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Stephen Ball

@sdball.dev

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Software engineer. Can be found trying too hard at Rocket League. I write Elixir when I have the choice. I also release music as sdb-79 on whatever music streaming service you use. (Except Spotify)

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 29/08/2025

If you see this, post something monochromatic

A photo of a tree top with every little branch covered in a transparent sheath of thin ice hanging upside down over a paved path.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 08/08/2025

C'mon Netflix I know you have the data.

A screenshot of a Netflix search with the query "What's a good action movie I haven't watched yet?" The search results are "Oh darn. We don't have that." and the suggestion to search for another movie, show, actor, director, or genre.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 25/05/2025

Happy to support!

A screenshot of a donation receipt to Kat Abughazaleh via ActBlue

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 16/04/2025

On the good news front I am quite happy that @sebastianlague.bsky.social released version 2 of his digital logic sim and now we can have display components on chips like in the videos!

A screenshot of a digital logic sim showing an 8-bit input going through some chips leading to a three digit display. There are inputs for "ripple blanking" and "two's complement" and a major chip is labeled "double dabble". The three digit displays show "1" "8" and "3" in red. The "two's complement" input is not enabled. The "ripple blanking" input is enabled.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 05/04/2025

Durham NC!

A crowd of people protesting Trump in 2025

A dog wearing a cardboard sign “Dogs against DOGE”

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 16/03/2025

I’d missed that Apple Maps finally caved too. But Carrot is proving once again it’s the best.

Screenshot of Carrot Weather generally explaining the Gulf of Mexico and closing with:

“It recently got a stupid new name and the mapping data providers caves and started using the stupid new name, but screw that: it will always be the Gulf of Mexico in my book.”

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 22/02/2025

It is absolutely the job of government and public universities to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity! ncnewsline.com/2024/04/11/u... April 2024

Screenshot of article text with one section highlighted:

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Kotis said he appreciates the stated goal of DEI efforts to be sure everyone has an equal opportunity. He does not believe it’s the job of government or public universities to achieve that goal through quotas or promote a certain political view of diversity, he said.

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The surrounding text from the article explains and justifies the then impending dismantling of DEI at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in April 2024

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 05/02/2025

Current status morbotron.com/img/S02E17/2...

Cartoon character Dr Zoidberg has a pained and bewildered expression and clutches the back of his head with both hands.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 22/01/2025

It’s crazy out in the world but also yay I hit a flip reset shot. In training but still! #SkyTok

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 18/01/2025

🍄📷 Posting some mushrooms because.

Flat mushrooms growing from a tree trunk.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 10/01/2025

That's awesome! I've fixed that for my search results with a custom Kagi redirect rule

A screenshot of kagi.com configuration showing that web search result links to hexdocs.pm and docs.rs will be custom redirected to the same result in the most recent version.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 09/12/2024

I've completed "Guard Gallivant" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/6 I got distracted on this one making fun visualizations in Livebook. #ElixirLang

A screenshot of an Elixir Livebook programming session. There are two code cells: one creates a button labeled "step" and one handles clicks of that button by animating updates to the map.

Below the code cells is an emoji rendering of a grid map. There are many empty tiles, some obstacle tiles, and a guard emoji that is trailed by arrows showing the path they have taken so far.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 24/11/2024

I've renamed "ex_duck_smart_cell" to "kino_duckduckgo" and updated it to use the latest version of kino. Functionally it's still the same speedy interface to DuckDuckGo instant answers that it's always been. hex.pm/packages/kin...

A screenshot of formatted results from the DuckDuckGo smart cell in Elixir Livebook. The results show an answer for the query "Zork I" which starts with a screenshot of the game box art followed by a description of the game with a source and then by a table of information such as release dates, genres, and modes.

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Stephen Ball @sdball.dev · 03/11/2024

Academically I knew that computers are built up from logic gates. But somehow I never internalized that correspondingly everything is built out of truth tables. The fact that this chip is the "dabble" part of the double dabble algorithm seems like cheating.