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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

This is one of the reasons I got residential solar. Financially it ended up working out as a way of "locking in" electricity rates to my loan repayment. Even if my payback period isn't great (20 years) I benefit by not worrying about the increase in electricity rates.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I've started writing an agentic thing for work and a nice trick I've noticed is that the accessibility representation of the DOM is _way_ better than the "full dom" for LLMs. There's a positive world where folks make their site accessible to benefit LLMs and side effect it's better for people too

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Either China figures out how to commoditize the LLM tech space in which case sovereign AI doesn't matter, or leading labs will always have the edge and Canada won't be able to compete if they don't partner with the big players.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Apple Arcade games mostly solve this. No in-app purchase shenanigans, no ads. Totally worth it for us.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Have you used Sora 2 app yet? I got access last night. Not a flex or anything, but using the actual app feels qualitatively different and better than competition. Dedicated app + focus on friends + cameo feature together combine to something quite cool.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Being free at this quality means they don’t have real competition?

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I viewed. How’s my soul looking?

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

You make a good point… this weekend was incredible

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Victoria Park does this well with the exercise area

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Woman are better at multitasking and keeping context on parallel threads simultaneously. It’s entirely possible that coding becomes dominated by women in the next 5-10 years. Would be great to see!

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

As a software engineer based in Canada with no plans to move to the US, I welcome the news of H1B changes. It benefits me in multiple ways, and I can’t really think of a downside.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

And the employee is trapped in US for the foreseeable future. If a parent or sibling or something in their home country gets sick or is going to die then employee needs to choose between saying goodbye in person, or losing their job.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I'm at 95% of my code, closing in on 99% written by AI. The last 1-5% are things I know are one line-ish changes that would take more time to write a prompt than just make the change myself.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The whole article is gold! Laughed out loud for real 5 or 6 times.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

This video is like an Easter egg of the internet youtu.be/-ahtp0sjA5U?... And then you read the comments, and some of the reply threads of the comments and it’s like unlocking a secret room from an already secret area in Silksong

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Ben Affleck Mocks Armageddon

YouTube video by servomoore

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I made it pretty far into Act 2 before sharpening the needle the first time lol

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Italy has age verification requirements for certain online services.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

You’re right. All residential streets should be 30.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Lower speed limits are not “arbitrary”. They are safer speed limits. They are the difference between life and death.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I'm proud that I'm not really struggling with Silksong. I mean there are some tough bosses that have taken 10+ tries, but I've never felt the game was unfair. I've always felt like I've had a chance and I usually just need to be either more patient or a bit more aggressive.

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SE Asian Games for Good @seagamesforgood.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

One thing I think we both understand but is widely under appreciated in the industry is the large amount of essential/inherent complexity in state systems. It’s where 99% of bugs exist. There’s not even a name for this kind of work. I call it “product architecture”.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I think you introduce a new class of problems it becomes difficult to reason about UX as server data changes. Client state being explicit with effects and state may not be easy, but it is simple. You render what is in client state that’s it. You want to render something? Put it in client state.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I think your first example highlights the drawbacks of derived state. I think the situation of selected user “coming back” when that user is available in backend data is almost never wanted in practice?

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I hope we can celebrate good times this weekend

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I'm conflicted about liking this post. I _do_ like it, but if I then actually like it am I being hypocritical or feeding the ridiculous beast in some way? Another instance of set of sets that may or may not include itself.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Where do you think the danger comes from? E.g. what specific negative outcomes do you think will manifest?

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is a good (long) post on the matter www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/how-... And here’s Stripes rules stripe.com/en-ca/legal/...

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How credit cards make money

Credit cards make money through net interest, interchange, fees, and marketing contributions.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

It would be interesting to dig deeper into where and why the initial regulations changed. Given multiple processors are enacting the same kind of new restrictions this isn’t limited to Stripe. But a blanket ban on LGBQ stuff is silly and not true.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

So if Stripe screws up that is “existential” which incentivizes being cautious. This is precisely how Steam and Itch are operating as well. Everyone is incentivized to be cautious because non-compliance is so disastrous (can kill the company entirely).

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

People think Stripe is huge and untouchable but the payment and financial industry as a whole is orders of magnitude larger. So if Stripe or others don’t play by the rules they can be “removed” by the system.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Companies like Stripe are at the “frontlines” since they are the initiator of the transaction. There’s a long game of telephone for regulation to get to Stripe and then even inside of Stripe policy guidance will pass and be interpreted by multiple teams.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

That’s not how this works unfortunately. There are many different companies and financial partners involved and setting policies and regulations. And then people inside of all these organizations trying to understand and follow the rules set by others, etc.

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Omar Ismail @omarismail.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is not official company policy

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

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