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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 10/09/2026

A @jennajordan.me peer exchange is a super-duper can't-miss. Make sure you get this one on your list!

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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Changing my name to Claude so people give me context

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 13/06/2026

This is an absolutely extraordinary interview. So many stories!

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 13/05/2026

I got the review prompt after hearting a post, but i also got a paywall underneath it which is probably not the pairing you're going for 😅

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 08/04/2026

Absolute banger of a post today - go read about the importance of process knowledge with a glorious tumbler post as the centerpiece

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/04/2026

I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but to me, sharing a screenshot of chatbot output to make a point of some kind is an excellent way to undermine any credibility that might otherwise be granted to you in the context of whatever you're trying to say.

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 27/03/2026

NZ has pretty good leave policies for birthing parents (6mo partly govt funded, your job held for you if you take another 6mo unpaid) and pretty bad for the other parent (convention is 2 weeks, but genuinely no idea if it's govt-mandated or not). So dbt's 4mo across the board kinda rules for my case

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 23/03/2026

Couple of other requests: - peek/pop support for previewing pages by long pressing the url - I guess you can't support safari extensions, but I use apps.apple.com/app/id157128... to rewrite x.com to xcancel.com so if there's an alternative way to achieve that, I'd be into it

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RedirectWeb: Smart URL Router App - App Store

Download RedirectWeb: Smart URL Router by Manabu Nakazawa on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like RedirectWeb:…

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 23/03/2026

Ahh that did it! I didn't realise that even when I had no tabs open, there was still a difference between the new tab screen and the tabs overview

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 21/03/2026

@quiche.industries I think I customised quiche so much that all of my settings buttons are gone 😣 is there a url scheme or anything to get back in?

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 09/02/2026

Bad news, team: showing people a raw transcript of your chatbot/agent session is like telling them about the wild dream you had last night. I know it was amazing for you while you were in it, but we're not there anymore.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

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Best gas masks

“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Look it’s only Tuesday and it’s been a hard week so I want you all to know I’ve been calling this baby toy the “disco turnip” and I was only recently informed it is a BEET BOX

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 27/01/2026

A rose by any other name would still ~smell as sweet~ do demos on roller skates The shenanigans will continue unabated

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 27/01/2026

This is a good post: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h... As someone on the other side of the world, this is the most usable part of that post: www.standwithminnesota.com Contribute to rental assistance, food, legal funds.

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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

a screenshot of text from a website. it reads:

The History of the January 1 Birthday
The tradition dates back to the early days of organized horse racing, long before electronic timing and online records. Race organizers needed a simple way to group horses by age since a horse’s age often determines what races they can enter. Instead of tracking every horse’s exact birth date (which would have been a logistical nightmare), they decided that all thoroughbreds would share one official birthday: January 1.

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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

last-minute gift idea if anyone's still looking

namecheap search result for the domain merry.christmas. the price is 2 million dollars

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 27/11/2025

I hope they mean like this, that'd be sick as hell

Screenshot of The Verge's headline "A humanoid robot-shaped bubble is forming, China warns" superimposed on an ai-generated image of a giant bubble wand creating a robot

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 23/11/2025

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

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Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me · 19/11/2025

Excellent advice for job seekers from Abigail Haddad, succinctly summed up by an amazing tl;dr title: Make Things, Tell People presentofcoding.substack.com/p/make-thing...

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Make Things, Tell People

On side projects and finding work

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 28/10/2025

This your Halloween outfit?

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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2025/t... Highly relatable for anyone that has ever written a line of code used by other people Lovely little post from @jacobtomlinson.dev

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The Majority Of Your Users

The majority of your users don’t read your changelog. The majority of your users only upgrade to new versions when forced to.

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arynndoesdata @arynn.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Wearing a zip-up vest every day until a company notices and decides to hire me to sell B2B SaaS.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 15/10/2025

Physics Insight xkcd.com/3154/

Comic. PERSON: Sure, when *Einstein* suggests using the Lorentz transform to explain the connection between velocity and time, people call him a genius. But when *I* suggest it, it’s “basic physics” and “undergraduate stuff.” PERSON 2 with white hat: Such a double standard!

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 07/10/2025

E-scooter rental is a complete commodity to me - I'll use whatever company services whatever city I'm in. But because there are like 10 different companies, you have to open 10 different apps to see if anything shows on the map. My kingdom for JustWatch but for scooters

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 04/10/2025

Imagine buying out every ad space in the NYC subway or whatever when you surely must know @vicmsong.bsky.social is gonna get your ass because your thing doesn't work www.theverge.com/column/79101...

A screenshot of the linked article:

Another time, I asked what it thought of my day. (Because really, how does one strike up an organic conversation with an always-listening AI?) It responded by saying, “What makes you think I have thoughts on your day, Vee?” That’s a weird response considering it’s the entire pitch behind the device.

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Malcolm 朝精 Barrett @malcolmbarrett.malco.io · 29/09/2025

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and

a checkbox on a website that says "keep me logged in"

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 24/09/2025

When you’re on your fourth merged PR for the week

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Jonathan Capps @cappsy.co.uk · 17/09/2025

I put it to every one of you that no one has ever, EVER, wanted to click on an email address in a spreadsheet and have it open the email program. Ever.

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 12/09/2025

Usborne Publishing sure knows how to make kids' books

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 09/09/2025

Orange telephone lets goooooo

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 29/08/2025

Both kids snuggled up and fell asleep for an hour in the big bed and it was cute as hell

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Brittany @brrosenau.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Too many quotes to pull from this piece by @pedramnavid.com, but "The cost of thinking has been offloaded to the consumer, not the producer" really hits databased.pedramnavid.com/p/the-cost-o...

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The Cost of Costing Nothing

The emotional labor of reading your Chat

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 18/08/2025

Separately, I'm also digitising many old family photo albums and exiftool has been great for setting location/date/comments. There's something delightful about vibecoding a custom GUI wrapper to a 20 year old Perl script. So yeah, really leaning into the Dad In His 30s stereotypes.

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 18/08/2025

Deleting most of the EXIF tags fixed it up, so my best guess is that the Mac photos app sorts by one date tag when available, but always displays a different one in the UI. Also some time zone offset shenanigans, of course. Anyway thanks to exiftool and duckdb for your support

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 18/08/2025

Learning more about the intricacies of EXIF data than I expected to during my parental leave, ngl The birth photographer's pictures didn't display in the right order even though they ostensibly had the right timestamps.

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 15/08/2025

A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...

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Slide designs that present themselves: The assertion–evidence template

Your slides are not your talk.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 12/08/2025

different day, same internal struggle

heavily modified meme image depicting spiderman confronting a dinosaur person, saying "you can write concisely about complex topics and you're using it to shitpost? But with abilities like that you could write a book" to which the dinosaur person responds "but I don't want to write a book I want to shitpost"

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"'you can just talk to the computer' is being a little underestimated by AI skeptics, and 'this one technology can do literally every single thing' is being wildly overestimated by AI boosters" is maybe a better formulation

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Joel Labes @joellab.es · 08/07/2025

Sounds very prag-matic

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

there are hot* singles** in your area*** *unexpected **items ***bagging area

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Jurre van Bergen @jurrevanbergen.nl · 24/06/2025

TIL: "The industrial production of paracetamol involves turning benzene compounds into phenols, which can then by turned into paracetamol. Benzene, the starting material, comes from petroleum". E.coli bacteria can recycle PET to paracetamol. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol

Genetically modified E coli used to create painkillers from material produced from plastic bottles

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Christina Warren @filmgirl.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The 1 billionth GitHub repository has been created and it’s absolutely perfect.

A screenshot of the billionth repository created on GitHub.com. It’s titled “shit”

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

One of the best things about Posting is you never know what obscure preoccupations your followers have. There will be a guy who has followed you for years and never said anything but then one day you disparage applesauce and he activates like a sleeper agent and dedicates his life to destroying you

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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

oh whoa javascript tells you where the text-insertion cursor is huh

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