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Matt Ranney

@mranney.bsky.social
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Engineering. Trying to be better. Pittsburgh, PA

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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@kavehmd.bsky.social I really enjoyed your Matrix ep with @margaret.bsky.social
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What wireless protocol is Olivia Rodrigo using for these excellent stadium effects?
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My bsky feed is all sadness. Is there a way to make it show me more fun things?
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dormando.bsky.social @dormando.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Since Opus 5, claude code has been occasionally printing random chinese characters in its output. This morning I got a huge dump: half a line from my stuff then screenfull of someone's javascript UI tasklist in chinese. I imagine someone else must be getting random globs of my session output? No?
image with the top line being partial output from claude code in english. the text then suddenly changes to task list output for a frontend javascript UI in chinese.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Are data center builders just straight up bribing local governments? I don’t get why projects are approved over such strong public opposition.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Maybe just back off with the evaporative cooling in data centers and spend some money for AC units and solar farms. People would be fine with this.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The Colbert public access show from Monroe, Michigan is really the best TV show.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/05/2026
30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace
MS NOW cap of polling showing 66/30 positive/negative for "REACTION TO POPE LEO URGING PEACE, REJECTING WAR"
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
youtu.be/KIZt9YPAPZo?...
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Fantasy FAANGball
YouTube video by KRAZAM
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Wind storm was not kind to my solar project
Solar panels with broken glass covering
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This would get me to watch the Olympics.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This account is great.
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Kris 🧙‍♂️ Kowal @kriskowal.com · 28/01/2026
I am a pedantry enjoyer. Someone misspelled sieve. Maybe.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
It’s very cold here today, but quite sunny. Apparently my batteries are hotter than the sun. I think it’s a sign.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Got a handmade Gopher for Christmas.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
AI spam/troll posts are now so effective that experts are fooled and chaos reigns.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I really enjoyed this video @wired.com published about into to computing questions youtu.be/PZ_ebxkNZmo?.... Nice work @schasins.bsky.social.
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Professor Answers Coding Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
EVs making a subtle, shifting musical chord sound so we know they are there? Great idea. Good job car companies who do this.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Once again @theonion.com continues to delight.
Humorous message from The Onion about not carrying materials that don’t exist and would destroy the universe if they did.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
@felixge.de hey there, it’s been a minute, but our interests continue to align. Would you be up for a chat with me and some colleagues about Go profiling? We are DD customers, but this is some lower level stuff we are dealing with.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Riding horses with my boys
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Needs more paint.
Photo of the US / Mexico border wall near San Diego where the wall abruptly ends.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I took another Waymo in Tempe, AZ today. These things continue to be amazing. Nice job @johnkrafcik.bsky.social
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Japan seems fine with AI surveillance
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
@daveanthony.bsky.social I keep thinking that j-town is funny. I know that opinions differ on the matter.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
My son and I went to the @computerhistory.bsky.social museum and it was great.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
arstechnica.com/security/202...
arstechnica.com
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Markets alone are not enough. We live in community whether we acknowledge it or not. newrepublic.com/article/1596...
newrepublic.com
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Slack is down, which doesn’t happen very often. Easy to forget how deeply integrated Slack is into many workplaces.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
SLOs are good and more people are using them now which is also good. But what verb should we use for going outside of an SLO? I like “blow” as in, “as GC crept up, we blew our SLO”.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
It’s weird that I’m slowly turning into a LLM apologist. Obviously there are tremendous risks for humanity here, but LLMs are also a very useful innovation with real human benefit. I liked this podcast ep: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Playboi Farti and his AI Homework Machine
Podcast Episode · Search Engine · 02/14/2025 · 1h 1m
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Nancy 🌎🦋🇺🇦 @nancyworld.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
If you are a computer programmer ("coder") these days, you cannot afford to ignore AI software creation. It's not perfect, but will make you 10 or 20 times faster than the person next to you. Same for medical analysis like reading x-rays and summarizing patient histories, all in play TODAY.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Doing some science at home
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The National Science Foundation gave us the internet.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
@jamieloftus.bsky.social your Bryan Gaw interview was great. I sat in the car in the parking lot to finish the whole thing.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 23/01/2025
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️
teenvogue.com
Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
@williebhines.bsky.social I enjoy “on it” from the other platform, but I would rather put my energy here. Do you on it troll here as well?
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one. shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
shatterzone.substack.com
We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?
How to navigate the future without a map.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
All US social networks are banned in China. The Chinese government controls the entire internet there. This is not a trustworthy government.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I did this hike recently and it was great. youtu.be/BREF3EcUkjc?...
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Goat Canyon Trestle Hike
YouTube video by Matthew Ranney
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
US / Mexico border
Section of the border wall that ends abruptly in a large gap. Border wall snakes into the distance
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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 08/01/2025
Some of the firefighting activity over the #PalisadesFire this morning. www.flightradar24.com/multiview/38...
Fire fighting aircraft, including an MD-87, BAe-146, and multiple helicopters over the Palisades Fire in southern California.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Pretty cool cactus
Cactus plant with new growth that is a curious, non-spiky shape
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
California
High desert landscape hiking trail with interesting cactus plants in foreground.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Texas
Sun setting on a Texas highway
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Making some solar powered @meshtastic.org radios.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Meant to be optimistic, but my kid’s middle school gym banner is kind of dark.
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Matt Ranney @mranney.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
@airplanefaxwithmax.bsky.social have you talked about girt bars and “arming” doors? I think I get it, but I like your explanations.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A deep dive into the digital footprint of Luigi Mangione, a man radicalized by pain. shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ce...
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Alleged CEO Shooter Luigi Mangione Was Radicalized by Pain
A journey through his online footprint and influences
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