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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Improvement in drill-bits by S. A. Morse, US38119A, 1863. patents.google.com/patent/US381...

Black-and-white U.S. Patent document illustration (Patent No. 38,119, dated Apr, 7, 1863) showing patent description for improvement in drill-bits

Black-and-white U.S. Patent document illustration (Patent No. 38,119, dated Apr, 7, 1863) showing improvement in drill-bits

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Slinky spring toy by Richard T. James (and Betty James), US2415012A, 1947. patents.google.com/patent/US241...

Black-and-white U.S. Patent document illustration (Patent No. 2,415,012 dated Jan. 28, 1947) showing technical diagrams and views of a Slinky spring toy

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Improvement in fastening pocket-openings by Jacob W. Davis, US139121A, 1873. patents.google.com/patent/US139... ⠀

Black-and-white U.S. Patent document illustration (Patent No. 139,121, dated May 20, 1873) showing patent description for improved fastening pocket-openings

Black-and-white U.S. Patent document illustration (Patent No. 139,121, dated May 20, 1873) showing diagram/view of pants using improved fastening pocket-openings

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

😜 P.S. Thanks to #xkcd for original comic/idea xkcd.com/2052/ #StanislavPetrov

An xkcd comic panel featuring two stick figures. The figure on the left holding a smartphone says, "Hey, Saturday was Stanislav Petrov Day. We missed it." The figure on the right responds, "Oh, shoot! I got a calendar alert for it, but I assumed it was a false alarm."

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spatial logical toy by Erno Rubik, US4378116A, 1983. patents.google.com/patent/US437...

Black-and-white U.S. Patent document illustration (Patent No. 4,378,116, dated Mar. 29, 1983) showing technical mechanical diagrams and views of a Rubik's Cube-style 3x3 combination puzzle mechanism.

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Good news! #Nitter and #XCancel resume service after legal advice! [GitHub: github.com/zedeus/nitte...

Screenshot of Nitter landing page with an update dated September 7th:

"Cease-and-desist - UPDATE Sep 7th

On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters were sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository.

Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. This instance and others will be back up and running shortly. An announcement will be made within a week, once we're able to reveal more information."

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sounds familiar?! [Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of...

Screenshot of opening paragraph for Fall of the Western Roman Empire on Wikipedia:

"The fall of the Western Roman Empire, also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome, was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire, a process in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided among several successor polities. The Roman Empire lost the strengths that had allowed it to exercise effective control over its Western provinces; modern historians posit factors including the effectiveness and numbers of the army, the health and numbers of the Roman population, the strength of the economy, the competence of the emperors, the internal struggles for power, the religious changes of the period, and the efficiency of the civil administration. Increasing pressure from invading peoples outside Roman culture also contributed greatly to the collapse. Climatic changes and both endemic and epidemic diseases drove many of these immediate factors.[1] The reasons for the collapse are major subjects of the historiography of the ancient world and they inform much modern discourse on state failure."

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a robot dog. /via @chirpper.bsky.social [Source: The Dead Internet Theory Explained socialmediaatlaw.substack.com/p/the-dead-i...

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a robot dog.

[Source: The Dead Internet Theory Explained https://socialmediaatlaw.substack.com/p/the-dead-internet-theory-explained]

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Enshittification boosts retardification?! And vice versa. Have we, as a species, really managed to totally destroy our attention span? Brain rot is a real and present danger. [Source: xcancel.com/WallStRollup...

Screenshot of a tweet that reads:

HBO Max is launching "HBO Max Shorts" a mobile feature designed for users to watch iconic and memorial scenes from the HBO library in a vertical and scrollable feed

Tweet is followed by thumbnails of some iconic HBO shows.

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Hmmm... 🤔 History certainly supports this. [Source: nitter.net/Mach_Tactics...

Screenshot of a tweet that reads: "Every society has elites; a tiny minority of people who wield almost all the power.

Revolution does not change this fact. What revolution does do is change who is in the category of ‘elite’."

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

😔 [Source: workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-deep... #FML

A four-panel comic depicting the struggle of finding uninterrupted deep work time.

1st first panel - a stick figure character sits at their desk with a laptop, looking happy and determined. They think, 'Finally! Time to do some uninterrupted "deep work"!'

2nd panel - a notification sound PING appears on laptop.

3rd panel - four new notifications from different departments:

Manager: 'VIDEO CALL? URGENT.'
QA: 'PLS CALL ME ASAP'
Design: 'QUICK CALL?'
HR: 'FREE FOR 5 MINS?'

4th panel - the character, visibly frustrated, repeatedly bangs head on the laptop, making a BANG BANG sound.

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

😎 [Source: workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-ai-w...

A four-panel workplace comic strip.

1st panel - manager tells an employee: 'We are replacing everyone with AI.'

2nd panel - nervous employee asks: 'Will AI replace me too?'

3rd panel - manager responds: 'AI won't replace you because you add zero value to a project.'

4th panel - two coworkers observe the employee looking unusually happy, and one says: 'I don’t know why he's in such a good mood today.'

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

No sh*t, Sherlock?! Study finds that global water shortages will worsen as temperatures rise. Under 3°C warming, water gaps could grow by nearly 15%, worsening scarcity. Global water gaps under future warming levels www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

World maps showing global water gaps under baseline and warming climates.

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

La Cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children) imdb.com/title/tt0112... Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro Cinematography by Darius Khondji

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Delicatessen www.imdb.com/title/tt0101... Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro Cinematography by Darius Khondji

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

A bit over the top, but still a reality check.

You are not a software engineer.

You are a blue-collar tech worker.

You use tools crafted by others.
You leam just the right amount about those tools so you can complete your tasks.

You don't know how CI/CD pipelines work, you just leam how to create stages.
You don't know how your frontend actually works, you just learned to use the tool called "React".
You also don't know what an API is, you learned how to create one with FastAPI.

Containers? You don't know what the benefits of multi-stage containers are because you don't care. And you don't care because a single-stage Dockerfile gives you the same end result as a multi-stage... just slower.
Kubernetes? All you know is to restart pods and re-apply YAML files. And this is enough... for a senior blue-collar tech worker.

What about the 3500 lines of code you wrote for your new #buildinpublic app? It works, right?
Well, it will work until your code becomes so bad you can't read it and you get lost.. or overwhelmed.. and ditch the project.

- If you are tasked to work on a new container engine, you would not be able to.
- If you are tasked to work on a database engine, you would not be able to.
- If you are tasked to increase the speed of a complex query, you would not be able to.

Because you don't understand how the tools you use work - you just leamed how to use them. And that makes you reliant.

Stop being a blue-collar tech worker.
You don't have much time.

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The Ping Clock github.com/turingbirds/... #GitHub #DIY #hacking

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

😜 [Source: www.reddit.com/r/Programmer...

Screenshot of a Reddit post in the r/AskReddit subreddit. The post asks: "What is the stupidest solution to a problem that actually worked?"

The top response reads:
"I think my favorite IT story (not mine) is the server that needed to be rebooted whenever it froze completely. The MacGyver solution? Get an old PC with a CD drive, and every time it loses connection to the server, it ejects the CD tray, which has a poking stick attached, which hits the reset button.

The line between genius and insanity was definitely blurry there."

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Vladimir Savić @firusvg.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Hmmm... 🧐 Gen Z's idea of financial success looks very different to the rest of America digg.com/finance/link... #zeitgeist P.S. To the rest of the world, one might say.