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Jesse Chan-Norris

@jcn.bsky.social
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Ruby engineer, cyclist. Lover of animated GIFs and bungalow colonies. More at: jcn.me, ruby.social/@jcn

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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
jessechannorris.com/gallery/911/
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September 11, 2001, New York City by Jesse Chan-Norris
Photos of the World Trade Center and lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001 and the days following.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/07/2026
A comedian and his friends are transforming a vacant retail space at a subway station in New York City with freebies, art and puppet shows to make commutes more enjoyable.
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A Newsstand That Aims to Delight N.Y.C. Subway Riders
A comedian and his friends are transforming a vacant retail space at the West 4th Street station with freebies, art and puppet shows to make commutes more enjoyable.
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Somehow ended up on a 9 train tonight. Old school! @mta.info
Passengers on a nyc subway train sitting underneath a sign with a red “9” sign, which is strange because the 9 was retired in 2005.
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Nothing like an upcoming artificialruby.ai meetup (tonight!) to motivate me to post photos from the last 3 that I've been procrastinating on. And hi @ombulabs.ai! www.flickr.com/photos/jcn/5...
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Artificial Ruby (March 2026) Artificial Ruby Meetup Betaworks, NYC March 25, 2025
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Amazing how "piles of files" continues to often be the sorting mechanism that works best for me.
Screenshot of a folder on a computer, sorted into 5 piles of overlapping icons. They're sorted roughly by category, "physically" separated so they can be selected and dragged around as a group if needed.
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Checking in on the git log of one of my older (still running) apps...
A screenshot from an old rails app reading "RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.2.0' unless defined? RAILS_GEM_VERSION
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Mike Dalessio @flavorjon.es · 23/03/2026
So @jcn.bsky.social rescued some old GORUCO videos from 2010 and 2011 that I just posted up on rubyevents.org, including this killer talk from @sandimetz.bsky.social: www.rubyevents.org/talks/less-t... Enjoy the old school vibes!
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Less - The Path to Better Design
GORUCO 2011: Less - The Path to Better Design (Sandi Metz)
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 13/03/2026
Your reminder that you can download the info from DOGE Track and use it for any projects you want, just as long as you're aware that I do make mistakes from time to time dogetrack.info/about/downlo...
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Downloading The Data
An overview of the different formats that the source data is available in, including YAML, CSV and even a JSON API.
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
And we're out. Happy Hanukkah, all.
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Happy seventh night of Hanukkah (from a friend's menorah)
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Have yourself a color block sixth night of Hanukkah
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Fifth night of Hanukkah lights
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Happy fourth night of Hanukkah, all
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Happy third night of Hanukkah
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Happy 2nd night of Hanukkah
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Chag sameach on this somber first night of Hanukkah.
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Lucian Ghinda @lucianghinda.com · 07/10/2025
If you are working with Rails + ERB and you have not yet installed ReActionView => you are missing a lot. Just read this: "HTML-aware rendering with validation, reactivity, and built-in tooling for Rails applications" reactionview.dev
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ReActionView - A new ActionView-compatible ERB engine with modern DX - re-imagined with Herb.
A new ActionView-compatible ERB engine with modern DX - re-imagined with Herb.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 16/09/2025
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths
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Orta Therox @orta.io · 07/08/2025
It is nice to have a computer with some whimsy again. I've ported the esheep app from the 90s to run as a native app on macOS github.com/orta/esheep-...
A screenshot of Xcode showing a bunch of sheep running over the macOS window framing
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
the anthem we need right now youtu.be/wdepf8H4Lgc?...
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KILLING IN THE NAME - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE // ROCK'N'TOYS SESSIONS #8 - THE WACKIDS
YouTube video by THE WACKIDS
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 18/05/2025
I built a new LLM plugin that can turn a PDF into an image-per-page for feeding into vision models, and in testing it found that GPT-4.1 mini hallucinates WILDLY if you feed it a blank white rectangle followed by a blank black rectangle simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/...
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This document outlines various types of political regimes and their characteristics:

    Democracy: A political regime where the government is accountable to the people and power is exercised directly or through representatives. It operates under guaranteed civil liberties, political equality, and periodic, competitive elections.

    Liberal or Representative Democracy: Features popular support and limitations on state power, with a functioning constitution, competitive elections, rule of law, and protections for civil liberties. It requires institutions like legislatures, courts, and political parties.

    Illiberal Democracy: Elections occur, but civil liberties and political rights are often limited, with the possibility of electoral processes manipulated by elites or authoritarian tendencies.

    Authoritarianism/Dictatorship: Characterized by the concentration of power in one or a few leaders, limited political pluralism, lack of democratic elections, and restricted civil liberties.
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Law & Order: Organized Crime has the best theme music of all the Law & Orders
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Sebastián Delmont 🫓 @sdelmont.com · 26/04/2025
Partial list of things that always come in threes, that everybody knows always come in threes, never one or two, or four, yet we still find surprising: 1️⃣ Celebrity deaths. 2️⃣ USB port connection attempts. 3️⃣ Visits to Home Depot for a DIY project.
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/2025
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
With tax day coming up on April 15, we want to make sure our community knows about IRS Direct File. It’s a free option for filing a federal tax return, and you can learn more about it at DirectFile.irs.gov.
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/03/2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · 21/03/2025
Amtrak was cool while it lasted. www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/new…
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Redundant systems, single points of failure, etc. www.wired.com/story/starli...
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If Ukraine Loses Starlink, Here Are the Best Alternatives
OneWeb, Project Kuiper, and IRIS2 could all, in time, replace Elon Musk's satellite communications system in Ukraine, but they will struggle to replicate Starlink's coverage and usability.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 07/03/2025
because people asked for it, we have a 12-hour track of nothing but the sound of clean water flowing from our treatment plant back to the environment. soundcloud.com/neorsd/water...
Levar Burton Hotline Bling meme, but he is interested and pointing in approval in both images. top text reads "sound sustainable infrastructure" and bottom text reads "sustained infrastructure sounds"
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Can’t wait to see who made large crypto buys in the hours before the crypto reserve announcement
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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 03/03/2025
introducing tangled: a git collaboration platform built on #atproto blog.tangled.sh/intro
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introducing tangled
a git collaboration platform, built on atproto
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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 01/03/2025
@lesteph.com did a scrape of the whole site a couple of weeks ago - preserved.org.uk/18f.gsa.gov/...
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18F: Digital service delivery | Home
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I don’t imagine what we’re seeing today is the “post office of the future” being celebrated here
Worlds fair poster reading “ see the United States post office of the future. Visit this interesting exhibit at the New York fair post office.”
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
What’s up Queens Museum.
An overhead view of manhattan with queens in the distance, but it’s a photo of the Panorama, a scale model of NYC at the queens museum.
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Really taking a page out of the “just unplug the servers and see what breaks” playbook, which, on some level, is kind of exciting! Except if you’re talking about people’s actual human lives. medium.com/@noahkingdav...
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The Unbelievable Tale of When Elon Musk Personally Removed Servers from a Sacramento Data Center
Back on Christmas Eve of last year, there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data…
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 21/02/2025
Looking up a new name in the DOGE list of engineers, I wondered if I had the right guy. Noticing they had apparently scrubbed their Github and LinkedIn profiles makes me more certain though! Reminder: I am tracking DOGE activities as reported in the media here github.com/harrisj/trum...
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
On this day in 1942, German tanks and soldiers marched through Winnipeg. The mayor, premier and Lt. Governor were arrested. The city was renamed Himmlerstadt, books were burned and the swastika flag flew around the city. This is the story of Winnipeg's If Day. 🧵1/14
The photo is a black-and-white image of a military parade in an urban setting, likely from the mid-20th century. It shows several small tanks or armored vehicles driving down a city street, with soldiers in helmets riding in them. The street is lined with multi-story buildings, vintage cars, and streetcars, suggesting a historical context, possibly during World War II.
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Shout out to the iCloud Postmaster team who fixed email deliverability issues from my server to icloud.com in a mere 3 hours on a Sunday night during the Super Bowl. Yes, I am stubbornly still running my own mail server out here in 2025. Now to get Outlook to unblock this new IP...
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 06/02/2025
a 30-second ad for sunday's Super Bowl will cost more than $8 million. in that same 30 seconds, we treat 73,250 gallons of water. it costs $241.
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Marc Hurwitz @marchurboston.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Finally some good news apnews.com/article/newl...
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Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032
A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032. NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday the chance of impact is slightly more than 1%.
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Really glad the US taxpayer will get to play the role of the greater fool.
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Tuesday is really Mondaying today.
A screenshot from the Bitbucket web service with an orange box reading "Bitbucket Cloud is hard down" and additional explanatory text about their service outage.
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It’s three AIs in a trench coat.
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D Wise @dwisecinema.com · 16/01/2025
New Glenn lifts off successfully, reaching orbit on its first attempt. 📸 @nasaspaceflight.com
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
One of my favorite NYC traditions is the annual Christmas tree Mulchfest organized by @nycgovparks.org
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Dave Mark @davemark.com · 09/01/2025
"With the fires still largely unconfined, and no sign of letup from the winds spreading the blazes, the loss of JPL is looking increasingly likely." JPL is NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. So many homes lost. Terrible. www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/l... #PalisadesFIre
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Los Angeles fires cause thousands to flee, NASA JPL closed
Crews battle to keep people, homes, science safe
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 05/01/2025
Congestion Relief Zone tolling is now in effect. Learn more: congestionreliefzone.mta.info
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Congestion Pricing Program in New York - MTA
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Happy Hanukkah! #chrismukkah
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Jesse Chan-Norris @jcn.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Did anyone else save up Tropicana UPC codes as a kid to exchange them for ornaments?
Photo of a Christmas tree ornament of an orange with a candy cane stuck out of it.
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