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QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 28/07/2026

On accommodations for disability (specifically extra time on exams). As a somewhat recently graduated undergrad (not law) student with disabilities, exactly this. Accommodations are a good thing and we should offer more variety and make them easier to get.

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QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 07/07/2026

I realize this is probably a joke, but didn't the Pope recently and completely sincerely warn against this (building a Tower of Babel with AI)? I think the Pope had the right idea about building towards the betterment of people instead of to glory themselves.

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QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 27/06/2026

Tangential point, but if I became supreme overlord of the world, I would ban sharing screenshots of things like error messages or logs. They must be shared as text. A link to text is acceptable. Additionally, error messages and such must support copying as text. A copy to clipboard button is ok.

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🦷👁️Alex Rochon👁️🦷 @alexrochonva.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

As promised, here’s a thread of my extended thoughts on Digital Circus and its finale! I tried to organize these as best I could, but I wrote a ton so apologies if I’m rambling. Spoilers, of course, and my words are my own - not speaking for Goose, anyone at Glitch, or my castmates. Enjoy!

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QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 19/06/2026

I thought 4x3 was pretty cool so I made my own puzzle. Not sure about difficulty www.hankgreen.com/fourbythree#...

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4 × 3

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 17/06/2026

What's this, a new HTML proposal? Built-in localized time formatting in HTML! github.com/whatwg/html/...

<time datetime="2026-06-17T08:13:41.099Z" format="datetime">
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QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 07/06/2026

I watched The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act in a local theater tonight and it was great. Highly recommend. Excited for the general release on YouTube. Congrats to everyone who worked on it! You should be proud of what you accomplished!

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/05/2026

I regularly have people ask me about Mythos these days, so here are my thoughts: Finding bugs is never the hard part. Fixing them is. How’s your organizational alignment? Are your engineers burned out? How is your production resilience? Before you worry about the new shiny, focus on your basics

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I don’t need people to code* so much as I need junior developers to learn to think in ways that will eventually make them senior developers. genAI gets in the way of that.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 03/05/2026

Here's a super weird crowdsourcing request. I'm openly abusing my soapbox to find someone who fits a specific description. #sorrynotsorry Over the past several months I've occasionally asked questions about deeply held religious beliefs. Trying to get a feel for the various belief systems in play.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/04/2026

A bit over two years after starting to work on it... Go is officially FIPS 140-3 certified 💥 csrc.nist.gov/projects/cry... I am pretty confident Go is now one of the most—if not the most—seamless and complete FIPS 140-3 compliance solutions... with a single env var, out of the box.

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QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 19/04/2026

For me, partially yes. I need a mix of feature work, bug fixes, and refactoring or I go insane. But I love making a codebase more maintainable and adding docs, even though it is not visible to users. Unfortunately that is not easy to sell to management as beneficial and important

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Hey, attorneys, especially litigators: Read this thread and consider circulating it to your less online colleagues.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

hello what did i miss tell me every thing

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Time is so fake, “oh we added more daylight” no you didn’t, daylight is portioned by the cosmos repent of your hubris

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QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 18/02/2026

So, umm... As a developer, am I the elves in this situation? Or are the tools/code I built the elves?

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QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 14/02/2026

Questions for #lawsky and especially immigration lawyers like @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social I heard about programs like BYU's Community Legal Clinic for non-lawyers to become an Accredited Representative recognized by the DOJ. www.justice.gov/eoir/recogni... belongingclinics.byu.edu/accreditatio...

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Recognition & Accreditation (R&A) Program

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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 29/01/2026

Joint statement from Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees: In March 2026, Kubernetes will retire Ingress NGINX, a piece of critical infrastructure for about half of cloud native environments. This is an emergency. Please pay attention. kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01...

kubernetes.io

Ingress NGINX: Statement from the Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees

In March 2026, Kubernetes will retire Ingress NGINX, a piece of critical infrastructure for about half of cloud native environments. The retirement of Ingress NGINX was announced for March 2026, after...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

nobelprize.org

Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org

A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

This post has nothing to do with being pro or anti AI. It’s about a concerning trend in which people with institutional authority are constructing gatekeeping standards around “normal” "human" behavior.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/01/2026

The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a...

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How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

If you are with a pet, it's not anti-social

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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 13/12/2025

We put our founding date as our BlueSky birthday and got locked out of BlueSky last week during the heart of fundraising season. Our budget for next year is looking tight and we’re trimming our agenda. If you can help us with a donation, we will put it to truly good use! free.law/donate/

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Support Free Law Project

Free Law Project is the leading nonprofit using technology and data to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive. Creators of CourtListener, RECAP, and Bots.law.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 03/12/2025

Check your kid's list for the Flaming Sword of Handsomeus Ronicus.

Santa sitting at a computer in his home looking at the kinds of gifts people are thinking about buying for kids. He comes across a listing for a mystical sword of fire. Santa's advanced computer monitor creates a projection of the sword above the screen. Santa is surprised and says, "The Flaming Sword of Handsomeus Ronicus? To be handled only by the Champions of Light after completing the Trials of Virtue?! Who is gifting this to kids?!" A reindeer nearby says, "Oh, yeah. Ages 300+ for that one. Says it on the box." The text reads: Someday your kids may complete the Trials and attain the Sword. Until then, you should buy age appropriate gifts for kids from retailers you know and trust.

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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

As a prof, I receive several accommodation notices every teaching year. Every time I have reached back out to the UW Disability Office for guidance as to whether my proposed method of accommodation will work for this student. I have never once received a reply.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I think a lot of people don't realize how difficult it is to get accommodations for disability. in school, at work. there are invariably tons of hoops; it's slow. often it's humiliating.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

OK - pie discourse - best pie story: In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).* The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner. /1

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Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The comment thread here is the embodiment of :lolsob: There is legitimate promise to LLM-assisted coding, but there are also legitimate risks. Like this. And no one here is malicious!

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Eric Neustadter (e) @thevowel.com · 24/11/2025

Submitting a 13K-line PR that was entirely AI-written, where the AI inserted copyright headers for someone who isn’t the submitter, that you’re sure is fine because the AI told you it’s fine is so many kinds of broken. Your choices are learning to collaborate or be a solo dev.

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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 19/11/2025

Fish have committed credit card fraud

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 18/11/2025

SINCE THIS HAS COME UP AGAIN... WHAT TO DO IF YOU FIND YOURSELF THE TARGET OF A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION.

media.tenor.com

two men in suits and ties with a fbi badge on their jacket

Alt: you should be so lucky to meet Agents Winchester and Winchester

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QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 14/11/2025

This. I frequently use this in work chats to try to be as unambiguous as possible. If I have to come back to a message like "x happened on y" later, I want to know the year, month, and day for y without parsing surrounding context. Otherwise y could be this year or 4 years ago. Or a Monday in June.

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Ellen Bardash @ellenbardash.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

VC David gets an entry in the unofficial Delaware Footnote Hall of Fame

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Ellen Bardash @ellenbardash.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Someone put this on a t-shirt

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Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Obligatory disclaimer: do not roll your own cryptography if you're not a cryptographer it is subtle and quick to anger

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

So I have a Friday story for you. It’s one I promised to tell before. The themes are “seek help when you need it” and “communicating with family is important” but also “pay attention to how your coms work.” /1

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

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The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/10/2025

Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛, 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑 After equipping this item, you may not remove it from your hand. You must gaze deeply into it with every action and be driven mad. Messages from the damned come to you in haunting whispers and chilling images. Every year, you must purchase the newest version.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/08/2025

People are replying to this with “this is more an idiot problem than a tech problem.” Counterpoint: technologists KNOW that many humans are idiots, and are thus *morally obligated* to design technological systems in ways that attempt to mitigate this universal problem.

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OneShot @oneshotgame.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

OneShot x Skyless Blind crossover part 2 if the game gets funded

(comic)
Adystra and Gastello looking at a portal from the game

A: What's that
G: Warp technology beyond our current understanding of physics
G: and also an isosceles triangle

A: oh i meant the thing coming out of it
G: *shrug*

the next 3 panels are of a Niko plush on a roomba slowly approaching the duo

Last panel says please back SKYLESS BLIND on KICKSTARTER so they can put this ridiculous THING into the GAME

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OneShot @oneshotgame.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Soon....

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QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 12/07/2025

I backed Skyless Blind by Near (@skylessblind.bsky.social) on Kickstarter. The art style and premise seem really interesting. Also Niko Oneshot mention? www.kickstarter.com/projects/sky... #skylessblind #oneshot #nikoplush

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Skyless Blind - a stylized cosmic horror exploration game

Travel through the starlit ruins of a shattered cosmos

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matchboxbananasynergy @mbananasynergy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Signal. Tor. GrapheneOS. People should be loud and proud about using security and privacy tools that work - that's the best way to counter the narrative that only people with something to hide would. www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-gr...

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Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom

GrapheneOS offers some of the best privacy and security features of any smartphone operating system, but is it too effective at what it does?

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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Happy 4th of July, Batman.

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Luis Villa @lu.is · 02/07/2025

I have heard it said that tech people do not commission enough art. ericwbailey.website/published/yo...

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You MUST listen to RFC 2119 – Eric Bailey

It turns out you can just pay people to do things.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/07/2025

If your dog is shooting people with its electric laser the solution is not to punish the dog for using the electric laser. It’s to ask WHY DOES THE DOG HAVE A LASER.

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