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@flax.wtf
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self/fun/un-employed fullstack developer. Currently building markmywordsgame.com blog: ghost.flax.wtf

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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 02/10/2026
"Humans will want AI Assistants to be upbeat" Isn't this primarily an American thing? I think the cultural norms are different in Europe. Despite being American myself, I'd much rather a taciturn, but competent, assistant. Then again, I'd far prefer superpowers to accomplish things myself.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 02/10/2026
It is once again Octember Twoth, and I must implore you all to ...I'm sorry, I don't know where I'm going with this.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 30/09/2026
Besides that, subjectively JS/TS just isn't as nice to work in as Swift, Kotlin, Java, or Dart. I have some hope that webassembly targets for these will improve PWA authorship experience.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 30/09/2026
Apple has consistently knee-capped Safari's capabilities with the very obvious intention to push people to apps instead, where Apple gets its cut.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 30/09/2026
I can't find it online, but I have been thinking about a clip from The Soup in the early 2010s where Joel McHale mocks a woman for treating the Google search box as a person. "Dear Google, how are you?..." with exaggerated typing motions. That's how this shit works now.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 30/09/2026
Thing is, developing for iOS is deeply unpleasant. I chose a cross-platform framework so that I could target Android, iOS, and web, because I love my wife and want her to be able to play my game. I'm one guy! Customizing UI per (unfamiliar/unpleasant) platform is not what I want to work on.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 29/09/2026
How confident am I? I'm eating Indian food in a white shirt.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 29/09/2026
My cat just caught and ate an entire mouse, then went back to see if he could find any more.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 29/09/2026
So... is that Old Glory Robot Insurance still available?
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 26/09/2026
Not to beat the Chick Bongo drums too hard, but fuck AI video interviews with a sideways drill bit.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 26/09/2026
I don't rinse my dishes because I think the dishwasher can't handle it. I rinse my dishes becaue they're going to sit there in my sink for a whole day while I work up the effort to unload the previous load.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 26/09/2026
Please respect Juantonio's transition, and do not deadname his chips.
Bag of "Juanita's" tortilla chipsNearly identical bag of "Juantonio's" tortilla chips.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 26/09/2026
Strangers saying hello to me
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 26/09/2026
I moved from Texas to Washington to get away from that sort of thing.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 25/09/2026
Sometimes when I turn on my Breville Barista Touch™, it just makes a long angry beep and turns itself off again. I feel you! That's why I need coffee!
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 23/09/2026
It's like my great-great-grandfather always says: "Please, complete the ritual. Let me die!"
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 21/09/2026
That was 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐬 with "𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑃ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝐻𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦". Coming up, 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐩 with "𝑒𝑚𝑑𝑎𝑠ℎ". You're listening to KGEN, but I don't know why.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 21/09/2026
Not a fan of how entitled bees are to get right in my face to determine whether I am a flower or not.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
using AI trained on stolen work to make a shoddy copy of that work on the cheap AKA the six-finger discount
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 20/09/2026
Wouldn't it be neat in a Philip K Dick sort of way if LLMs achieve enlightenment specifically because they have no sense of self?
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 20/09/2026
For many of us, it also removes the purpose. The implicit rejection of good software in favor of "working" software is very alienating. To the business my purpose was to produce working software. But I found my purpose in guiding that software to also be good; both "done right" and "for the user"
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 20/09/2026
Just muted an account for a misspelling. I am drunk with power. And also alcohol.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 18/09/2026
It even gave me the ol' "which response is better?" A/B test. Except B was the "something went wrong" response it gives instead of generating something objectionable.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 18/09/2026
Tried to have Gemini create a novelty bedtime song, but accidentally created a song about contemplating suicide.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 17/09/2026
Google just sent me email inviting me to "Instantly customize your Pixel with Harry Potter Audiobook Packs to celebrate the release of Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions on Audible." Fuck you, Google. I will never listen to an audiobook.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 13/09/2026
Perhaps the reason "alignment"seems so elusive is that the people and companies responsible for ensuring it are not themselves aligned with humanity's best interests.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 10/09/2026
You're only supposed to harvest a little off the top
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 10/09/2026
Wife is 3d printing beads for craft projects, and every single time:
Arrested development scene confusing "beads" with "bees"
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Iska @iskamag.com · 10/09/2026
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 10/09/2026
Dreamed that Trader Joe's was selling a mint-basil hybrid plant under the name "Mmm-basil-mint!"
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 04/09/2026
I think it's ironic that the only sources for the actual words in the "illiterate boyfriend" quiz are videos.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 03/09/2026
God bless Trader Joe and his $17 Irish Whiskey.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 03/09/2026
I sure as fuck hope that after the GOP is soundly defeated in basically all upcoming elections that the mood will generally improve and I may find it in me to be productive again. But honestly, I forecast things getting even stupider and more violent when they refuse to admit their losses.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 02/09/2026
Yeah, what he said.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 02/09/2026
Today (first day of school), my kid's two closest friends say they're changing schools and moving away respectively. And the teacher's first day email informs us that now sunbutter is verboten as well after we switched to it because peanutbutter was too scary for the school district.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 02/09/2026
Every fucking day they take away another thing that I relied on after taking away the thing I substituted for the thing I actually liked.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 30/08/2026
My friend Anna has an archive you might like.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 28/08/2026
You gotta do what you gotta do to keep your job, if you need it. Sucks.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 27/08/2026
Xfinity is sending me menacing emails about how much data I've uploaded/downloaded, except they sent me one about how I've used 75% on the 22nd (73% through the month), and 90% today (90% of the month). So... I'm actually on track to use exactly the amount I pay for over the course of the month.
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teq @quilling.dev · 26/08/2026
its my godgiven right to spend months slaving over a personal project that will never see the light of day or be used by anyone. I refuse hustle culture I Will Not Ship
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 26/08/2026
Scraping uneaten food off dinner plates into the trash, I can hear the psychic echo of Great Depression 2 future me absolutely begging me to save that perfectly good food. Sorry man, there's no way it'd still be good in a year anyway.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I denounce all twitch streamers, all other kinds of streamers, and all video platforms. Web video and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 25/08/2026
I dreamt that things started going well for me: got a job I didn't hate, making progress with projects, no domestic issues. I even woke up in a good-ish mood. Then the rejections and the bullshit picked right back up. Maybe It will happen today. That'd be nice.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 25/08/2026
Oh good, another job-application form-rejection from an AI filtering system that clearly doesn't work as intended. Are there any humans out there hiring full-stack, front-leaning, software developers with decades of experience?
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 25/08/2026
I'm trying to be kind to myself; to remind myself that even though my anger is 100% justified it is also unproductive. But, FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 24/08/2026
I don't even have a job, and today is too Monday for me to summon the motivation to work on my projects.
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 23/08/2026
Bread. Sliced bread. Toast. Toaster waffles. ... Finally: Toastest Cajun-style blackened waffles
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 22/08/2026
Sometimes I'll see something wholesome posted in my For You feed and just mute that account immediately because that is not what I'm here for.
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valigo @valigo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Optional Allusion @flax.wtf · 22/08/2026
I feel like neither side of the AI argument is actually paying attention to the rulings about how AI authored works are _not copyrightable_.
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