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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 20/07/2026

Yes! Another member of the household comes to me at least once a month with some arcane cable requirement that I can invariably supply from the box of doomed cables.

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 20/07/2026

Tell all your boomer relatives that the black Stars and Stripes is the symbol for the “Black Power” movement. Encourage them to share this “secret” with their Facebook friends. 😈 We only need a few hundred people to start sharing this for it to take wings and subvert this flag.

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A LOT OF PROFESSIONALS ARE CRACKPOTS

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 31/03/2026

That wasn’t the point of your thread, I know. Just kind of tragic that it’s the effect.

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 31/03/2026

The kind of “left leaning” that wraps back around to basic “change is bad” conservatism.

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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

THE IDEA OF REVOLUTION IS AN ADOLESCENT FANTASY

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 11/03/2026

Technical choices worth noting: - stdlib only: no numpy, pandas, etc. - Terminal width detection, respects NO_COLOR - CLI for piping JSON into any chart type Feedback welcome, especially on the API design, feature gaps, and which chart types you find most useful.

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 11/03/2026

I extracted `textcharts` from my benchmarking tool (BenchBox) where I need visualizations that work directly in a terminal session (SSH, CI logs, Claude Code, etc). No image viewers, no browser, no X11 forwarding. PyPI: pip install textcharts Docs: joeharris76.github.io/textcharts

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 11/03/2026

pip install textcharts[mcp] "textcharts histogram: commits/day, all branches." textcharts — 15 chart types, zero dependencies, pure Python. The built-in MCP server means any compatible AI agent can generate charts from natural language.

Claude Code terminal session showing the textcharts MCP server rendering a "Commits per Day" histogram in response to a natural-language prompt. The chart shows 151 commits across 5 days (Mar 06-10), with bars ranging from about 20 to 40 commits per day, a dotted mean line at 30.2, and a text summary below. The textcharts library runs standalone via MCP with no BenchBox dependency.

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 08/01/2026

This is a must-read annual review on database systems. 👀

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Soren Iverson @soren.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Google Docs show words left until AI replaces you

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 12/12/2025

It's harder to grind out the tokens when you're oncall. 😢

Terminal screenshot of Claude Code showing 33% of quota used in Current Week which resets Dec 15, 8pm.

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 07/12/2025

119 hours left to hit my weekly quota. Sure as hell not leaving any tokens on the table. 😈

Terminal screenshot of Claud Code showing 76% of quota used in Current Week which resets Dec 8, 7pm.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 20/11/2025

tbh this is the most google thing ever

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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

When there is no ballistic evidence, no damage from gunfire, no injuries, & DHS isn’t providing video evidence of the claim from their agents that someone fired shots, then I am going to call bullshit based on the 2 months of fabricated stories by federal officials that have been debunked by videos.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones." cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

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Mandatory Installation of Solar Panels in Public Parking Lots to Apply Retroactively to Existing Facilities

Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. ...

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 06/11/2025

America in a single tweet

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 28/10/2025

Me: Do the thing. But right this time. Claude Code: 'This was a great example of why you asked "What evidence do you have?" - it forced me to dig deeper and find the actual root cause! 🎯' Me: OK, but you still did it wrong. Ask your boss for help.

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 28/10/2025

Through the looking glass stuff

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 18/10/2025

The ability to move freely without ID is the bellwether of a truly free society. “Papers please” is the antithesis of freedom IMHO. We (in the US) allowed this to be eroded, mostly for controlling alcohol sales. Europeans have been very resistant to this, I guess they understand the consequences.

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qntm @qntm.org · 07/09/2025

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 23/09/2025

Ironic: Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed. The one that shared Gartner's Magic Quadrant about AI Code Assistants, which does not include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and ranks Amazon above Cursor. This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi... Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 17/09/2025

Nice. Always good to see a pic of Doug’s giant bike. One of these days I’m sure we’ll see you one of the 32-inchers that they keep showing at MADE.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Kirk waged a national campaign to tarnish MLK's legacy. This was last year.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 20/08/2025

It's finally happening!

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 16/08/2025

This is owned by a LANlord

An apartment block where the windows and Juliet balconies look like network ports

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Trelfar @trelfar.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

And every year, Apple employees have to sit through mandatory compliance training only to watch the CEO publicly violate it. www.apple.com/compliance/p...

Apple Anti-Corruption Policy

Corruption can take many forms, but most often it occurs through bribery. At Apple, we do not tolerate any form of corruption in connection with our business dealings. If you are unsure of the proper course of action, or whether something constitutes corruption, contact Business Conduct.

Bribery

A bribe is offering or giving anything of value to any person for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business, or securing an improper advantage.

You cannot offer or receive bribes from any individual, regardless of whether that individual is a public official or a private party.

Anything of value includes cash, cash equivalents such as gift cards, gifts, meals, travel and entertainment, and can also include a promise, or guarantee of something of value. Anything of value can also include job
offers. Apple does not offer employment of any kind, including internships and contract positions, in order to obtain or retain business or gain a business advantage. Please refer to the Anti-Corruption Recruiting Policy for additional information.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/07/2025

Note the very top priority: 1. Get as much electricity as you can from local solar. This has two components… a. Make rooftop solar the cheapest form of energy anywhere & do as much as possible. b. Get as much as you can from local commercial and public-space solar that is within the “community.”

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 20/07/2025

And that, kids, is why it’s called “cray cray”

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qntm @qntm.org · 18/07/2025

This is an absolutely fascinating article about a very bizarre event. Obviously from my perspective the most interesting angle here is the fact that ChatGPT is clearly just spinning SCP-esque containment documentation at Lewis

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 18/07/2025

MIT Technology Review wrote about my dystopian backup plan USB stick

Simon Willison has a plan for the end of the world. It’s a USB stick, onto which he has loaded a couple of his favorite open-weight LLMs—models that have been shared publicly by their creators and that can, in principle, be downloaded and run with local hardware. If human civilization should ever collapse, Willison plans to use all the knowledge encoded in their billions of parameters for help. “It’s like having a weird, condensed, faulty version of Wikipedia, so I can help reboot society with the help of my little USB stick,” he says.

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 14/07/2025

How great is it that we invented programs that think* and the best way we can control them is to: be very very careful about what they learn and ask them nicely not to think bad things. So great! *I know

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 09/07/2025

New post up, with a bunch of thoughts on what drives me personally, and my own 40-year career (h/t @lethain.com). I have a pretty unusual life story. But one of the reasons I love the tech industry so much is how common unusual stories like mine have historically been. charity.wtf/2025/07/09/t...

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Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career

I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pus…

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 08/07/2025

I find Vercel's "verifying your browser" interstitial so rage inducing. Like WTF? This is the web - just serve the page!

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 06/07/2025

Deleting the Google app from the iOS devices from older relatives has taken the place of removing Windows toolbars 20 years ago. Surprising that Apple allows this since it degrades the whole device experience.

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 05/07/2025

I really do not need a text, email, and mobile alert every time I sign in to anything. Make it stop. 😞

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Nat Bullard @nathanielbullard.com · 03/07/2025

I had fun as always on @catalyst-pod.bsky.social this week. There's just so much power sector information to wrassle with these days, some of it deeply useful, some of it silly, all of it public and accessible if you can apply technology to it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

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Fresh intel from state utility regulatory filings

Podcast Episode · Catalyst with Shayle Kann · 07/03/2025 · 39m

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Joe Harris @joeharris76.com · 20/06/2025

The laziness continues… it added the documentation for the CLI I asked it to create to the README but the actual code was all placeholders. LOL.

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