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Salvatore Testa

@sal.dev
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professional software engineer and amateur funny person

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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 16/08/2026
I think I cracked Anthropic's new watermarking system.
text block about Roman road building that forms an acrostic that spells "Claude was here"
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 15/05/2026
@davidpierce.xyz is The Vergecast off today?
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 29/03/2026
The Oakland Zoo has an exhibit about my GitHub.
sign above a door that reads "house of bugs"
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 07/02/2026
time to do a taste test where I eat one box and then the other
a box of Tagalongs and a box of similar Peanut Butter Patties
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year! I'm proud to show off the side project I've been working on for the past few weeks. Transit Directory is site where you can link to various transit stops, trips, and routes. If you regularly want to know when the next BART train is, bookmark your stop! transit.directory
transit.directory
Transit Directory
Browse transit agencies and view real-time information.
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 02/11/2025
OpenAI's contract with Microsoft is until AGI is achieved or this World Series game ends.
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 12/06/2025
Happy Google Cloud (GCP) outage to those who celebrate!
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 19/04/2025
My toddler's book is making me feel crazy.
a lift-the-flap book with a picture of a tractor labeled "tractor"the flap of the tractor lifted up to reveal text that says "here is a kitty going for a ride." but the picture is of a tractor with no kitty
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 11/04/2025
Bluesky now has late trains too!
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 06/04/2025
Hi Bluesky, a side-project I've been helping with is now ready to share! Gobley provides a Gradle build integration between Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and Cargo for Android, iOS, and JVM.
gobley.dev
Embed Rust into your Kotlin Multiplatform project | Gobley
Embed Rust into your Kotlin Multiplatform project
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 15/02/2025
@reckless.bsky.social only wants to talk about the FCC chairman and firmware. @theverge.com should be renamed to "Carr and Driver".
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 19/01/2025
I guess I'll never learn what @hankgreen.bsky.social was going to teach me.
screenshot of what would be a Hank Green TikTok but there's a pop-up explaining that TikTok has been banned and so you can't use it
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 29/11/2024
Advent of Code but instead of helping Santa, you implement the AT Protocol
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 23/11/2024
incredibly thoughtful and fair deep-dive of Bluesky from one of the authors of ActivityPub
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 21/11/2024
We've all been there.
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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A list of former Square folks: go.bsky.app/M6JAn4x
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P-Y @p-y.wtf · 12/11/2024
👋 I made a starter pack of past & present Android engs from Block (Square, CashApp..) Ask us what we think about fragments 😜 If you want to be in this lost, you know what to do 😘 block.xyz/careers/jobs... #AndroidDev go.bsky.app/SLiJNP5
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 05/11/2024
Vote or the guy on the Clipper card poster will judge you!
"I voted" sticker with a poster in the background containing a guy looking at you
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 31/10/2024
Happy Halloween from Winston! He and the baby constitute a prickle of porcupines.
fluffy white dog dressed as a porcupine for Halloween
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 17/09/2024
Spotify wrapped but it's one number
Bluesky graphic showing user joined as the 102055th signup out of 10 million
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 17/08/2024
The HBO app on Android TV is broken or "Truck U" isn't the show I think it is.
TV menu that says "Truck U" but shows screenshots from Sex and the City reboot
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 15/08/2024
Happy GitHub outage to those who celebrate!
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 19/04/2024
Calm and Headspace really goofed by not sponsoring today's Hard Fork, @caseynewton.bsky.social.
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 02/02/2024
I was wondering about GitHub's new merge permissions
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 23/07/2023
Janky text that says "you wouldn't Oppenheim a Barbie"
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 14/07/2023
a meme in the style of the "you wouldn't download a car" meme, but instead it says "you wouldn't read the room"
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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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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 28/06/2023
Congrats, we're all officially old!
youtu.be
Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start the Fire (Lyric Video)
I thought about this song a lot when I was younger. All these important people and events- some that disappeared into the sands of time- others that changed ...
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 28/06/2023
Never become a project manager for a dentist. You'll struggle with scope.
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 05/06/2023
"Keep playing, kids! Daddy needs to put on his special goggles."
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Xe @xeiaso.net · 04/06/2023
So while Air Canada fell over and stranded me in YYZ, I decided to do the logical thing with this information. I implemented a TUN device that transits IPv6 packets over AWS S3. Find out more here: xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-qu…
xeiaso.net
Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough - Xe's Blog
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 02/06/2023
I guess I need to bootstrap my feed. Here's a picture from Halloween of our dog, Winston, as a BARK train.
fluffy white dog dressed as a BART train
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 02/06/2023
the rush of replying first to get the invite code before any other degenerates on the Square Alumni Slack
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