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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The state of the internet is such that any time I see a screen name that looks like a real person's name I automatically assume they're: 1. a bot 2. trying to sell me something 3. both 1 and 2

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Infinity dollars, all the GPU's, all the data ever. Gonna cure all the diseases, solve world hunger, obsolete scarcity. Or maybe just make another shitty wearable that people didn't want the first 3 times. www.engadget.com/2267229/meta...

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Meta put Muse in a Tamagotchi like 'Charm' device - Engadget

Meta's Muse Charm is a Tamagotchi-like device with Muse AI.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me: It would be good to refactor this to not be one big package for improved separation of concerns and to make it easier to reason about. But I suspect that here there be dragons. Client: Make it so Me, scorched, clawed, and slightly bitten: Yeah, that figures.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The worst part about when the new ant colony that has just moved in discover you have water is waiting for the little bastards to take all the ant poison home and die. I now understand why the Home Depots here have infinity ant poison on the shelf.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I will never understand the clit mouse stans. The most useless human interface device that I have ever had the displeasure to use.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Shit I don't want: 1. clankers telling me if my shit is the same as everyone else 2. pretty much everything that this guy's face is on come to think of it

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You either die young, or live long enough to become that old guy who answers every question with "well.... it depends..."

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In #StarTrek you might de-evolve into a lemur because your neurotic hypochondriac coworker gets a flu shot. Still a better future than whatever all this shit is.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

La Forge: "We want to do experiments on the critical systems of the spaceship/computer keeping us all alive." Me: gee, that sounds like something you should not do in production. Episode: *dramatic music plays, because stuff is very broken now* #TNG was so far ahead of its time #StarTrek

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I had forgotten that Star Trek deals regularly with the loss of friends, parents, spouses, etc. A stark contrast to the modern era, where everything must carry 27 warning labels for an offhanded mention.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Anyone else ever get the urge to do a Worf-stache?

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Every time I try to be more social I remember why I stopped trying to be more social.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It has been 0 days since investing time in #testing has saved me from a silly #database mistake in the #backend

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Dug up some old media. No advertisements, no #TheAlgorithm trying to suggest what to play next. No episode summary, no discography, #nodistractions. Feels good.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Y'all ever just work on a thing to shut your brain up? Not serious effort, just wasting time, and then oopse you accidentally a thing? I may be in danger of that, brain won't shut up about it.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Been thinking a lot about #freelance work recently. The big platforms all look very "race to the bottom"-ey to me. Are there any effective alternatives to those platforms? Is there a market for back-end dev work in proper back-end languages? #softwaredeveloper

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you're conducting #interviews and you promise a followup by the end of the week, it's imperative that you hold yourself to that. If you fail to do so you're sending a very clear signal to the applicant. 1. We are disorganized 2. We don't value you as a candidate #recruiting #hiring

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I spent some time watching #StarTrek TNG yesterday. I had never really directly noticed that there seem to be at least two intermingled storylines going on in each episode. I noticed it because it "felt" different while watching. Am I going crazy or is this something we no longer do in TV?

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It should be illegal to have more than two interviews for a role. 😒

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just a little reminder to all my GenX (I didn't forget you) and Millennials out there. Right now, we have the opportunity to not become the boomers. Shut the fuck up about the burritos. Learn to coach the youngs instead of shitting on them.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Has anyone ever looked at a suburb and not been immediately filled with the same sort of deep primal dread that a mouse must feel when being placed in a cage?

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

No streams this weekend either because I really need to work on this project. Progress is good, there's just a lot to do. Sorry for the late notice.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's super funny that as everything becomes less and less usable because of all the AI that's been shoved into everything I'm seeing job posts demanding experience with clankers. Proompt harder lil bro, that'll fix it for sure. #fuckai

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I keep hitting this disconnect where I think : "Man, I'm really not very good at front end and it's so hard." Then I read answers on SO and think: "wow, none of these idiots have any clue what they are doing or why they are doing it." Why is front end like this?!?!?! #software #developer

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Unironically listening to Darude – ‘Sandstorm’ Because I have FREE WILL, LINDA!

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It should be illegal to make phone numbers mandatory on job applications. I'm not giving you my number so someone can call me back to back at 4 am for the same shitty job (real story).

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is a product to gamify education for kids. They want someone to turboslop it out. #fuckai

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Raw dogging American Dad DVDs on a dumb tv rn. RETVRN!

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I had a dream that I hadn't checked my YT analytics in a while, so I opened up the page and had 250k subscribers. I was shocked but also relieved, in the "everything is gonna be OK now, I'm finally doing well" sort of way.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

People tend to think that past humans were dumb because they didn't know about germs and had horses and boats instead of cars and planes. But they invented the pocket watch from first principles. Future people are gonna be right about us though. A lot of us are dumb as shit.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Is anyone studying how they make canned vegetables contain 25% of your RDI of salt without tasting like there's any salt in there at all? I feel like we should be able to apply this technology for good.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I've been a @jetbrains.com stan for a long time, but every patch I now have to turn off more AI bullshit, and right now their CEF browser thing is crashing constantly. The sloppified writing is on the wall. Good IDE's for Linux? Multi cursor, screen split, tabs. No vim/emacs.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The goal of this crowd is to spend the least amount of time possible playing the game, and then complain that the game is short. Getting stuck and exploring to figure out where to go is part of gaming. Learning how games generally work is part of gaming. "Limited time" is a terrible excuse.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hot take: given the sustained push Valve is making to support Linux gaming, your indie game NEEDS to care if it runs correctly on Linux/Proton. #indiegame #indiedev

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Identity verification is being forced for this platform, and none of the options are acceptable for me as a brand. Expect me to be using this platform less often as a result.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Not sure if my attention span has been harmed by the internet, or if I just want people to stop waffling on and get to the fucking point because I'm old.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Idiocracy and Office Space are the strongest argument for the feasibility of time travel. Mike Judge warned us how deeply stupid the corporate world would become. Then he told us how everyone was going to be a drooling idiot. Both things have happened, exactly as foretold.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Grifting shitlords have been solved. All the other actual problems have become more problematic with the introduction of "let's make the word maker-upper do everything" and it shows.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's weird to see so many voices I used to respect (not always agree with, but respect) fall to the grift machine. It's enough to make me worried that I'm the asshole in this equation. At the same time I've never been more certain that I'm right as when I reject the slop.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I realized something today. Squirrelly braces look like little bat'leths in emoji form. o{ }o <-- two little warriors defending their house's honor.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Medium, and by extension telling every idiot to write Medium articles as a form of stealth marketing, was a fucking mistake.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Explicit returns (even naked ones) at the end of a function are good. They make the code more legible. I am prepared to fight every linter and code golf enthusiast on this hill.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Feels like it was a slower weekend than normal for streaming. Not sure if I should blame sportsball, changing algos, or just summer time.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I hate it when people talking food say "you have to season it properly" or "perfectly seasoned" Motherfucker just say "put salt and pepper on it" because that's what your ass means. "Seasoned with smoked paprika" and the like get a side-eye, but a pass nonetheless.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Leetcode equivalent for management where you sit there watching them play pretend and trying to figure out if that note you just took on your pad (you drew a dickbutt) is a good or bad sign and then leave feeling defeated and questioning their career choice. Who's building this?

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Remember when you could go on YouTube and find some cool music collections to jam out to while working on stuff? That category of video is now drowning in slop. :(

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

People talking about Fable. =) It's another shitty fucking chatbot. =@ I hope these morons get dick lice from their sloppy-con valley hookers.

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Mongoose Studios @mongoosestudios.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Is your company struggling with the cost of all that slop you forced on your employees? I have a solution for you! Fire all of the decision makers that pushed AI on your company. Cancel your slop subscription. Re-hire all those people you laid off, with a pay increase.

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