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Elin @hejelin.com · 31/03/2026

I really like @hankgreen.bsky.social's recent take that what AI can be is either utility or slop, and that, for better or worse, software has always been primarily utility for the end user. Here's to hoping we don't let our tech, design and products become slop either 🤞 youtu.be/dT5IJExTUR4

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What is "Slop" (and why it gives me hope)

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This video is so good!! You will learn so much and also you should hype it (if you know what that means) youtu.be/MSYQf-iRiz4?...

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i am begging science journalists to read

YouTube video by Sage the Bad Naturalist

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Elin @hejelin.com · 25/03/2026

I've started replacing scrolling with solitaire card games during breaks, and this is the closest I've come to beating Klondike so far 🥳/🫠

The results from a game of the card solitaire Klondike. It's four aces in a row, except that the Ace of Spades (🎶 the ace of spades 🎶) has the Nine of Spades on top of it - meaning it's as close to a successful game of Klondike you can come to without actually winning it.

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Elin @hejelin.com · 06/02/2026

📣 Survey time - tell us about your experience with AI for software engineering, me and @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com want to know! The survey takes about 11 mins to fill out 🙏 results will be published in about a month, full access for those who help out! www.surveymonkey.com/r/tpe-ai-sur...

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AI tooling for software engineering

How are software engineers using AI tools today? How has AI changed your work routines and the way you approach software development? Your responses will help paint an accurate picture of where we are...

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Elin @hejelin.com · 23/01/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8U7... I've recently moved up north in my country to a smaller city, and the coworking space I go to has people who work outside of tech, and it's honestly *so nice* to just hear about things that aren't tech and software!

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Two Unrelated Destroyers of Trust

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Elin @hejelin.com · 29/10/2025

Fancy duck season has come to Stockholm! 🦆🎩

Two male and one female mandarin duck, e.g. fancy orange ducks 🦆 one is swimming and two are sitting on a tree branch that goes into the water

One male (orange) and one female (brown and spotty) mandarin ducks swimming by the edge of the water

Three (orange) males and two (brown and spotty) female mandarin ducks swimming in the water

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Elin @hejelin.com · 10/09/2025

Do you have examples or experiences working with MCP servers and solutions? 🧑‍💻 We at @pragmaticengineer.com want to hear from you! We’re looking into MCP and would love to hear how you/your team or company work with MCP! DM me - or fill out forms.gle/4hWZRh4ZKBvn... - or both!

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MCP servers and setups

Hi 👋 this is Gergely and Elin at The Pragmatic Engineer. We're researching MCP servers and solutions, and would love to hear about how you've been using or working with MCP, either you/your team or y...

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Elin @hejelin.com · 16/07/2025

A very mean-looking beetle joined me for dinner yesterday - its rage was palpable

A dark gray beetle, about 20-25mm long, sitting on the armrest of a wooden chair. It has the meanest-looking eyes you can imagine - black as tar. It's staring into your soul, and judges the very core of your being. It's giving "I will haunt your dreams, shit on everything you hold dear, and if I had the required body mass, I would beat you until an inch of your life".

A dark gray beetle, about 20-25mm long, sitting on a glass table. It has the meanest-looking eyes you can imagine - black as tar. It's staring into your soul, and judges the very core of your being. It's giving "you have disgraced the air around you, your existence is offensive to me, and I hereby curse you and everything you hold dear for ten generations".

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Elin @hejelin.com · 12/07/2025

awww look at you @bsky.app, making it onto the NYT mini crossword 👏🦋 (I don't know how to flag the screenshot as a #spoiler I'm sorry 😭)

New York times mini crossword from July 12 2025, with the clue "Left-leaning social media site" and BLUESKY as the answer. The rest of the mini is covered up to avoid spoiling the mini for anyone playing

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Elin @hejelin.com · 12/07/2025

Hank and John created two absolute bangers recently which has helped me understand my relationship with content and the internet, starting with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social 's video about how we're addicted to things *for a reason*, because they _feel good_: youtu.be/0veampRSw7w?...

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Am I Cigarettes?

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Elin @hejelin.com · 12/07/2025

youtu.be/if-IgLJQbPI?... talks about rage bait and controversy as basically the most effective marketing strategy that exists, and it's true and I hate it so much

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The Worst Trend on the Internet Right Now

YouTube video by State of Kait

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

These are the folks most likely to save PEPFAR. Please call them TODAY and tell them to vote NO on codifying cuts to PEPFAR and other critical, life-saving aid. act.pih.org/global-healt...

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Don't cut funding

Tell Congress to reverse the Trump Administration's decision to freeze all U.S. foreign aid spending on global health programs, including the delivery of lifesaving medicines to vulnerable patients.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 06/06/2025

I'll be at LDX3 (formerly: LeadDev) in a week, together with the full @pragmaticengineer.com team (with @hejelin.com‬ and Dominic, our editor), in London - vey much looking forward to it! If you'll be there, there will be plenty of opportunities to say hi to us: leaddev.com/leaddev-lond...

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Elin @hejelin.com · 30/05/2025

Hey you! You should watch this: youtu.be/NSuSyZ92Cjg?... (It's a 4-ish min funny but somehow also profound speech which is not nearly as serious as the thumbnail and title suggests)

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Fredrik Backman on Creative Anxiety and Procrastination

YouTube video by Simon & Schuster Books

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Elin @hejelin.com · 12/04/2025

@hankgreen.bsky.social i need you to do connections today! Ktnxbai

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Elin @hejelin.com · 28/03/2025

📣 What's in your tech stack? Me and @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com want to know! We're doing our biggest @pragmaticengineer.com survey yet, to get a realistic snapshot of what the industry is using, loving and disliking, and we need your help! 🙏 www.surveymonkey.com/r/whatisyour...

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What is in your tech stack?

Hi 👋 this is Gergely and Elin at The Pragmatic Engineer. We want to know what tools, languages, frameworks and platforms you're using today! We want to get a realistic snapshot of what the industry is...

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Elin @hejelin.com · 07/03/2025

This video contains a lot of what I've needed to hear recently, about creativity and the value of sharing the things you create with other people. Because chances are, on the other end, there's someone who needs it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sZZ...

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How the algorithm killed your creativity

YouTube video by struthless

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Elin @hejelin.com · 04/03/2025

At least spring is springing

Snowdrops blooming amongst the grass of last year

Winter aconites blooming amongst the dried-up leaves from last year

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Elin @hejelin.com · 19/02/2025

Today's fancy duck walk was sunny ☀️

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Elin @hejelin.com · 18/02/2025

I constantly revisit this Hank Green talk, dismantling the concept of dreams, and why you have no obligation to a desire you once had, or to your former self - because that person is not only dumber than you, they also *don't exist* www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPto... @hankgreen.bsky.social

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Hank Green, Vlogbrothers/VidCon - XOXO Festival (2014)

YouTube video by XOXO Festival

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21/01/2025

Chemical Formulas xkcd.com/3040

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Elin @hejelin.com · 21/01/2025

I finished my #sensitsweater on new years eve, and have been pretty much living in it since 🥰🧶 I miss having a big project tho, might need to make another one... 😬 #crochet

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Elin @hejelin.com · 21/01/2025

I was today years old when I realised the top shelf in my fridge can actually store tall things because there's MORE SPACE AT THE BACK 🤯

A hand attempting to put a tall bottle onto the top shelf of a fridge, but the cork is hitting the roof of the fridge so it doesn't fit

The same bottle and fridge but from a slightly lower angle, where you can see that further back on the top shelf, there's more space because the roof of it tilts upwards. It kind of looks as though, if the bottle is tilted into the fridge, it actually DOES fit on the top shelf???

The bottle, standing on the top shelf, with room to spare. 🤯

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Elin @hejelin.com · 15/01/2025

From today's fancy duck walk 🦆🎩

A waddling of mandarin ducks, sitting atop a partially snow covered bank next to some open water - four males and three females. There are mallards swimming around them. Three of the males are gazing to the right so you can see their colourful head plumage, and one is looking towards the camera.

A low sun behind a body of partially frozen water, a boat on the right edge, and ducks/mallards swimming, standing on the ice, and one caught mid-flap next to the sun reflecting in the water.

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Elin @hejelin.com · 13/01/2025

I think the Instagram discovery feed algorithm is bullying me

Two side-by-side posts from the Instagram discovery feed. The left one is saying "things your therapist *probably* thinks while working with you" with an arrow pointing to the right, indicating it's a multi-page post that you should swipe on. On the right, a stick figure is holding up a cinder block over its head, with the text "come here" above it, as if it's preparing to smash something with said cinder block. This was random/chosen by the algorithm, and the combined effect is that the Instagram algorithm is telling me that what my therapist is *probably* thinking while working with me, is that they wanna smash my head in with a cinder block. Rude Instagram, very rude.

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Elin @hejelin.com · 06/01/2025

@hankgreen.bsky.social it's a Hank Green-type of Connections today!

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Elin @hejelin.com · 05/01/2025

today was blissful ⛸️☀️❄️🧊 #nordiciceskating

A frozen lake under a clear blue sky, with a low sun, and an ice skater going across it

Black ice with lots of ice skating tracks, and a snowy forest beyond

A shot of feet with nordic ice skates attached, standing on black ice with some tracks going across it

A frozen lake filled with ice skating tracks, and a low sun reflecting on the ice

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

my personal favorite comic of 2024

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Elin @hejelin.com · 03/01/2025

I'm crocheting an owl pillow and just finished the eyes and he's so cuuuuuteee!! 🥰🦉🧶

A square crocheted owl peering into your soul with his dark teal eyes

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Elin @hejelin.com · 01/01/2025

This is a fun yet excellent way to do a recap of 2024, I did mine as lil zine! youtu.be/H1GEnSe9o_E

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How to ACTUALLY review your 2024

YouTube video by struthless

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Elin @hejelin.com · 27/12/2024

It's almost a real thing 🥹🥰🧶 #sensitsweater #crochet

A crocheted sweater with one arm held on by stitch markers to check fit and length

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Elin @hejelin.com · 20/12/2024

Today on Fancy Duck Walks 🦆🎩

A mandarin duck standing on the shore with his mate, fluffing his orange plumage and looking out over the water and the common mallards swimming there

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Elin @hejelin.com · 15/12/2024

Somehow I managed to finish the back of my #sensitsweater today?! I went from 4 rows into part 1 to stitching together the front and back. Addictive pattern, I tell ya 🤯 #crochet

Ribbing and 4 rows of crochet on a back piece for a crocheted sweater pattern

The same crochet projects some hours later, just completed row 4 of the last part of the back panel

A somewhat blurry photo of the completed back of the sweater

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Elin @hejelin.com · 11/12/2024

I'm obsessed with the #sensitsweater, I've spent a silly amount of hours this week on it, but I can barely tell because they fly by so fast 🧶 it's my first proper big project, and front is done! 🥳 The yarn is a ridiculously soft merino which makes it so delightful to work on as well! #crochet

A crochet project, it will be a sweater, here it's just bottom ribbing and part of one section

Same crochet project but 1,5 sections in

Sideview of the front of the crochet sweater nearly completed. It's a lovely pattern with lots of puffs and holes

The completed front of the project! Without sleeves, but has shoulder bits

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Elin @hejelin.com · 11/12/2024

@hankgreen.bsky.social I need you to do a Connections video today because I just need it, ktnxbai

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Elin @hejelin.com · 08/12/2024

I just finished writing about how I spent my summer in my family's old lake house, or alternatively cabin in the woods. I really enjoyed it - both the summer and the writing. It's about learning how to live again, kinda. hejelin.substack.com/p/about-last...

Title and preview text of something I wrote on my substack

a red cabin in the woods, with smoke coming out of the chimney

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Elin @hejelin.com · 06/12/2024

This week on making-my-life-slightly-more-convenient, I put a drawer in my Bekväm step stool so that I can keep my WIP crochet projects somewhere not-on-the-floor ✌️ also sawed off the legs so I can use the drawer behind it 🪚 is cute!

The "inside" of an IKEA step stool with a little drawer/box/floor just inside of the lower step

The drawer/box/floor just behind the lower step seen from the side

An IKEA step stool with a drawer/box/floor behind the bottom step filled with yarn and crochet projects 🧶

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Elin @hejelin.com · 02/12/2024

Today, I finished my second worry wyrm and gave both of them faces 🐉🧶 #crochet

Two crochet dragons, one gray with green wings, and one a wingless multicolored in pastel blue/green/pink. They're loooong and have little eyes and nostrils!

The multicolored crochet dragon that I finished today. His little face is adorbs.

The gray crochet dragon with green wings, curled up in a hand. He's looking into your soul.

WIP crochet dragon - a head with a looong neck of crochet chains, then a spiralling body being crocheted from back-to-front

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Elin @hejelin.com · 01/12/2024

I made a #zine for a friend who wants to get into #embroidery and it was so much fun 🪡

A4 paper zine with 8 pages on the basics of embroidery, laid out so you can see all pages

Embroidery basics - how to easily tie knots, fasten the floss, and how long the floss should be (about the length of an underarm)

Some examples of common embroidery stitches and attempts at instructions (running stitch, back stitch, chain stitch, lazy daisies, etc)

The zine all folded up mini-magazine-style

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Elin @hejelin.com · 28/11/2024

The mandarin ducks were as fancy as ever this morning

A pair of mandarin ducks in the water - the male with orange, dark and white plumage, and the female in brown but brighter details, including a white stripe under the eye and light brown specks on her... Belly? Chest? Underneath her.

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

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Elin @hejelin.com · 24/11/2024

Is there a feed on here for happy lizards? Because I need one!! 🦎😋

A lizard in a tub or bowl, peering over the edge with what looks like a happy smile. Below, the same lizard but with its tongue sticking out, in a happy grin 😋🦎

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Mark Sirota @mark.sirota.org · 22/11/2024

Hank Green makes the case that populism was inevitable in this moment of a new communications technology (many-to-many social media), and along the way makes observations about the role of trust in a functional society, along with many other nuggets of brilliance. Spend a half hour on it. Trust me.

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Elin @hejelin.com · 22/11/2024

THIS: youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pn... @hankgreen.bsky.social 👏👏👏

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