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Björn Ottosson - making Island Architect @bottosson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I made it possible to make sloped walls in my relaxing building game 🌳🏡Island architect🏡🌳 Starting to really feel like the buildings system is coming together, with a good balance of flexibility and it just doing the sensible thing for you. #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame #cozygames

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

TIL nasa.gov includes a `X-Launch-Status` header in its HTTP response that says “Go Flight!” I love space nerds.

Screenshot of terminal output from the `curl` command showing the HTTP headers from a web request to https://www.nasa.gov. All normal things, except for the `X-Launch-Status: Go Flight!` header.

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

This video is making me want to play around with a pen plotter. I’m so in love with his contour plots of moon topology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyNWDzO6kKQ

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Life really doesn’t slow down as you get older, huh?

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I wasn't even going to post it here, because it's just a rant that felt good to jot down, but since it's now been on the hackernews front page and shared elsewhere, it looks like it touched a nerve: (Read the comments at your own risk. There's brain worms there, too.) […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 11/09/2026

so much of what is driving personal AI adoption—that is, outside of corporate control—is the breakdown of community. writers can't find other writers to bounce their ideas off of. open source maintainers can't find other maintainers to work with. people picking up hobby projects can't find […]

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Is DigitalOcean gonna make me find a new hosting provider? I think they might. -_-

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

ペンパイナップルアップルペン

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

The coolest thing I’ve learned about solar eclipses on Earth is why they look the way they do. The ratios of the distance from Earth and the diameter of the Sun and Moon are nearly equal. If the difference were larger, there’d be either too much sunlight, or the Moon would block everything.

Screenshot of a spreadsheet showing values for the Sun and Moon. The Sun is 1.4M km in diameter and 150M km away, with a ratio of 107.14. The Moon is 3476 km in diameter and 384400 km away, with a ratio of 110.59. (Screenshot is of a terminal window running sc-im, a TUI spreadsheet application.)

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

I got to watch the solar eclipse over North America in 2024 and it was a real treat. Thoroughly enjoying all the excited posts about crescent-shaped shadows and the moon eating the sun. 😁

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Getting an email that my data was in a breach is a great reminder to be more deliberate about who I let save my PII. 🙃

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

I wrote some C over the weekend. I'd forgotten how fast C builds compared to the newer systems languages. It’s SO fast! I'm also pleasantly surprised with some of the language changes since I was writing bare C back when C99 was the latest version. C23 has a native bool type, an explicit […]

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Between the bad news day and stupid other shit, I am utterly zonked and it's not even lunchtime. 😵😴

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

No, I really don't want the new AI thing.

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

#Japanese language learners: anyone have good resources for practicing verb and adjective conjugations? Especially interested in adjectives.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/… Time to pull out my essay again about how I used to love rocket launches: theconversation.com/an-astronomers-… And maybe also our article about […]

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Today is one of those days in SF when the weather is so good it should be a crime for companies to keep you stuck inside.

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Back from a week away. Truly hashtag-blessed to have not interacted with an AI agent once on my break.

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

Today is Mother’s Day in the US. I want to wish a happy Mother’s Day especially to the ones playing non-traditional mother roles in your kids’ lives. You are important and this day belongs to you just as much as those in more visible, traditional roles. ❤️

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

Artemis II splashdown was incredible! Perfect. 😍 Now if only they could get the dang phones working.

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

I watched two Coding Train videos tonight, one on Weighted Voronoi Stipling, and another on drawing and animating the Dragon Fractal. His videos always remind me how much I love programming as an art, a game, and a means of exploration.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

A relentless desire to keep dreaming

4 frame comic. in the first frame, we see a candle; in the second, a trans flag ; in the third, birds flying off a tree near a house; in the fourth, someone blowing on a fire.
text reads :
november 20th is trans
day of remembrance, during
which we remember trans
people who died in the past
year due to transphobic
violence.
When I was younger,
t.d.o.r. always galvanized
me into working even
harder towards dignity and
justice for trans people.
may each of the 281 names
on this year's list - and the
many more names that we
don't know - ignite in our
heart a relentless desire
to keep dreaming.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 28/10/2025

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts. Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

SF folks, who makes the best pan de muerto??

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

Moderately annoyed at how catchy I'm finding The Fate of Ophelia.

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

The SimCity 3000 soundtrack has no business being as good as it is.

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

@forgejo I have a small VPS with limited disk space running a personal Forgejo instance. I noticed recently that Forgejo provides links to download zips and tarballs of every tag in my repo. Is there a way to disable this so I can save some space? Not finding much in the configuration docs…

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The thing that is making me hopeful in this past week is summed up nicely in this concluding para by @gregsargent.bsky.social in the linked piece. Core ideals, such as free speech, still hold great power in our culture. We're floundering, but not completely lost. newrepublic.com/article/2008...

The reality MAGA will not acknowledge is this: Trump’s authoritarian tactics in suppression of disfavored speech are themselves triggering a massive cultural outcry. And by all indications, it’s larger than the one driving the push to censor imperfect speech about Kirk. Trump-MAGA have basically been bluffing: Their overbearing threats and bluster are meant to snooker us into believing that the culture is lost, that Trump’s grip on it is unshakable, that mobilization is futile. For now, this episode has demonstrated precisely the opposite, and we shouldn’t let ourselves forget it.

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Mark Deasy 🍉 @markdeasy.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

"You know what's underrated? Letting people be." #kindness #weekend

Back text on yellow background, the first line highlighted in blue says, "You know what's underrated? Letting people be."

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

I came to Hollow Knight extremely late. (After I heard about Silksong.) It’s really very good.

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Mx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸 @corbden.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

On the latest discourse... "Don't comply in advance" includes "don't freak out more than is useful." The word "prestige" used to mean "illusion." Human power enforcement has always been largely about illusion. Make yourself look bigger than you are. Paint the naked warriors blue. Wear a huge […]

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025

The news is just so fucking sad and upsetting. :(

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

[uspol; CK] I desperately need these supposed left-leaning people tripping over themselves to say nice things about CK to please take a seat on a cactus. He was a vile human who advanced hateful causes and pushed disgusting fascist propaganda at children. Get the fuck over it! You do not owe […]

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

I don't know what to do with how much I dislike AI and its relentless creep into my industry. The more I see of it, the more inevitable it seems, and the more alienated I feel from the software engineering industry. It could very well push me out of the industry, not because it steals my job […]

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2025

This website has a banner to suggest you install an ad blocker. (I have one installed and it still displayed the banner, but that's beside the point.)

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025

It can’t be “higher than normal call volume” if it's the case every time I call.

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

I woke up from a bad dream involving several people in my life. And now I'm mad at those people. Totally unreasonable. Why are brains like this?

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Merlin's Wisdom Project @merlinwisdom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2025

Try to become someone who's fun to teach things to.

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