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Demian Ferreiro

@epidemian.bsky.social
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Burnt-out programmer in recovery. ☕

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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
screen.toys/firewood/ just a well-executed wood splitting simulator. nice
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Firewood Splitting Simulator
Split firewood in 3D — an interactive Three.js experience
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Polymarket bets can be wild A talented virologist could make a lot of money doing some "insider trading" here
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
fantastic video. a bit unnerving that much of this resonates on me too www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY9u...
youtube.com
I’m Russian. Here’s how propaganda really works.
YouTube video by Silent East
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l... In Spanish "de meo" means "made out of piss", which seems to be pretty much in line with this "vision" of going full-blown AI on a fucking web browser How original, BTW, a CEO being an AI pusher. It's like there's absolutely no variety of opinions on that role?
blog.mozilla.org
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company | The Mozilla Blog
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
[⠤⠤𐂃⠤⠤⠴ ⠤⠤] Try to beat my tiny horse (my score: 373)! diego.horse/jump
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Tiny Horse, Tiny Jump - Diego Dotta
Tiny runner game that runs in your URL bar.
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
|⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠛| Got 66 points playing this stupid snake game on the browser URL! demian.ferrei.ro/snake/
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URL Snake!
Play the classic snake game on the browser URL.
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
my stupid URL snake game got to the HN front page after 10 years of its creation LOL news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4540...
news.ycombinator.com
Play snake in the URL address bar | Hacker News
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
canciones de X suenan bien hechas versión Y es cierto para todo X e Y perteneciente a { metal, música clásica, cumbia } ¿se puede extender ese conjunto tal que se siga cumpliendo eso? ¿existen otros conjuntos de géneros musicales para los que se cumpla eso?
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 06/09/2025
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I have a list of patients I’ll remember forever, but some changed what kind of a doctor I am. I don’t mean what field, I mean I reassessed who I want to be and how I want to act. I owe them all a debt. Many years on, I still feel guilty about this one (now on youtube) youtu.be/fwYd1FeVtvc?...
youtu.be
This Patient Changed Me
YouTube video by Medlife Crisis
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/09/2025
Ant Farm Teaches Children About Toil, Death theonion.com/ant-farm-teaches-child…
Ant Farm Teaches Children About Toil, Death
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15/08/2025
who called it a Kubernetes penetration test and not a clusterfuck
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I'm looking to buy a new laptop, and i can't believe 8GB RAM models are still being sold, while higher end models come with 64GB or more. That's a huge spread! BTW, if you have any recommendations for a good Linux laptop, i'm all ears. I'm thinking of going for a ThinkPad T o P series.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
It’s wild that the most unrealistic part of Terminator 2 is now the idea of a tech founder being told their creation will enslave humanity and they decide to destroy their product & company.
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🎴 高 | irene koh 🎴 @koh.money · 04/08/2025
so disappointing how many ppl I see preemptively convincing themselves they can't learn a thing w/o giving it a real effort over time bc they think natural aptitude is the defining factor of skill acquisition. the only diff btwn them & the ppl who can do the thing is that the latter just kept trying
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Thomas Frank @thomasjfrank.com · 26/07/2025
A major problem with using LLMs to learn things: Me: "A is true, therefore B is false, right?" LLM: "Right! Here's a ton of detail to confirm your belief." Me: "Actually, A is false; B is true." LLM: "Exactly right! Here's more detail to confirm that belief."
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Sine @transwron.gs · 21/07/2025
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
being a gmail early adopter really knows how to make me feel old
a screenshot of a notification saying "You could lose access to your 21 years of Gmail history"
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
great article. i'm so sick of blue infesting everything too. why does even chocolate, something that has always been amazing, now be blue too? blog.foxtrotluna.social/theyre-putti...
blog.foxtrotluna.social
They're putting blue food coloring in everything
"Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently. "Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained. But I didn't want my burger to be blue.
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I scored 16/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media. The comedic timing on this "quiz" is amazing. Totally worth the time!
jsdate.wtf
new Date("wtf")
How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 09/07/2025
I don't want generative AI in every piece of software I want tiny decorative cats bring back the tiny decorative cats
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
every now and then i ask ChatGPT something that seems simple but i suspect it might do wrong because of being a next-word-predictor watching this state of the art models fail at something simple helps me conceptualize how most (all?) of this is just a giant tech bubble waiting to burst
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
i watched 10 Cloverfield Lane yesterday, and i legit thought that this meme was from that movie for some reason so i was eagerly waiting for Howard to go outside and wave the US flag triumphantly at some point
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
eev.ee/blog/2025/07... What a fantastic post. It gets deep *fast*, and remains gripping all the way. It captures a lot of the negative sentiment i feel towards this industry. A big machine for making Whatever. No, not even that: making *money* of Whatever. That's the *only* thing that matters.
eev.ee
The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of eve...
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
damn, TIL that append()ing slices in Go hides some awful footguns (link to playground: go.dev/play/p/4Vx5g...) i cannot believe that this spooky-action-at-a-distance behavior is how one of the most basic building blocks of the language was designed :/
Go code that says:

func main() {
	fmt.Println("An empty slice with some extra capacity.")
	var s []int = make([]int, 0, 5)
	fmt.Println("s:", s) // []

	fmt.Println("Appending to s does what we expect.")
	var s2 = append(s, 10)
	fmt.Println("s:", s)   // []
	fmt.Println("s2:", s2) // [10]

	fmt.Println("But appending to s again modifies s2!")
	var s3 = append(s, 20)
	fmt.Println("s:", s)   // []
	fmt.Println("s2:", s2) // [20] WTF!
	fmt.Println("s3:", s3) // [20]
}
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adafruit @adafruit.com · 25/06/2025
Build a ”Not A Typewriter” with I2C Solenoid Driver and Adafruit Feather RP2040 running CircuitPython learn.adafruit.com/not-a-typewriter #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/khEFYlZObyA
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Adam ✊ @elseldo.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I'm sorry but I had to make you all suffer by seeing this too
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/05/2025
A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again theonion.com/a-shatt...
A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
the somewhat recent "somebody needs to do it" meme reminded me of this classic WKUK sketch damn, how ahead of their time they were RIP Trevor Moore www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO5c...
youtube.com
The Whitest Kids U' Know - Its illegal to say...
YouTube video by myLastTears
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable. The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found': www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
youtube.com
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Rick Astley
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
bueno a ver Google si nos calmamos un toque... 👴🏻
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
por qué algunos órdenes son tan fáciles de recordar y otros no? qué viene después de jueves -> trivial qué viene después de julio -> no tan trivial qué viene después de fa -> hay que empezar desde do
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
over at Twitter, @riffraff.info, @falsefalse.furman.im and i managed to build a mega-thread of daily Wordle solves that spanned years. we've hit some sort of limit, so we can try to start another one here today i got a perfect trident drawing :) Wordle 1,417 4/6* 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
es la primera vez que compro esta yerba todavía no supero lo IRRACIONAL del nombre. es más, diría que es trascendental! (π×e)
un paquete de yerba Piporé
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
yesterday i had to clean all the house thoroughly to hand it over as the rent contract was ending, so i pulled the big guns this freaking playlist got me going for like 8 hours of cleaning nonstop
a screenshot of Spotify, picking the "song radio" based on the song Barbie Girl by Aqua
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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 20/04/2025
It's a weird world where the shittier a piece of software looks, the more I trust it. The fancy looking ones? They're going to steal my data or extort me in pricing or just not work. Crappy looking tools made by some random dude? This shit is going to get the job done and do nothing else.
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
i cannot express how disappointed i am to learn that "vibe coding" doesn't mean programming electronic vibrators
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Nick @nanovad.com · 11/03/2025
There are 2 environments: testing and ✨spicy testing✨. Some people erroneously call ✨spicy testing✨ "prod"
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antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
We are destroying software: antirez.com/news/145
antirez.com
We are destroying software - <antirez>
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Unironically, what a work of art! youtu.be/1GPcr6O_Smk I love that it respects E1M1 geometry so much, and still makes so much sense as an art gallery
youtu.be
DOOM: The Gallery Experience (2025) | 4K/60
YouTube video by Dosgamert
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Jubilee ❣️ @16pxl.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
hiya #portfolioday i’m jubilee and i love drawing moody landscapes with #pixelart 🖤✨
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Victor Shepelev 🇺🇦 @zverok.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Here is a transcript of my talk at EuRuKo’24 (slightly edited for a blog format, but basically, it is slides+text). It is pretty important for me, so please read & share. zverok.space/blog/2025-01...
zverok.space
Seven things I know after 25 years of development
The transcript of the talk given at EuRuKo'24
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We need #encryption backdoors to 'enforce' democracy says Europol chief. Says anonymity "not a fundamental right" I disagree. Giving governments total access to private communications lays the technical groundwork for undermining democracy 1/ www.ft.com/content/1e6a...
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The Traveler [COMMS OPEN] @ekvitki.art · 14/01/2025
HELLO #PortfolioDay Im normally nonchalant about this, but its my first one on bluesky, Im excited. I make pixelart spacescapes and landscapes! I also make mtg proxies! Im working on a romantasy novel, opening a shop to sell said proxies, and i love maids #pixelart #art #mtg #magicthegathering
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art
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runixo @runixo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Este feature que acabo de descubrir de YouTube Music está buenísimo: Cuando te arma un playlist alrededor de una canción, podes elegir si querés otros temas que conozcas, conozcas poco o no conozcas
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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Demian Ferreiro @epidemian.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
What a superb video about the damage that genAI slop is causing youtu.be/-opBifFfsMY The second half is the best, but i think the first packs the most punch: i don't think anyone can watch that and still argue that what's being done with generative AI is good
youtu.be
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
YouTube video by Freya Holmér
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Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · 29/12/2024
Being 100% serious, for me what's described here is a big part of Rust's success. It's fun. And it makes things that are often un-fun (installing the toolchain, adding dependencies) easy.
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Тsфdiиg @tsoding.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Every time I'm having a hard time to motivate myself to work on things I just grab my laptop and move to a different room. It kinda resets my brain 'cause the environment has changed. I heard people recommend to rearrange your furniture from time to time for the same reason.
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