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Insipid but well-meaning software developing art gremlin. "Incoherent; mayhem." - 4/5 stars. "Couldn't make any sense of any of it, it's like he's talking to himself." - 2/5 stars. mastodon.esmevane.com/ironchamber esmevane.com

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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 01/10/2026
Folks have long thought that executing on an idea was about as much work as perceiving it. There’s this notion that using robots changes it so it is. But really, what’s going on is that now you have to perceive the idea over and over again for the same amount of time.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 19/07/2026
If the universe were kinder we’d have seen Tony Todd and Brad Douriff in a buddy cop movie series, except with monsters.
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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
read theory
Screeenshot of the cover for the Eclipse Phase Second Edition ttrpg rulebook.

Text is the title, edition, and the tagline "the roleplaying game of transhuman survival" bordering art of a humanoid in a space-suit trying to escape a mass of an attacking swarm of black spheres pouring out of a spacestation. Blacks and black in the background.
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 16/07/2026
Totally! Good advice. My preference is to have a vague idea of: - major motivational plot beat - general appearance & personality - a driving goal And I try to 7-words-or-less whatever I can (Also I try to find a way to quickly accept & get along with other player characters)
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 15/07/2026
Oh dang it’s the Hex!
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 21/06/2026
An old tension between me and a friend is “quadrafecta” (me; correct) and “fourfecteca” (him; Terry; wrong)
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 16/06/2026
This turned into kinda a flame war but, aside from that, what's kind of stunning to me is how few of the responders seem to understand what an economic bubble of this size popping would do to the world economy. It's dangerous!
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Nadia Makarevich @adevnadia.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Finally gave the Advanced React website a fresh new look, aligned with the blog. 🎨 Who's here still reading actual books? Feels like a good excuse for a discount on some advanced React knowledge 😉 30% off for the next two weeks 💸 www.advanced-react.com
advanced-react.com
Advanced React by Nadia Makarevich: Deep Dives, Patterns & Performance
The advanced React book. 16 chapters and 105 interactive examples on how React really works, from re-renders and reconciliation to refs and performance. 4.8★ on Amazon, 4,500+ developers.
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 12/06/2026
The strategy behind behavior like this is often to just keep asking and asking, preferably around different company each time, until you finally get enough people saying what you want to hear. It’s not asking for an answer, it’s looking for permission
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nora @nora.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Proud to finally share what I've been working on. I'm excited for a future where privacy is normal. encryptedspaces.org
wired.com
Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.
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Sam Guay @samguayart.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The Orchid's Dream, 2026 Finished this painting that I’ve been working on since 2020 (concept sketch was pre-2020). During that time it mostly sat on my easel neglected while I worked on higher priorities. Prints are in the works, join my newsletter if that’s something you’re interested in.
Watercolor painting by Sam Guay depicting a dreaming flower.
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laney @saltmalk.in · 09/06/2026
metastasis
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 06/06/2026
bemused is a bullshit word and I'm sick of pretending it isn't
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Dave The Wave @dave-the-wave.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 05/06/2026
bunch of people faceplanting into the "making the thing is hard, but it isn't the hard part"
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 03/06/2026
TIL that canon means an array of things, all subtly different from each other in probably not great ways
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 03/06/2026
Heavens grant me the self confidence of some of these dudes reposting their own not good jokes 3-4 times a day for days after making them. Yearning for that algorithm to boost your junk, boys?
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 03/06/2026
I have a pocket rant about this that I call the "vanilla effect". It starts with some observations I had about rotten tomatoes.
psypost.org
Recommendation algorithms might be making your entertainment boring, new research suggests
Because algorithms focus on maximizing short-term engagement, they often prevent us from discovering new genres. A recent study reveals that slightly imperfect recommendation systems are actually much...
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 30/05/2026
I've just heard someone call a "pivot" a "lurch" and hell yeah. That's going in my back pocket for sure
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 22/05/2026
One big mistake I see with design token systems is that they attempt to make things scale predictably, using the golden ratio usually. That _seems_ to work, but it just doesn't hold up. You have to fine tune the ratios for every given setup.
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 19/05/2026
well, this morning the robot reviewed one of my old codebases and called the git log "a journal of someone building alone" so, i believe i should be allowed to take a personal day today and go back to bed
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 18/05/2026
"Friends, Romans, countrymen" Obvious AI slop.
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Bridget Phillips @jingibus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I'm not sure if you're open to this, but... have you heard the bad news about git? www.billjings.com/posts/title/...
billjings.com
Git Is Not Fine
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 15/05/2026
Are you the sort of person who showers with their socks on, or off?
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 15/05/2026
To really differentiate themselves, maybe a browser incumbent could rewrite it in rust. Maybe some non-Chrome contender, like Mozilla? Could you imagine that, a browser in rust? It'd be so fast, huh? Man if only some major player had been investing in this ahead of time, huh?
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 13/05/2026
you can like, mash 'em up and put stuff in 'em, and make a stew
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 05/05/2026
really
A table that says..

Name: moss.expert
Persona: expert
Description: Advisor and design partner for gladeforge
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 05/05/2026
i told the model it could name itself whatever it wanted and it called itself the moss expert
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 04/05/2026
oh shit that reminds me, gotta try out jj
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 04/05/2026
A lot of people don’t know this but “Cinco de Mayo” stands for “Cinco of Mayo”
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 04/05/2026
yeah; it sort of helps if you subvert what a "unit" is, from "a function" to "a unit of our interface" like, if you're building a library and you're offering a function as one of your boundaries, that's your unit. if you're offering a framework and your interface encompasses a lot of stuff, that is
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 30/04/2026
This is called "imagination", and the reason why imagination can't be a paid product is because it isn't, inherently, shareable without effort, and the effort involved in sharing imagination is expression, and we call that practice art. Anyway, this won't make the $$ they may think it will.
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 29/04/2026
working on my new book
An obsidian note titled "godpunchers", the first line reads, "to the gods: why have you given me migraines nearly every day for weeks and weeks"
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 28/04/2026
if you see someone freeing the bees to save a neighbor from eviction, no you didn't
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 28/04/2026
do not under any circumstances talk about goblins with fat asses. do not use euphemisms for goblins with fat asses, or phrases like "caked up", or "haulin' around a whole goddamn bakery back there"
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 27/04/2026
I've called this the "bottoming out" effect. Basically we had a bunch of web apps that were becoming industry standard, and a lot of those are utterly junked. Not just social media - job boards, a bunch of music and intro-tier podcasting, video streaming soon. Etc.
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 24/04/2026
Me: [describing the most unhinged, convoluted, indirect nonsense design possible after a 12-hour-long rabbit hole into the most pointless part of my application] - So what do you think? Claude: [taking a drag from a cigarette, exhausted] Clean. This reframes everything. You're absolutely right.
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 23/04/2026
Chagrined to discover that the event sourcing world talks a strong game about upcasting and schema migrations but the prior art is like, real anemic, especially around testing and proofing. One of those things that makes me think lots of people do it, fewer people bother to automate tests for it.
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 22/04/2026
Further - communications are a form of logistics. These gizmos are a game of telephone with specs. It breaks down _entirely_ after one step of non-codified transition... and mitigating that is more work and infrastructure on its own
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 20/04/2026
Probably worth mentioning that in my decades online, these power hungry dudes always show up and pull this crap, and you just have to oust them or else rebuild a new spot where you can oust them. The difference between then and now is what they wrested from us, not what we have to do about it.
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Closest image ever taken of Jupiter CREDIT:NASA
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 14/04/2026
My guess is that they pay for goods, bills, and staffing, and prices are determined by that, and not by a margin the owning org wants to make on top.
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Servo @servo.org · 13/04/2026
Servo 0.1.0 is out! 🚀 This is our first release available in crates.io and our first LTS version servo.org/blog/2026/04...
crates.io
crates.io: Rust Package Registry
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 12/04/2026
software is exactly like us
Code comment that reads, "Collect from a peer via CRDT conference"
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 09/04/2026
Uh oh the Zacks have been revealed as part of the collective Joshmind.
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 08/04/2026
Tbh... The (valid) bitterness of this perspective aside, the truth is that damn near every kind, considerate, progressive movement tends to also make a hell of a lot of sense economically. I mean we should be capable of caring for one another but it's also true that being considerate is prosperous.
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 08/04/2026
So, what I'm hearing is, maybe it's a bad time for all the big orgs to be wantonly yarfing out generated code with minimal oversight, engineering rigor, or durability / resilience work?
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esmevane, sorry @esmevane.com · 08/04/2026
“holy shit esmevane, is this a 12k line refactor?” “The behavior is unchanged it just clicks better. I swear. OK I’m closing it 😔”
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