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Hi, I'm James. Eternal dilettante and purveyor of nonsense, much of it about #Python, physics, and #cycling. I tend to info-dump about #Unicode if you get me started. I […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 5h
Hey uh so PSA for any trans folks who use Bumble for online dating: It is possible for the app to show your potential matches the "Woman" label, even if you have selected "Trans Woman" as how you'd like to be presented in the app settings. I assume the same is true of "Man"/"Trans Man" […]
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 8h
See also: that wasn't only *her* code. She was showing off the work of an entire team.
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 8h
type of Guy who tries to get into an argument with you about how he's not tempermentally argumentative
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9h
[Mean Girls voice] on Wednesdays we work on Windows Installer
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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h
I just spent far too much time recreating one of the greatest moments in cinema history #mb #PDA #RetroComputing
A Casio Cassiopeia with Microsoft Pocket Excel open with the text “WHERE YOU AT? HOLLA WHEN YOU GET H” written in cell A1
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 9h
[linkedin solicitation (stupid kind)] «HeyJames! I saw your PR onnumpyand thought you'd be perfect for a new project I'm running. We're working with cracked ML engs to push the capabilities of top AI models. Want to hear more?» Oh you mean my one PR that was a small docstring tweak? Surely […]
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10h
OH: "hell used to be other people"
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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h
Vale Margaret Hamilton. She was a Software Engineer. She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering: "When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […] [Original post on aus.social]
A B&W photo of a person standing next to a stack of printed paper as high as the top of their head. This is Margaret Hamilton, at work as a Software Engineer and the leader of a team of extremely specialised programmers who worked for NASA. The photo was taken in 1969, and it shows a physical form if her work since she joined the Apollo project in 1965 (she joined at the age of 29 by my calculation). My interpretation of the expression on her face is a mix of pride and mild amusement.  She has glasses, long, straight hair, and neat office attire. Margaret Hamilton has her hands placed gently on the stack of printouts to keep it all balanced upright. The pages appear to be arranged in bundles, ranging from 8-10 centimetres thick, to 20cm thick or more. The resulting stack of printouts is physically impressive for being an unusual feat, and it represents something even more impressive: it's the printed form of the source-code she and the team she led wrote for the NASA Apollo project. Their software ran on the Apollo Guidance Computer that was that on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The Apollo Guidance Computer onboard the Eagle was an essential flight instrument for Neil Armstrong when he piloted the craft to land on the surface of the moon.
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21h
Saddened to hear of Margaret Hamilton's passing. Thank you for everything, ma'am, and ad astra 🫡
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21h
user group event at a MSFT facility complicated AV requirements for the user group event AV at the MSFT facility is a gauntlet of pain event ended up in a degraded state because of this mfw it was a "fell off a truck" quality electronics-sludge USB→HDMI adapter that caused the most emergent […]
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21h
little bit of electronics rescue tonight. in one of dad's boxes of electronics there was one of the nice logitech clickers, but the batteries had been left in it, with the usual result. thankfully, the nasty hateful substance that leaks out of old batteries did not get to anywhere where it […]
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
RIP Margaret Hamilton news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton…
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Damn, busier than I've ever seen for vaccines at the pharmacy. Guess everybody's got the message that this season's flu is shaping up to be a bad one
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
new keycaps are here. they feel good, look good
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Ozzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan: @ozdreaming.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Happened right at dismissal time -- my kid heard the shots walking home from school. www.cambridgeday.com/2026/10/06/one… #CambridgeMA
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One person was injured in a shooting near Russell Field in North Cambridge on Tuesday afternoon, according to Cambridge police. Cambridge Emergency Communications received multiple 911 calls reporting gunshots in the area at approximately 3:20 p.m. “Upon arrival responders located one victim suffering from related injuries,” police wrote. ShotSpotter was not a factor in response to the shooting, according to a Cambridge police spokesman, who said that North Cambridge is well outside the coverage radius of the ShotSpotter system. The victim was transported by emergency medical services to a local hospital. Their condition was not immediately known, police said. Cambridge police and regional law enforcement partners remained at the scene Tuesday afternoon investigating the circumstances of the shooting. Police are asking anyone with information to contact Cambridge Police detectives at 617-349-3300. _This story was updated to include information about whether ShotSpotter was engaged in this incident._ * * * ## Support our work As a nonprofit, community-based independent publication, we rely on contributions from readers like you to fund our journalism. ### Like this: Like Loading… ### _Related Stories_ ## A stronger Please consider making a financial contribution to maintain, expand and improve **Cambridge Day**. We are now a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and all donations are tax deductible. Please consider a recurring contribution. Donate now
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
RESIDENT EVIL: it's good! not even like "good for a video game movie" good, just kinda a good action horror jam. but it *is* also a very good distillation of the games into a movie form, albeit with a character not really like one that's appeared in the games. mostly the "puzzles" just confuse […]
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
so I've been running Slack from a terminal (so I have console output the next time a paste makes it crash) and I just noticed that if you unfocus the window, a log message says "Main window blurred" which of course is a lie, no blur is being applied
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
trying a new roast of coffee from the ice cream shoppe where I buy coffee. I usually get their espresso blend which is quite nice as plain-old coffee, but this time I got a lighter roast of beans from Mexico. it's not bad, but it's not as full-bodied as the other stuff. Maybe I'll try adjusting […]
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
reached the point in my life where I've learned a life skill from rachael ray (how to easily put on a duvet cover)
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/122458299 #SakunaOfRiceAndRuin #天穂のサクナヒメ
Fan art of Sakuna-hime and Kokorowa-hime
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
man, reflowing UI is so cool
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
we're all looking for the megacorp who did this
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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
> placing a new connector > ask the pnp if the connector is creepy or wet > it doesnt understand the question > pull out humidity card indicating a difference between creepy and wet > it chatters and says "it's a good connector ma'm" > reflow it > it was wet
photo of a big 2x10 IDC connector on a glasgow revD. it "popcorned" (had a bubble of steam crack some plastic internally)
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lea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux
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dvdrom :thermos: :ndgt: @thermia.sk.girlthi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
don't take apart a ballpoint pen within a minute of being handed one impossible challenge
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
oh yea I forgot that I might have accidentally acquired a passkey last week well, I hope that doesn't eventually uh lock me out of the account I was trying to sign into when the pushy enroll nag tricked me into "consent"
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
self-OH: I knew you would lo(v|ath)e this
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
what if we kissed in the ingress feed 😳
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
I only just the other day learned that in February, #SakunaOfRiceAndRuin got a PV that adapts the story of the novel¹ that goes beyond the end of the plot of the game/series (which is basically that Kokorowa wants to write a new novel for Sakuna², but has writer's block and decides to do a rice […]
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Nothing is real #Monsterdon
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
ATTN: New followers In about 3 minutes I will probably be posting a LOT of posts about watching a movie. Be prepared, you might want to mute me for a few hours if that's not your cup of tea.
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
I spent some time this evening playtesting the aesthetic puzzle #IndieGame Zenden, which launches later this month. If the idea of a game that challenges you to make something that is both constrained in the usual puzzle-game sense and also aesthetically beautiful, I would definitely recommend […]
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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
TIL nasa.gov includes a `X-Launch-Status` header in its HTTP response that says “Go Flight!” I love space nerds.
Screenshot of terminal output from the `curl` command showing the HTTP headers from a web request to https://www.nasa.gov. All normal things, except for the `X-Launch-Status: Go Flight!` header.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
A cat can never make a management decision because a cat can never be held accountable. (too cute)
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
«I plugged my [JSON] file into ChatGPT and generated a stunning—» *click*
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
[talking about a nasty injury, not mine] saw a REALLY bad head injury on my way home tonight. group of young 20-something guys gathered around their friend who had taken a spill and hit the back of his head (possibly on the curb). unconscious, lots of blood. Pretty early in the evening (7:30 PM […]
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
[the rising tide of fascism] local resident complains about "evil Communist rhetoric" and un-qualified "neo Nazi group" insignia. I'm sure there's probably nothing to read into that, though.
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
OH: "we came, we saw, we jiggled"
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
OH: GovDeals CHUD
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bob @bob.feed.hella.cheap.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
no one is maintaining it because facebook captured all the old maintainers and locked them in a dungeon. the plus side of that is that (unlike onnxruntime) it isn't super buggy now because of slopification. the minus is that there's code rot that you have to fix to get it to build
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Tip also applicable to injured hairy women, injured hairy boys and girls and injured hairy nonbinary individuals 🦊🚬 If you're injured and hairy then buddy I've got what you're after
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🎃🔪KNIFER🔪🎃 @knizer.toot.boston.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
#BostonWeekend for the first October weekend in 2026. Highs in the 60s, scant rain Sunday, much cooler than Friday. You should go outside this weekend if that is available to you, because there is stuff to do. A brief thread of what looks good for #boston 1/x
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Glyph @glyph.im · 03/10/2026
Weekly update is up for patrons! Right on time, even! www.patreon.com/creatorglyph/posts/…
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
had a lovely chat with @fooderick tonight that touched on hyperspectral imaging that made me reflect for the first time in a while on how very stupid it is that SV has a religious belief in "optical is all you need" systems that generalizes across domains. ridiculous.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@SnoopJ Barnacles will gloam on to your very mind and you will never be free.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@SnoopJ He went to see a doctor who was a bit of a quack doing a "water cure" but also gave some practical advice that could work and the dude forbid him from working (studying reading, dissecting, etc.) for weeks and Darwin got better... but he was upset about not being able to study the […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
@SnoopJ Barnacles are confounding. First of all they are part of Pancrustacea the group that includes crabs. They are also arthropods like ants. They are more closely related to ants and crabs than snails or other Mollusca. You'd think they'd have evolved from mussels, right? Nope. Then […]
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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
one of the many good things about asking people questions instead of LLMs is that today i had a question about a project so i went to the discord to ask and the person said “oh no the software doesn’t do that but maybe we could change it so that it could”
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