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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 11/08/2026

If true, that this many people actually use ChatGPT or Gemini over Claude is wild to me.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 06/08/2026

I play this from my HomePod every Reds game when Emilio comes out to close if I’m not at the game. The hype helps. 🤘

Screenshot of Kingdom by Downstait playing in Apple Music on iOS.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 06/08/2026

I didn't follow the Reds when Suarez had his original run with them, so I have none of the nostalgia. All I know is that he has been super lackluster this season.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 05/08/2026

Just saw that Hunter Greene is back on the IL. I like the guy, but he's only pitched 27 innings this season because he's constantly hurt and his ERA is junk. Having him through 2028 is not good (though not as bad if there's no season next year due to the CBA.)

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 04/08/2026

How is there a PitchCom issue immediately before the first pitch of a game? Do they not test it during the warmup? It just happened for the Reds to kick it off against the Athletics.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 02/08/2026

Not bad. putt.day #82 ⛳ 12/14 Eagle · 🔥11 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟢 putt.day/s/qgPV_3kFvKCI

putt.day

One hole of mini golf a day. Same hole for everyone.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 02/08/2026

This is why we're going to miss baseball next season. The league absolutely needs a salary cap and floor.

Screenshot of a notification from the ESPN app that the Dodgers are acquiring Tarik Skubal.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 02/08/2026

I feel like Terry Francona is completely checked out because he's been atrocious. Last week he left Singer out to die instead of lifting him 3 batters sooner. Tonight the rain is bad enough that Abbott is sliding all over the mound, and he just sits his ass in the dugout. Insane.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 01/08/2026

The only thing better than a Reds win is a Reds win followed by an awesome Marshmello concert.

Photo of the Cincinnati Reds celebrating a victory on the field at Great American Ballpark.

Photo of Marshmello performing on the field at Great American Ballpark.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 31/07/2026

I had a legitimate shot for one less stroke but screwed up just a tiny bit toward the end. putt.day #80 ⛳ 7/8 Birdie · 🔥9 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 putt.day/s/ZPSRs6kobHae

putt.day

One hole of mini golf a day. Same hole for everyone.

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Deke Fanboy (welcome back lad!) @sjbrewer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Distance of all goals scored in WC2026

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 30/07/2026

I hadn't used Chrome on any platform in quite a few years, but I used it yesterday when I first set up the Pixel 9a... Holy cow is it bad, even worse than when I originally gave up on it. Suffice to say that Firefox was an immediate install and default browser swap.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 30/07/2026

If the Reds don't pull their own Konnor Griffin with Sal Stewart and sign him to a big multi-year contract, it's a massive failing from the front office.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 30/07/2026

The Pixel 9a offering both facial recognition and a fingerprint reader is surprisingly handy. It's surprising to me how often I seem to be trying to unlock my phone while looking at something else. (And no, I don't mean when I'm driving.)

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 29/07/2026

Regional sports networks are so funny to me. The positivity they manifest for losing seasons is... Interesting.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 29/07/2026

I just realized I should update my bio here (and some other places) because for the past 6 months I've been doing virtually no Java and much more backend JavaScript.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 29/07/2026

After toying with it for an afternoon, I think the base Android experience is a lot better than it was 6 years ago when I last used it. The lack of a cohesive messaging experience is a bit rough. And Android's real issue has always been external connections for me. Android Auto will be interesting.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 29/07/2026

I really dislike how, by default, both iOS and Android don't show the actual battery percentage in the status bar. Mercifully, both of them still offer the option to toggle this on.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 29/07/2026

Currently messing around with Android for the first time since 2020. After adding my SO to my cellular plan, it included a 3rd line that's been languishing for half a year. I finally grabbed a used Pixel 9a just to throw a SIM in and play around.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 29/07/2026

The digital zoom on my phone sucks, but Mr Redlegs was rocking out in the Tarps Off section.

Mr Redlegs in the Kroger Bleachers Tarps Off section of Greet American Ballpark

Mr Redlegs and Rosie in the upper levels of Great American Ballpark behind home plate.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 29/07/2026

Not a bad 3-2-1 Tuesday at all. I almost enjoy Cleveland losing as much as I enjoy the Reds winning. There were a handful of massive defensive plays that secured the victory for Cincinnati, including the very last out of the game at the warning track.

Photo of Great American Ballpark from the upper level in the daylight.

Photo of a full, red Moon over Newport past the lights and scoreboard at Great American Ballpark.

Photo of Great American Ballpark from the upper level at night with the Cincinnati Reds on the field celebrating their victory.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 28/07/2026

Next up, for the app which is generating the Cosmos DB entries, I want to add some AI-specific instrumentation via LangChain. I think it'll give us some nice insight beyond the local logging I've built. The Python decorators look pretty straightforward. docs.langchain.com/langsmith/an...

docs.langchain.com

Custom instrumentation - Docs by LangChain

Instrument your code directly to control which functions are traced and how they appear in LangSmith.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 28/07/2026

My struggles were mostly all around instrumentation, but I got an Azure Function working that'll send a notice to a Teams channel when certain entries are added to Cosmos DB. It also has a GitHub Action to automatically update the Function when changes are merged into the main branch.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 28/07/2026

I'm a bit new working with Azure Functions and Node, so my initial Azure Function was 611 MB. When that seemed insane, I did some digging, made a .funcignore file with the following, and now it's 34 MB: node_modules/azure-functions-core-tools node_modules/azurite That's significantly better.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 28/07/2026

While my Azure function uploads, I check the score of the first game of a split double header for the Reds after the weather forced them to postpone last night. It's awful in the first inning. I'm going to the second game tonight, so hopefully things get off to a better start. 😬

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 28/07/2026

It's fun that for a package which FedEx tracking still says is supposed to be delivered today (but which has just been sitting at the local FedEx facility since yesterday morning and is not out for delivery) I'm being told by their terrible AI support bot should be delivered tomorrow.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 28/07/2026

I swear that macOS has reached Windows levels of refusing to automatically install updates that you interactively agreed to install 3 times. So frustrating. They won’t break as much as Windows, but they’ll annoy you to death to actually get them installed.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 27/07/2026

Finally getting around to building out some notifications when entries are created in our Azure Cosmos DB instance because I'm tired of having to remember to go check periodically. The DB just stores end user feedback for one of our apps, so the volume is super low.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 27/07/2026

Better than usual. putt.day #76 ⛳ 10/12 Eagle · 🔥5 🟡🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟡🟡🟡🟢 putt.day/s/ZkaL0OwIFEKg

putt.day

One hole of mini golf a day. Same hole for everyone.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 26/07/2026

Barely made par. 😬 putt.day #75 ⛳ 10/10 Par · 🔥4 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟢 putt.day/s/-mv0F9Faq7wp

putt.day

One hole of mini golf a day. Same hole for everyone.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 24/07/2026

I'm a massive Evangelion fan, but this feels like too much. 😬

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 23/07/2026

I’m watching both FC Cincinnati versus Vancouver and Inter Miami versus Chicago. The pitch in Miami is basically a mix of dead grass and dirt. What the hell?

The MLS broadcast for FC Cincinnati with vibrant, green grass on the pitch.

The MLS broadcast for Miami showing the pitch looking like dirt and dead grass.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 21/07/2026

A nice little dive bar in downtown Indy.

Sign on the side of the building for the Slippery Noodle Inn.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 20/07/2026

T-Mobile cellular versus hotel WiFi. Looks like I’ll be using cellular whenever I’m in the room.

Speedtest.net result showing a cellular result with 334 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up next to a WiFi result with 10 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 19/07/2026

The Spain vs Argentina final could not have been more opposite of a match than the France vs England bronze final yesterday.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 19/07/2026

Huge kudos to Spain! They dominated the entire match. It would have been a shame for that match to go to penalties. 🇪🇸

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 19/07/2026

The match between England and France was pure aggression. It may not have been the best from a strategy perspective but it was entertaining as hell.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 18/07/2026

England, where was this against Argentina??

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 18/07/2026

putt.day #67 ⛳ 12/14 Eagle · 🔥13 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟡🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 putt.day/s/2sfB6fcSL_CZ

putt.day

One hole of mini golf a day. Same hole for everyone.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 18/07/2026

The Belgian Grand Prix and the World Cup on Sunday? Plus Qualifying and England versus France on Saturday? It’s going to be a good weekend.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 17/07/2026

While I don't typically use it for coding these days, I still use Sublime Text for things like notes, grabbing URLs, JSON payloads, etc. while troubleshooting. I don't know how I've gone this long without installing Pretty JSON. packages.sublimetext.io/packages/Pre...

packages.sublimetext.io

Pretty JSON

Prettify/Minify/Query/Goto/Validate/Lint JSON plugin for Sublime Text 3 & 4

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 16/07/2026

While I don't have issues the majority of the time, I swear that on occasion Firefox will get really aggressive and immediately combine two tabs into a group when I'm just trying to reorganize them.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 16/07/2026

My life administering and developing on ServiceNow has gotten much simpler once I understood that creating a many-to-many relationship between records requires a linkage table between them to result in a related list. That initially confused me for some reason.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 16/07/2026

putt.day #65 ⛳ 11/13 Eagle · 🔥11 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟡🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 putt.day/s/ip5foj6yAFz4

putt.day

One hole of mini golf a day. Same hole for everyone.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 16/07/2026

I just can’t comprehend how England’s coach thought that subbing in extra defenders letting Argentina attack for 25 straight minutes was a good idea. It was such egregiously bad management of the match.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 15/07/2026

It could be worse. putt.day #64 ⛳ 7/7 Par · 🔥10 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟡🟢🟢 putt.day/s/vlsOTFDw9_7i

putt.day

One hole of mini golf a day. Same hole for everyone.

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 15/07/2026

I swear Reddit is nothing but shitposting these days supported by shit comments. I just need to stop even looking at it. www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

reddit.com

From the interesting community on Reddit: Is this how people who need glasses really see the world. A big blurred background?

Explore this post and more from the interesting community

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JFab 🫥 @looped.network · 13/07/2026

I’ll take it considering that I ended up in the water once. 😬 putt.day #62 ⛳ 11/12 Birdie · 🔥8 🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 putt.day/s/lgO279nx4dRk

putt.day

One hole of mini golf a day. Same hole for everyone.

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