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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 12/04/2026

- ...make a Hugo theme from scratch - ...build a hit counter for SSGs - Wasn't I working on a game? ffs

Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 12/04/2026

Somehow, my process over these last few weeks: - I'm gonna work on this game idea - I should abstract the high-level stuff in a lib - ...write a blog post about it - ...get my blog off GitHub - ...migrate my public projects off GitHub - ...run my own CI box - ...migrate my blog to Hugo

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 12/04/2026

awesome! do you apply a filter or is it a busted sensor?

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 12/04/2026

Bit of a late response, but this was the reason they gave me for the suspension :/

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 09/04/2026

Oh, one final addition: If you auto-generate a position-targeted resume, which doesn't match your LinkedIn or portfolio, you're not doing yourself any favors either.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 09/04/2026

Finally, just to reiterate: don't use LLMs. If you wonder why you never hear back from your hundreds of automatically-sent applications, it's because low effort yields low rewards. Apply to the jobs that actually speak to you and match your skills and interests. The rest is meaningless.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 09/04/2026

The "why are you interested in this role" questions aren't filler. Be honest. Talk about yourself, not LLM slop about why "this company sits at the intersection of blah blah blah." Remember that there's a real human person on the other end looking for a real human teammate.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 09/04/2026

Make sure your application matches your resume and LinkedIn. If you answer all my screening questions correctly, but have no matching experience, red flags pop up.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 09/04/2026

Know when *not* to apply to a role. If you need Claude, ChatGPT, or an LLM agent to fill out an application, the role probably isn't for you, and you'll likely fail the screening process, wasting not only your time but others'.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 09/04/2026

Unsolicited advice from someone who's gone through hundreds of applications: Don't use LLMs to fill out your application. You're submitting the same answers as everyone else, and it's obvious. You *won't* stand out, no matter how perfect the answer. I know it's more work, but be yourself.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 02/04/2026

Without a reply to my ticket or any other kind of communication, my access was restored sometime today. No idea what has happened. I hope you get your situation sorted out, but I'm definitely mirroring my stuff on Codeberg and sr.ht as of yesterday!

sr.ht

sourcehut hub

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Rogerio Romao @rogerioromao.dev · 01/04/2026

The story of my Github suspension, a thread 🧵. This is also a plea for help, if you have any advice or can otherwise put me in touch with someone who can have this looked at inside @github.com. Last Sunday 29th March, I was working away in vscode in one of my side projects.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 02/04/2026

If you find out, please let me know! I am experiencing the exact same things, although I still have access to my account. I have *no* ideas what I could have done, but I guess I'll start backing up all my repos tonight.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 06/01/2026

It's like watching a Let's Play, but morally bankrupt and resource-devouring.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 06/01/2026

Added to wishlist! Am I seeing things, or is this environment a small ringworld?

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 06/01/2026

Overall, ditching MS seems doable if I give myself the time. But unlike my shift from Google/Gmail/GDrive, this will involve replacing a lot of deeply ingrained muscle memory.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 06/01/2026

.NET: Although I don't use dotnet professionally anymore, I still use it for gamedev with MonoGame and Raylib. However, I've been replacing it more and more with Godot, which will likely be the direction I continue in. Or maybe I'll just use Raylib with other languages.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 06/01/2026

VS Code: I think it will be painful to switch away from it, having used Atom and subsequently VS Code for over a decade now, but there's always Emacs and Neovim. Zed looks like a potential option, but I'm worried about the overly heavy focus on AI junk.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 06/01/2026

GitHub: this will take a while to shift away from due to the amount of repos, but I'm moving my shit to sr.ht/~eddy/, including openglbook.com and my MkDocs plugins. GitHub was a huge part of my career, but let's be real, its soul has been missing for a while now.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 06/01/2026

Windows: if a game doesn't run on Linux because of a rootkit, I probably shouldn't play it anyway. I've been begrudgingly dual-booting into Windows 10 for a few years *just* to play games, wasting a precious NVME drive. As of this weekend, I've nuked that drive and allowed btrft to eat it up.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 06/01/2026

...and it's been disappointing to see the direction MS has taken since, especially very recently. I hope the good folks working on C# and open source .NET stuff can somehow detach themselves from this rotting, bloated corpse, but I doubt it. These are the specific things I'm ditching or replacing:

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 06/01/2026

After mostly un-Google-ing in 2025, 2026 is the year of un-Microsoft-ing my life. I spent the first part of my career developing .NET and Visual C++ applications and was an honest-to-god paying MSDN member and event attendee. I actually quite liked their dev ecosystem up to about 10 years ago...

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 05/01/2026

Nah, sounds about right

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 05/01/2026

Where are my Silicon Graphics adults at?

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 29/06/2025

I do have a copy of that queued up. Should I read The Book of Accidents first?

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 29/06/2025

I’ll add it to the to-read pile! Thanks!

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Oh wow. Lanes on I-10 narrowed suddenly, forcing ALL drivers to exit at a weigh station. A makeshift checkpoint—digital sign read: “Have Passport Ready” 1 of like 12 ICE agents, all standing around—in full military gear—ordered me to open my window: “You a U.S. citizen?” “Uh yes” then let me go..

Screenshot of GPS map, with current location on 1-10 near El Paso, Texas

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 29/06/2025

Not sure if this is asking for too much of a toga lift, but since Creel is president in both Wanderers/Wayward and Staircase, do they share the same universe or more of a parallel one? Either way, I just finished reading it and loved it!

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 29/06/2025

@chuckwendig.bsky.social I’m getting some powerful Randall Flagg vibes from this Eddie Naberius guy in The Staircase in the Woods…

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 27/06/2025

Yup, I totally get it. DS9 is still my favorite Trek and I really didn’t care much for Voyager when it aired. But I have to say that I was sad it was over when I got to the end of my latest rewatch.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 26/06/2025

I ordered a backup Pilot Vanishing Point since my current one is nearing 10 years old and looking a bit worn out. I guess I'm feeling a bit sentimental about that specific fountain pen..? What a workhorse, though. I haven't looked back at any of my other FPs ever since I switched to this one.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 26/06/2025

Have you warmed up to Voyager yet?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.

ICE press release:

Johnny Noviello, a 49 year old Canadian, has died in the custody of ICE. The cause of death is under investigation.

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!

a tissue on a tray with a bunch of pictures and phrases and about food. but it seemingly contains a bunch of errors and nonsense:

“Doltclous”
“A full suamsh makes for you a happy heram”
“bood food is bood mood”

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 16/06/2025

I hope Chris Perkins comes back as a figurehead in the community, not just a writer in the background. Watching him run his games is what got me into TTRPG. Also, fuck Hasbro for allowing all this shit to happen.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 13/06/2025

Constitutional universal healthcare (including mental, dental, physical, specialist, etc.) and a basic living income. Almost 1/4 of all homeless are elderly and the ratio is growing. Many more are mentally ill. We should not have a system that allows this to happen.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 13/06/2025

What a fucking week.

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Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh · 06/03/2025

but dang, changing this theme to a monthly/yearly subscription (without a lifetime one-time purchase, which i'd gladly pay and have for every other platform) and then hijacking the existing plugin which worked for a few years and slipping this in, as a forced update... feels in poor taste. wdyt?

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 05/06/2025

Have you heard about our Lord and Savior, PostgreSQL? Do you want to learn more? Do you value your immortal soul?

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 29/05/2025

Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to later developments in the show, not specifically that episode.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 29/05/2025

Retrospect? Yeah, not a great ep. Also, the whole Doctor being creepily interested in Seven was a bit weird. Didn’t age well and I’m glad they dropped it later on.

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🦇Red Vampire🦇 (Pls check pinned) @redvampire.itch.io · 21/05/2025

Adobe isn't even worth pirating the old versions anymore. github.com/KenneyNL/Ado...

This is a chart of Adobe alternatives for illustrative purposes, it is too exhaustive to fully alt text, you can use an alt text bot to break it down if you want I won't be offended, but a full list of alternatives is provided in a link in the main post.

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Eddy Luten @luten.dev · 21/05/2025

I feel conflicted about supporting Khan Academy. It's incredibly useful to brush up on math skills, but I don't know if I want to give them money that will pay for AI bills rather than human salaries.

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