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Scott Perry

@numi.st
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Inveterate tinkerer trying to make the world a better place for everyone.

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Scott Perry @numi.st · 12/06/2026
Last year, my team shipped a Swift rewrite of Apple's TrueType hinting interpreter. The new code is strictly memory safe, relentlessly tested, and faster than the C code it replaced. This year, it is my pleasure to ship it for a second time—now as an open source package—and to share our experience!
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 26/01/2026
everything must go
A chaotic mixture of bare femme mannequins—three wooden top halfs deep in thought, flanked by plastic bodies on one side and various shades of torsos, running figures, and upside-down bottom halfs on the other.Just the butt, its more suggestive side getting a glance from a passerby. Moments earlier the elder child was poking at the whole row, saying "penis, butt, penis, butt, penis, butt" as he pointed out their anatomy.

Also: there is a tiny anus for… drainage?two columns of "kids mannequins", one model about the size of a five year old and the other larger. A real five year old whispers into the ear of the frontmost model.Two busts on a table with half a dozen feet on a platform behind. One of the busts has a sale sign taped to its forehead, covering the face.
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 26/01/2026
scenes from bart
the view towards the city from the inbound platform at the Rockridge bart station during a particularly dramatic sunset with wispy cloudsLooking over a ~30% occupied parking lot from under a raised freeway + BART line. Lights shining down from the frontsides of the overpass columns. In the distance, the city skyline peeks through from between the tracks. Evening light, developed in high contrast black and white.On the opposite side of the station, someone sitting on a full width bench scrolls on their phone while, through the bright window behind then, the top half of Bliss dances.People waiting in shadow for a train to arrive while the world burns bright outside. Ceiling and floor texture emphasis. West Dublin/Pleasanton BART.
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 28/12/2025
the horror
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Tanya Breshears @tab.anomalous.works · 11/09/2025
I’m a knitter and web designer, and I learned Swift so I could make a ruler and row counting app for my projects. It’s called Fiber Friend and I’m proud of it 🥰 fiberfriend.app
fiberfriend.app
Fiber Friend: Ruler & Row Counter for Knitting and Crochet
Fiber Friend is a free iOS ruler and row counter for knitters and crocheters. Paid users can track multiple projects from their phone or watch.
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 15/06/2025
#NoKings protest at Valley Forge, PA
Washington at Valley Forge, painting c. 1911 by Edward Percy Moran.

Washington sits on horseback with soldiers disposed in various tasks around him. Log structures sit in the background behind an American flag, raised high.
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 13/06/2025
My wallet fell out of my pocket this morning and I didn't notice until I got back to my motorcycle and noticed it on the ground *under my kickstand*. Impossible odds.
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ray. @ray.wtf · 17/04/2025
If I'd known finding out was coming for us like this anyway I probably would've fucked around.
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 04/04/2025
@komara.bsky.social I want to buy a copy of your book, where can I find it?
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 27/03/2025
Dragons swim amongst us
A weedy seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) in a tank at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The background has the sort of blue wavy pattern you'd see on the bottom of a pool
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 21/03/2025
I’ve always loved the vibe of classic square-headlight Kawasakis. Nothing wears green better, and this ‘97-00 ZRX1100 looks especially good with the golden state as a backdrop.
A ZRX1100 in Kawasaki green parked on the edge of a road in front of some lightly shrubbed California foothills, just turning gold as the season changes from spring to summer.
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 27/08/2023
hey y'all @maybefriday.bsky.social is here!
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 19/08/2023
it's wild how the internet has gone from "everyone uses a pseudonym and nobody is who they say they are" to "we need impersonation warnings on satire or people will thoughtlessly treat it as fact"
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 01/08/2023
Sharing bsky invites with friends after learning that bored people will "voluntarily self-administer electric shocks" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26847946/#:….
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Self-inflicted pain out of boredom - PubMed
Previous research has shown that in response to a monotonous, boring lab situation, non-clinical participants voluntarily self-administer electric shocks. The shocks probably served to disrupt the ted...
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 06/07/2023
The decentralized social media environment is booming! Between Threads (ActivityPub that doesn't federate) and Bluesky (AT Protocol that doesn't federate), the possibilities are endless.
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 03/07/2023
I wrote a 5-minute freedive on the topic of caching, with a bit of "things software can learn (and build upon) from hardware" thrown in numi.st/post/2023/caches-make-predi…
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Caches Make Predictions About the Future
How a paper about CPU caches changed the way I think about software caches too
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 09/06/2023
Oh fuck
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 03/05/2023
Invite trees are a powerful moderation tool for admins, but arbitrary reaction emojis are a powerful moderation tool for the people. Why are we still settling for stars/hearts in this day and age?
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 02/05/2023
And of course they forcibly twist the discourse from "do your job or admit you can't" to just "resign" in the process.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 02/05/2023
Both. The invite tree accountability makes people more judicious about bringing in solid people, the early suspensions of bad accounts increased trust/confidence about commitment to safety, and the smaller community feels safer too. I do get nervous for #s going up & harassment campaigns starting
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Scott Perry @numi.st · 29/04/2023
It's nice to see this place learning something that TMBO has known for years: bans are more effective when you need an invite to get back in Next step: bans (or at least time-outs) for people who invited people who got banned
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