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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When I took off, there was a belt there.

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Signal : WhatsApp :: ? : 1Password/LastPass/BitWarden Who wants to start a foundation to fill the ? with me?

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Turns out that using these things is a skill

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ionchy @ionchy.ca · 23/05/2026

start doing computer science <3

START DOING COMPUTER SCIENCE

* VARIABLES WERE SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN NAMES
* YEARS OF PROGRAMMING yet STILL MORE TO CREATE
* Don't want to write code anyway? We have a field for you: It's called THEORY
* "Well typed programs don't go wrong." "Boolean satisfiability is NP-complete." "Every effectively calculable function is computable." — Statements dreamed up by the utterly inspired

LOOK at what computer scientists deserve your Respect for all this time, with all the circuits and computers we built for them
(This is REAL computer science, done by REAL computer scientists):

[graph of the ARPANET] the Internet
[photo of an FPGA] FPGAs
[screenshot of RocqIDE] proof assistants

They have given us beautiful tools

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I made a mess of the pattern and pissed off some folks (and apologized on the ground, of course). Pattern entries are not the same in Canada, I knew that, but didn’t know the extent of the differences! But at least my landing was good. It’s like landing a shopping cart.

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Can someone with Foreflight see if they’re able to get surface analysis on the map layer? I know I can use the imagery tab for the old-school surface analysis, but I am curious as to why I’m only getting “no data” when I try to add the surface analysis layer.

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Increase in the rate of things happening.

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I guess the adventure cat lessons will have to wait for another day

Cat sleeping in box. Book on adventure cats in foreground.

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Folks, I’m at the Operation Airdrop booth again this morning. Come say hi! #osh26

Photo of a tent at airventure in Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Oshkosh folks, come to the Operation Airdop tent (co-located with the Legend Cub tent) and talk to me about volunteering! #osh26

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Anyone wanna hunt some U-Boats?

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

@peacewind.aero which one did you fly in? I’m officially team 017

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I’ll be at Oshkosh all week, mostly volunteering at Operation Airdrop and the Seaplane base. Anyone around? #OSH26

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

View from the woods last night.

Sunset over a lake. My shoes in the foreground.

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Worst thing that ever happened to me was learning about type systems.

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Peaceful to bumpy pretty quick

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Pretty sure I heard @astrokatie.com on frequency near Niagara Falls today?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

the story of Iran is that you don't always have to win. sometimes you just have to have what it takes to deny victory to your opponents, and endure

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I may have fucked my career. 🤷‍♂️ we’ll see

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Like all modern people, I view all happenings through my particular political lens. Which is why I need the Knicks to win, because the NBA finals is urbanism versus suburban sprawl

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I’ve had too much of too much and want to switch to a just right amount of too much in my life. The problem is that we are all trying to avoid too little of just right and we overcompensate.

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Best lesson for any pursuit

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Sometimes when you’re on a work call with me, this is what’s happening on the other side.

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Some of you may think this account is about programming, but in reality it’s about obsessing over real small details (sometimes to the detriment of my life at large). Don’t get it twisted, programming is but one view into this. Coffee, jazz, and aviation are the others.

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The gcc source has some good finds:

If build, host, and target are all the same, this is called a
@dfn{native}. If build and host are the same but target is different,
this is called a @dfn{cross}. If build, host, and target are all
different this is called a @dfn{canadian} (for obscure reasons dealing
with Canada's political party and the background of the person working
on the build at that time).

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I’m in the group chat, where we share every coffee we make with each other. Pretty much my main reason for getting out of bed these days. I was asked to demonstrate a slowsetta, so here’s what that looks like.

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This is how you all use Claude, right?

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

AI can read scientific papers for me? Oh man, imagine all the time I’ll save! Can it watch movies for me too?! I’m so excited for it to write a story I can read to my nephew! Maybe next it’ll write the eulogy I need for my friend’s funeral!

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I am consistently ghosted for adjunct positions in Canada 😞 Teaching is pretty much the only thing I felt genuinely good at, so my ego is at all time lows.

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Alexis King @lexi-lambda.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

wrote a few paragraphs today about why early Stack Overflow was such a special and rewarding community to contribute to and why so many of us who were there have never really stopped mourning its slow but steady decay meta.stackoverflow.com/a/438314/465...

meta.stackoverflow.com

Tell me about the good old days, papa

I like this site. As both a scientist and an educator, it has allowed me to do the two things I love the most: continue learning, and teach where I can. I joined Stack Overflow late and didn't really

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

You can see me slowly wake up on this very Monday of mondays.

Three lattes, left to right, with progressively better art. The first one spilled.

Same three lattes, but from the other side. You can see the the first one spilled a lot. The second a tiny bit and the third not at all.

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ZuriHac @zurihac.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

ZuriHac 2026 - Registrations are open! ZuriHac is the biggest Haskell community event in the world: a completely free, three-day grassroots coding festival co-organized by the Zürich Friends of Haskell and the OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Science. Register: zureg.zfoh.ch/register

zureg.zfoh.ch

Registration

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

It will be hard to explain, but I did shed a tear and get choked up at the conclusion of the halftime show.

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AndreasPK @andreaspk.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I love being unable to edit my posts. Picture unrelated

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I am now instrument rated. It’s interesting, I’m very thankful for the additional skills. This give me and I feel like this rating. Be safe for pilot, but I can’t help feel the rating is also a bit of a burden. The skills atrophy so quickly! A lot of work just to stay sharp.

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John Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"…neither of them seemed to know the danger until it was too late. They believed they were operating in some version of the normal state…where the police usually respond with discipline and restraint." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

One of the saddest things about the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti is that you could tell that neither of them seemed to know the danger until it was too late. They believed they were operating in some version of the normal state (what Frankel called the "normative state") where the police usually respond with discipline and
restraint.

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JMCT @jmct.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I’m on my bullshit again #ottawa

Screenshot of a Reddit thread in r/PuertoRico. The post asks, “¿Alguien sabe de boricuas en Ottawa, Canadá?” and says the poster lives there and wants to start a curling team to represent Puerto Rico in the Olympics in four years, ending with “¿Qué tan difícil puede ser? ;)”. In the comments, a user asks, “¿Y dominas el deporte suficiente pa eso?” The OP replies, “Claro que no, pero dame cuatro años y hablamos,” and then, “Piense más en ‘Cool Runnings’ y menos en ‘Miracle’.”

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