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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

absolutely fucked up PATH --- new developer achievement unlocked

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

lean dem texas and tossup kansas --- maybe he should press the tariff button again, that'll get voters back on his side

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

evergreen bsky.app/profile/mark...

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

saving the precompiled exe is also really nice

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I gotta say this is the biggest “dudes rock” project I’ve seen in a while !

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

someone who is good at sports please explain

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

for this toy example, it's basically the same, but putting together a base class invites putting common functionality into a base class, which just invites trouble later when you eventually need to break up the monolithic base class

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

like, this is nice --- you can force both Foo and Bar to have class-specific implementations of a known method without having to frankenstein a base class from an inheritance model

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

after using them in other languages, I really find myself wanting python to add compositional-style interfaces (if for no other reason than to force the lsp to provide code completion for subclasses)

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For no real reason, I was looking up something about the ancestry of causal DAGs in path diagrams and came across this picture. I got to see it so you do to. HT to Sewall Wright who both set the course for a very useful analytical tool but also took the time to include cute drawings of guinea pigs

Sketch of Wright's path diagram showing the influence of heredity and environment on the inheritance of color of guinea pigs. Drawing is mostly a directed acyclic graph but includes four cute sideways drawings of guinea pigs.

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

team retro today. the _future improvements_ board was basically various iterations of “don’t trust claude”

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Josiah @josiah.rs · 02/09/2026

here's the thing: stacked PRs only work if you don't plan on actually reviewing / changing them. Otherwise they're just a nightmare

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Do you love providing useful outputs, or do you love building things? In an era of DS absolutely SATURATED with AI use, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I actually liked about being a data scientist. Especially as someone who’s purposefully stayed on the IC track.

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

sleep paralysis demon bowser and goomba

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

community pool is showing the 1993 Mario movie. Mario hatches from an egg in the first 5 minutes. This is gonna be rad as hell

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Dr. Jorts, MD @alexandrajordanmd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I do not use the term “y’all” to sound folksy. I use it to honor the Beastie Boys constantly in my daily life.

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

L take, midwestern hegemony / cultural ascendency is inevitable, y’all rules (just wait till you encounter y’all’ld’ve itll break your brain)

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

used knee bracers during a workout for the first time today and ohmygod it’s a night and day difference (I am now accepted as one of the olds)

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarise yourself with the following to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to hold.

cover of Bayesian Data Analysis (Third Edition)

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

lol they sent me the same thing at the end of the day (I finished it ~an hour prior)

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

already had to look up how to exit I’m a veteran now

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:

data4democracy.substack.com

The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side

This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

good write up, quick read! an even short answer is that if you believe that user behavior interacts meaningfully with time (e.g. weekend users != weekday users), you cannot sample size your way out of a bare minimum of a week runtime, regardless of framework

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

next game will either be animal well or tethergeist and it’ll be a game time decision

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

to be fair, this is also true of, say, giving me access to a pure typescript repo and telling me “go tokenmax in the repo and don’t look at the code ever because that’ll slow you down”

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

just gonna keep getting absolutely bodied by this for 40 hours a week nonstop until I retire I guess

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s one of those games that has Big Things To Say — also one of the few games that takes advantage of the medium specifically in a really meaningful way

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

nier automata is so good (actually beat it for real this time)

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

you get into one lil side discussion and all of a sudden the urge to investigate Monte Carlo tree search takes over

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

giving everyone full access to a database via an agent interface is a lot like giving every toddler a drivers license and a ford f150. yes they’re now technically more self sufficient. but the adults in the room now have to keep the toddlers from injuring themselves/others while driving the trucks

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’ve written a grand total of two decent melodies and both times it was because I accidentally stumbled into something while jamming then had to spend 90 minutes trying to recreate it after the fact

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

the thing I love most about playing bluesy/jazzy/whatever piano is that there is no such thing as a wrong note if you can justify your screw ups after the fact

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I bounced off of zed because I had to work with csharp at work and the lsp had some bug that caused the editor to drain the power grid when any cs files were open — maybe if that’s fixed I can actually use it now

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

if Microsoft slops their ide to the point where I start learning vim someone is going to pay dearly

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’ll throw tinytable in the mix there. refreshingly lightweight approach to dependencies (0!) (and I say that as someone who regularly commits the sin of calling library(tidyverse) just to use the magrittr pipe)

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Mark Rieke @markjrieke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

don’t worry, users of google products also hate them bsky.app/profile/mark...

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