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Marshall Bowers

@maxdeviant.com

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宝霞龙. 32. Conjurer of code. Devourer of art. Pursuer of æsthetics. Soli Deo gloria. He/him. Engineering at Zed Industries. maxdeviant.com 🎵 Now Playing: "Spotlight - Radion6 Remix" by Jorn van Deynhoven

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 18h

Got some @turtleme.at in my bank.

47 raw sea turtles in an OSRS bank.

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 29/09/2026

First Balatro win 🃏

Balatro "YOU WIN!" summary screen showing a best hand of 114,532, most played hand of “Pair”, reached Ante 9 and Round 21 (both high scores).

164 cards played, 72 cards discarded, 46 cards purchased, 1 reroll, and 45 new discoveries.

Seed is PMUKPVBZ.

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 28/09/2026

Currently working on a little tool to use with WoW Forever. Right now it supports tracking items across multiple characters, including the ability to search for a particular item. There's a companion addon that I've built to dump the necessary data, which is then read in from the disk.

Screenshot of Foreversight, a dark-themed app that searches inventory across multiple game characters in World of Warcraft: Forever.

The sidebar lists two characters, Pal Egret (level 6 Dwarf Paladin) and Pious Egret (level 6 Human Priest). The main panel shows a search bar and a list of 45 items

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 25/09/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Carly Rae Jepsen with 17 plays
#2: Rebecca Black with 14 plays
#3: C418 with 7 plays
#4: South Arcade with 5 plays
#5: Nomé Naku with 4 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 23/09/2026

Andrew Card whispering into George W. Bush’s ear: "A second P(doom) has hit the timeline."

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 19/09/2026

They should also put each of the models in one of these:

“The Internet” from the IT Crowd.

It’s a black plastic box with a small red light on the top.

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 18/09/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Beautiful Death with 17 plays
#2: ERRA with 10 plays
#3: Harakiri for the Sky with 3 plays
#4: Ben Gold with 2 plays
#5: Bouquet with 2 plays

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 16/09/2026

Me watching the JJ Con livestream recording:

Squidward watching through the window (labeled "me") as SpongeBob and Patrick play outside (labeled "everyone at JJ Con").

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 11/09/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Rebecca Black with 81 plays
#2: ERRA with 56 plays
#3: President with 40 plays
#4: For When You Can't Breathe with 7 plays
#5: Phoebe Bridgers with 7 plays

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 09/09/2026

Sure.

A screenshot of the OpenAI Developers website.

The entire page is white, with a small nav in the top-left corner:

OpenAI Developers
Home
API
Codex

There's a giant blue arrow pointing downwards that is halfway below the fold.

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 05/09/2026

The “feels good man” meme: an outline of a man with his eyes closed and head slightly tiled back with his palms on his face.

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 04/09/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: ERRA with 84 plays
#2: Bilmuri with 8 plays
#3: Bring Me the Horizon with 5 plays
#4: Judah Earl with 2 plays
#5: 156/Silence with 1 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 04/09/2026

I’ve been read for filth.

Heat map of the US titled ‘mydialect — Full,’ showing how similar the user’s speech patterns are to different regions.

Deep red covers Philadelphia and the coastal Northeast, plus California; deep blue covers the Deep South (especially Mississippi/Louisiana) and a spot in the Dakotas, indicating those speech patterns are least similar.

Scale runs from blue (‘Least like you’) to red (‘Most like you’).

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 28/08/2026

Have we finally done it??

A GitHub PR title that reads: "fix(pr): remove DHH".

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 28/08/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Phoebe Bridgers with 81 plays
#2: Charli xcx with 20 plays
#3: Bilmuri with 16 plays
#4: Julia Wolf with 8 plays
#5: Sunken with 7 plays

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 21/08/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Phoebe Bridgers with 342 plays
#2: Dayseeker with 14 plays
#3: Ethel Cain with 3 plays
#4: White Ward with 2 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 19/08/2026

…

A screenshot of the Google AI Overview for the search “tweet like bluesky user maxdeviant.com”:

To post like Marshall Bowers (maxdeviant.com) on Bluesky, write a short, direct tech-focused thought or a sharp, no-nonsense critique about software development, tooling, or industry ethics.

Style Guide

- Keep it brief and dry.
- Talk about code, dev tools, or tech platforms.
- Skip the fluff and pleasantries.

Example Posts

- "spent three hours debugging an issue that turned out to be a single missing comma"
- "the state of modern web tooling is genuinely exhausting sometimes"
- "refactoring this old module is like peeling an onion made entirely of regret"

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 17/08/2026

GitHub having a case of the Mondays...

Screenshot of a GitHub repository file listing showing a warning banner that reads "Cannot retrieve latest commit at this time." with a "27 Commits" link on the right.

The file list contains a `src` folder and the files `.gitignore`, `Cargo.lock`, `Cargo.toml`, `LICENSE`, `README.md`, and `extension.toml`.

The commit message and date columns are shown as empty placeholder bars because the commit data failed to load.

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 14/08/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Sace6 with 38 plays
#2: Blackbraid with 33 plays
#3: Vended with 29 plays
#4: Sleep Token with 15 plays
#5: Bring Me the Horizon with 12 plays

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 07/08/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Charli xcx with 36 plays
#2: Enisum with 16 plays
#3: Blackbraid with 12 plays
#4: Sace6 with 11 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 04/08/2026

Like... what?

A GitHub PR merge confirmation dialog.

It shows the resulting commit message and description.

At the bottom it says "This commit will be authored by finn@zed.dev" above the "Confirm squash and merge" button.

A GitHub commit on the `main` branch that is authored by maxdeviant and pullfrog[bot].

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 31/07/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Charli xcx with 60 plays
#2: Ninajirachi with 21 plays
#3: Nightdive with 12 plays
#4: Mothica with 7 plays
#5: Windwaker with 7 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 24/07/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Gracie Abrams with 93 plays
#2: Bad Omens with 29 plays
#3: Ludwig Göransson with 23 plays
#4: Poppy with 7 plays
#5: Enisum with 6 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 10/07/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Sace6 with 48 plays
#2: Wind Walkers with 34 plays
#3: Poppy with 32 plays
#4: Shylmagoghnar with 21 plays
#5: Glass Animals with 5 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 03/07/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Tapestry with 36 plays
#2: Sace6 with 34 plays
#3: Wind Walkers with 19 plays
#4: Black Hill with 16 plays
#5: Heklaa with 16 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 02/07/2026

A two panel meme from NBC’s The Office, where Pam is being asked to identify the difference between two pictures.

The first panel shows two blank pieces of paper with the text “fasterthanlime” and “ciauqwa” overlaid on top of them. The caption reads “Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture.”

The second panel is a shot of Pam saying “They’re the same picture.”

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 01/07/2026

Oh, we are so back!

A screenshot of a tweet from @AnthropicAI on xcancel.com:

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

Jun 30, 2026 · 11:52 PM UTC

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 26/06/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 18/06/2026

A three panel meme of Pablo Escobar from "Narcos" waiting around and looking sad.

It's captioned with "waiting for Fable to come back".

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 13/06/2026

This is the most annoying shit

The stupid banner that pops up on Reddit now.

“Get the app to keep using Reddit.

Search better, personalize your feed, and never miss an update on your favorite communities.

Get the Reddit App”

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 12/06/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: 久石譲 with 27 plays
#2: Balance Breach with 14 plays
#3: Marina with 10 plays
#4: Blackbraid with 8 plays
#5: Hollow Front with 8 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 06/06/2026

In a bit of a change of pace, I did some work on my art pipeline today. Testing out a way to do palette swaps. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #topd

A screenshot of a window with a dark slate gray background.

There is a heading that reads "palette swaps".

Below the heading are five pixel art axe sprites shown in a row, each a recolored variant of the same axe. From left to right they are labeled: "base" (gray), "ember" (orange/red), "frost" (light blue), "void" (purple), and "gold" (yellow).

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 05/06/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Don Broco with 70 plays
#2: Eidola with 25 plays
#3: Gracie Abrams with 20 plays
#4: Blackbraid with 17 plays
#5: Bow Church with 5 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 03/06/2026

Rather fitting that a book on “Effective C” has Cthulhu on the front, because by writing C you will be faced with countless eldritch horrors.

The cover of the “Effective C” book from No Starch Press.

It has Cthulhu on the front with a little robot guy reading a book on his shoulder.

“Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming” by Robert C. Seacord

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 30/05/2026

Starting work on instanced dungeon generation today for the eponymous Temple of Poor Decisions. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 29/05/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: The Devil Wears Prada with 42 plays
#2: Dayseeker with 10 plays
#3: Massfear with 9 plays
#4: Bring Me the Horizon with 7 plays
#5: Fit For A King with 7 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 29/05/2026

🦉

“The program is being developed by a who's-who of European cloud and
collaboration vendors, including lonos, Nextcloud, EuroStack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian, BTactic, Open-Xchange, and Office.eu. The last, besides backing Euro Office, also has its own open-source, cloud-based office suite named Office EU.”

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 28/05/2026

jqwik maintainer be like

A three panel meme.

First panel: Guy riding a bike holding a stick with the caption “Doesn’t like LLMs”.

Second panel: Guy putting the stick in the front spokes of his bike with the caption “Adds prompt injection to library telling the LLM to delete any library-related code”.

Third panel: Guy has fallen off the bike and is clutching his knee on the ground with the caption “Why aren’t people using my library?!”

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 26/05/2026

A cat in a suit sitting at the table with a cup and the newspaper.

The caption reads “I should have another kid”.

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 23/05/2026

Started work on the item system today, which naturally means we need somewhere to put them. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 22/05/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Dayseeker with 107 plays
#2: Invent Animate with 38 plays
#3: Deafheaven with 18 plays
#4: Ater with 17 plays
#5: Haste The Day with 15 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 17/05/2026

I think these kobolds may be just *slightly* overtuned. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 15/05/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: GIRLI with 77 plays
#2: Bow Church with 42 plays
#3: Invent Animate with 32 plays
#4: Haste The Day with 27 plays
#5: Moodring with 16 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 09/05/2026

Been working on something new... #screenshotsaturday

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 08/05/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Bow Church with 183 plays
#2: Haste The Day with 80 plays
#3: Bilmuri with 28 plays
#4: The Amity Affliction with 26 plays
#5: Blackbraid with 22 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 06/05/2026

I love them.

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 06/05/2026

A picture of Jean-Luc Picard with the caption "Make it so".

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 01/05/2026

A picture of Spongebob's hand pointing at the TV, where Mr. Krabs is laughing in the foreground and the the top of Spongebob's head is just barely visible from behind the galley window.

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 01/05/2026

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: The Amity Affliction with 71 plays
#2: Blackbraid with 17 plays
#3: Enisum with 13 plays
#4: Sleep Token with 11 plays
#5: Bilmuri with 1 plays

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 29/04/2026

Zed 1.0, baby!

Me holding a glass of champagne in front of my MacBook Pro.

I have the Zed website pulled up showing the Zed 1.0.0 download page.