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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 07/10/2026

I'm 80% confident that I'll be quitting my job and taking a sabbatical starting in January. I'd like to think I have a high endurance for corporate bullshit, but everyone has limits.

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Benjamin Corey @benjamincorey.net · 05/10/2026

Nonblocking async sushi blocking north front street

Selfie with a “Tokio Sushi” truck parked across North Front Street under the philly L

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 05/10/2026

It really only shows up in BlueSky-compliant AppViews too. If you just query the PDS directly, all of your posts are technically visible to *everyone*, including those you blocked.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 05/10/2026

It's a wart from the way ATProto/BlueSky is designed. From a technical perspective, it's because, in ATProto, adding a block is stored on your account, while adding a follow is on their account. Because you're not authorized to make a change to their account, blocking doesn't change that number.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 02/10/2026

I can't believe yamabi.co is EoS'ing before Touhou LostWord does. Tsktsk smh my head @hazu.moe.

email from yamabi.co saying it's shutting down no sooner than January 1st, 2027.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 01/10/2026

The question was rhetorical: it's to support even larger KV-caches in even higher parameter count LLMs. Here I thought hardware level FP4 was ill advised, yet here we are again.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 01/10/2026

Just read up on the design and intent of HBF (high bandwidth flash), and I feel like I'm smoking the bad shit. Why the hell would you put a *degrading* component on something as high throughput as a GPU??? The cynic in me just sees a planned obsolescence trojan horse to force more GPU sales.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 30/09/2026

I will be a happier man when I can go a month without seeing MrBeast's soulrending eyes.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 17/09/2026

I do find it *deeply* ironic that the people who aligned themselves against crypto 10 years ago are now on a platform that built itself on web3-original standards (i.e. DIDs). ATProto dev circles are still are a tinge cryptobro adjacent too.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 17/09/2026

Just had the displeasure of talking to someone who convinced themselves that generative AI use in games is immoral, but upscalers like Waifu2x are somehow exempt from that category. When I started talking technical specifics, I suddenly get a wall of LLM-speak. I'm fucking done bro, how the fuck.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 15/09/2026

At the behest of my therapist and friends, I've picked up the saxophone again after 20 years. The mouth and fingers remember everything, but the brain doesn't, though it's quickly catching up. It's almost like I never stopped.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 12/09/2026

98+% of the traffic never touches the backing host. That means redirecting a 50x increase in traffic to said host. During spikes, that can easily be 500x more. Even if it's cheaper than the main service, there's simply not enough compute resources to sustain that.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 12/09/2026

It'd be hitting 404s much more often if that were the case, it seems like it's scraping as one would expect a crawler, just ignoring rate limit requests and robots.txt. We're hitting ~40-45 QPS on an absolutely tiny VPS, I don't think we have compute to tarpit them.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 11/09/2026

It also does not help that MediaWiki is the Embodiment of PHP Devil. Every bad decision from the early 2000s still biting us in the ass 20+ years later. Can we *please* have a layman-accessible wiki that doesn't require choking down decades worth of tech debt?

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 11/09/2026

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I miss the days when the worst we had to worry about was some salty asshole from China deciding to throw a few thousand requests per minute. At least that never had a public facing impact on the site and user experience.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 11/09/2026

We're getting to the point where these companies are using residential proxies for their scraping activities, so just blocking based on ASN is no longer sufficient, and had to do the nuclear option of putting the entire MediaWiki page render endpoint (/index.php) behind a persistent global bot check

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 11/09/2026

Looks like *everyone* has been interested in Touhou EoSD: NC, unfortunately including bots and AI scrapers. Leading up to the game's release, there's been a surge in both human and bot traffic to Touhou Wiki, which means yet further tweaking of the anti-bot measures.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 11/09/2026

Hi! I help manage the Touhou Wiki technical infrastructure. This is an bug with our aggressive caching/anti-bot measures to fend of AI scrapers. We recently (as in within the last 48 hours) tried to fix this. I *think* it should be fixed now?

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 10/09/2026

God fucking DAMNIT, the moment when the new Shanghai Teahouse in EoSD: New Classic hits the erhu.

static.klipy.com

Zyzz Uptempo Dance with Headphones

ALT: Zyzz Uptempo Dance with Headphones

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 03/09/2026

I've been doing a lot of tech work in low-tech organizations, and I'm continually screaming on the inside saying "this Excel/Google sheet could be a cronjob", even moreso when I don't have the political capital to convince others to use it.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 03/09/2026

Ugh, the Nitter/Xcancel C&Ds broke my RSS feeds. Need a better way to extract information from the site without a permanent login.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 03/09/2026

I should really make a 3D printed enclosure for a USB drive and pretend it's a Rockman.EXE PET. - Enter the DreamSwd Program Advance and it'll boot up a NixOS instance w/ impermanence. - Put a dark chip in and have it boot TailsOS.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 30/08/2026

I fear for the day when JPEG XL sees widespread use.

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maullarmaullar☄️ @maullarmaullar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Guys are always learning "Python" and "Rust" but they never get in a GUY'S THONG and BUST. Is this anything

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 29/08/2026

Used the time in bed to modularize my Nix config, I'm loving flake-parts and using the dendritic pattern. Beats relative path using relative path imports everywhere.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 27/08/2026

Fucking hell, this is the second time I've contracted a respiratory bug in the past 3 months. There's some nasty bugs running around.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 24/08/2026

Everything I learn about DHH is against my will.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 21/08/2026

You may not like it, but this is what peak cosplay looks like. At Anime NYC.

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 18/08/2026

Featured game: Horse Magnifier: The Full Horse store.steampowered.com/app/4585340/...

store.steampowered.com

Horse Magnifier: The Full Horse on Steam

this is a game about magnifying horses.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 18/08/2026

Now in NYC for the first time, it's hot as fuck.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 17/08/2026

Reject ahegao T-shirt. Embrace crying Kosuzu T-shirt.

A shirt parodying tbe ahegao shirt with nothing but Kosuzu Motoori crying.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 14/08/2026

@richardeffendi.bsky.social I can only blame you for this. thin_vec![] has been drowned out by people playing with Youmu's butt.

"Youmu when I play with her butt"-pilled timeline

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 14/08/2026

Opened this MAGWest listening to progressive symphonic metal cover of Megalovania. This weekend is gonna be crazy.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 14/08/2026

Even if I did only buy one type of sock, my Christmas gift socks are legion and will return the horde back to chaos.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 13/08/2026

All this talk about AI productivity boosts and there's still no solution to the biggest waste of my time: pairing and sorting socks after laundry. I swear I spend too many hours every two weeks sifting through the piles of socks only to find I've somehow lost yet another to the void.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 12/08/2026

GDC is notorious for being impossible to afford. I'm a hobbyist game dev in the SF Bay Area, and I haven't been able to go in 10+ years! If I found out that up to 25% of that badge price went to buying me lunch @ $50/day, I'd be absolutely livid.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 12/08/2026

It's for these reasons why it's cost prohibitive for hobbyists to participate in these conferences. You *need* to have your company comp your trip, write it off as a business expense, or need to prep actual vacation time and money on attending.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 12/08/2026

This is obviously apples to oranges, with TouhouFest being a volunteer-led community-run fan events funded almost entirely off of badge sales, and RustWeek having significantly higher sponsorship funding, but it's still crazy how wasteful some of these industry conferences are.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 12/08/2026

Having helped run events for several thousand people with similar if not greater A/V tech needs on a ~$100k USD budget, spending €130k on food for 5 days is unfathomable to me. This year, TouhouFest delivered on a 1,000 person 4 hour concert with just $5,000 in A/V budget.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 10/08/2026

Just three days into this break and I'm already feeling notably better. Finally had the time to sit down and cry after two months of non-stop work. Might spend the time to finish that eulogy I've been writing for almost a year now.

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Carter Anderson @cart.work · 10/08/2026

Today is Bevy's sixth birthday! As always, I've used this as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline my hopes and dreams for the next year of #bevy: bevy.org/news/bevys-s...

bevy.org

Bevy's Sixth Birthday

Hey! @cart here (Bevy's creator and Project Lead). It is crazy to say it, but Bevy is six years old now! As is tradition, I will take this as a chance…

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 07/08/2026

Looks like the physical effects of the last 3 months is starting to catch up to me. My body is screaming at me to get some physical and mental rest. I'll be taking a month off from work tomorrow, and minimizing any volunteering and work for my hobbies in that time.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 02/08/2026

Time to unwind for the first time in a looooong while. Looking forward to just cleaning up the apartment and bedrotting for a day.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 01/08/2026

Gotta love working on dedicated *-only events like TouhouFest. There's plenty of fun themed integrations you can make.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 30/07/2026

100% a people issue. I've never worked with people this lacking in social tact, empathy, or respect for others' time and effort. Can't move teams again until next November, and I swear if this continues for another 3 months I might hurt myself or others.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 30/07/2026

New team really isn't panning out the way I had hoped. Mental health is taking a massive nosedive. I'm 90% sure I'll be back in the job market again within the next 3 months.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 30/07/2026

Got a software launch this Saturday, not even for my day job, and I feel more anxious about it than anything I've been paid for.

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james7132 @no-bull.sh · 29/07/2026

I'm laughing my ass off at how MangaGamer's new site has a separate category for "Gameplay".

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fai @faiell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

one week left to apply. this is an excellent chance to try your hand at doujinshi - happening next to an established anime con (ALA) with a low, non-prohibitive table cost ($30), and rules around doujin-exclusivity! link: forms.gle/hhrb9Ffzs6bY1P… website: mmm.yaoi.city

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