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Mark McDermott

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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
As far as I'm concerned, the US has had (only) three saints--Mr. Rogers, Bob Ross and Dolly Parton.
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It’s the thought that counts
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
exploring some ultra-tacky jeep designs
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The good life
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Every day Kilmar Albrego Garcia sits in that death camp is a day the US is on the wrong side of history.
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Action figure of a man in purple hoodie holding a drink, with accessories including Fortnite tablet, a Rails + Nuxt book, and a keyboard. Packaged in a box labeled with personal and professional details.
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Day 24 of #100DaysOfCode Been AFK for two weeks--was struggling to get auth working in prod. After some blood and tears, it works now.
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Day 23 of #100DaysOfCode Been struggling for a couple days getting auth working in prod.
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Day 22 of #100DaysOfCode Got auth working locally.
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Day 21 of #100DaysOfCode Switched from Capacitor to Flutter and got it up and running. Added some UI Thing components to the frontend.
Placeholder website homepage in Chrome and also shows iPhone and Android simulators that say "Hello from Rails" and "Hello from Nuxt".
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Day 20 of #100DaysOfCode Wrested with Capacitor more yesterday. Didn't make much progress.
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Have had Rustie's evenifudontbelieve album on repeat for a few weeks now. I'm 10 years late on this lol, but it's magical and I can't stoppp ❤️🧡💛💎⚔️💎💛🧡❤️ soundcloud.com/rustie/sets/...
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EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE
Listen to EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE by Rustie #np on #SoundCloud
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Day 19 of #100DaysOfCode Wrestled with java, gradle and android studio yesterday trying to get capacitor android up and running. Will work on it today too.
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Day 18 of #100DaysOfCode Added Capacitor and some Nuxt pages to my app boilerplate. github.com/mark-mcdermo... Brand new to Capacitor--still figuring out the basics.
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Day 17 of #100DaysOfCode Worked on something different today—cleaned up a lot of small issues in my work-in-progress rails/rspec/nuxt/vitest/playwright/fly.io tutorial. github.com/mark-mcdermo...
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Day 16 of #100DaysOfCode - coded a basic mergesort - answered key-value pair mergesort question - started merge k sorted linked lists problem tinyurl.com/2v4u93c9
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Day 15 of #100DaysOfCode Did key-value insertion sort problem. tinyurl.com/35vtnff6
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Day 14 of #100DaysOfCode On a snowboard trip, but managed to work through insertion sort today tinyurl.com/mtwj36uw
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Day 13 of #100DaysOfCode Finished climbing stairs (Fibonacci) problem. tinyurl.com/bdh54fk9
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Day 12 of #100DaysOfCode Finished reverse linked list problem. I'm more rusty on this stuff than I expected. tinyurl.com/mttbdpr5
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Day 11 of #100DaysOfCode Was sick again for a few days. But tonight finished neetcode two queue stack problem. tinyurl.com/3hv23bdu
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Day 10 of #100DaysOfCode Started second queue problem. Didn't get too far on it, yet. tinyurl.com/3hv23bdu
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Day 9 of #100DaysOfCode Worked through two correct answers to "number of students unable to eat lunch" problem. First one is O(n^2), second is O(n). tinyurl.com/mtyhsarx
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Day 8 of #100DaysOfCode Finished answer to Neetcode Beginner DSA course Queues problem 1 (Number of Students Unable to Eat Lunch). tinyurl.com/53enky6h Overcomplicated it, didn't realize leetcode automatically imports data structure classes. I'll go through the proper answer some more tomorrow.
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Eight days later... feeling mostly better finally and trying to get back into my flow. Day 7 of #100DaysOfCode Finished doubly linked list problem 2 (browser history) from neetcode Beginner DSA course. More vitest TDD. tinyurl.com/2xb3e7zt
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
New Skyloong GK104 with swapped in Outemu clicky blue switches and XDA Minimalism keycaps. Budget build, but the three knobs, big screen and built-in calculator are pretty fun.
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Florestan @florestankorp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Did you know Edge let's you debug your z-index layers in 3D!? My mind is totally blown right now looking at my app in three dimensions 🤯 #IndieHackers #BuildInPublic
Inspecting layers of a browser based application in 3D with Microsoft Edge
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Pretty under the weather. Might take a break from #100DaysOfCode today and tomorrow, not sure.
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Day 6 of #100DaysOfCode Finished "doubly linked list" problem from neetcode Beginner DSA course. Used vitest today for TDD. tinyurl.com/8vp2ur5c
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Day 5 of #100DaysOfCode Finished "merge two sorted lists" problem in neetcode Beginner DSA course tinyurl.com/4f7nr5as
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Day 4 of #100DaysOfCode Finished reverse a singly linked list problem in neetcode beginner DSA course tinyurl.com/55cvvhwv
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Day 3 of #100daysofcode Worked more on linked lists in neetcode beginner DSA course tinyurl.com/y958ytsy
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Day 2 of #100daysofcode Worked on Neetcode linked lists github.com/mark-mcdermo...
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100-days-of-code/neetcode-courses/01-algos-data-structs-beginners/02-linked-lists at master · mark-mcdermott/100-days-of-code
My Neetcode 100 Days Of Code Journal. Contribute to mark-mcdermott/100-days-of-code development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Got a VS Code color theme extension up on the marketplace tonight. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
VS Code with purple background and green/blue/pink text
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
#100DaysOfCode Day 1: Did the Arrays section of neetcode Beginner DSAs course. github.com/mark-mcdermo...
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100-days-of-code/neetcode-courses/01-algos-data-structs-beginners/01-arrays at master · mark-mcdermott/100-days-of-code
My Neetcode 100 Days Of Code Journal. Contribute to mark-mcdermott/100-days-of-code development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I'm publicly committing to the 100DaysOfCode Challenge starting today! Learn More and Join me! hey @discomfortacademy.com 100daysofcode.com #100DaysOfCode
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#100DaysOfCode
The Official Website for the Challenge
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Was wondering where everyone was!! 🦗 Let’s do this!
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Just mostly-finished a tutorial I've been working on forever. A barebones hello world Rails-API backend with a Nuxt frontend in Docker and CircleCI. Has RSpec unit tests, Vitest component tests and Playwright end-to-end tests. Then deploys it to Fly.io. markmcdermott.io/barebones-ra...
fly.io
Deploy app servers close to your users · Fly
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
A little Fortnite & FL Studio last night
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Oh no, TIL. My family had these mugs. Explains a lot. tamararubin.com/2019/10/1978...
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1978 Garfield “It’s not a pretty life but somebody has to live it” McDonald’s mug: 99,300 ppm Lead (causes brain damage) + 5,833 ppm Cadmium (causes cancer)
Continue reading below the images of additional cups/mugs/glassware we have tested. Each image below is a direct link to a separate article about that item containing its XRF test results. This piece ...
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Here are the highlights from my 18 kill fortnite game last night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqye...
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fortnite 18 kills
YouTube video by Mark McDermott
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Had 18 kills in one Fortnite game tonight. 🔥 I’m a little mad I didn’t record or screenshot it.
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
So Spotify sucks - what are y’all using instead? Back to SoundCloud/Bandcamp?
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
2/2 And this one’s a lofi flip off the Shaft theme youtu.be/9zE3p4zZXN8?...
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Shaft
YouTube video by Bugseed - Topic
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
1/2 I found these two awesome Bugseed lofi beats today. This one’s a California Dreaming flip youtu.be/_MGEG0PSR-s?...
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Cali Dream
YouTube video by Bugseed - Topic
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
VS Code shortcuts to impress your Usenet group • Insert cursors on each selected line: Option + Shift + I • Insert multiple cursors one at a time: Hold Option, then click • Click and drag for multiple cursors: Hold Option + Shift, then click + drag. markmcdermott.io/7-vs-code-sh...
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Mark McDermott @mark-mcdermott.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I read most of the @astro.build documentation in the past couple weeks on my phone when I had time to kill in random places. Awesome documentation, awesome framework.
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
It’s not a conversation pit, it’s a grooving area!
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