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Luiz E.

@kowalski.bsky.social
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💎 Rubyist github.com/luizkowalski building useswitchboard.app

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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i created my first macOS app: github.com/luizkowalski... it works pretty much like Mountain Duck, mounting an S3 bucket locally as a drive, so you can copy, delete, and upload files. haven't created a desktop app since 2013 so this is exciting
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
easily the greatest of our generation
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
ele fala isso como se tivesse podendo gastar
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
you don't need an umbrella when all your clothes are made from plastic
Someone on Twitter tweets: "I noticed Gen Z people don't carry umbrellas. They just walk in the rain lol"
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Jetsons lied to us
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 17/02/2026
Watching crypto exchanges pivot to prediction markets confirms they were always casinos masquerading as investment institutions.
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
useswitchboard.app now has Outlook, Fastmail, and Apple Calendar support
useswitchboard.app
Switchboard
Switchboard synchronizes your Google calendars, blocking out time for you based on your personal calendar.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10/02/2026
In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint www.wsj.com/business/med...
The high wouldn’t last. Seahawks safety Julian Love soon intercepted a throw from New England quarterback Drake Maye, and the Patriots never recovered. In the end, Kane lost a bit less than $100,000 in bets that favored the Patriots.

“What are you gonna do about it? You get very numb to these kinds of numbers,” said Kane, who works out of his one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
“The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez." www.propublica.org/article/alex...
propublica.org
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
thanks! yeah, did a lot of `rm -rf .git` until I got to a state I thought it wouldn't be embarrassing to share hahahah
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
finally made this public - been using snowflake IDs in a few projects and figured I'd package it up. rust does the heavy lifting (because I wanted to see if I could do it) > github.com/luizkowalski...
github.com
GitHub - luizkowalski/snowflaked: [experimental] A Rails plugin for generating Twitter-like Snowflake IDs using a high-performance Rust backend. Thread-safe with configurable machine ID and custom epo...
[experimental] A Rails plugin for generating Twitter-like Snowflake IDs using a high-performance Rust backend. Thread-safe with configurable machine ID and custom epoch support - luizkowalski/snowf...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/12/2025
i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
vem ai
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
one can say Downdetector is working just fine if you are checking Cloudflare status
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
had I heard that in 2019, I'd think I was having a stroke
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
their shirts are incredible, I have a black t-shirt I bought 6 years ago, it is _still_ black, hasn't lost any color...unbelievable
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I buy most of my t-shirts from www.sonofatailor.com, and they have a similar approach (no sales). to be honest, I like it
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
been using Obsbot Meet 4k and it's pretty good
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Mauricio Linhares @mauriciojr.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Todo mundo vinha declarando que o fim do jornalismo estava próximo, ele chegou.
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severina xique-xique @tiavelha.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Sempre bom lembrar que o fascismo é, psicologicamente, o movimento político dos ressentidos. Artistas fracassados viram facho. Uber é quase sempre reaça. Velho broxa é um poço de ressentimento e ódio. O fascismo se alimenta disso. Porque dá um propósito, alguém a quem culpar pelo próprio fracasso.
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Mauricio Linhares @mauriciojr.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
AI efficiency gains are utter and complete bullshit.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
"I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. — Marjorie Taylor Greene edition
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
likely both
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Didn’t even take 24 hours for billionaires to decide they aren’t leaving New York after all.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
People telling me that Trump didn’t forget he was the president on January 6th 2021, he’s trying to convince his followers he wasn’t.
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
o cara assim: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMFF...
youtube.com
Moneys no object what are you crazy I'm not paying that much meme Suits
YouTube video by The Color Saqib
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
multiplayer de goldeneye era bom demais pqp
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
desapontador
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
conta pra gente se ele nao quer saber kkk
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
man, Tim's hat looks awesome, can we get it somehow?
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I like Mastodon's approach to IDs using Snowflake, and I packaged it into a gem that integrates with Rails github.com/luizkowalski...
github.com
GitHub - luizkowalski/snowflake_id: 💎 Snowflake-like IDs for Rails applications backed by PostgreSQL
💎 Snowflake-like IDs for Rails applications backed by PostgreSQL - luizkowalski/snowflake_id
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Everything I want I can afford, because if I can’t afford it then I don’t want it. A philosophy that has served me well for decades.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Generative AI tools are the blood diamonds of the tech industry. The technology is quite impressive and valuable but the ethics of how it’s made is questionable AF.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Playing Watchdogs 2 and it has a long prelude explaining the world where it’s like “every company is selling your data, people are profiling you and assigning a dollar value” and every time I start up the game it goes HOW ABOUT YOU SYNC THIS WITH AN UBISOFT ACCOUNT & TAKE YOUR GAME TO THE NEXT LEVEL
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I've been using Conductor (conductor.build), and it is insane what it can do. I revamped useswitchboard.app UI in record time
useswitchboard.app
Switchboard
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
#BookSky
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
essa aqui desbloqueou uma memoria agora que eu cheguei a sentir o cheiro da primeira casa que eu morei pqp
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
this is so so good! I used something like this in the past, but not this integrated into Rails. Thank you for the work!
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
the "market" is just horoscope for men, everything is made up
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Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug) @batsov.net · 24/06/2025
Almost every time I start to play with some new programming language I tell myself something along the lines of "I really miss the amazing #Ruby standard library right now!". Ruby is not without its flaws, but the standard library is very comprehensive and one of the best in the industry.
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
several things: missing closing tag (opened a div and closed with p, leftover from a refactor), some incorrect syntax here and there too
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
incredible stuff
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
what is this type of hat called?
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Germany in 2025
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Traffic to news sites is plummeting as Google has rolled out AI overviews which provides answers without needing to click on links. Google had no choice but to respond to the rise of tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity but this definitely feels like a snake eating its own tail.
wsj.com
News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools
Chatbots are replacing Google’s traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI
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Luiz E. @kowalski.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
me on every PR: "@/grok is this true?"
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