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Dylan Perks

@perksey.com
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Microsoft MVP | Software Engineer @ QinetiQ | C++, Rust, among others | Creator of Silk.NET | Member of .NET Foundation

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)
Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) in Slow Horses
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026
Saw a woman on TikTok who said she quit corporate at age 46 to become a beekeeper because “I would literally rather get stung by 10,000 bees than write ‘per my last email’ again” and you know what? I respect that
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Skip intro
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 18/09/2026
Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park
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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 26/08/2026
Well it was bound to happen securelist.com/android-head...
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First Android malware targeting automotive head units
Kaspersky expert has discovered new Android malware designed to serve ads and build a proxy botnet. It's delivered through legitimate software for DoFun head units.
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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Dylan Perks @perksey.com · 08/08/2026
Has anyone done any market research on the affect of AI usage on open-source projects? Is it a loud minority that would avoid a dependency that uses AI, or is this the overriding opinion?
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Kai Jellinghaus @kaij.party · 04/08/2026
I have a horrible habit of typing my response into the message box, but not sending it, then still marking it as responded mentally. Do not expect a response from me. For reasons unclear to me I wrote it but did not press send.
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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Dylan Perks @perksey.com · 27/07/2026
“Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (@gsuberland@chaos.social) on Mastodon writes: inside you are two wolves and their 839 legitimate interest data partners.
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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: Omni Man and Invincible are floating in the sky. Two fighter jets are flying nearby. One is labeled "double" and the other is labeled "float". Omni Man is labeled "Mathematicians". Panel 2: Omni Man / Mathematicians turn to Invincible and say "Look what they need to mimic a fraction"
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Kastor @kastor.sh · 23/07/2026
It’s finally out
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 08/06/2026
We live in the stupidest timeline.
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Dylan Perks @perksey.com · 07/06/2026
Sad, I think MAVEN was the first mission I remember paying attention to.
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Lord Arse! 🕹️ @lordarse.com · 25/05/2026
Looking forward to going back into the workshop tomorrow.
UK weather map showing Ireland and Britain shaded in deep orange and red under an ‘Extreme Heat’ warning. Overlaid labels replace temperature warnings with swearing: ‘FUCK’ over Scotland and Ireland, ‘HOLY FUCK’ over northern England, ‘FUCK SAKE’ over Wales/Midlands, and ‘FUCK THIS’ over southeast England. Caption at bottom reads ‘Mon / Tues’. Basically the entire map is panicking.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This dog must have an amazing sense of humor. Original post
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 19/05/2026
We only rate dogs. This is a precious little seal. She is laying on the beach and everything. Please be more respectful of our craft, and only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (IG: jaynjoyyy)
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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 16/05/2026
Leaked image of new Apple EV.
EV on its roof, with charging cable underneath; reminiscent of Apple Magic Mouse.
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🦇Harper 🔜 ANE 🦇 @2manystripes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Why are cybertruck drivers the WORST at parking
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 10/05/2026
C has a borrow checker it’s called mythos
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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 20/04/2026
Apple announces that John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman (Business Wire) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/04/2026
Make It Myself xkcd.com/3233/
Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 15/04/2026
Countdown Standard xkcd.com/3232/
Comic. One... two... THREE! [text in red] X Deprecated [line break] One... two... three... GO! [text in red] Deprecated [red curly bracket around top two lines] Too easy to mix up [line break] Three... two... one... GO! [text in green] [check mark] ISO Standard [caption] If I were in charge of ISO, the first thing I’d do would be to standardize the way people count out loud before doing something in sync.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 14/04/2026
It's Bounce House season.
A bounce house with razor sharp teeth and tentacle wings flying off the ground. A family runs away in terror. The father shouts, "it's taking flight! The son shouts to the family dog, "Sparky! Wait for us!" Sparky shouts back in perfect human language, "Nope!" The text reads: Never use a bounce house if it's windy. Wind speed should be no more than 15 to 25 miles per hour. Make sure your bounce house is properly staked and anchored on a flat, even surface.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/04/2026
Day Counter xkcd.com/3228/
Comic. [Sign above four people. A person sits at a desk working on a laptop. A person with ponytail is talking to person with white hat. A person with short hair walks away.] SIGN: It has been [-0.00000000000000044] days since our last floating point error
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 10/04/2026
truly the best times on Octopus Agile at the moment. Getting paid to use electricity in the UK thanks to investments in wind 💨 and solar ☀️
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/04/2026
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 08/04/2026
Internal memo: Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's developer division, will resign after 34 years and move to an "advisory role" at the end of June (Tom Warren/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Dylan Perks @perksey.com · 25/03/2026
To be fair, I always found it strange that U.S. airports had government-controlled security anyway coming from the UK where it’s on the airport to provide their own security that comply with regulations.
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Dylan Perks @perksey.com · 12/03/2026
The desire for Xbox exclusives is a bit elusive. Never would I have thought that “please eliminate choice and make me buy a specific box for this game rather than what’s cheapest/best at the time” would be a prevailing sentiment.
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Dylan Perks @perksey.com · 07/03/2026
ImageSharp is your next 2D game engine!
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/03/2026
Electric Vehicles xkcd.com/3214/
Comic. [Person 1 talking to a person with shoulder-length hair and a person with a white hat.] PERSON 1: I would never get an electric vehicle. Sure, they sound great, but what do you do if the battery runs out of charge? [caption] I felt pretty silly when someone finally explained tome that EVs are rechargeable.
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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 04/02/2026
VLANs are institutional discrimination
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 01/02/2026
I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary. It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.
JetBrains GoLand IDE showing sqlite3 bindings written in Go.
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Added an "LLM shaming" section to RFD 576 rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576#_ll...
Section on "LLM shaming" added to RFD 576 ("Using LLMs at Oxide")
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 11/01/2026
Where can I cancel my two weeks free trial of 2026 before the deadline?
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Dylan Perks @perksey.com · 09/01/2026
It’s always “when I read the script I was blown away I knew it was a project I had to be involved in” and never “my agent sent me this and said it would pay X dollars and that sounded pretty good”
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Dylan Perks @perksey.com · 03/01/2026
Today’s episode in “naming things is one of the hardest problems in computer science”
A user named Exanite writes “Seems to be something in
ArrayParameterTransformer.TransformArrayP
arameterRewriter
Oh noes” in a Discord message, followed by a rofl emoji and a screenshot showing the result of C# code "glFeedbackBufferxOES".Singularize(false) evaluating to "glFeedbackBufferxO". In response, a user named Perksey writes “Haahahahahahahahahhaha
Oh no I dropped my xOES”. An additional screenshot is shown with the code in context:

class TransformAccaxParameterRewriter(
string? countParam, string ptrParam,
TypeSyntax ptrParamType, TypeSyntax prELementType,
bool isoutput, bool isHr
) : CSharpSyntaxRewriter
public override SyntaxNode VisitMethodDeclaration(MethodDeclarationSyntax node) => node. WithIdentifier(Identifier@node.Identifier.ToString(). Singularize( false))
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Dylan Perks @perksey.com · 02/01/2026
Current mood: fighting the urge to 3D print and recreate the radio from Portal after seeing one (1) reel on someone else doing the same.
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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I'm a firm believer that this liminal period between the holidays and New Year's is how we're supposed to live. It's peak existence. May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.
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🔞Vee @mommavee.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
With current RAM prices this might be the only option left
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 27/12/2025
At the gpg.fail talk and omg #39c3 You can just put a \0 in the Hash: header and then newlines and inject text in a cleartext message. Won’t even blame PGP here. C is unsafe at any speed. gpg has not fixed it yet.
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