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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Anyone who uses a "decision model" for something that could be decided by a human being deserves to be hanged, change my mind.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Just watched the first three episodes of Avatar: Seven Havens, and by the lion turtles it’s good to have new Avatar episodes coming out again. 😭

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I liked the first season of Lanterns. Didn’t think I would, but I did.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

RIP Margaret Hamilton. Truly an icon.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Today, while discussing a frustrating and repetitive task with coworkers, I found a relevant Calvin & Hobbes panel, got distracted for a few minutes, and then went to save it as buildscharacter.png in my Reactions folder. There was already a file with that […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A screenshot of a Finder Info panel for the old file, showing a Created and Modified date of Saturday, August 8, 2015.

Spoiler: this is the new one. It is the exact same height and width in pixels. It is not pixel-for-pixel identical, but I believe that is because of differences in how Preview from 2015 handled pasted content vs how Preview handles the same content today.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Thinking a lot about Ray Bradbury’s short story A Sound of Thunder this morning. No particular reason.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

It really hurts to see thoughtful, capable people take positions at AI companies.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Good morning to all, but most especially to this pair of northern flickers doing a courtship dance in my neighbor’s tree, and the mockingbird who came over to see what all the fuss was about. #Pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds #birdsofmastodon

Two roughly American-robin-sized northern flickers sit in a tree, partially obscured by twigs. They both have brown-and-black striped backs, black-spotted undersides, black bibs, buff faces, and red caps.

A ruffled northern mockingbird sits on a branch to the left of one of the northern flickers from the previous shot. It seems very intent about something, while the flicker seems mostly unconcerned.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Looking ahead at some of the Inktober prompts, I think y’all may be in for some highly conceptual representations from my utterly unprepared ass. 😂

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I don’t think we talk enough about about the sheer hubris of naming your band The Band.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

If a business makes/serves donuts and they don’t have apple fritters, what is even the point?

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I didn’t have much time today and also at first I tried something more complicated and it was a disaster. (I have 36 regular acrylic markers, 12 pastel, and 12 metallic, and absolutely zero idea how any of them work together.) So my first entry for […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A light-colored wooden hexagon sits on top of a bamboo surface. Off-center toward the upper left of the hexagon is a reddish, recognizably apple-shaped blob with a stem, a four-year-old’s best effort at a leaf, and a little bit of a shine on the upper right quadrant.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

So here’s the thing. I don’t draw. I don’t paint. I don’t do visual art. And if I did, I certainly wouldn’t post it online because I am bad at it and I always have been. So bad that I never really wanted to risk trying to get better. But the other thing is that I have a bunch of acrylic […]

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

For those who are participating in #Inktober: do you feel it’s intended to be completed with one specific ink/source (e.g., a single pen)? Is it cool to use other media like acrylic markers?

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Just picked up a new Lamy Safari. What surprises me after being without one for years is just how *light* it is. I also forgot that while medium is the nib size I prefer, it really needs some breaking in before I get the level of ink flow I want. If only there were some sort of ink-related […]

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Signs it’s time to log off for the day include:

A macOS system dialogue with the Finder icon and the text 'The application "Dock.app" can’t be opened.".

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

ha ha ha ha sob i didn’t *build* any of it, but i do still feel substantial guilt for encouraging the non-college-students in my life to join Facebook when it opened up for that and for encouraging normal people to join twitter mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan/11736590…

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Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

"OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman met with [RFK Jr.] this week and told him that HHS uses generative AI – Kennedy used the term 'superintelligence' – more than any other federal agency, Kennedy said." That absolutely tracks and I hate it here. 🙃

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Playing with Tapestry 2.0 a bit. It’s neat to have Mastodon and Bluesky in one place. I don’t think I’m prepared to switch my Mastodon use away from Ivory, but maybe this can be the native Bluesky (and some other stuff) client I’ve been looking for. 🤔

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Hot take: the words "spooky" and (ugh) "spoopy" and the accompanying orange and black plastic crap are identifying marks of unserious people who can’t handle the fact that Halloween is fundamentally about fear, death, and the unknown.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

The one thing LLMs are genuinely useful for is helping me find a word that’s on the tip of my tongue. Me: "A word starting with 'r' that means comparing two sets of data and rectifying them." Gemini: "Reconciliation is the process of comparing two sets of records to ensure they match and […]

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I really can't express how strongly I feel that FanDuel sending me unsolicited physical mail should be an actionable offense.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

"Gosh, you're pretty." "No, YOU'RE pretty. Pretty BEAUTIFUL." gottemmmmmmm

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I can't believe I've woken up to another day of It not Happening.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Just got home from eating a leisurely outdoor lunch at the Indian buffet down the street with a friend, talking about life, death, superheroes, consciousness, and non-existence. It is a beautiful blue day here with a breeze here in Pittsburgh. If this isn't nice, I don't know what is. ☺️

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

If your bullshit AI-powered security camera harasses people while they're standing on a public sidewalk, it deserves to get smashed and it's gonna.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

"Oh, man. I didn't even want that thing! Why am I trying to win it?" "Because the machine says it's a prize."

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James Savage @axiixc.social.axiixc.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: social.axiixc.com/@dropstracker/117… Super excited (and only a little nervous) to say that Drops, my caffeine tracking app, is finally out! After 12 years, I once again have something on the App Store.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Happy Friday! If we had a four-day work week, you'd already be chillin'.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

For a good time, search: excel sixteen digit number last digit zero …in the search engine of your choice.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Today is an extremely ::turns and stares directly into the camera:: kind of day.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Root grant me the confidence of the man sitting on his front porch serenely smoking a joint as he watches multiple police cars with active lights surrounding an intersection one block up the hill.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I've been a little bit bummed lately because I haven't seen a red-bellied or downy woodpecker in my back yard in a month or two. Moments ago, I heard a distinctive noise and caught a glimpse of a male red-bellied out there. I spooked it in my excited run to the window, but moments after I sat […]

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

hot honey is some bullshit do not @ me

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I really like providing UI and UX feedback, and I can clearly articulate why I like or don't like something, why it does or doesn't make sense to me, and alternatives that I think would make more sense. Unfortunately, this all ALSO means that I don't interact with software the way normal people […]

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The Iconfactory @iconfactory.iconfactory.world.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

We had so much fun working with Taphouse Software to update the icon for their top-notch LEGO catalog app, Baseplate, we never wanted it to end. Collecting has never been so charming! Need help with your app? iconfactory.com About Baseplate […] [Original post on iconfactory.world]

A yellow LEGO minfig hand reaches out to hold a red 4x4 plate in the new app icon for Baseplate for Taphouse Software designed by The Iconfactory.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

If you closed out an obscure crasher with WONTFIX, blaming bandwidth constraints, and then the non-engineer who originally flagged the issue replied the next day by making a PR with a one-line fix, how would that make you feel? Asking for a friend.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

"Ugh. I should have stayed in magic school."

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

In the last week I've attended prerelease listening parties for Learning How To Cope by Cartel and Lucky Water by Laura Cortese. Pretty dang good music week. :D

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

What I miss most about the Obama and Biden years is simply that the United States wasn't every day the main character of the internet.

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

There are a lot of really awful story-telling choices in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. But maybe the worst single choice was failing to sufficiently follow through on the early hints that Finn was Force-sensitive. Aggressively adopt that storyline and jettison every single thing related to […]

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Justin du Coeur @jducoeur.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Speaking of prescient, @harris just pointed me to this excellent article: estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/arti… This posits the notion of the "moral crumple zone": using humans to take the blame when a complex system like #AI does something wrong. The "prescient" is because it […]

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I have been futzing with the command line for twenty years now, and I was today years old when I learned that $SHELL contains the login shell, not the current shell. smh @ fake *NIX fans is2g

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

On the one hand, I'm curious about why the version of Thunderbird in Fedora's repository is now three major versions old and continuing to age. On the other hand, the Flatpak version is up to date, so… swapsies, I guess? ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Hey, here's an idea: let's adapt Randall Munroe's "correct horse battery staple" password concept (xkcd.com/936) for byte-size-independent human-addressable UUIDs. So instead of a 10-digit dash-delimited Social Security number, everyone gets assigned a relatively easy-to-remember […]

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Good morning. This is your reminder that the claim that wealth is earned through merit serves the same purpose as the concept of divine right: it serves to enshrine the power of the wealthy in terms of the bedrock social system of the time. Don't let the rich fuckers tell you they deserve it […]

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

"Nostalgia's more tolerable in small doses."

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Just pre-replied to a coworker because I saw the 'typing' indicator next to their name in Slack, and was viscerally jolted back to the era of enabling activity notification in Adium/Pidgin and making normal AIM users think you were psychic.

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