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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 · 22/08/2026

Any tricks for getting this? My 15 Pro is not having the same experience…

A screenshot of my iPhone 15 Pro battery health. It is not great.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 21/03/2026

📍 Analog Banff Cafe · 419 Banff Avenue, Downtown District ★★★★★ Up early for a coffee before we go skiing. Perfect Americano. beaconbits.app/beacon/b2mcbcamkwyzn… #BeaconBits

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 23/02/2026

📍 The Columbian Cafe · Edmonton, Alberta, CA ★★★★★ Stuck in traffic so stopped for a cappuccino at my favourite coffee shop. ☕️ beaconbits.app/beacon/b2mcbcamkwyzn… #BeaconBits

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 18/02/2026

About 80% through and fully obsessed right now. Anyone else read these? So much fun. The world is so unique and imaginative.

The cover of the Strength of the Few by James Islington. Fully obsessed right now.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 18/12/2025

When you just want to enable the Gemini 3 models for Copilot but @github.com is having none of it! 😔

A screenshot of a 500 error page on the GitHub Copilot model selection page. Octocat is falling off a cliff with the words "Oops!!!" visible in a scripted font.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 16/11/2025

Learning to draw and finally starting to see some progress.

A sketch of a shelf with interlocking planks. Various objects like a bird statue, photo of our old dog, and some glass orchids rest in the various shelves. A bright yellow oval separates the sketch from the white background.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 25/09/2025

Is anyone else noticing a tonne of spam notifications on @github.com in the last few days? The spam issues don't show up in my "GitHub Inbox" though they still show in the notification count. This is very annoying as it makes staying on top of GH notifications challenging. #workflow #github

A screenshot of my GitHub notifications "Inbox" showing an empty inbox but with multiple unread noticiations showing in my count.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 09/05/2025

I’ve now got @baselinebot.bsky.social running nightly and posting new features. Now I just need some new features to get published so I can confirm it’s all working! Also, Deno Deploy has been great so far. Thanks @deno.land!

A screenshot showing logs for the web baseline bot running on Deno Deploy. The logs show its checking for features but none have been posted yet.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 07/05/2025

Some morning music 🎶 💖 music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A screenshot showing the Eurovision 2025 playlist on YouTube music

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 01/05/2025

Hmm, looks like the first run with the @baselinebot.bsky.social cronjob didn’t work. Will take a look and see what’s up tomorrow!

A screenshot showing a failed Deno Deploy cronjob.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 30/04/2025

Alright, the cronjob is scheduled to run for the first time tonight! Will see what it does!

A screenshot of my Deno Deploy cron jobs showing the baselinebot is ready to run today at midnight UTC.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 25/04/2025

Just found out that the Edmonton Transit Riders Union is on Bluesky! 🚌🚊🚴 Follow them at @etriders.bsky.social #yeg

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 24/04/2025

Hard to see in this photo but a heart warming moment this morning. Busy commuters going downtown stopped to let a pair of geese cross the road. 🪿❤️🚗 #yeg

A pair of geese cross a busy road as commuters stop to allow them to pass

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 22/04/2025

Just whipped up some blondies to bring to the kids school. We got some mini-eggs on sale after Easter and used them to decorate! 🥚🐰🌷 preppykitchen.com/blondie-reci...

A close-up photo of a tray of blondies. They have a golden cookie like colour and texture but are cut in squares and served like brownies. On top of each one are two Cadbury mini-eggs in bright pastel colors, pink, green, yellow, and blue.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 05/03/2025

Lynxjs seems to be working as advertised! Quickstart was painless. Will need to build a real app to get a better understanding how it works though.

A screenshot of React on Lynx with a change from @MarkBennett

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 27/02/2025

No complaints about this weather. So nice out the dog and I had to go for a walk! ☀️ #yeg

A photo of me standing on a snowy path, smiling in the sunshine. I’m wearing a toque and blue sweat sweater. There is text describing the temperature at +11°C and saying I had to take the dog out because it was so nice.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 12/02/2025

Just signed up for the 2,000 push up challenge. Help support Canadians’ mental health and join or donate now too! www.thepushupchallenge.ca/fundraisers/markbennett311/the-push-up-challenge HT to @basicappleguy.com for letting me know it was going on! #yeg #canada #mentalhealth

My dorky face smiling on a banner explaining that I’m doing the Push Up Challenge this month to raise awareness and funds for mental health in Canada.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 18/12/2024

I’m fully engrossed with Monument Valley right now. The art style and soundtrack just sucks me right in, and the puzzles are fun and creative to solve. Worth trying over the holidays for sure. apps.apple.com/app/id645006...

An illustration of a beautiful cavern illuminated by the light of a glass mosaic bearing the likeness of a bear or other mythic animal. Screenshot from Monument Valley 3.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 04/12/2024

Someone is having fun with these completion screens. Got this one this morning. I’m calling it a, “Duocorn” and it is my new favourite.

Duolingo having fun with their completion screen and showing a duo/unicorn, a “Duocorn”?

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 02/12/2024

Just got me Duolingo year in review! I’m top 2% with a 318 day streak and 2697 minutes spent learning. Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch! 🇩🇪

A Duolingo achievement showing Duo (the cute green Duolingo owl mascot with giant eyes) blasting up off. Behind text reads, "Duolingo, 2024 Year in Review"

Stats show I’m top 2% with a 318 day streak and 2697 minutes spent learning.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 21/11/2024

10 things I’m into: • My husband and kids 👨‍❤️‍👨👦🏻🧒🏼 • Cooking 🧑🏻‍🍳 • Running 🏃🏻 • Swimming 🏊🏻‍♂️ • Reading (Sci-Fi, programming and a little 🔥) 🤓 • Trying new food 🍔🍱🍝 • Travelling ✈️🏖️ • Learning French & German 🇫🇷🇩🇪 • Sitcoms (Schitt’s Creek Forever!) 📺 • Science & Tech 🧪

A photo of me sitting in a restaurant with a cocktail in my right hand. The glass and me hand are resting on the table. I’m looking straight ahead at the camera with a smirk on my face. I’m 40 with a bald head, moustache, and navy long sleeve sweater with large horizontal white bands at irregular intervals.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 08/03/2024

Ok JS devs, does anyone know if there's a way to get `yarn outdated` to only show major package updates? (These are the red updates that usually have breaking changes.) Everything I'm finding suggests manual review is only way! It's not even in the JSON output. #javascript #typescript #node #npm

A screenshot of my console, showing a mix of current and outdated packages in the application. I'm trying to filter out the red ones.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 07/03/2024

Excited to see a new version of this fantastic JavaScript book. Many years ago I remember it was one of the first books to really help me understand how to think about programming in JS, so glad to see it’s still going strong. And still free online! 👍🏻 eloquentjavascript.net

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 05/03/2024

The CRA (Canada Revenue Agency), which is part of the Government of Canada that collects taxes, has been kicked off Twitter and had their account suspended on FB multiple times. They’ve even had tweets deleted! Time to try Bluesky? www.cbc.ca/news/investi...

A screenshot of an email from a CRA employee at the government of Canada, describing their issues with posts being deleted from Twitter.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 23/02/2024

It totally works! Comments straight from the Bluesky post replies. 🔥🔥🔥

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 19/02/2024

Anyone else getting excited for the next part of Dune? Not many movies I really want to see in the theatre but this is one of them for sure. #dune2 #dune

The movie poster for Dune Part 2.

A dramatic photo in dark browns and bright yellow.

It shows a man and a woman walking towards the viewer in dessert gear. Behind them a bright dessert sun burns down illuminating them brightly from behind.

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 16/02/2024

I’m thinking of making my first PR to add support for sharing urls and links to Bluesky using the share sheet on iOS and Android. It looks like I can use the React Native Linking API and there’s already an issue open: github.com/bluesky-soci... Anyone have any tips on getting started?

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Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏻‍💻🏃🏻🍁 @markbennett.ca · 07/02/2024

Live in Edmonton, Canada and want to find other local accounts? There’s a list for that! Mention @markbennett.ca or reply to this post with suggestions for accounts to add! bsky.app/profile/did:... #yeg #helpwanted

An image of downtown Edmonton on a pleasant summer. Blue sky and white clouds. The Walterdale Bridge and river valley dominate the foreground, and Stantec Tower stands out among other builds behind that.

Image by Jan Mossiman and used with permission from:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/140712914@N07/50208033146

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