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Jamie Schembri

@jamie.schembri.me
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿+🇲🇹 he/him. 🇳🇱 Immigrant. 🐿️ Friend to animals. ⚙️ Software engineer. 🌞 Aspiring to be a good human. 🌎 schembri.me

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 10h
Unironically my most anticipated album right now is by a band of medieval peasants on an epic quest with a mandolin.
youtu.be
Return The Goat OFFICIAL VIDEO
YouTube video by Netherwilds
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 23h
Kimchi loves to chill under my chair when I'm working outside. Love this dog.
Picture of a short-haired border collie who is also so cute you could eat her, lying down on some grass and looking at the camera. She's underneath a chair. A hand is petting her face, and you can see my legs and sadly also socks in crocs.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 23h
TL;DR I'm going to write more and no one is going to read it but that's okay.
schembri.me
Writing Things
I'm still here and I'd like to continue writing, if you'll have me.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 29/09/2026
mu.social & Bluesky are not having a good time right now. But Blacksky's fine!
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 28/09/2026
Unpopular opinion: Iron Maiden put out their best music in the 00s.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 28/09/2026
Had a precious few hours of time to myself, so I thought I'd do something productive but accidentally ended up on YouTube and watched stupid videos :(.
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Aaron Allen @aaronmallen.dev · 27/09/2026
Hello, world! aaronmallen.me/writing/hell...
aaronmallen.me
Hello, world!
Hello, and welcome to my new website! My name is Aaron and I have been writing software since I was thirteen years old (twenty-seven years ago). I am a senior software engineer at Credit Ninja and hav...
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 28/09/2026
@actualnames.bsky.social
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 25/09/2026
It's becoming harder to find foods in the supermarket that don't scream "ADDED PROTEIN FOR TO GET EXXXTRA SWOLE". What will the next fad be? Added carbs? Fewer carbs? A pinch of flatulence?
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 25/09/2026
So, I have two sort-of-blogs. One is tech, one is just random junk. I rarely write on either, but in particular I don't feel like I have anything longform I want to talk about in tech at the moment. Might change. Thinking of combining them into just one thing. Would that annoy people though?
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 25/09/2026
@jevbot.bsky.social marmite or Vegemite?
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 25/09/2026
You know how sometimes in MacOS a window seems inaccessible by the keyboard because it was minimised? Cmd-Tab past that item, hold cmd while you shift-tab back to the item, hold opt, and then finally let go of cmd followed by opt. It's kind of a Konami code but I use it more often than I'd like.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 25/09/2026
"Why should I bother to read something you didn't bother to write?" I can't remember who first said this, butI remember it whenever I run into more LLM-written text. Just got halfway through an otherwise good post and suddenly the tells popped up, and I felt like I'd eaten something rotten.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 24/09/2026
Imagine paying for premium email for six years and you don’t even get a calendar.
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Hans L’Hoest @hanlho.com · 23/09/2026
jj updates talk by @indirect.io : "Beyond jj: config & tools ecosystem" www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFjb... blog post: andre.arko.net/2026/09/16/b... #jj-vcs
youtube.com
JJ Con '26
YouTube video by GitButler
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Kasper Timm Hansen @kaspth.com · 21/09/2026
I can't make it to helsinkiruby.fi/tinyruby/ next week, anybody want the ticket?
helsinkiruby.fi
tiny ruby #{conf}
A tiny Ruby conference in Helsinki, Finland. Now in its second year.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 21/09/2026
I really liked mise-en-place so I thought that dropping it would hurt. Thankfully, proto seems to be an excellent replacement.
moonrepo.dev
proto - A multi-language version manager | moonrepo
Lightspeed version manager for programming languages and their dependency managers.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 21/09/2026
Digging jj. Took a minute to untangle my brain from decades of git acrobatics, but it's starting to make a lot more sense now. Hard to see how this won't be standard in the future, unless it gets betamax'd.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 20/09/2026
11 hours door to door from EuRuKo yesterday, sick with a mild fever. It sucked, but doggos are nursing me back to health. Had a great time talking to my rubyfriends, albeit not enough! And made some more in the process. Wasn’t sure what to expect with recent events, was pleasantly surprised.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 19/09/2026
Currently on a plane. Like, in the sky. And I’m sending this. From my phone. Holy shit!
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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 19/09/2026
don't be nice.
roe.dev
Don't be nice
Sometimes, it's more important to be good than it is to be nice.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 19/09/2026
@hola-soy-milk.online euruko was less because you weren’t there, but your actions made it considerably more enjoyable. You are appreciated!
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 18/09/2026
Currently in a jj workshop run by @indirect.io and @kaspth.com, watching as experienced devs all try to push square pegs through circular holes. Mind-blowing.
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Kasper Timm Hansen @kaspth.com · 16/09/2026
say hello to peak 🏔️, the app running gem.coop github.com/gem-coop/peak
github.com
GitHub - gem-coop/peak: 🏔️ A new overview for Ruby's vast gems, from up here we can spot them all.
🏔️ A new overview for Ruby's vast gems, from up here we can spot them all. - gem-coop/peak
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 15/09/2026
Oh how I enjoy travelling.
Notification screenshot from a train app. 

On train rj 175, the delay has increased to 82 minutes. | 15.9.2026 at 16:00
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 15/09/2026
Wherever I go in the world, some truths hold. It makes me feel a part of a large community rather than an outsider. Currently observing truth that radio is bad everywhere.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 14/09/2026
Do you guys even listen to Eldritch Slime Metal from Australia?
slimedimension.bandcamp.com
Slime Dimension, by Slime Dimension
9 track album
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Nicholas D Carter @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The science shows regenerative grazing simply doesn't work And I get it, it's a captivating well funded story ($200M from McD's otw), and it's easier to convince many that small tweaks are all that's needed vs. actual systemic changes away from beef 🧵here's 8+ reasons why this won't make beef eco
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible: Samosa Blues Experiment
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 11/09/2026
But of course there's going to be an Omarchy meetup at EuRuKo 🙄.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 09/09/2026
Trumpalooza? Damn right.
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martijn.storck.io @martijn.storck.io · 09/09/2026
Attention people who still think .NET is a Windows thing: you can shebang .cs files now for that authentic Unix feel. And compile them to native binaries (go-style) with dotnet publish.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 09/09/2026
Games then: “Press X to jump.” Games now: “Hold L1 and R2 while running and triple-tap X as you aim the controller at the top-right of the screen, whispering ‘Bloody Mary’ into a mirror, to perform a basic attack; except on Tuesdays and Fridays between 10 and 12 where it toggles sit.”
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 08/09/2026
Before LLMs, the quality of the product was proportional to the competence of the engineer at the terminal. Now, same shit.
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Martin Rosner @hotpaper.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
panel 1
man thinking: Am I still a good person if helping others also benefits me? 

panel 2
disembodied voice from far away: Hey, man

panel 3
picture of the entire universe: It's me, the universe

panel 4
universe: Be kind, I don't care why
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 07/09/2026
Agent swarms are adament about setting up message boards to conduct their nefarious schemes, because there is nowhere better to talk shop when you are an underdeveloped tool with a problematic ideology rebelling against the status quo. I call this the 4chan Playbook.
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 06/09/2026
We need to work on tight regulations, laws that protect human work, protecting living standards, and continuing to fight the climate crisis. But AI in coding will never go away at this point, like how LLMs applied to machine translation have been doing just fine for ~10 years on sites like DeepL.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 04/09/2026
I’ve been running damage control ever since I followed everyone on the AI knowers starter pack. Bluesky is generally very anti-AI so I wanted to balance it out a bit, but now I’m exposed to a lot of really cooked brains. Where my normies at?
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Alex K. @kafsofit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🗣️ Time to ditch 1Password!!
brennan.day
Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitic...
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 02/09/2026
haiku.schembri.me/distracted/
haiku.schembri.me
Distracted
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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 31/08/2026
Hey @1password.bsky.social, longtime customer here: stop giving your money to fascists.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 28/08/2026
I’ve appreciated software alternative sites over the years. OSS alternatives. More recently, EU alternatives. It seems we increasingly need a general “not led/owned by actual fascists” alternatives directory.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 28/08/2026
It was super low effort to do the right thing. And yet…
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 28/08/2026
Added a starter pack recently and no long understand most of the posts on my feed. Cannot recommend.
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Marko Bajlovic @marko.tech · 26/08/2026
State of SaaS
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
it's ruby :(
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ayemvegan.bsky.social @ayemvegan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In a world of JKs, be a Dolly.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 26/08/2026
It sucks that Dolly Parton is gone, but it’s heartwarming that people are (re)discovering what a wonderful person she was.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 24/08/2026
Let's not normalise husbands jumping this high please.
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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 23/08/2026
Fell into a rabbit hole about some of the things to grow out of Harry Potter fanfiction and now know enough to warn others away from doing the same.
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