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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

This was done entirely in fragment shader. Only reason to use vertex shader was to overlay only noe triangle over the screen, and it's the whole canvas where we render the scene that you see in the video. tourmaline-syrniki-f5180d.netlify.a… […] [Original post on techhub.social]

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Icon for the desktop note-taking app that I'm working on.

A close-up of a macOS Dock showing the application icon for "pbnotes" with an active black indicator dot underneath. The icon is a white rounded square featuring a black square border, a bookmark ribbon at the top left, and the bold letters "Pb" inside. A gray tooltip bubble above reads "pbnotes".

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@pojntfx I thrifted mine, too, heheh. Probably used by some Lululemon executive, or something. It was barely used, lmao.

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Google released the full map of a fruit fly brain and central nervous system. So I downloaded it, and used it for some seriously cutting-edge research: having it play Google Chrome's Dinosaur Game (when the Chrome fails to connect to the Internet). Check it […] [Original post on techhub.social]

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Fascinating. This is good to know. #Canada

$Screenshot of a post by Craig Baird (@CanadianHistoryEhx) with the text: "Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea), Erie: erielhonan (long tail), Michigan: michigami (long body of water), Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water), Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)." Below the text is a satellite image of the Great Lakes region showing the corresponding Indigenous names labeled over each body of water, with a "Canadian History Ehx" maple leaf logo in the bottom left corner.$

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Canada would be much better off imposing export control, rather than tariffs. #CanPoli #CanadaPolitics

Screenshot of an X post by Barchart showing a BofA Global Research line chart of US crude oil inventories (including SPR) dropping to 41 days of supply as of July 2026, the lowest level in half a century.
Detailed Description
Author & Caption: Post by verified account Barchart stating: "U.S. has just 41 days of crude oil inventory left, the lowest level in half a century 🤯 👀", posted on August 23, 2026.
Chart Title: "Chart 8: US crude inventories (incl SPR) at 40-50 year lows / US crude oil, days of supply incl. Strategic Petroleum Reserve".
Visual Data: A blue time-series line graph tracking US crude oil days of supply from 1982 to 2026 against a dashed horizontal line indicating a historical average of 65 days.
Key Trend: Supply hovered between 50 and 80 days for decades, peaked above 90 days around 2020, and fell sharply post-2022 to a low circled at roughly 41 days in July 2026.
Source Attribution: BofA Global Investment Strategy, Bloomberg, and BofA Global Research.

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Maybe I shouldn't feel guilty for not having tried it out yet.

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

I was in a discussion with a bunch of people on Discord on what really differentiates an AI agent from a workflow. So, I copy+pasted bits and pieces of the Discord thread to Claude, and it pretty much brought up this keyword: inversion of control. Workflow […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Code snippet styled like Carbon code images on a slate background. The dark editor frame displays the following Python pseudo-code:

messages = [system_prompt, task]
while budget_remaining():
reply = llm(messages)
# Note: text rendering glitch in image overlaps "tool_calls" and "messages.append(reply)"
if reply.stop_reason == "end_turn":
break
for call in reply.tool_calls:
# errors included, as text
messages.append(execute(call))

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

I almost agree with everything he said. The thing I disagree on: what the billboard should say. Instead it should say "data centres are awesome, British Columbia should lead the way." #AI #AIDataCentres #AIDataCenters #DataCentres #DataCenters

A screenshot of a thread on X (formerly Twitter) featuring an exchange between John Carmack and notch, dated June 2026.

The text breakdown is as follows:

John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) • Jun 22:
"Anti-data center yard signs are popping up in my area. I am entertaining the idea of paying for a billboard with something like “Data centers are awesome, Texas should lead!”"

notch (@notch) • 10h:
"Why?"

John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) • Jun 24, 2026:
"If you are asking “Why push back against anti-datacenter efforts?” I consider it a tragedy that anti-nuclear efforts largely strangled nuclear power in the US based on vibes, and I don’t want to see that happen to AI. Public opinion matters, and it shouldn’t be ceded unchallenged.

If you are asking “Why should I support AI efforts at all?” I believe we are in the midst of a transition more vibrant than the industrial revolution. Opinions formed a couple of years ago about the uselessness of AI are no longer valid. Millions of people and organizations are getting great returns from using it, and the demand for data centers is the market responding to the value signal. That is how progress is made!"

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

In honour AI Data Centres protest day. (The alt texts were written with the help of AI, because I don't have time for that stuff.) #AI #AIDataCentres #AIDataCenters #DataCentres #DataCenters

An edit of the "Two Guys on a Bus" cartoon meme. On the left side of the bus, a sad man looks out his window at a dark, gloomy rock wall; text above him reads, "THEY'RE TRAINING ON MY DATA". On the right side, a happy man smiles and looks out his window at a bright, sunlit landscape of rolling hills; text above him identically reads, "THEY'RE TRAINING ON MY DATA".

A meme featuring SpongeBob SquarePants looking anxious and cross-eyed while trying to read two pages of an open book simultaneously. The left page reads "AI WILL TAKE MY JOB" and the right page reads "AI SUCKS AT WHAT IT DOES", illustrating a conflicting and stressful dilemma.

An edited version of the three-way arm wrestling meme template based on a painting. Three muscular arms lock hands in solidarity in the center of the frame. Each arm is labeled with white, bold text representing a different tech concept: the arm on the left wearing a white shirt is labeled "AI"; the arm in the top right wearing a purple shirt is labeled "BLOCKCHAIN"; and the arm in the bottom right wearing a red shirt is labeled "FEDIVERSE".

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Hacker News commenters are awful. Do people forget that famous "meh, Dropbox is nothing special. I can just do this with SFTP and NAS" comment that people often laugh at? How about someone dismissing the original ChatGPT release as "something that won't take […] [Original post on techhub.social]

A screenshot of a comment on a forum or blog post by user JdeBP, reacting to an article titled "JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites."
The comment quotes the article: "It can aid web crawlers in understanding the semantic structure of your site, qualifying you for richer link previews, and even potentially improving your search ranking."
JdeBP responds critically, calling this "fighting the last war." They argue that optimization efforts like structured data or breadcrumbs are less relevant now because Google prioritizes lengthy, error-prone LLM-generated summaries above actual website links. The user concludes that implementing JSON-LD is a lot of effort for something direct visitors won't see and search engine users won't find "above the fold" due to Google's "massively LLM-ized version of stuff."

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

"Carney announces that unsold condos will be bought and converted to affordable housing". What's funny is that on social media, when Carney announced that they are buying up unsold condos to turn them into affordable housing, it's the "right-wing" types that […] [Original post on techhub.social]

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Bug in Metamask made me feel rich for a second.

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

For the price of CAD 49.99 (plus tax, and other costs), this is quite possibly the best pair of headphones ever! The Sony MDR-ZX310 and ZX310AP.

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

I'm at Handmade Expo in Vancouver, and I watched @michaellabbe demo Grain DDL. An insanely useful tool for serialization formats (among other). #VancouverBC #VancouberBritishColumbia #VancouverCanada #VancouverBCCanada #VancouverBritishColumbiaCanada #VancouverTech

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Groupe Dynamite Inc's stock (GRGD.TO) grew almost 400% in 1 year. 🤯

A stock market chart from Google Finance for Groupe Dynamite Inc (TSE: GRGD) showing a significant upward trend over a 1-year period. The current stock price is listed as 79.28 CAD, showing a positive growth of +386.98% (+63.00) over the past year.

The main visual is a green line graph spanning from June 3, 2025, to June 3, 2026. The line starts near the 15 CAD mark in mid-2025, climbs steadily through October 2025, and experiences some volatility around February 2026 before peaking near 100 CAD and settling around 79 CAD by June 2026. A tooltip on the chart highlights a gain of "+62.97 (386.79%)" between June 3, 2025, and June 3, 2026.

Below the chart, financial metrics are displayed in a grid: Open is 75.30, High is 79.36, Low is 75.00, Market Cap is 8.99B, P/E ratio is 35.95, 52-week high is 98.88, and 52-week low is 15.62. Dividend and Quarterly Dividend Amount are blank.

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

"Most world powers did not stop becoming a world powers in a blaze of glory; instead they slowly faded into obsolescence. Let's not make that same mistake."

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

Either landlords drop out of the market, or prices go up. But in the broader picture, it's both. People don't want to admit it, but landlording is a job on its own, and fewer people will do it if the payoff isn't good. Acquiring capital isn't easy. Sure, for […] [Original post on techhub.social]

A news article screenshot featuring a headline that reads, "I’m a landlord with six homes – I’m hiking prices 30% due to new renter rights." Below it, a subheadline identifies the man as James Buckley-Thorp, 37, who owns properties in Bath and Leeds and states the increase "isn't greed, it's mathematics." The main image shows a close-up portrait of James Buckley-Thorp, a young white man with short brown hair, looking thoughtfully off-camera. He is wearing a dark coat over a blue button-down shirt. The background is a soft-focus view of a historic, curved stone residential terrace, characteristic of Bath's Georgian architecture.

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

This, pretty much. Landlords only become a problem when there's no competition with other landlords. To be fair, some landlords misbehave. A few bad apples spoil the bunch. And then, regulations go up, which puts the "good ones" in a crosshair, and they […] [Original post on techhub.social]

A screenshot of a Reddit post from the subreddit `r/TrueUnpopularOpinion`, posted by user `u/Commercial-Pen1136`.

The post title reads: **"I'd rather rent from BlackRock than a "Mom and Pop" landlord."**

The body text of the post reads:
"BlackRock is faceless. They don't care about me. They just want the rent check. If the furnace breaks, they send a pro immediately because they have a maintenance budget and a legal team terrified of liability.

"Mom and Pop" landlords are a nightmare. They treat the rental like it's still their personal home. They show up unannounced. They try to fix complex plumbing issues themselves with YouTube tutorials because they're "a little tight this month." They get emotionally offended if you ask for basic repairs.

Give me the soulless hedge fund. At least they follow the lease."

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

I ate this wild salmonberry the other day. I'm still alive, I'm happy to say.

A close-up shot of a single, vibrant red wild salmonberry growing on a bush. The berry is round and textured with tiny, hair-like pistils sticking out from between its segments. It hangs beneath a canopy of textured, bright green leaves with serrated edges. Sunlight filters through the foliage,

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

All-time return from my bet that AI hype bros that are short-selling are a combination of total idiots, or full of shit.

A screenshot of a stock portfolio performance interface showing a holding of 250 shares with a current market value of $5,815.00.

The card displays the following financial details:

- Book cost: $4,398.96
- Average price: $17.60
- % of Non-registered margin account: 18.29%
- Today's return: +$755.00 (14.92%) highlighted in green.
- Total return: +$1,416.04 (32.19%) highlighted in green.

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

Big five: "I get a bar graph, and I don't remember what those numbers were." Myers-Briggs (type indicator): "I get ENFJ" or "I get INTP". Don't know about you, but it seems like Myers-Briggs, when administered, empowers people to share insights about who […] [Original post on techhub.social]

A correlation table showing the relationships between the four MBTI dimensions (rows) and the Big Five personality traits (columns). Rows are labeled E–I, S–N, T–F, and J–P. Columns are labeled Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism. The strongest correlations, shown in bold, are: E–I with Extraversion at −0.74, S–N with Openness at 0.72, T–F with Agreeableness at 0.44, and J–P with Conscientiousness at −0.49. Other values are weak, ranging from −0.15 to 0.30. A caption below reads: "The closer the number is to 1.0 or −1.0, the higher the degree of correlation."

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

I just won this Sonic The Hedgehog-branded waffle iron from Rec Room at The Amazing Brentwood in Burnaby. #BurnabyBC #Burnaby

A hand holds a box for a Sonic the Hedgehog Mini Waffle Maker against a blurred arcade background. The box features a large illustration of Sonic running through a gold ring. To the right, two images show the appliance: one open, revealing a waffle plate with Sonic's face, and one closed, showing a dark blue lid decorated with a colorful character pattern including Sonic, Tails, and Amy Rose. The text on the box is in English, Spanish, and French.

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

Captured some cherry blossom blooms before they all just disappear for the summer.

An image of a cluster of vibrant pink, multi-petaled cherry blossoms in full bloom. The flowers are densely packed, resembling soft pom-poms, with bronze-tinted green leaves interspersed between the blossoms. The background shows more blurred pink flowers and green foliage, creating a lush, spring-time atmosphere.

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Sal Rahman @manlycoffee.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

I'm at the Metro Vancouver Headquarter, and their library has this.

A bookshelf filled with various technical textbooks and handbooks, primarily focused on civil engineering. The prominent books on the top shelf include two brown copies of the Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers (Fifth Edition) by Ricketts, Loftin, and Merritt, a black leather-bound Civil Engineering Handbook (Fourth Edition) by Urquhart, and a blue textbook titled Public Works Inspectors' Manual. The bottom shelf contains books on fluid mechanics, ISO 14000, and corrosion engineering. Each book features a white library classification label on its spine.

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