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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Me: “I feel like so many people are losing critical thinking skills by offloading their thinking to AI.” Other person: “But can’t we just solve that by having AI write some parameters for itself to make sure that doesn’t happen?” Me: “…”

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I wonder if I’ve spent more time this year waiting on delayed flights at airports, or waiting on late friends at restaurants.

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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The hardest part of flying home from Japan is adjusting to the time change. For example in Tokyo I got to experience a future where everyone deserves dignity but I’m flying back to a country intent on pushing itself back to the 1950s. It’s hard to adjust your watch to that.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I absolutely love when someone pulls out “Shut the front door!” I just have to quietly nod. Yeah, we both know what we’re doing here. And I’m on board.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Ah nice, my weekly delivery of protein bars has arrived.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

TIL: A digital car key doesn’t auto-transfer to a new phone when you update phones. Which is why I’m in an Uber to pick up my physical key from home, before uber’ing back to the airport parking garage.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Any visit to the emergency room that ends with “You can leave now” is a damn good one.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Me, 5 min after a plank workout: “Heh, nice warm up. For babies I guess.” Me, 12 hours later: “Abs too sore… to breathe…” *quietly asphyxiates*

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Hot Pot Restaurants: “Do you want to come here and pay us to cook food for yourself?” Me, having a kitchen: “No.”

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Sorry, Four Non Blondes, but the best version of “What’s Going On” was, and forever will be, sung by He-Man.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Ah, Friday Night, finally done with the work week! (Sets aside laptop with 5 AI coding agents running, picks up identical laptop with 5 different AI coding agents running)

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Deciding between a tattoo of the “OK" button from Mac OS X Aqua days, or the :thread: slack icon.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

My breakfast at a buffet: * One of absolutely everything, requiring at least 5 separate trips up My breakfast at home: * A dry scoop of protein powder directly from the container, if I remember to eat at all

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Starting to realize why I magically never get jet lag when I travel. “Wake up at 3am, can’t get back to sleep, tired all day, brain fog, forget important things, stomach upset…” That’s just me, every day.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Me, 6 hours after landing in Europe: "Adjusting to a new timezone is NOT that hard, c'mon people.” Me, 18 hours after landing in Europe: “What time is it again? 37:82? That sounds about right.”

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Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 06/08/2026

The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProje…! "On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

Screenshot of a very simple web page from the first link in the post, titled "World Wide Web", with no images, just black text on white background, and blue, underlined links.

Below the title is a brief description of the World Wide Web project and a few links, that are blue and underlined.

Full transcript of the web page text:

The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.

Everything there is online about W3 is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, Mailing lists , Policy , November's W3 news , Frequently Asked Questions .

What's out there?
Pointers to the world's online information, subjects , W3 servers, etc.

Help
on the browser you are using

Software Products
A list of W3 project components and their current state. (e.g. Line Mode ,X11 Viola , NeXTStep , Servers , Tools , Mail robot , Library )

Technical
Details of protocols, formats, program internals etc

Bibliography
Paper documentation on W3 and references.

People
A list of some people involved in the project.

History
A summary of the history of the project.

How can I help ?
If you would like to support the web..

Getting code
Getting the code by anonymous FTP , etc.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

“What’s it like working at Apple?” A short play. Me, a genius, a renegade intellectual: “Let’s do this thing!” Others: “Ah but have you considered its impact on accessibility towards our users in *this* way?” Me, a fool, a stumbling idiot, a menace: “I have not.”

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

When the internal "software lore" slack thread that's less than an hour old has over 100 replies… prepare to dive into some serious shit.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Monday, 9:30am: a hired plumber, soaking wet and yelling, ran down my stairs and out my front door. So that’s how this week is going, thanks for asking.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

There are those friends, you'd bury a body for, no questions asked. But there are also those friends, you'd have *a lot* of questions before burying the bodies. And then there are friends that make you wonder… why do so many of my friends keep needing bodies buried?

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

I’m often so tired waking up that I can’t wait to get back into bed at night. But last night I was so tired fhat, getting INTO bed, I was already fantasizing about going to bed the FOLLOWING night.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Having such a great time at SIGGRAPH catching up with everyone. Do YOU (yes you) want to catch up, or meet up for the first time? HMU!

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Designers of convention centers: “How far away should the main halls be? 6 miles?” “Sure, but people will be sitting most of the time, so we’ll want a comfortable temperature.” “52 degrees?” “Perfect.”

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

We're looking for talented artist-engineers to help us take Keynote to the next level! 🎉 If you love writing beautiful realtime shaders and want your work to show up on stage introducing the next Apple product, come join our (amazing) team. You would be designing and optimizing the effects that […]

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

“Established 1992”? Why is THAT supposed to be impressive? *whispers into ear* Wait, that was HOW many years ago?!

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Getting an earthquake alert in the middle of a seat of barbell back squats… was not expecting to have to make a calculated decision so early in the morning.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

What’s that German word for the feeling of when your brief moment of pride from catching a bug so easily turns immediately to disgust because you weren’t expecting to catch that bug so easily?

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

A new “idle” App Store game that’s just waiting for coding agent subscription token limits to refresh.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

@peterb it seems not just possible but inevitable for provability through structured language, formal tests, and agent-driven rapid iteration to converge to a point where this is an assumption for new code. That we care about, anyway. Humans seem unnecessary for the execution; human thought is […]

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

@peterb Are you talking about actually “provable” evals/testing, or better systems for still-fallible verifications?

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

“I hope the party you went to tonight was better than the one I went to.” “Oh, was yours bad?” “Not at all; mine was awesome. I just hope yours was even better.”

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

It’s no longer possible to send someone a message that starts with “You’re right…”

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Slowly realizing that you did not, in fact, gain the ability to read people’s minds; that person is just narrating their unfiltered thoughts in realtime.

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

“I wonder why I have to get up and pee so often at night…” *chugs 2 gallons of water immediately before bed* “Maybe someday medical science will be able to solve this absolute mystery.”

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Jens Ohlig @johl.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

Happy 40th birthday, ZMODEM! On May 20, 1986 the ZMODEM protocol specification was posted on Usenet by Chuck Forsberg of Omen Technology. www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.sources.un… If you used a BBS before the Internet you might get nostalgic. Otherwise you probably […]

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Mark @mflider.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

“Did you hear what Trump-“ “I spent an hour today playing with 4 adorable kittens.” “But he…” “They were about six weeks old and just figuring out how to walk.” “The war with…” “They were named after the ghosts from Pac Man.” “N…News…” “Two of them fell asleep in my lap.”

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