to generate album covers, right? Are they delusonal? Delusonial?

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Is there a law stating that most posts are also xkcd comics abenezerbelachew.com/blog/hyrum-l... xkcd.com/1172/

abenezerbelachew.com

Hyrum's Law in Golang / Abenezer Belachew

Occurrence of Hyrum's law in Golang

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

AI keeps getting better, but I think I debunked this one

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Last year, I tried to find a good JS library to convert Restructured Text (RST) to HTML, like on PyPI, and every library was missing some core functionality. PyPI uses `docutils`, so I ran Python via WASM and did the same. Quickest port ever? github.com/tylfin/restr...

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

TIL - Python's manylinux platform doesn't support musl distributions like Alpine... this is obvious in hindsight but I'd never really thought about it 🤯

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

While it's rarer nowadays, HN is still pretty solid for technical discourse, for example the discussion around Regatta Storage today was interesting news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4217...

news.ycombinator.com

Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS | Hacker News

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

another caturday more than a year later, she’s grown up

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

tracking down a bug when I find // TODO: This will probably be a problem down the line yeah, you weren't wrong 🤦

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

What Test-Driven Development (TDD) could look like with AI: 1️⃣ Write code. 2️⃣ Leverage an AI assistant to generate tests. 3️⃣ Review and refine tests until they meet your requirements and pass. 4️⃣ Instruct the AI assistant to refactor your code for optimization while ensuring the tests continue to pass.

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

I'll be presenting on Package Management for Data Scientists at posit::conf(2023) I'll explain how software dependencies work and why they matter, share practical lessons to solve problems quickly, and explain how we can help improve accessibility for new learners. Register at pos.it/conf

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 28/04/2023

ive realized im more of a lick-the-frozen-pole type of learner

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 26/04/2023

plan for failovers... your datacenter might end up underwater 😬 “…water intrusion in a data center in europe-west9 has caused a multi-cluster failure and has led to a shutdown of multiple zones”

status.cloud.google.com

Google Cloud Service Health

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Tyler Finethy @coder.bsky.social · 22/04/2023

earth day at the botanical garden 🌎