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Dad, programmer, and runner. Aspiring swimmer and French speaker. I live in Edmonton, Canada. Married to @mattwoodley.bluesky.social markbennett.ca

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Paths for People @pathsforpeople.bsky.social · 4h
Whether you drive or not, we want you 🫵 to get engaged in this special awareness campaign! No matter how you get around, we want to hear your reflections and stories. Sign up now! shorturl.at/V0m9C 🚴🧑‍🦽‍➡️🚶🚗🚌🛼🛹🏃‍♀️🧑‍🦼‍➡️ #weekwithoutdriving #weekwithoutdrivingedmonton #yegbike #yegwalk #yegtransit
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 27/09/2026
Definitely growing on me
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Mule by Orville Peck on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 13 Songs
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 23/09/2026
There are a lot of ways to be online, but I am convinced that this is the way we should cultivate and cherish. Being earnest and open to positivity is an active practice that enriches all of our lives.
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 21/09/2026
good morning, did you remember?
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 19/09/2026
This looks so fun. Can see it will be a lot of work for the browsers but the controls will be sick.
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Paths for People @pathsforpeople.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Will you join us for the Week Without Driving from October 1-8? Whether you’re a community member, an elected official, or a public servant, we challenge you to join the campaign and reflect on the experience! pathsforpeople.org/initiatives/... #weekwithoutdriving #weekwithoutdrivingedmonton
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 16/09/2026
Awesome news! I’ve been really happy with @zed and have been hearing so many good things about Delta. Glad to finally be getting to try it for myself.
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 16/09/2026
Night at the theatre! 🍿
A lit theatre stage with a black backdrop saying the debaters in bold white and red font. Matching jesters oppose each other in the background. In the foreground a large red debaters podium sits and dominates the stage.
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 15/09/2026
This could be huge if you’re looking to quickly build a database using your PDS to host the data. Brilliant idea!
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 15/09/2026
Good morning, you deserve a fat promotion
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 11/09/2026
PSA: If you’re a web developer take a few minutes to share with browsers what features you’d like them to implement next.
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 10/09/2026
A smile this morning
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 05/09/2026
What a cool way to understand the changing human experience over time. Check it out if you have a free minute.
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A life, one of over 100 billion lives
In 11,211 BCE, in the Congo Basin, near present-day Kinshasa, a girl was born.
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 05/09/2026
“Newskies” definitely needs to become a thing.
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 03/09/2026
Very cool for anyone building on atproto! 💻🔨
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 02/09/2026
Seriously cool work here if you’re looking to quickly hack together an app or lexicon!
sri.leaflet.pub
What's new?
Launching at.new - a new way to create atproto records and share drafts
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 29/08/2026
All registered to advance vote in the upcoming Alberta referendum. The vote might be a terrible ridiculous idea, but at least I won't be waiting in line. You can do the same, just go to: specialballot.elections.ab.ca/index/8400
A confirmation message showing my application to vote by mail has been submitted.
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 29/08/2026
Yes. ❤️
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 27/08/2026
Can’t agree with this more. It’s time for us to open the web again.
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Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while the atproto makes the Internet more open.
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 27/08/2026
Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while atproto, activitypub, and the open social web community makes the Internet more open.
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Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while the atproto makes the Internet more open.
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Node.js @nodejs.org · 26/08/2026
Are you a Node.js user? We want your feedback. Tell us all about how you're using Node.js in our annual user survey. Your response helps shape our future priorities! linuxfoundation.surveymonkey.com/r/…
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Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 23/08/2026
I actually strive for perfect clarity with my color theme pickers. codepen.io/editor/chris...
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PDSls @pds.ls · 23/08/2026
Your records in spaces can now be created, edited, and deleted through PDSls just like public records!
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 17/08/2026
Thrilled with the progress @tangled.org has made recently. 🚀 I've hosted a few open source projects there. The community has been kind, and genenours with pull requests. Definitely looking to use it more in future, and appreciate how @atproto.com means I'm not locked in.
tangled.org
Tangled · The next-generation social coding platform
The next-generation social coding platform.
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 17/08/2026
This latest @github.com outage is fostering some interesting discussion of code hosting alternatives like @tangled.org on HN. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4933... Seems like there is lots of interest in alternatives, but no strong concensus on what that should be. Time for the community to rally?
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Incident with Github.com | Hacker News
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Edmonton Journal @edmontonjournal.com · 16/08/2026
Reviews for the 2026 Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival are coming in fast and furious! Check them out here: edmontonjournal.com/tag/edmonton... #yeg #yegfringe
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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 11/08/2026
we're planning v2 of our standard.site integration in the bsky app the goal is to make the "subscribe" button work. when you tap "subscribe" on a link card, what should happen? e.g. - get notifications on bsky when new articles are published - see new articles in a feed or separate tab - more?
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 08/08/2026
Love this and would love to see more transit choices in Edmonton. Cars should not be the only option.
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 07/08/2026
Wow. I had no idea this was a thing but it totally makes sense.
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Stefan Judis @stefanjudis.com · 05/08/2026
The State of Devs survey is open for participation. There's a lot of uncertainty and, frankly, occasionally I'm navigating a full-blown identity crisis. I'm very curious about whether I'm alone with these feelings and how bad the majority really feels... stateofdevs.com...
Pixel-art banner reading 'The State of Devs 2026', surrounded by icons and topic tags: Workplace, Career, Health, Hobbies, Mental State, Politics, AI, and Opinions.
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Ryan @snarfed.org · 03/08/2026
Much of my career boils down to: All code is liability. Minimize it. Feedback loops are everywhere. Speed them up; do them more. We're bad at predicting the future. Avoid it. More tests. Hire smart, motivated people, then get out of their way. Find the right thing to turn off and on again.
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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 02/08/2026
Everyone loooooves data ownership until you have to move Don’t believe what big atproto tells you, records are NOT portable
Around 600 vinyl records
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
watched the odyssey last night. film ruined by everyone speaking english instead of ancient greek.
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 23/07/2026
Love this idea! Definitely going to look in to it for our kids!
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Felix Schneider @felixs.dev · 18/07/2026
Today, I set up synchub.to in my repos (previously used a GitHub action to sync repos to @tangled.org). The DX is just such a breeze. Thank you @danielroe.dev for always creating exactly the side projects that people currently need.
synchub.to
synchub.to
Mirror your public GitHub repos to tangled.org, automatically.
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 05/07/2026
Wow. So much going on in this photo. Great shot. 📸🙌
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dan @danabra.mov · 30/06/2026
i want to spread the word about atproto. if you’re running a podcast, i’d be happy to hop in to talk about it. i understand it decently well and can explain it without much jargon. it’s one of the most interesting developments in the last 30 years of web, and i can defend that. please dm to set up!
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 27/06/2026
😂
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 25/06/2026
Really great start at explaining @atproto.com to a non-technical audience. Excited to see the rest of the series @gui.do! 😊
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 23/06/2026
@zed.dev is there a good example of using Zed with a local LLM (ollama, etc)? All the ones I’ve tried seem to be having issues with Zed’s tool calling but asking Claude and Googling hasn’t been able to figure out what’s wrong with my config. May open an issue, but thought I should ask first.
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Jen 🐦‍🔥 @jen4man.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Yes, it does. 🤨 #jokesters
They say ‘the machines of the future’ will be as smart as people…Oak, but WHICH people? Because it kinda matters quite a bit.
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 22/06/2026
Upvoted! Take a minute to do the same.
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 20/06/2026
Does this mean I’m a “boffin”? 🌈🧑🏻‍💻
A screenshot from a Google AI overview explaining the meaning of the British term “Boffin”. Boffin refers to a scientist, engineer or technical research expert.
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 19/06/2026
Makes sense to me 🇨🇦🌈
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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 15/06/2026
if you could save a search in the Bluesky app and pin it so it shows up as a tab on your home screen, would you?
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Bobby @bmcc2.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
10 years Pulse Nightclub ❤️❤️
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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 11/06/2026
If there's one thing I hope Apple addresses before the final OS 27 release...
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 07/06/2026
Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.
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David Crawshaw @crawshaw.io · 06/06/2026
Just discovered that curl has a --json flag. Instead of: curl-X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{...}' ... you can write curl --json '{...}' ...
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étienne @eti.tf · 06/06/2026
we're looking to better understand how people use @tangled.org and what's getting in your way if you're up for a 15/30-min chat about your experience, drop a reply to this post or dm me! you can even book a session directly if you feel like it: cal.com/ebf-tangled/...
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Let's chat about your user experience! | Étienne Baritaud Figueroa | Cal.com
Let's chat about your user experience!
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