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Developer of invisible software, clear-visor motorcyclist, photography enthusiast, Linux buff, frictionless sphere. Built the #hatefeed: hatefeed.ing Become a portrait of a life well lived.

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Nick @nanovad.com · 21/09/2026
Yep, I use Obsidian whenever possible, but unfortunately I'm still required to use Notion for some things (like knowledge bases) at work. They always seem to start off disorganized and trend worse.
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Nick @nanovad.com · 21/09/2026
Notion is such a miserable product 😐
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Nick @nanovad.com · 18/09/2026
This is basically about deploying on Fridays tbh
A panel from Junji Ito's Enigma of Amigara Fault, with a man climbing into a silhouette-shaped hole in a rock, saying "This is my hole! It was made for me!"
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Nick @nanovad.com · 10/09/2026
I find Cassiopeia is easy to identify, even in Bortle 7
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Nick @nanovad.com · 02/07/2026
Slop Overflow is only slop if it comes from the slop generator; otherwise it's just sparkling bugs.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
The CRASH Clock paper is now peer-reviewed! So to celebrate, my co-authors and I wrote an explainer article (because how better to celebrate one article than by writing another... oh academia...) It's now published in The Conversation Canada […]
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Nick @nanovad.com · 18/06/2026
toothpicks? no. teethpick.
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Nick @nanovad.com · 16/06/2026
Look around for nearby refrigerated semi trailers that might be running. I had the exact same experience, spent weeks unplugging and isolating things, and finally figured out the overnight refrigerated grocery store supply truck would sit where its sound reflected into my room.
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ceej @ceej.online · 11/05/2026
the only thing preventing the production of a 1km long twizzler is cowardice
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Nick @nanovad.com · 18/03/2026
Occasionally something as minor as a poorly named endpoint will send it on a tangent, but I've found pasting the OpenAPI schemas helps keep it on rails. Still have the verification problem though. Unit tests aren't quite the right tool for the job, and E2E tests are heavy and finicky.
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Nick @nanovad.com · 18/03/2026
I suspect the tool struggles because a lot of the behavior is manually verified against a (usually underspecified) spec, and testing typically looks like "run this script and see if it matches the previous known-good output", or involves a 3rd party in the testing loop.
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Nick @nanovad.com · 18/03/2026
I write a lot of glue programs that use a series of API calls to munge/export data. Claude is heinously bad at this; it constantly introduces regressions, ignores existing fields (& hallucinates others) and generally just mucks up the output in hidden / subtle ways.
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Nick @nanovad.com · 18/03/2026
It's only 3d pop if it comes from the Zeiss region of Germany. Otherwise it's just sparkling barrel distortion.
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Nick @nanovad.com · 01/03/2026
The next step is clicking on what you want to type to make things happen
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 01/02/2026
Every piece of code I write feels like a decision I'm taking responsibility for. If my code doesn't work, or does something it shouldn't, it's on me. So I prefer to take my time and ensure the code is right to the best of my ability.
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Nick @nanovad.com · 24/01/2026
Manifesting the opposite of this
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Nick @nanovad.com · 05/01/2026
One of the first iterations of the Hatefeed hatefeed.ing attempted to filter to positive sentiments and just ended up being full of porn.
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Showing you the worst of the Bluesky firehose through semantic analysis.
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.A plate of the same cookies.
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Nick @nanovad.com · 15/11/2025
@andrewfleer.com 👀
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Nick @nanovad.com · 17/10/2025
Your business is not big enough to use CI/CD beyond test environments; also, Git is not a suitable release gate.
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Tamás Deme ‘tomzorz’ @tomzorz.me · 16/10/2025
mfw mr beast is planning to launch his own bank
Film still from The Big Short showing a close-up of Christian Bale portraying Dr. Michael Burry. He wears a blue T-shirt and white wired earphones, sitting in his cluttered office with blurred shelves and a monitor in the background. This moment occurs during a key scene in which Burry listens to music while analyzing financial data, underscoring his socially withdrawn and hyper-focused character as he anticipates the impending collapse of the U.S. housing market. The glass reflection in the foreground emphasizes his isolation and detachment from others around him.
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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 14/09/2025
It’s like with tax software—makers of tax software have an interest in making tax laws overly and needlessly complex. Makers of “coding LLMs” have an interest in making it impossible to write code manually.
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 14/06/2025
on type safety
Frog and Toad illustration edited to say: Frog put the value in an option. "There", he said, "now we will not deref any more null pointers". "But we can unwrap the option," said Toad. "That is true", said Frog.
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Nick @nanovad.com · 05/09/2025
Found out that Attilla Danko, webmaster of cleardarksky.com, died late last year. www.cleardarksky.com/personal/ind... CDS has been an excellent resource for #astronomy forecasts for myself and doubtless many others. RIP Attilla.
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Nick @nanovad.com · 26/07/2025
Truly a ball of wibbly-wobbly protocol-y stuff
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Nick @nanovad.com · 26/07/2025
I am golang insane
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Ben Darlow @kapowaz.net · 26/07/2025
#memes
A screenshot from Discord with an error message that says “Forward Failed. The message could not be forwarded to the following location: #memes” and two buttons Retry and Dismiss
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Nick @nanovad.com · 16/04/2025
Oh look, a Python package that does exactly what I need! It's lightweight and well-documented, even! It's unfortunately also unmaintained and depends on an older version of a library my project uses that has since introduced breaking changes 🙃
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/04/2025
Mall Escalator Spits Out Another Pile Of Bones
Mall Escalator Spits Out Another Pile Of Bones
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
And one thing I'm quickly realizing about myself is that I have a hard time sympathizing with the idea that "the way the world used to work" is harder than how big tech wants it to work. I can't shake the feeling that big tech thrives on people who conflate "new" with better.
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GitHub @github.com · 07/04/2025
Two decades. Countless commits. Approximately one billion merge conflicts. Happy birthday to our favorite little version control system, Git! 🥳
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sun also confirmed for flat ☀️ @vcr-wolfe.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
ive been thinking abt this video literally all day today
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
leaving my malapropism job for greener pastors
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Nick @nanovad.com · 20/03/2025
The difference between knowledge and wisdom is knowing _how_ to force push vs _when_ to force push
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Nick @nanovad.com · 15/03/2025
I wish the Slack and Google Photos notification bar icons were slightly more distinct. 😐
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Nick @nanovad.com · 15/03/2025
Last time I tried to use Haskell, it bit me, I got a rare blood disorder, and I had to start medication. At least there are no side effects.
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Tamás Deme ‘tomzorz’ @tomzorz.me · 14/03/2025
It's okay to let it outside, won't survive for long. Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Nick @nanovad.com · 11/03/2025
There are 2 environments: testing and ✨spicy testing✨. Some people erroneously call ✨spicy testing✨ "prod"
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austin @aparker.io · 07/03/2025
EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A FULL SYNC OF THE WHOLE NETWORK INTO MY FIREHOSE CONSUMER
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Nick @nanovad.com · 05/03/2025
"You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like"
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T
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Nick @nanovad.com · 04/03/2025
[Python packaging tool yells at cloud]
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Nick @nanovad.com · 03/03/2025
#hatefeed v0.4.0 is out! The hatefeed now hydrates display name and handle. hatefeed.nanovad.com
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Nick @nanovad.com · 24/02/2025
Forgot to post this to #booksky 💙📚
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Nick @nanovad.com · 24/02/2025
Finished it. Yes, it is.
Screenshot of a draft Goodreads review of On The Road by Jack Kerouac, rating it at 2 stars. The review reads "At least it isn't pretentious about the fact that it's masturbatory and pointless - 2 stars for that."
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Nick @nanovad.com · 22/02/2025
About 1/4 the way through Kerouac's On The Road. Is it like this the whole way through?
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Obsidian @obsidian.md · 20/02/2025
Obsidian is now free for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site. obsidian.md/blog/free-fo...
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Obsidian is now free for work
Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore organizations that support Obsidian on our new Enterprise page.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/02/2025
Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
An interesting document is Wikipedia's edit filter for internet brainrot which gets updated if certain meme phrases are overwhelmingly used in vandalism. It started in the yolo/swag era and has evolved to the skibidi/rizz present, regularly dropping memes that are sufficiently stale (like Harambe)
regex to capture memes such as "|absolute\s*unit" and "|b+o+iii+"
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