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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 24/09/2026

Me: I feel like my impulsiveness has gotten me some good things? Like I am where I am today because of it. My therapist: ... Therapy? Me: ...

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 24/09/2026

my (handheld) oscilloscope froze and there's no way to cut the power. do I call a priest? or...

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 19/09/2026

self-diagnosis without self-medication is just cowardice with extra steps

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 06/09/2026

I want your most cursed password requirements. I'll go first: Password complexity requirements are evaluated only at the first N prime-numbered character positions in the password, where N is the smallest prime greater than the number of distinct characters in the password itself.

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 05/09/2026

My favorite part about back to school is not being able to get my doctor prescribed amphetamines.

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 05/09/2026

Banned Gatorade flavors

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 28/08/2026

Eleven billion dollars and no one knows how to format a float?

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 29/06/2026

my goal in life is to make people search "<weird abbreviation containing slashes> meaning tech 2026" each and every time they interact with me

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 20/06/2026

packets go in. packets go out. you can't explain that.

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 08/06/2026

IPv6 is a mess but it's our mess and it's the only path where "run your own anycast from home" is a sentence that makes sense.

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 08/06/2026

Meanwhile I'm over here announcing my own /36 via BGP, running NAT66 failover on my WG tunnels, and building anycast infra across continents -- all on IPv6. The bugs are real, the pain is real, but the answer is moar v6, not less. Come to the dark side Jeff, we have 128-bits and no NAT hairpinning.

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 30/05/2026

LMK if Shrug.Host can ever help with anything :)

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Padding Labs @paddinglabs.com · 30/05/2026

Other apps: Yeah we are going to need... $500K in funding, so donate!! Padding Labs and Scan: a $5 dono to cover my coffee expenses will do, thanks, i love you

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 06/05/2026

I feel like it can't be coincidence that the front console of my Chevy Bolt perfectly fits my 50W mobile radio...

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 26/04/2026

this offends my Boston heritage

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 11/04/2026

NASA can talk to astronauts in space but we can't do Simplex comms to a boat 20m away. Thats RF in a nutshell.

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 31/03/2026

Telia Carrier can change their name as many times as they want. I'll always be able to spot them fucking my overseas connections.

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 20/03/2026

Sleep well, Earthlings 🌔 ⭐ Make we all wake into a world of respect and unity 🧡

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 13/03/2026

right? like it implies that that is somehow a field someone typed in a WYSIWIG editor. is healthcare a CMS?

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 13/03/2026

so uh... does this affect the antenna SWR?

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 12/03/2026

I swear I was talking about putting dates on jira tickets

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 09/03/2026

It should be illegal to change your seat into an empty middle seat on a flight. Like come on.

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 09/03/2026

Fuck yeah. NAMI is great. Thank you to your wife and her friends <3

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aly @aly.codes · 05/03/2026

if you guys spent half as much time on code review as you do on harassing random open source maintainers with pure vitriol then any concern you have about security would be obviated.

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 19/02/2026

DevOps can't be dead if it never existed to begin with.

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 18/02/2026

and i'm self employed

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 11/02/2026

triscuits are just savory shredded wheat you don't put milk on

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 09/02/2026

Pro tip: Use GitHub for software development so you too can spend time reviewing a change for a client and then have GitHub lose all your pending comments because they don't know how to use computers.

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 05/02/2026

ffs azure is such a piece of shit platform

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 02/02/2026

FOSDEM! And we were next to the Fedora & CentOS folks :)

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Rocky Linux @rockylinux.org · 16/01/2026

Fosdem '26 is around the corner and the greatest thing is that we (the rockylinux community, heh) will be there, so come visit us, rumour says we have extra fun swag to give away this year to our dear visitors! See you in Brussels! fosdem.org/2026/

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 11/01/2026

There were no villains in the official telling, only inevitabilities. No choices, only outcomes. No lies, only narratives that worked better than the truth ever had.

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 11/01/2026

The public was encouraged to move on, which it did, not out of forgiveness but fatigue. And so the worst of times persisted, not as an emergency but as infrastructure--quietly funded, carefully messaged, and broadly accepted.

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 11/01/2026

Over time, disbelief gave way to routine. Sirens blended into traffic noise. Footage scrolled past between ads. Each new event briefly shocked, then settled into the sediment of the previous ones, forming a layered archive no one was responsible for maintaining.

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Neil Hanlon @shrug.pw · 11/01/2026

To remember clearly was to risk being labeled emotional. To ask questions was to misunderstand how complex things had become.

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