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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 · 13/09/2026
I came here to say the same.
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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 · 23/07/2026
Sounds similar to Ygdressil? yggdrasil-network.github.io
yggdrasil-network.github.io
Yggdrasil Network
End-to-end encrypted IPv6 networking to connect worlds
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 10/07/2026
Can y'all confirm that the name "Iroh" is an "Avatar: The Last Airbender" reference, or is it from something else? I couldn't find it on the website.
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 04/06/2026
more like "knicks in forty years"
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 15/05/2026
Ah, I thought y'all mentioned something like that but I forgot. It was a rough morning because I had to start with Hard Fork instead.
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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 · 21/12/2025
smooth
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 02/11/2025
You also need to challenge at least once.
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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 · 23/08/2025
My family went to Italy earlier this year and almost every Italian who checked my passport and saw my full name asked me if I spoke Italian and was disappointed when they learned the answer was "no". There are a lotta descendents of masons in Italy!
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 16/08/2025
Just go into an extended metaphor about how Android is like a macaroon. Mostly talk about making macaroons without really tying it back to Android. Also crepes.
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 11/07/2025
This is Winston wearing a Winston hat.
fluffy white dog with a blue hat bearing his own fluffy face
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 10/07/2025
Congratulations!
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 13/06/2025
The "Beautiful Mind" Technique
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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 · 01/06/2025
I was there very recently too! Tillamook play area was a hit with the kid and the classic carpet was a hit with me.
child play area made of wood with a Tillamook van at the topPortland airport carpet with it's classic pattern
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 27/04/2025
Yeah, I prefer it to Venmo for sending/receiving money. It does like a hundred other things now (stock market, taxes, bitcoin, rewards programs, debit card, etc), but I just use the basic functions. I'm also a bit biased because I worked at the parent company (formerly called Square) a while back.
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 27/04/2025
I know folks at Cash App that were all-in on Kotlin Multiplatform. www.jetbrains.com/help/kotlin-...
jetbrains.com
Case studies | Kotlin Multiplatform Development
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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 · 13/04/2025
Thanks for the mention of Gobley!
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 · 11/04/2025
Bluesky now has late trains too!
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 06/04/2025
It started during my paternity leave when I was tinkering with Kotlin bindings for @veilid.com. Unfortunately, I haven't got the bindings in a shareable state, but the UniFFI tooling was fascinating, so I stuck around and helped out.
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 06/04/2025
tl;dr If you use (or want to use) @rust-lang.org in your @kotlinlang.org project, you'll love Gobley!
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 · 06/04/2025
Gobley is a fork of the (now archived) uniffi-kotlin-multiplatform-bindings (gitlab.com/trixnity/uni...) which is built on Mozilla’s excellent (still active) UniFFI (github.com/mozilla/unif...) project.
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 06/04/2025
We also have some documentation for newcomers: Hands-on tutorial: gobley.dev/docs/tutorial Cross-compilation tips to integrate Kotlin, Rust, and C++: gobley.dev/docs/cross-c... Cross-platform example app (Android, iOS, Windows API, & Linux GTK): github.com/gobley/goble...
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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 · 10/03/2025
Now he can dial it back a bit on putting his body on the line please.
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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 · 22/01/2025
I'd love a sequel to Home Alone 2, but I don't know who'd I trust to direct a Home Alone 2 2.
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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 · 02/12/2024
booked a passing and receiving TD in that moment 🐐
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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 · 24/11/2024
If you want a replacement for Docker Desktop, all the cool kids are using orbstack.dev
orbstack.dev
OrbStack · Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux
Say goodbye to slow, clunky containers and VMs. The fast, light, and easy way to run containers and Linux. Develop at lightspeed with our Docker Desktop alternative.
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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 · 13/11/2024
I was wondering why I was suddenly so popular!
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 06/11/2024
Here's the original link if anyone else is a sicko like me. twitter.com/phonybone/st...
twitter.com
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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 · 01/11/2024
If nobody else sees this dog picture, I hope @darthbluesky.bsky.social does.
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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 · 14/10/2024
and you wonder why the thrill of livin' is gone
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 09/10/2024
The author tags thing seems pretty neat. rknight.me/blog/setting...
rknight.me
Setting Up Mastodon Author Tags
How to setup your website so you too can have a fancy author tag when your posts are shared
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 09/10/2024
Welcome!
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Salvatore Testa @sal.dev · 30/09/2024
I tried drawing an ASCII owl, but it's too popular.
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