DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'd cut the theorix metamage and cryotheory adept from the ub deck and splash the 4/4 beast token maker and the gecko off of your gb land and the basic landcycler. Those creatures will be quickly outclassed in sealed while everything 4/4 or better basically stays relevant the whole game. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026www.goodreads.com/en/book/show... I'll always recommend @add-hawk.bsky.social's book when people start talking about metrics, legibility, and what that does to incentives.goodreads.comThe Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's GameA philosophy of games to help us win back control over … 120
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 17/09/202620 year old me was confused about where happiness actually came from. What he thought doesn't matter. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A belated happy Rosh Hashanah to everyone. youtu.be/TzKeqa5VblQ Some song ideas for Broadway Rosh Hashanah: The Man of L'Mancha Avenu MalQnuyoutu.beTekiah song on the Shofar (To the tune of "Tequila")YouTube video by Ari Aranov 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026If I never had to hear the word "friction" outside of a physics context, I'd be so so happy. 010
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026If you're celebrating that LLMs are answering 30% of your support load, remember that 70% of your support tickets are now having a worse experience than they were before. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Sword of Feast and Famine. Following Fire and Ice, Light and Shadow, and Body and Mind (from the previous set) 001
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026They would draft "normal" decks without drafting the battlecruiser style the set was built for. 2 mana 2/2s and wind drakes were not great in the format. 040
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026A Magic the Gathering card. (Or at least, that's what my mom would tell me based on my room growing up) 010
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026status.gitlab.com/pages/histor... I'll let you decide what's relevant to you.status.gitlab.comGitLab System StatusThis status page is exclusively intended for monitoring GitLab.com and its associated services. If there are any performance or service interruptions, an update will be posted here. If you are experie... 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Before you do this I recommend signing up for email alerts from GitLab's status page. Their incidents are happening at about the same frequency as Github. 110
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I wonder if anyone has data on how the way in which you gather feedback about an event changes how people see the event. In this case, offsites, but one could imagine something similar with religious ceremonies, government functions, etc. 010
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Net promoter score may have had a use-case for sales-focused data collection, but using the formulation "would you recommend <X> to your friend/colleague/etc." in increasingly more domains is a recipe for treating those domains as external sales products. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Not the answer you're looking for, but the first positive "when you cast" ability was in Shadowmoor, so I choose to believe the Eldrazi cast mechanic was inspired. 100
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026so being familiar with Mac is useful for a software dev. All the actual product machines my code has been run on have been Linux though. 121
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Now 11 years into software engineering, and just being an adult: As a kid, video games helped get me interested in computers, and Windows is just where video games are and have been for a while (though Steam machine being Linux-based is interesting). I don't like Mac, but every job has issued me one 121
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Multikicker is the only uniquely new WWK mechanic I can remember, so I'll go with that 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I actually don't hate it. Also, Shot Clock is funny in a world of Darksteel Reactor. 010
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I assume it's a 5 color card, I'm thinking the 5 color enchantment that grants your first spell cascade every turn? 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026But I've so rarely heard someone tell me about a favorite card of theirs. The concept of pet cards and favorite cards seems to have gone a little bit out the window for newer players. 100
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026As a person who's been playing Magic for 26 years, I feel like I'm building decks that are history lessons for some of the folks that I play with. A little bit less of a generational thing, but people who've been playing < 5 years seem either really spike-y, or harping on a beautiful vorthos theme. 100
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Fear returning Benevolence (net +1, because Obsession flips from 6 to 3, but you lose 2 points), then Play Cheer discarding Benevolence (net +8: +5 from Cheer, +3 from Excitement flipping from 3 to 6 due to the second green mood). Total +9, meaning you've overcome the +8 deficit. 020
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026How could I forget?! He was part of a UWR planeswalker control deck in the same era as classic Jund. I managed to ultimate that Ajani a few times, and he's from Naya. I swear there's a semi-intentional cycle: Bant: Elspeth Naya: Ajani Jund: Sarkhan Grixis: Nicol Bolas (next set) Esper: Tezzeret 110
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Planeswalker. We had the Lorwyn 5, no more through Morningtide, Shadowmoor, and Eventide, then got Elspeth Knight-Errant and Sarkhan Vol in Shards of Alara set (and maybe one more? I don't quite remember. Was that the Tezzeret the Seeker initial printing?) [Scryfall confirmed it was] 120
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Today's Torah portion reads very much like the last season of a soap opera. Two major characters (Aaron and Miriam) got killed off and they introduced a talking donkey. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I think, in the end, I'm going with Bloom Tender. It would play well in the nascent EDH format of the time, as well as having infinite mana combos in standard with Umbral Mantle. 000
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Figure of Destiny and Glen Elendra Archmage were standard staples for the time, with Glen Elendra slotting into the Faeries deck that spanwed from Bitterblossom's printing. But I suspect it didn't poll well with casual players. 100
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I wish I knew how far after the set release the card testing for market research happened. Re-looking through the set, I remember Talara's Battalion being really hyped up despite never making a mark anywhere. I think Nettle Sentinel immediately spawned the Pro Tour Elves deck for LSV. 100
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026God for the "Overbeing/Deity" cycle would be my guess. Most of their descriptors were godlike. Can I state that I still want this to happen? 010
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Chroma is in Eventide 3 sets later. You might get to use this again though ;) 120
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce on Very Hard mode. 020
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026People are saying card types but kindred was introduced in Future Sight with the rebel aura Bound in Silence. (It's possible Mark is not counting that as an introduction though) 030
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Planeswalkers. But they did appear on Tarmogoyf reminder text. 050
DJ Hoffman @djhoffman.bsky.social · 23/05/2026The 3 color legendary dragons (6 cmc 6/6 flying versions) 020
