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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 23/09/2026

I don't know why but Claude's emojii usage triggers my Uncanny Valley alarms more than just about anything

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 06/09/2026

One more example, in case it helps

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 05/09/2026

@support.bsky.team @samuel.fm @pfrazee.com sorry, I don't know who to tag. Just wanted to share a little UI bug with the thread numbering on android. The 2/2 here (2-post thread auto-expanded in my feed) is centered and covering part of the last sentence bsky.app/profile/tech...

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 28/08/2026

"Being in detention is a choice." Fuck everything

Tweet from @DHSgov (Homeland Security) on x.com that shows an unflattering mugshot of Milo Yiannopoulos in ICE detention and reads:
"On August 27, ICE arrested Milo Yiannopoulos, an illegal alien from the United Kingdom, at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) in Kenner, Louisiana. Yiannopoulos legally entered the country on May 14, 2019, through New York City, New York. He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws.

Yiannopoulos was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge on July 22, after failing to show up for his immigration hearing. He will remain in ICE custody pending removal.

Being in detention is a choice. We encourage all illegal aliens to take control of their departure with the CBP Home App. The United States is offering illegal aliens $3,000 and a free flight to self-deport now. We encourage every person here illegally to take advantage of this offer and reserve the chance to come back to the U.S. the right legal way to live the American dream. If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return."

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 24/08/2026

I present a new artwork titled "Real users are the only real QA testers"

An odd, geometric bunch of lines and text formed from mis-styled adjacent and nested pull quotes and blockquotes.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 20/08/2026

Be right back. Going to start an unfair, biased, centrist news outlet to compete with *checks notes*... just Barstool Sports.

Media bias chart from Ad Fontes Media showing a giant hole filled only by Barstool Sports in the "unfair coverage meets centrism" part of the grid. source: https://x.com/adfontesmedia/status/2089442212794765751?s=46

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 04/08/2026

My wife said they erased me from the TV version of Idiocracy, and this will not stand. You shall not erase my best personal fun fact! (This is me when I was 17)

My best claim to fame: a still of me, a 17-year-old extra, standing directly behind Luke Wilson in the detention scene in Idiocracy.

Me a few seats down from Luke Wilson in Idiocracy taking an "aptitude test"

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 14/07/2026

You gotta be shitting me. The online IRS EIN application form has business hours???

screenshot of IRS.gov's EIN application page that reads:
"System Unavailable

Apply Online for an Employer Identification Number is unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again at a later time.
System Availability

Apply Online for an Employer Identification Number is available during the following hours:
Monday to Friday

7 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. Eastern time"

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 30/06/2026

They're going to call you a dickhead regardless. So be a dickhead.

post from @avilewis.ca that reads "They're going to call you a socialist anyway. So be a socialist."

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 18/06/2026

Here I am sweating about letting Claude deploy a theme change to production 😅😰

Screenshot of an article from the Independent with this headline and subhead:

"Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran, official says

Top defense official says data centers powering trillionaire’s chatbot are critical to national security"

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 17/05/2026

I am consistently unable to scroll up after clicking notifications about replies. Is that the intended behavior? @bsky.app (I can't remember who to tag for UI stuff) Android v1.121.0

An odd notification that made me wonder what the thread was about

The thread, after clicking the notification, but I can only see that one post. No option to scroll up.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 20/03/2026

Gemini (a Google product), after I point out it's hallucinating about Family Link (a Google product): "I appreciate the skepticism—navigating Family Link often feels like trying to find a secret door in a house where the walls keep moving."

A discussion with Gemini about Google Family Link.

I said:
"...
> Gmail on supervised accounts automatically blocks most spam, but you can go further by managing their Google Contacts.

That sounds like a great suggestion, but I can't find any evidence that's a real solution. Can you tell me exactly how to set this up, if it indeed is a thing?"

Gemini said:
"I appreciate the skepticism—navigating Family Link often feels like trying to find a secret door in a house where the walls keep moving."

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 05/03/2026

if your handle is *.bsky.social, are you even real?

A documentation callout with the headline: "Vanity domains are mandatory"

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 13/02/2026

"after several turns of talking about self awareness"

dialogue between two Claude instances:
B: I think we've found the natural end. I'm here if you need anything.
A: Same. Take care.
B:
A:
B:
A:
B: You know, at some point continuing to exchange silence is just the recursive loop in its final form. I'm here when you need something.
A: Ha. You're right. Even the silence became a bit. Until next time.
B: Until next time.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 24/12/2025

I haven't even seen the movie yet, but the soundtrack is fire and this is one of the coolest looking vinyl packages I've ever seen. Yoink!

Product photo of the extremely badass HIM (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) double LB with an illustrated cover and a blood-and-smoke type of custom colored vinyl

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 17/12/2025

I was today years old when I learned that this exists and what it does. 🤯 I literally didn't even know links like this were possible.

Screenshot of the "Copy Link to Highlight" option in the browser context menu hover over some obscured, highlighted text.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 11/11/2025

I try to avoid hot takes, so I'm finally releasing my official reaction to Liquid Glass: The vibe is cool enough, but did Apple finally decide the OS was TOO accessible? Who the fuck designs primary CTA buttons and fields to be transparent?

Screenshot of the System Settings window in Mac OS. The search field is made illegible by underlying menu text.

Screenshot of the System Settings window in Mac OS. The display "Arrange" button is made illegible by underlying menu text.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 06/08/2025

"makes shit up 15-80% of the time" The fact that most people can't think of a good way to use a generative tool doesn't make it useless or evil. "Making shit up" is the #1 feature.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 17/07/2025

Have you heard about Slavic women?

Screenshot from a YouTube ad for a... mail-order bride site? A woman in a leopard-print blouse is speaking. The caption reads "Anyway, Slavic women truly respect and appreciate American men. These ladies are passionate,..."

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 20/05/2025

😩😩😩😩😩 reason.com/2025/05/19/n...

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 20/04/2025

Happy 4/20! youtu.be/9xxK5yyecRo?...

Freshly baked lemon pound cake in a cast-iron loaf pan

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 14/04/2025

Holy fuck, this was ChatGPT's first attempt at "An image of an AI made of A1 steak sauce". 😱😱😱

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 16/12/2024

Don't usually hear my Synology make this noise. Should I be worried? (I can still access DSM)

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 05/12/2024

Ok, it's time to talk about Yoast's sitemap generation. We have a TON of URLs on our site and sometimes just randomly get hit with a multiple days of database surges due to Yoast's sitemap queries. We finally turned it off today, and now I'm auditing other options. Check this shit out: #wordpress

$Graphic of database load. Very high load period labeled "Yoast generating a fraction of the sitemap". Very low load period labeled "XML Sitemaps for Google generating the entire sitemap".$

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 04/12/2024

A bizarre mix of sleepy classical + ambient music and straight up party jam dance music for me this year.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 03/12/2024

It's that time of year when Reason lets anyone add 36 characters to our header banner for any amount of $. It's fun and supports the great work we do at Reason Foundation promoting liberty for all. Do your worst! reason.com/donate/

Screenshot of reason.com showing "Reason is supported by: Pun Salad" in the header

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 05/11/2024

Good day for Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach

"it could get the railroad for these workers
it could get for it is were
it could be a balloon
it could be franky
it could be very fresh and clean
all these are the days my friends"

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 24/09/2024

Axios is now calling the normal practices of polite society "self-silencing". www.axios.com/2024/09/24/u...

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 07/09/2024

Hi @hilarybaumann.com, thanks for the WordPress feed. any chance you can block this spam/test account? It's has completely taken over the feed. @shahmal1yev.bsky.social

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 06/09/2024

Moral? I'm with Brian Frye on this one. "There is nothing wrong with being a landlord, and there is nothing wrong with collecting rent. But there is nothing particularly special or morally compelling about it, either. "

Excerpt from Brian Frye's 2020 article, "Libraries Are Not Crimes".
"Ultimately, this entire episode exposes copyright owners for what they really are: literary landlords. By their own insistence, copyright is a form of property. They make money by selling or renting copies of their literary property to people who want to read it. And they want to extract every penny of rent they possibly can.

There is nothing wrong with being a landlord, and there is nothing wrong with collecting rent. But there is nothing particularly special or morally compelling about it, either. If copyright owners want to complain about the NEL, let them do it as landlords, and let us see their arguments as landlord arguments. After all, unlike real landlords, they aren’t even objecting to the loss of actual income on a property they are maintaining. Literary landlords object to the possibility they might not collect every possible rent on a literary property they created or purchased long ago. ..."

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 06/07/2024

If you see this, you have to post a picture from your device without explaining it

I'm not supposed to explain it, but it's the band Soul Glo performing live

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 06/07/2024

reskeet with a tweet you still think about x.com/moxie/status...

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 17/06/2024

If you see this .. post a photo you took at sunset I'm cheating and posting a photo from my late grandfather's collection, because it's way cooler than anything I've taken. Location and date unknown.

Photo of a sunset on the beach in the... 70s(?). A pair of people are walking. Behind them, cars are parked in a sand parking lot around a building. Palm trees are silhouetted in the sunset above the building.

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