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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It’s October 1 — the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act takes effect today! Do you know where the personal data lives in your organization? What tools are you using to track this and maintain records?

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

My absolute favorite thing about gnarly, hard-to-fit thumbbreakers of a bike tire are when you finally get it on and realize they’re directional… in the other direction.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Slightly diminish a band: My Weekend with the Thrill Kill Kult

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Punk rock is DIY; it isn’t DAIY

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Happy flying ant day to those who celebrate.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I’m in bicycle mechanic hell

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Natalie Marleny @nataliemarleny.com · 13/05/2025

Gitlip Launch 🌷🚀 @gitlip.com is an all-in-one coding platform for shipping micro apps 👼💫 It features: 🌷Git repositories, 🤝 collaborative and ✨ AI assisted coding and ☁️serverless deployments. No login required to try out!

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I am a smashburger convert. Thank you to @jason.energy for the semiregular social media prompts.

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Natalie Marleny @nataliemarleny.com · 08/04/2025

Celebrating by watching @ethomson.bsky.social’s really cool talk on hidden Git features and functionality at NDC London last week youtu.be/DZI0Zl-1JqQ

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You Don’t Know Git - Edward Thomson - NDC London 2025

YouTube video by NDC Conferences

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Ryan @blog.kilasuit.org · 03/04/2025

Enjoyed watching "You Don't Know Git" by @ethomson.bsky.social from #NDCLondon2025 who I was very lucky to meet on route to Techorama BE in 2019 (oh so long ago) However does Ed know about the amazing things @mrpowershell.bsky.social's ugit #PowerShell module can do youtu.be/DZI0Zl-1JqQ ...?

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You Don’t Know Git - Edward Thomson - NDC London 2025

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Me in the national security team group chat

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

What’s an example of a developer tool with “great taste”? And why? What does that phrase mean to you?

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I’m sorry that I can’t make it this year, but you should. It was *outstanding* last year.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The new tab page in Safari is … a decision. How does Apple break *mobile scrolling* - didn’t they invent it?

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Update: she’s still at the shop trying to get out; poor girl…

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luke karrys @lukekarrys.com · 20/02/2025

whenever i try to use `--ours` vs `--theirs` in git:

bart simpson standing in front of a smoky the bear machine with the text:

YOU PRESSED "YOU," REFERRING TO ME. THAT IS INCORRECT. THE CORRECT ANSWER IS YOU.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Poor kid hasn’t figured out how to quit vi.

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Martin Woodward @martin.social · 14/02/2025

Sure, chocolates are nice and all but why not show your favourite open source projects how much you love them by sponsoring them today! github.blog/open-source/...

github.blog

Support the open source projects you love this Valentine’s Day

You can help provide much-needed support to the critical but often underfunded projects that keep your infrastructure running smoothly.

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patak @patak.cat · 14/02/2025

send a few chocolates to your favorite OSS maintainer today (as a one-off sponsoring, or some flowers in a post or DM). you've no idea how much they'll appreciate you thinking about them

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

OSS maintainers: don’t sleep on your Copilot Pro subscription; I got mine through @libgit2.bsky.social

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Nostalgia driven development; I finally got around to building my Cray Y-MP themed @raspberrypi.com case. Next step: Cray emulator and UNICOS install.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Who’s at #NDCLondon this week and wants to talk about security and privacy with AI models and generated code? Let me buy you a coffee. (DMs open.) ☕️

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

When you use generative AI to write code, do you know how much local state you send in context? Are you concerned about sending PII to the models? If so, do you do something about it?

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Curious how you work with multiple projects in VS Code? When you work with multiple different projects, do you open one VS Code window for all of them, or separate windows for each project?

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I want to see the bug reports that led to the need for this changelog entry. 😢

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I’m really excited about this release, and I intend for this to be the last v1.x. I plan for the next release to be v2.0, moving SHA256 support out of experimental phase and into the standard builds of the library itself.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 18/12/2024

I sat down with Craig and went through where CodeGate is and where they are thinking of taking it. It’s a super interesting idea to have, in some sense, a local firewall for filtering what your machine is sending out to these services.

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Stacklok @stacklok.com · 17/12/2024

Today we introduced CodeGate — local, open source privacy controls that work with your AI coding assistant. CodeGate is a single container that you deploy locally, so secrets never leave your desktop and risky dependencies are kept out of your code. Explore at codegate.ai #OpenSource #DevTools

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Home - CodeGate

Local, open source privacy controls CodeGate encrypts secrets in your prompts to protect your privacy, and augments an LLM’s knowledge base with up-to-date risk insight to protect your code. CodeGate ...

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Meanwhile on the other site, when you ask its ai to draw you, you end up with a picture of its fearless leader doing you as drag.

The output of Grok when prompted to “draw me”, which is a very Elon Musk looking person, but bald and bespectacled, with earrings and a blue gingham shirt. While I am bald, and wear thick glasses, and earrings, and am prone to blue collared shirts… this doesn’t look like me. This is very much what Musk would look like if he were trying to look like me. It’s not a bad look for him, but it sure as shit doesn’t look like me.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

My slightly conspiratorial assumption has been that our dude wasn’t spotted randomly in a maccie’s in rural Pennsylvania, wherein all hell rained down upon him. But that he showed good - but not impeccable - opsec and a three letter agency tracked him via his phone or internet usage.

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Kirill Osenkov @kirillosenkov.com · 25/11/2024

I'm playing with the new Ultra profiler by Alexandre Mutel and I'm blown away. It's incredible. It's so powerful and showing me managed, native, JIT, GC, allocations, everything. It feels like I have a new superpower. If you're a .NET developer, you have to check this out: github.com/xoofx/ultra

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GitHub - xoofx/ultra: An advanced profiler for .NET Applications on Windows

An advanced profiler for .NET Applications on Windows - xoofx/ultra

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I love the tailwind innovation. Inline CSS but worse and unreadable. 👏

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Why, yes, I *do* have a corn Christmas ornament.

A metal Christmas ornament depicting scenes from Illinois, including a river boat, a barn, the likeness of Abraham Lincoln, the skyline of Chicago and, yes, an ear of goddamn corn.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

My wife can better explain the theoretical aspects of how her work dovetails into chaos theory; I can only explain the practical effects. Namely, the way she loads the dishwasher.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Product manager: do we have telemetry on what the most common liquid being poured into the cup is? What are the personas that are using this cup?

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Starting a starter pack for Product Management - please follow, and let me know who else I should add? go.bsky.app/Ca5Ycf2

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Is @martin.social doing a dry-run for GitHub Universe?

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

I’m interested in talking to developers who are building with generative AI (like Copilot). And yes, that’s everybody, I know! But I’d love to understand your workflows a bit better. if you’re willing to chat, just for 15 minutes or so, shoot me a DM. 🙏

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Just noticed on a rewatch of Halt and Catch Fire. Obviously no UIUC grads were consulted.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

The mens room automatic faucet doesn’t reliably turn on when you put your hands under it, but you dummies are telling me that self driving cars are right around the corner?

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Vercel @vercel.com · 21/06/2023

Introducing Skew Protection A novel mechanism to eliminate version skew between web clients and servers—improving user experience and developer productivity. vercel.com/blog/version-skew-protec…

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Introducing Skew Protection – Vercel

Skew Protection from Vercel, a mechanism to eliminate version skew

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

You say Bluesky has a “problem”. I say it has an “opportunity”.

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Edward Thomson @ethomson.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

I’m so incredibly proud of the teams that came together to ship three amazing storage products today.

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