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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 25/09/2026

Truly one of most foul beverages I have ever tasted. I could not get enough of it.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 01/09/2026

Seems there is a battle going on over on Wikipedia about whether the controversy should be included.

A screenshot of the edit history of the Soap Girls Wikipedia page showing a section about their recent controversy being removed, re added, and removed again. View full text at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_SoapGirls&action=history

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 25/08/2026

The gloves are to protect his hands while moving stuff around. Its a bit of a myth that gloves while cooking are cleaner. Bare hands washed at proper times are just as clean. In fact often gloves are dirtier because of a false sense of cleanliness unless someone is constantly changing their gloves

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 21/08/2026

Yeah its almost like we need a different name, though not sure if anyone is building traditional data centers right now anyway.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 20/08/2026

I mean before the AI arms race I feel like I had a fairly neutral opinion on them. I know they are needed for the modern internet age, and I would have been a little annoyed if it raised my electrical bill a bit, but I didn't think about them much.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 21/07/2026

If you first accept that someone wants to see it on Fflm, then you're really asking "What is the difference between copying the film from 35mm to 35mm or copying the film from 35 onto 70mm. The copy will introduce NEW grain and artifacts on either format, and on 70mm the grain is more diffused.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 10/07/2026

I understand that is has a use as a political document, just saying it is not actually useful for tourist reference.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 09/07/2026

I feel bad for anyone who actually uses this as a reference when visiting a city. If they can be this off with Chicago & Tampa I assume its pretty useless for anywhere.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 20/03/2026

Yeah I didn't go back to being an IC just to manage agents. bsky.app/profile/heat...

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 20/03/2026

Y'all updated the pictures, but looks like voting is still set to yesterdays.

A screenshot of the Blank check march madness website showing Milos Forman on the left, but the voting is still Warren Beatty and Penelope Spheeris

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 02/03/2026

We got rid of our backlog last year and it has only been upsides since.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 16/02/2026

Its wild how craven Xfinity still is. Somewhere along the line they fully removed the ability to canel online, you have to schedule a callback, and even then they put you on hold. And then I think I had an AI on the phone explain to me that they do it so it'll be a pleasant "human interaction" 🙄

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 30/12/2025

It is a useful tool! You can use it with ->assertJson as well. I always find it helpful when backfilling tests, when you don't have all the assertions and just need ignore the rest of the body. It's helpful to know that there is more that you aren't asserting against.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 08/11/2025

Missed the chance to get the CC40 collection back when Criterion had their sale, so big thanks for this!

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 10/10/2025

I've been using an old iPhone 12 for a bit after being an Android person forever and was (sort of) coming around to iOS, but man I'll switch back to Android in a heartbeat before I "upgrade" to Liquid Glass.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 09/10/2025

At least he's in good company. The classic detective "Thin Man" movies are all have "Thin Man" in the title even though that was a reference to the first mystery and just stuck.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 01/10/2025

Yeah, I tend not to use AI to write anything big, I try and keep it isolated to things I need help with. Just a "Fancy Autocomplete". I've never understood why "writes code fast" is a benefit. Wanna know what is easy? Writing code. Wanna know what is hard? Maintaining code that was written fast.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 17/09/2025

They sold to Unilever in 2000 with an agreement in place that this wouldn't happen, and it actually really hasn't for 25 years. Unilever is just testing their luck now.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 16/09/2025

Apparently not part of "Evertything"

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 13/09/2025

Instead of having an individual password on your SSH key (or no password), you use a key that is stored in your password manager. When a program accesses that key the password manager launches an auth window. It's nice because you can then keep your key locked, but use fingerprint to unlock.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 05/09/2025

Man, tasks like that are so draining. I've experimented with github.com/nektos/act to mixed success, but can help reduce the commits a lil bit.

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GitHub - nektos/act: Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 04/09/2025

Sometimes you just have to hide the complexity! Take the complicated edge case, shove it into a function, Action, or Service Class and where it matters just use the descriptive function name. if (isEdgeCase) { handleEdgeCase() }

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

"how familiar these practices look: small steps (limited WIP), rapid feedback loops, continuous testing, code review, refactoring, integration etc. Remind you of anything, perhaps something a little extreme? Now, that surely can’t be a coincidence?" codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/e...

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eXtreme Programming Reborn: Code Craft & “A.I.”

Going through the practices that many software developers report improve the results they get with “A.I.” coding assistants – the ones I’ve managed to reproduce myself.* Sma…

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 01/09/2025

Nah, I've been sticking to the thin plate for now, but interested to try it. A few of the models I've printed are ready for them, but haven't bit the bullet yet.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 30/08/2025

Gridfinity is the best! Been doing the same to all the drawers I can...

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 18/08/2025

Yeah since I realized how arbitrary their scores are based on rating Chicago so much lower than cities I've ridden in that are just objectively worse, I have just written off their rankings as a resource entirely. It does not reflect the reality on the ground.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 13/07/2025

It definitely has made me look down a bit on a number of devs. I have to think a lot of these folks think of themselves as "apolitical". Or benefit of the doubt maybe they don't use the algorithmic feed. I know folks who only use their curated lists so they just haven't seen as much of the shift.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 08/07/2025

Wait until you hear about "vibe welding"

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 25/06/2025

Its the "Subscribe" button at the top. The verb is a little confusing because you're subscribing to a block

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 27/02/2025

Looks like Danielle did some behind the scenes work! bsky.app/profile/dani...

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 08/02/2025

Thinking it's time for a Wolfenstein replay. No particular reason.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 21/01/2025

I love me some CI/CD, but debugging a devops problem can feel like the worst game of whack-a-mole. Every time you squash an error you just are hit with the next one it was hiding.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 12/01/2025

And then you frantically try to hit a button so it won't start playing some other movie you don't care about and instead accidentally end the credits. Nice abrupt end to a movie viewing experience 🙃

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 04/01/2025

Looks like this is already not accepting additional applications.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 01/01/2025

It's funny being in #Chicago on New Year's. Like what am I supposed to be watching? New York is firmly in 2025. Like do I need to go to Navy Pier? Where is our ball?

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Polygon @polygon.com · 30/12/2024

It doesn’t feel like the holidays without Aunty Donna’s Christmas pud

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It doesn’t feel like the holidays without Aunty Donna’s Christmas pud

Maybe a little bit of pud, then

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 28/12/2024

Kinda wild to see a critic complaining that people are engaging deeper with art and learning about an artist. He seems to want art to just be another commodity to be purchased sight unseen. NYT not beating the "old man shakes fist at clouds" allegations.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 24/12/2024

The further I get into a proper CI/CD workflow, I don't understand how anyone wants to work with anything less.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 19/12/2024

My extra cynical take is that Apple has been so privacy focused in their advertising for the last number of years mostly to be able to use it as a cudgel in the EU. Obviously also to block out Facebook the first time around, but now to try and avoid working with anyone.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 18/12/2024

Spotify really has cursed us with these "Year End Wraps". Getting some from services I would never have guessed would think this is a good idea. No I don't need my error tracking software to remind me of all the bugs we needed to fix over the past year.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 15/12/2024

Just saw the new release of Interstella 5555 and it was really great to listen to Daft Punk live in a theater. The video however felt less like a loving restoration than an AI upscaling of the YouTube version I'd watched the first time. Anyone have any details on that?

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 09/12/2024

Hundreds of Beavers is a masterpiece. If you can see it in a theater, get to a showing. If you can't, get as many people together to watch it as you can. Probably the best slapstick film I've seen made this century.

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 09/12/2024

Extremely excited to finally make it to Hundreds of Beavers at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 08/12/2024

Hey, at least this site still has a functional block feature!

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Jordan Welch @jordanwelch.com · 30/11/2024

Your best bet to curate your feed quickly is to block a few Block Lists. Bluesky does not have an internal directory of them yet, but because it is open there is an external searchable one avail blueskydirectory.com/lists

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Lists - Bluesky Directory

A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Turn on the setting that makes it so you can't post unless you add the alt text. It's like having an alt text accountability buddy!

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