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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 27/09/2026

I feel like the probability of accidentally wearing an article of clothing inside out or backwards rises exponentially after college age

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Bob Nystrom @stuffwithstuff.com · 29/01/2026

Forgive me, I wrote a thing about AI: journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2026/01/24/t...

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The Value of Things – journal.stuffwithstuff.com

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 26/08/2026

Cleaning out our office at work, we’re moving down the road - found these relics

Physical boxes for win7 and visual studio upgrades

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 30/05/2026

Just updated a django project to python 3.14...man pep758 is really confusing the agents (allows except expressions without parentheses) peps.python.org/pep-0758/

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 28/05/2026

There are a lot of valid criticisms of LLMs with what’s going on the world right now and how they’re being sold. That said, I read posts dunking on them with the counting letters as an advertisement that you have not looked into how they work at all.

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 25/05/2026

That’s one way to lighten up text book a bit…

Screenshot from math textbook, with inset quote from the opening paragraph of Alice’s Adventures in wonderland: “…what is the use of a book…without pictures or conversation”

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 24/05/2026

If you've seen the Numberphile video about the red/black knight game on the spiral board making cool patterns (like the pic below) I made a little tool to explore them: heathhenley.dev/knight-spira...

An image made by places red / blue knights on a spiral grid. Each knight is placed in turn on the lowest spiral index available to it (not being attacked by the opposite color)

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 22/05/2026

I started to study some real (heh) math for funsies… realizing that despite a PhD in engineering and years working in a tech co... I don’t actually know math lol Only very beginning stuff, building the reals from rationals, proving a bunch of stuff taken for granted my whole life, etc But... 🧵

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Ben Orchard @raehik.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

me if i was a tree

cropped screenshot from Explaining Binomial Heaps (1999)

(diagram of a binary tree)
(b) topped loser tree

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 12/05/2026

anyone else worried that *we* might be “just a bunch of matrix multiplications”?

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Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · 11/05/2026

For anyone else who feels conflicted about AI and afraid to talk about it: I wrote this for you. Obviously these are just my opinions, but I hope this helps at least one person. annies-brain.offprint.app/a/3ml6zdf5f5...

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Stuck in the middle: Being an engineer & artist in the AI era | Annie Sexton | Offprint

I'm an AI skeptic, through and through. But I also voluntarily use AI nearly every day. So naturally, you might be asking: what the heck?

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 30/04/2026

one should not feel bad about obtaining pdfs of scientific papers by sketchy means --> that system is broken af one should feel bad about obtaining books by sketchy means though --> shame

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 25/04/2026

I heard 3blue1brown call activation functions “squishification functions” years ago and since I’ve never been able to stop calling them that in my head

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 25/04/2026

using LLMs in software starves one part of me; feeds another - weird feeling I’m objectively more valuable / productive now - the “builder” in me loves this, it’s like a drug almost on the other hand, it’s kind of empty feeling - and something I cared about a lot doesn’t really matter any more

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

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The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 06/04/2026

Just booted up and old desktop - it’s running Ubuntu 14 and chrome 46 😬, got some upgrading to do I guess…

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 13/03/2026

“Moving weird” is very risky after age 30

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 12/02/2026

There is no cow level!

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

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Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

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Eric @esb.lol · 14/01/2026

as a lamp guy, big light people confound me

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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Oh, you like cloning? That makes two of us

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 03/01/2026

Just finished a re-read of "Story of Your Life and Others". One of my favorite short story collections ever, last read it probably about a decade ago and despite that, some parts of the stories stuck with me. It was cool to get to read them again given how I've changed and what I'd forgotten.

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 01/01/2026

If you asked me to guess what my most productive day was in 2025 (in terms of commits) I would never have guessed Monday! 🤯 My year in: - Books: www.goodreads.com/user/year_in... - Code: git-wrapped.com/profiles/Hea... (source of this image) - Everything else: heathhenley.dev/posts/2025-s...

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 28/12/2025

📎 it looks like you're challenging the status quo. have you considered that this will make the status quo very sad? look it's crying now

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 24/12/2025

there's vomit stderr already, claude's spaghetti he's nervous, but assures it's production ready

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 23/12/2025

Here we go! Took a long break again, been mostly donating to the climbing gym every month - but definitely missed it.

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Matt Godbolt @matt.godbolt.org · 21/12/2025

Day 21: Summing integers? Compiler vectorises beautifully—8 at a time! Switch to floats? It refuses, doing each add individually. Same code, totally different output. Why? 🤔 xania.org/202512/21-ve... youtu.be/lUTvi_96-D8 #AoCO2025

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When SIMD Fails: Floating Point Associativity — Matt Godbolt’s blog

Why floating point maths doesn't vectorise like integers, and what to do about it

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 20/12/2025

I recently speed up a cursor pagination query in postgres by 100x by switching the where clause from something like: where (a < c or (a = c and b < d)) to where (a, b) < (c, d) Maybe you db people are aware of this but something to keep in mind / check for when profiling and optimizing!

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 16/12/2025

Excuse me GitHub, your Microsoft is showing (charging for time on self hosted runners 🤯) resources.github.com/actions/2026...

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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 13/12/2025

An active shooter was reported near Brown University's campus in Rhode Island, the university said Saturday. The suspect is still at large, officials said.

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Active shooter reported at Brown University in Rhode Island

An alert sent by Brown University told students to lock doors, silence phones and stay hidden until further notice.

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 12/12/2025

Ok at the risk of sounding like a crazy person...I feel like the input for day 12 of #AdventOfCode looks suspiciously like a hexdump, and the bytes mostly map to printable chars if you take them as hex values - but I wasn't able make anything of it I think there's an xmas easter egg in there maybe!

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 12/12/2025

Big thanks to @was.tl for all the work and creative energy you put into these puzzles!

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Austin L. Ray @austinlouisray.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I wrote an important essay that will improve your holiday travel if you follow its very specific instructions: airportbeer.selfhelpartpublishingempire.com

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Drinking The Largest Beer At The Airport Makes Everything Better

An essay by Austin L. Ray

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 11/12/2025

you must think about work and not about how to solve part 2 you must think about work and not about how to solve part 2 you must think about work and not about how to solve part 2 you must think about work and not about how to solve part 2

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garygrady.bsky.social @garygrady.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Day 10: Factory,Manual Munchies #AdventOfCode

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 05/12/2025

I just introduced a race trying condition to fix a race condition 🤦‍♂️

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 05/12/2025

Someone should make a chatgpt wrapper for devs that's condescending and randomly sometimes closes your question as duplicate / off topic - you know, for those of use who grew up with stack overflow

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 05/12/2025

Going to start putting all the advent of code stuff under this one post I think - I feel pretty loud with these

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 04/12/2025

I've completed "Printing Department" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/4

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Day 4 - Advent of Code 2025

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 03/12/2025

Had the idea right away but mega struggles getting it implemented correctly in ocaml for part 2, just couldn't get it out I almost switched to get the star but not yet! I've completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3

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Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 02/12/2025

Wasn't pretty but I still got a couple internet stars... I've completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2

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Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 01/12/2025

Yay or nay on checking generated files (like clients for protobuf msgs) in version control? Vs just having the stubs and generating them with protoc as part of building

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 01/12/2025

It's that time of year again! I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

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Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025

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Stonkers @stonkers.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

fighting for my life against the persistent and insistent intrusive thought

my hand holding a huge 24.5 fl oz can of graza olive oil. the can has a tab top lid exactly like a can of seltzer

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 26/11/2025

I found a weird case this week where adding a LIMIT to a query made it slower… In short - the planner was picking a less selective index (on a single col) when the LIMIT was included, so that it had to filter a lot of rows instead of just using the “good” index (on all the cols in the where).

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 26/11/2025

One stupid thing you can do: have an ack deadline for a pub/sub msg that's shorter than the time it takes your service to process it You'll ddos your own service, be confused for a bit, and then just feel like a silly goose Or I suspect that is what would happen. I would never do that of course...

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Eric Wastl @was.tl · 22/10/2025

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more: adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... adventofcode.com/2025/about#f...

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Heath @heathhenley.dev · 25/11/2025

you yeet 13k lines of AI slop at them and be met with grace and candor... but I would still recommend exercising extreme caution before ever implying that the ocaml std lib docs are lacking 😀 #thetypesarethedocs

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