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Buggy software smh

A gas station LCD panel with a bug behind the glass

Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 29/09/2026

My aggressive use of labelers and blocklists makes this a wildly different webbed site than I suspect it is for most people Obscure reference but this is like when I've blocked the Obvious Troll in world chat in an MMO and I'm watching everybody else argue with them whilst I am Farming Ore

A labeler settings page. The labeler is for Blue Heart Emoji. I have chosen to Hide users that use blue heart emojis in their username and/or description, cause that shit's fuckin cringe bruv

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 22/08/2026

Honestly I'm embarrassed to still be getting YouTube recommendations at all That said, holy fuck, what is going on with their sidebar recs right now

A youtube thumbnail of a man with a huge mustache recommendting putting techniques

A bearded man teaching a course on Islamic theology

A shitass slop thumbnail, who even knows what it depicts. A vault full of chicken? The video purports to be about the economics of KFC franchising

A black slide with a small thumbnail of a person presenting. The video is titled "Argument of a Research Thesis"

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 22/08/2026

Single cylinder engines sound very silly. Just a big donky 400cc piston whacking around lol It's not a /fast/ bike, but I don't go to the track, and it's nice and nimble on the back roads. Should be fun on light trails too

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 22/08/2026

Well getting this thing was a huge pain, but mission accomplished

A red and black Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle. It's a tall motorcycle with a big round front headlight and windscreen, and two pannier boxes on the back. It's tied down to a motorcycle trailer.

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 18/08/2026

God Harriot's writing is good

Some would argue that our ability to discuss this so-called “controversy” without bias is compromised by our relationship with NABJ.

I agree.

I am biased. That’s how journalism works. Having more information and additional context allows news gatherers to deliver a more informed perspective to the public than random reactionaries who speculate about tweets, online clips and out-of-context headlines. It’s why political reporters ride on Air Force One, and sportswriters wait in locker rooms. Attending the White House

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 17/08/2026

Not really sure why even, this map is not that big, they could definitely get this thing in there if they wanted XIV has always been really stingy with its maps while being, uh, overly generous with its stories, lets say Feels like a corporate mandate that every story must be like 40 hours

Freecam view from the top of that same weird horn thing. Map's not really all that big. Back of the horn thing isn't modeled.

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 17/08/2026

FFXIV has done this weird thing for a while where there's some massive, sick-looking thing in the distance in a given region, but it's way outside the field of play "See that mountain? You can't climb it, actually.

Screenshot of FFXIV, in one of the endwalker regions. I could not be assed to tell you what it's called, I exclusively refer to this place as fantasy India. The depiction is borderline offensive. Everybody is an elephant.

In the distance is a huge, unrealistic-looking land horn mountain thing made of purple crystal. Magic I guess, idk man, Endwalker was really mid

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 24/07/2026

Finally decided to trade in my Benelli; picking up this beauty next Friday, can't wait I've always been a much bigger fan of the Himalayan 411 than the 450, and they're getting so rare now. This thing is like the exact spec I've always wanted; red with ABS and factory cargo

A Himalayan 411 dual-purpose motorcycle. It's got a red fuel tank, spoked wheels, black cargo bags, and a big round headlight.

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 06/07/2026

Over the weekend I modified a Razer Naga Elite V2 to use electromechanical switches instead of opticals. Kailh's 2-pin dome-style microswitches are totally silent, and don't have the same debounce issues normal microswitches have. No extra debouncing was necessary for this conversion

A disassembled Razer Naga Elite V2, a black computer mouse. The main microswitches have been removed, and one of them has been replaced with an absolute doohickey, a roughly soldered together circuit comprised of a BJT, a 4.7k resistor, and a Kailh 2-pin microswitch

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 28/06/2026

Getting a bunch of these and making my apartment insane

Light socket to twin wall plug converter. Lets you plug normal things into light sockets and still have a bulb

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 23/06/2026

The question is not whether I'll get the Titan 2 Elite, but whether I will wear it in a pouch on my belt and which "custom protection kit" I'll use. Excuse me, leather holster

A leather holster for the unihertz titan 2

A selection of some different cases for the unihertz titan two. They come in orange, black, grey, and white, and includes an orange lanyard

A picture of the Unihertz Titan 2 Elite from the front and side. It's a wide-ish rectangular smartphone with a full qwerty keyboard occupying the bottom third of the device. From the side, it has hard square edges and a red button, with a small camera bump

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 05/06/2026

The trip also involved unplanned detours. For fun, not for extra charging! We detoured out of Moncton to see the Hopewell Rocks, which added about 100km to the drive from Moncton to Wolfsville on day 2.

A photo from the balcony overlooking the Hopewell Rocks on a beach. They're several strange looking geological structures carved by the changing tide into the conglomerate-based cliff face. Idk I'm not a geologist.

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 05/06/2026

After watching @techconnectify.bsky.social and @agingwheels.bsky.social videos about EVs, and particularly EV road trips for years, I finally decided to give it a shot. I rented my first ever EV, having never driven one, and did this route over two days. Total trip was about 700 miles

A Google Maps route from west of Boston to Nova Scotia, Canada

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 11/05/2026

So ok, it's been really clear that this is the case for a while, but it's worth saying straight up: When they say "the network", they just mean HTTP. "If you don't like us you can go build your own entire website, and the work we've done makes that no easier than just using HTTP"

Post from some guy who works at bluesky, idk

"My position is pretty simple: if someone's way of engaging online is through harassment and pile-ons, Bluesky is not the right fit for you. The network is open and decentralized, and people are free to build or participate in communities that align with how they want to engage online"

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 06/05/2026

New keeb after minor pain and suffering (burned some microcontroller vias, had to desolder and put a new one in lol) Trying linears for the first time since I started building, went with NK Cream Arcs at like 100 grams of bottom out, lol. Not lubed or filmed yet, deciding if I like the weight

A photo of a split keyboard, the Helix 5 Row. It's an ortholinear keyboard with 6 columns and 5 rows, plus two extra keys on the lower inner portion, which leaves a gap cut out for the microcontroller

The two halves are connected with an audio cable, and sitting in front of a similar keyboard that isn't split

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 25/04/2026

Btw was this guy from the Evercold keynote AI? Me and the friend I watched it with were pretty sure it was AI

A screenshot of some clip art from the FFXIV Evercold announcement keynote. Looks AI to me, idk

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 23/04/2026

I'm so mad we aren't getting this thing in the US

A red Hyundai Ioniq 3, a small but weirdly proportioned electric hatchback

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 22/04/2026

Some dude near me just got a fully sick new race nugget

Some vintage race nug, maybe a volvo 240?

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 19/04/2026

One of my favorites from the vault

An old 4chan post.

Image on the left is some satanist symbol or some bullshit

Original post reads: Ask a Satanist anything
Only reply: "How's the 8th grade going?"

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 09/04/2026

This one's starting to feel charitable to the business class lol

Tweet from user Normal calm

Sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a Business class and the professor is writing like "profit= revenue + costs" on the board and everyone is taking notes like its actual school

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 22/03/2026

This is like getting mad at an OS dev because you could theoretically put a text file called birthdate.txt in your homedir imo

Screenshot of text.

"An optional field in the userdb JSON object. It's not a policy engine, not an API for apps. We just define the field, so that it's standardized iff people want to store the date there, but it's entirely optional."

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 13/03/2026

Convinced you can neither misspell nor mispronounce Worcester, it exists in some sort of blind spot of the English language (We pronounce this as Wooster for those who don't know)

Wikipedia article headline for Worcester, Massachusetts

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 11/03/2026

(if you think this is a right answer no it's not)

Faramir from the lord of the rings movies

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 23/02/2026

Cat's water fountain ran out so she started hunting it lol

A black cat standing on top of an automatic cat feeder, in the middle of attacking a water fountain. She's been startled into looking at the camera, with her eyes glowing yellow.

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 18/02/2026

I'm actually going to call this a moral failure and point to it as "where we went wrong" Programming is an act of creation, like anything else. It should be fun, and we should care about it, but we can't, due to capitalism. Wow yes, thank you for noticing, my room lights are both blue and pink.

Screenshot:

"And for lots of users, that's going to be fine. People don't judge AI code the same way they judge slop articles or glazed videos. They're not looking for the human connection of art. They're looking to achieve a goal. Code just has to work."

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 13/02/2026

Fuck it, messing around with Peltier elements I know they're shit for cooling and power draw, but you can also mess with them on a workbench

A small heatsink and fan, sandwiching a peltier element

A small liquid cooling circuit comprised of a clear acrylic reservoir, pump, radiator, and the peltier cooler from the previous picture

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 08/02/2026

How do you even build a site like this in 2026 lol Like actually, what stack even allows you to target specifically Safari on iOS and no other platform lmao

Tap "Open" to Chat on Germ

Don't see an "Open" button? Try opening this link in Safari on iPhone.

Don't have an iPhone? Sorry to leave you hanging. Android is on the roadmap!

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 07/02/2026

Yeah so that AI bait poster also apparently bought her account just to troll on it or something, lol Or rebranded an old alt I guess, idk

Post from bsky user @superdeluxe.bsky.social

"I peeped oop's clearsky like the nosy girl that I am and feel stupid now. someone bought a 2023 account just to change the handle and ragebait"

Screenshot shows a clearsky page, showing that user @jamminjava.bsky.social registered in 2023 and changed handles 12 days ago to @annoyedgynoid.bsky.social

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 03/02/2026

And yet AI weirdos fantasize about it, lol The complete loser energy of this image haunts me

A bad AI generated image of a bunch of tech CEOs, including Musk and Zuckerberg, standing in a circle in front of a cybertruck

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 31/01/2026

Like this image may be AI, idk I didn't look that closely But it doesn't /say/ AI, and I've seen an image like that 10,000 times, and they all say AI these days

Chip Powered

Not all digital styli are made equal. X3 Pro Slim stylus is powered by a drawing-dedicated smart chip — which means it has an advanced algorithm to ensure smarter and more stable performance that aligns perfectly with your hand muscle memory.

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 19/01/2026

Ah shit, and fair tbh

A post from user Cowboy Friday

It says: every time someone comes to me as a baby leftist I always tell them the same thing fucking never read theory

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 16/01/2026

Illusion-of-choice ass moment Read: fuck you we're doing it anyway, here's our special domain for it. You can ignore if if you want I guess

DuckDuckGo results page saying "NO AI. You'd rather skip AI. With DuckDuckGo, you can, because it's optional.". A button says "Search without ai"

DuckDuckGo results page saying "YES AI. You're into AI. With DuckDuckGo, you can use it privately". A button says "Try Duck.ai"

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 16/01/2026

So Google Assistant got replaced with Gemini on my phone, so I did a little test at Disney yesterday. I interacted with it exactly as I would have interacted with Assistant. I also saved my parking location in Maps cause I figured this would happen.

A screenshot of a conversation with Gemini, asking it to save a parking location. It very clearly states it saved a location, but then later in the conversation says it didn't actually do it.

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 12/01/2026

Works on my phone via GameNative lol

A screenshot of Big Hops running on a galaxy s25 via the GameNative emulator. The screenshot shows a little green frog standing in a forest

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 08/01/2026

Fucking good tbh Running a goddam PR campaign for the Trump admin guy trying to force localities to build datacenters, at the goddam consumer electronic expo

A stock tracker from Yahoo Finance, showing AMD shares take a nosedive at the start of trading the day after an embarrassing CES presentation

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 21/12/2025

I know how this goes, I've played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time

Screenshot from Pokemon mystery dungeon. One of the explorers games.

A grovyle, ryolu, and piplup are looking at a Time Gear, a plot device responsible for the flow of time in a region

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 20/12/2025

Lot of Linux stuff is just towns in MA tbh

A Google Maps image showing Dracut, a small town near Lowell, MA

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 20/12/2025

The existence of the Wayland protocol and Weston compositor predicts the existence of some third layer called Waltham

A Google Maps view of US Route 20 going through Wayland, Weston, and Waltham

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Ryan @ryan.helegrod.dev · 12/12/2025

This nasty shit was on the Unraid community applications frontpage for like a week lol

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