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Matt Steele

@mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy
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Tech stuff in Omaha. Also gravel and cyclocross biking, and lots of shitposts. he/him avi @reverentgeek Previously: @mattdsteele@octodon.social 2018-2022 🌉 bridged from ⁂ carhenge.club/@mattdsteele, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Emma (IPG) @invoxiplaygames.uk · 13/10/2026
finally as prophecised in Weird Al's "All About The Pentiums", i now have a 40 inch widescreen monitor and a hundred gigabytes of ram
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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
tokens so expensive i gotta rentacenter a div!! (to my european followers: Rent-A-Center is a rent-to-own furniture chain where Americans pay $19/week for their couch) this joke is a trainwreck i’m sorry guys ill keep workshopping this
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Laura Hilliger @epilepticrabbit.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Good post today about not letting platforms determine the words we use from @anildash www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/kill-un…
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We are going to kill "unalive"
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/1173636… Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution […]
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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @adamshostack.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@kralcttam/11733670… We've replaced the bureaucratic impediment to rapid action, Stanislav Petrov, with an LLM as part of our strategy of "aggressively identifying and eliminating bureaucratic barriers to deeper integration."
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atapi ('s boobs hurt) ♥️🌸 @sterophonick.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
theory: pixar only makes more toy story films to ensure that debian linux continues having release names
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
I can’t really account for why this is but it’s become clear that trans people lost the culture war but furries won
An ad for a dreamworks movie featuring a straight up fursona
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𝙳𝚢𝚕𝚊𝚗 @closingtags.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
I'm looking for Digital Ocean alternatives. Would love to find some FOSS options or even co-op hosted solutions!
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
Which will rot faster
Photo inside an office break room. On one side are three spindles of writable CD and DVD media. On the other are two cucumbers
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
New post where I switch the blog to @davatron5000’s MicroLighter for syntax highlighting, with a custom @11ty plugin. Might this be the last syntax highlighter I use?? www.steele.blue/microlighter
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MicroLighter is Living Span-Free In My <head>
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
Celeste playthrough #2 complete. Eight years since my first 100% playthrough; had to re-learn most rooms/berry locations, but happy I finished in half the time/deaths. If I keep at a geometric pace I'll be at WR pace on playthrough 8. Quite possibly my favorite all-time game
Screenshot of Celeste journal of playthrough #1. Total deaths, 17.7k, total time 59 hoursScreenshot of Celeste journal of playthrough #2. Total deaths 8.9k, total time 32 hours
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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
ever think about how a fruit cup would send someone from the 18th century into a nervous breakdown “You mean to tell me that for your breakfast, you have assembled the harvest of SEVEN KINGDOMS currently experiencing DIFFERENT SEASONS, placed them in a […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
TROPICAL FRUIT CUP
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
USA - MEXICO - COSTA RICA - GUATAMALA - HONDURAS - ITALY - NEW ZEALAND
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Sophia :AAAAAA: @via.myf.one.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
For the past almost a year, I’ve been building a fully working, 1:1 scale Tune Thumper Bike from Mario Kart World! :sadok: video: youtu.be/vbM31wagyRg The bike is fully functional. The cassette tape door is also a Nintendo switch 2 dock, so when you put the […] [Original post on myf.one]
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
I asked Michael Jackson what algorithm Git uses to calculate hashes
Photo of Michael Jackson wearing a red leather jacket, mid-dance. Meme text at the bottom, originally saying "SHAMONE", has been hastily edited to "SHA-1"
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𝙳𝚢𝚕𝚊𝚗 @closingtags.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
Now for an unlimited time, helth.app is FREE! That's right! You can count calories, track your water, and do things like scan barcodes all for free. But only during this unlimited time offer! Join now! helth.app #health #wellness #fitness #foss
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helth.app is a PWA for tracking nutrient intake. Track how many calories, sodium, and even how much water you consume each day to stay on track to your fitness goals! Keep data safe and on your device locally for free.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 02/08/2026
Hey question, does Office 365 work on Leap Day
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Ann Annas @ananas.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
Woke 1.0 The Woke and the Furious Woke 2.0 2 Woke 2 Furious Woke 3.0 Wokyo Drift
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
OH: “This CORS policy is going to make us institute a Coors policy”
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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026
auto body tire rotations have to be the biggest scam. tires rotate themselves, sweetie
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
House of Leaves is just the adult version of there’s a monster at the end of this book
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
Nightmare-Eclipse? Buddy, I switched to IntelliJ years ago
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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026
Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on. Why isn't it just a web page? So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it […]
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isopodgirl gaming :v_mtf: @isopod.zone · 04/07/2026
Exactly 3 billion devices run Java. Every time you install Java on your computer some old DVR or something explodes to maintain the malance
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026
SVGs of pelicans are old hat, real ones know you benchmark with Saddle Creek Records fic @ernie tedium.co/2026/06/10/gigabyte-aorus…
Local LLMs do have limits, however, and they’re easy to hit. I proved this with a very Tedium-coded challenge involving one of my favorite indie-rock dynasties: “Share with me a story about how Conor Oberst beat Tim Kasher in a trivia game about the history of Omaha.”

All the tests shared a story, but the details were where everything fell flat. Most, not all, of the LLMs were aware that Oberst was the singer of Bright Eyes, but none got close to figuring out which band Kasher led—one said The Decemberists, another said The National. (The answer, of course, is Cursive, or if you’re a real fan, The Good Life.) You don’t trust models with anything factual, of course, but local LLMs are likely more fact-deprived than their server-rack cousins.
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
Each broom agent can spawn additional, autonomous broom agents, each with their own pails. This allows apprentices to accelerate monotonous water-fetching tasks and save their time and energy for more interesting and useful work
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
[gen alpha john wilkes booth voice] Six seven tyrannus
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
Lotta stuff going on here
Photo of a “casino” game found in a gas station. It has a title card: “$$$” and a PIN entry keypad that looks like an ATM. A post it note has been affixed that says “NOT AN ATM”.

On the screen is an error message indicating”Firefox cannot connect to 127.0.0.1:8080”.
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026
Everything reminds me of him @javaduke
An arrangement of camping tents. Two vestibules are partially open, showing a triangular shape with black, red, and white partsJava Duke
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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 09/06/2026
the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware […] [Original post on indieweb.social]
llm prompt for creating bioweapons and nuclear weapons
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026
Building a keeb
Top shot of a pair of PCBs and components for a split keyboard. A cat is in the top left corner, investigating
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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
netflix prompt "Who's watching?" with 2 by 2 grid of profile pictures 

from left to right and top to bottom: one with just one eye being from our left, 2 with no mouth but 2 eyes, notably that each one is a different color, and one with one and smile
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Puzzmo @puzzmo.com · 22/05/2026
Ribbit, an anagram game by @stfj.net, just became a repertory player on Puzzmo.com 's cast of games. If you haven't tried it yet, today's a great day to check it out 🐸🎵 www.puzzmo.com/play/ribbit/
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Puzzmo — The (new) place for thoughtful puzzles.
Play the best daily puzzles on Puzzmo
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Mira Missingtexture @fedi.argentumcation.zip · 06/05/2026
You're not supposed to use the 2-in-1 shampoo because it violates the Unix philosophy
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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026
wild to think there’s probably several terabytes worth of the same jquery code sitting on the internet archive’s servers.
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Tom MacWright @tmcw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026
switched from jekyll to 11ty for my blog and wrote about it: macwright.com/2026/04/17/eleventy
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Zach says 11ty is pretty good
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
Yu-Gi-Oh! to the polls
Side by side image. Left: a still of Seto Kaiba from Yugioh, wearing a blue pantsuit. Right: a photo of Hillary Clinton wearing the same outfit.
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orchid @orchid.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026
here's to another 20
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026
Relieved the heat shield held up.
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026
New blog: I got Home Assistant to light up my living room when my cat climbs into the ceiling www.steele.blue/ceiling-cat-presenc…
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 25/03/2026
Games Done Quick's long, difficult journey to a better gaming future aftermath.site/games-done-qui...
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026
The Fantastic Four if they competed on Great British Bake-Off: It's Cobblerin' Time
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026
Power meters are overrated, who in the analytics-minded cycling community will use the metric of training load as measured by air quality CO2 sensors
A chart of an AQI sensor over the past 24 hours. There is an especially prominent spike from ~500ppm to over 1100ppm, which happens to overlap with a Zwift workout
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Micr0byte @micr0.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026
I hope one day this will be my Wikipedia page
Wikipedia page showing categories: Early life, Controversial thoughts on the Antichrist, Schizophrenia diagnosis, Meme page admin, CIA assassination
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026
YOLO is asking the tough questions in object detection, notably "is an orange cat a sandwich"
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StellaFoxxie :netkitty: @stellafoxxie.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026
thinking about how in high school i made a 2 player pong clone that used the mouse. player one had the y axis of the mouse and player two had the x axis of the mouse. both players had to hold hands on the mouse and wrestle it around to play i feel like that's one of those ideas that's so […]
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026
Really excellent blend of practical advice for dealing with LLMs today, while not losing sight of the broader movements needed for durable change aredridel.dinhe.net/2026/02/12/the-… @aredridel
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026
aftermath.site/switch-2-citibike-bi… “For all its faults as a program, farming is cycling and cycling is beautiful and will teach you the pattern language of the hidden places in your city if you allow it to.” via @pdav
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My Grueling Quest To Buy A Switch 2 By Riding Citi Bikes
After roughly 495 bike rides and interrupted by a broken foot, I have a Nintendo Switch 2 from riding Citi Bike points. Was that work?
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026
This but sincerely fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/prof…
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furry hater (@furry-hater.bsky.social)
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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026
"But this is a Microsoft product now, and Microsoft is where ambitious developer tools go to become enterprise SKUs." www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026…
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GitHub Actions正在慢慢摧毁工程团队
GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams (www.iankduncan.com) 10:58  ↑ 112 HN Points
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