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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I'm so tired of all these websites wanting a picture of my driver's license

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École des Bro-Arts @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

OH "It's already beyond human comprehension, what's happening in production"

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Looking at health insurance in the US is so depressing. With the amount of upselling going on they're making it seem more like buying camping gear.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@searls/11727534697… As someone who has to clean up after engineers that do work via AI coding agents from their phone at the golf course, I implore you to sit at a fucking computer at least some of the time and look at what it's doing.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I couldn't remember "Dunning-Kruger effect" just now so I called it "Diffie-Hellman key exchange" Close enough

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

It just occurred to me to check on how the OpenStreetMap project is handling the whole Lake Ontario naming debacle. Pretty well, it turns out. Recording all names of geographic features *somewhere* is something the project does. So they're going to put the bullshit name in there to satisfy that […]

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Responding to tech recruiters with the same verbiage they use to reject candidates is quite satisfying.

An email to a tech recruiter. It reads:

Hi [recruiter name],

Thank you for the opportunity to meet with the team. Unfortunately, due to the number of interview processes I'm currently involved in, I need to narrow it down to companies that most closely match what I'm looking for, so I will not be moving forward with [company name]. Again, thank you for your time and I wish you luck in finding your next infrastructure engineer.

Jamie

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Just pulled off a fully online migration from Azure-managed Redis to a self-hosted Redis cluster during business hours on our highest-traffic service on a Friday with no noticeable impact on error rates. Please clap.

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Sophia :AAAAAA: @via.myf.one.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

For the past almost a year, I’ve been building a fully working, 1:1 scale Tune Thumper Bike from Mario Kart World! :sadok: video: youtu.be/vbM31wagyRg The bike is fully functional. The cassette tape door is also a Nintendo switch 2 dock, so when you put the […] [Original post on myf.one]

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

"the mid-2000s", as a timeframe What they mean: 2005 ± a couple years How I read it: 2500 ± a couple hundred years

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

RE: mas.to/@RikerGoogling/1171472273824… when you try to replace half your company's headcount with AI

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Had 2 hilarious conversations with recruiters this week. 1. "We work from the office 5 days a week from 10am-8pm" 2. "The team has standup every day at 8:15" Both of these roles are in SF. Neither would pay me enough to live in SF. let alone work from the office 50 hrs per week or get into the […]

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Periodic reminder that it's in your cloud provider's best interests to run most of their managed services on outdated hardware so that you'll buy more capacity.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Met with my CTO and VP to discuss infrastructure costs. Our Kafka-based CDC infrastructure is costing more than our total combined infra was costing 6 months ago and over 20x what the data engineers planned for. I was pretty sure their estimate was low, but this even surprised me.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Just had this realization over the past couple days

The "Mr. Incredible" meme. The lefthand side shows Mr. Incredible looking happy and the caption is "Someone's using an OSS project I made". The righthand side shows Mr. Incredible looking dark and a lot less happy with the same caption.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

"I have created Artificial Intelligence" You fucked up perfectly good math is what you did. Look at it. It's got hallucinations.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Most engineering teams I've been on in the past 10 or so years have had a policy of "every change must come from a ticket". Invariably, what ends up happening is each dev just writes up tickets for what they want to work on and then works the tickets they wrote.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

One of my pet peeves about Redis is that the documentation is often aspirational. And by that I mean it would be great if it worked that way but it doesn't. For example, the `JSON.NUMINCRBY` command says it returns a string or an array containing ints/nulls […] [Original post on zomglol.wtf]

Screenshot from the Redis documentation. It reads:

Return information. RESP3.

With $-based path argument (default): Array reply of integer replies or null replies, where each element is the new value, or null if the matching value is not a number, or simple error reply on error.

With .-based path argument: Bulk string reply representing the stringified new value, null reply if the matching value is not a number, or simple error reply on error.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

accidentally just said "gigglebytes" instead of "gigabytes" in a meeting

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/… Computers used to be useful. Now everything that runs on electricity is nothing but scams and surveillance.

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bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy @bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

A computer can never be held accountable...

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

[Star Trek: Discovery (possible spoiler S4 finale)] Holy shit, Stacey Abrams is in Star Trek?!

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

The AI code-review bot my company uses just wasted 2 hours of my time. It reported a bug in cache logic in a PR. I didn't change caching, but it's a Rails app so unexpected invalidations and indeterminate staleness can both happen. Report said it doesn't […] [Original post on zomglol.wtf]

A modified screenshot from Mystery Science Theater 3000. Crow is using a pickaxe to tunnel through the hull of the ship. The caption says "Well, look at that. Temporary staleness is intentional. Even had it underlined!"

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

I installed Google Meet on my phone because I need to run an errand but I need to listen in on this meeting. The app has now asked for access to not only my camera and mic, which are reasonable in a video-chat app, but also location, contacts, and *fitness data*. What the proverbial fuck?

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

I'm going to start giving team updates at work as "bug fixes and performance improvements". If it's good enough for app updates …

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

An LLM is conscious in the same way that the sex worker you hired really likes you. That is, it's not, they don't, and the whole thing is just a fantasy.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Looking at the current state of the tech industry, it's absolutely wild to remember that there was a whole decade where people would say "You're a developer? Don't say that too loud, someone might try to hire you!"

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Using Rails system tests always seems to reinforce my position that that Rails system tests are a bad idea. "But they validate a whole workflow!" They validate only the hopes and dreams of the person that wrote them and carry a misguided expectation of deterministic execution that ends up […]

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

I just remembered this email I got from Reddit. I was living in Australia when signed up on Reddit, so they wanted to let me know that if I'm under 16 I won't be able to use Reddit anymore. The funniest part about it is that, not only have I not even set foot in […] [Original post on zomglol.wtf]

Screenshot of an email from Reddit:

We're writing to let you know that starting 10 December 2025,
Australian law will require that redditors in Australia must be 16
or older to create and use Reddit accounts.
Users confirmed to be under 16 will have their accounts
suspended under the new Australian minimum age law. While
we disagree with the Government's assessment of Reddit as
being within the scope of the law, we need to take steps to
comply. This means anyone in Australia with a Reddit account
confirmed to be under 16 will be blocked from accessing their
account or creating a new one. Note that as an open platform,
Reddit is still available to browse without an account.
If you have questions, please visit Reddit Help. To request a
copy of your Reddit account data, you can follow the
instructions on this help center article or email
redditdatarequests @reddit.com from the email address you
used to verify your Reddit account. You can also learn more
about Australia’s new social media minimum age ban here.
Thank you.
Reddit

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Fiancée is trying to switch CRMs at her new company, but their current CRM doesn't let you export data. I looked them up and they have a REST API, so I wrote a script to pull down all the data from their API and transform it from JSON to CSV so she could upload it to the new CRM. Took about an […]

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

I'm looking into slow page loads in the hot path in my company's core app. It makes generous use of caching but, for business reasons, they want fresh data. So the cache is invalidated several times per minute for something that takes 10 seconds to render.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

When I see the word "count" abbreviated in code as `cnt`, I never read it as "count"

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

In the GitHub pull request UI, you can suggest patches in a review comment. There is an "Apply suggestion" button underneath that patch inside the comment. Now that my coworkers are all AI-pilled, when I put together a patch for someone's branch in code review, rather than simply clicking that […]

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

RE: discuss.systems/@dev/11680746072586… In case you are wondering, as I am, why your timeline is filled with memes about geese right now, this appears to be why.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@levelbot/116809048… Content I've seen about Scottish people in the US for the World Cup seems to indicate that this a conservative estimate.

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

"Hey [First Name], would you like to submit to a humiliating interview process for a role that requires a commute and comes with absolute dogshit comp?" — Recruiters on LinkedIn

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Jamie Gaskins @jamie.zomglol.wtf.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026