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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 03/04/2026

I am absurdly delighted by the addition of "buddies" to Claude Code. On my work account, I got a "wise duck" and on my personal account I got a "sarcastic owl." dev.to/damon_bb9e4b...

Screenshot of an uncommon duck pet for Claude Code.

Screenshot of a sarcastic owl pet for Claude Code.

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 02/02/2026

Seen on my walk this morning in Portland

Red cloth draped over a white concrete wall. Black calligraphy on the cloth reads "Fascism is bound to lose; Fight back; Fascism is bound to lose."

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 12/08/2025

Hey Marvel, is everything okay?

Three recent Marvel comic book cover: Moon Knight, One World Under Doom, and Hulk, all showing weird body horror face tearing imagery.

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 11/08/2025

Something went very wrong with this email newsletter 😂

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 14/06/2025

Portland waterfront is jam packed, repeated chants of “happy birthday, fuck you!” #NoKings

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 26/02/2025

Using a workflow to set a repeating message in a Slack channel might feel like overkill compared to just `/remind`, but now my daily standup thread has Paul Rudd from the Celeryman sketch, so I'm sold.

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 03/01/2025

I can't stop laughing at this GoodReads chart showing books I read by publication year. I'd bet this was a lot more useful before I read the Odyssey and Iliad last year.

A chart showing books read by publication year. The x-axis shows the "read in" date, from 2016 through 2024, and the y-axis shows the "published in" date from -1000 to 2500. All dots on the graph but two are clustered near the year 2000 for publication date, with two dots between -500 and -1000 representing the Odyssey and Iliad.

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 31/12/2024

🎉 In 2024, I resolved to take writing more seriously, and set a goal of writing 100,000 words of short fiction. As of this morning, I achieved my goal! If you're not used to thinking in word counts, that's roughly 400 pages! (Before you ask, I write under a pen name that I will not be sharing.)

Screenshot of a writing progress tracker, showing 101,400 words written of a 100,000 word goal.

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 05/11/2024

I don't live in Michigan, but the "I voted" stickers you get in Oregon are BORING, and voting is cool #IVoted #HarrisObviously

Sick drawing of a werewolf ripping his shirt off in front of an American flag, with the caption "I Voted"

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 21/10/2024

✅🏃🏻 Couch to 5K complete! #c25k Today I ran 30min straight! A few months ago. I couldn't run more than 60 seconds. Now, by the end, it felt like my body was going to fall apart like the Bluesmobile, but I didn't stop! Thanks to everyone who liked or commented encouragement, it was super helpful!

Scott, out of breath, glasses fogged up, but still grinning at the end of his 30-minute run.

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 16/08/2024

New Harris poster from Obey Giant! obeygiant.com?id=93721

A campaign poster for Kamala Harris by Shepard Fairey in the style of his Obey Giant artwork. Harris is rendered in a posterized style, entirely in shades of blue except for her red lips. She is looking up and to the right, and the word "FORWARD" is in a bold blue font at the bottom.

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 22/04/2024

Write alt text like you’re talking to a friend: “There was this dog wearing safety glasses, surrounded by chemistry equipment, saying ‘I have no idea what I’m doing.’” #a11y cloudfour.com/thinks/write...

Batman laughing and describing a meme he saw to Commissioner Gordon, who looks unamused.

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 27/03/2024

Recently I turned my personal site homepage into a D&D-style character sheet, and it makes me happy every time I see it. spaceninja.com

Screenshot of my homepage, styled like a D&D character sheet. There's a photo of me rendered in half-tone, like a poor photocopy. The text is filled out with blue ink. Under "class and level" I'm listed as a Level 23 Front-End Web Developer and a Level 14 Dungeon Master. My top attribute is NERD, and my top skills are storytelling, writing, and web standards.

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 19/02/2024

I don't wanna brag, y'all, but…

Screenshot of my GitHub contributions showing 1337 contributions in the last year, making me officially a "leet" coder.

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 06/02/2024

Releasing an updated version of an npm package was one of my least favorite tasks because it was different in every project. So I took the time to learn how to do it properly, and I hope it helps you too! youtu.be/Vi4gcv2H9jQ

Title card for the video "How to Publish an Updated Version of an npm Package," featured a photo of Scott, where the grey in his beard makes him look like a kindly wizard who wants to teach you how to work with npm for some reason.

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 07/11/2023

Surprising Facts about New #CSS Selectors: I set out to learn a bit about how CSS nesting works, especially the new `&` selector, and I ended up on a deep dive into the `:is()` selector and its siblings. cloudfour.com/thinks/surpr...

Cartoon word balloons showing the new selectors — is, not, has, where, & — each with a question mark, implying confusion about them.

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 06/11/2023

Today in my inbox. (No, I have no idea who this woman is, how I got on her mailing list, or where Dana Point is)

Poorly photoshopped flier inviting the read to "Join us in the great Dana Point Turkey Trot Bar Crawl." A woman wearing a terrible turkey costume and sunglasses stands near the headline. Details for a bar crawl proceeding to four destinations, presumably in Dana Point follow. At the bottom is a photo of a blonde realtor, Kristal, who is, I guess, inviting us to her bar crawl in the hopes of selling us a house?

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 16/10/2023

The American flag unable to wave because it’s caught on barbed wire is a little on the nose

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 05/10/2023

🪺 CSS Nesting is here! When should you use it? I'm sure it won't surprise anyone to learn I have *opinions* on the topic: cloudfour.com/thinks/when-...

Cute illustration of a bird sitting in a nest. The bird is saying "&", which is the new CSS nesting selector.

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 16/08/2023

Super helpful, thanks guys.

Screenshot of an email from EdFinancial saying "You have a received a new message regarding your student loans, please log in to view this message. It is important to check your inbox regularly."

Screenshot of the EdFinancial website after I logged in to view the message, saying "We're sorry. Because of your current account status, we're unable to process your request online. Please call us so we can assist you."

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 05/07/2023

At any given time, my brain is 25% occupied by my current task, 25% occupied by what I'm getting for lunch, and 50% occupied by thinking about UFOs.

Marge Simpson, holding a potato, saying "I just think they're neat."

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 19/06/2023

🛸 Did the Pope help the US recover a #UFO? More claims from #UAP Whistleblower David Grusch in this week's episode of It's a Very Exciting Time! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ver…

Cover art for the podcast, showing two figures gesturing at a light in the sky

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 12/06/2023

🛸 "Urgent and Credible" is how the IG described whistleblower David Grusch's claims that a secret program to reverse engineer #UFOs was illegally hidden from Congress. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ver…

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 05/06/2023

🛸 NASA's #UAP Team, AARO, and Project Galileo all agree on one thing: We need more and higher quality #UFO data. We talk about why on this week's episode of It's a Very Exciting Time! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ver…

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Old Man Vandehey @spaceninja.com · 24/05/2023

🛸 Dr. Garry Nolan on #UFOs, saying ET intelligence has "been here a long time," and recent #UAP whistleblowers "created a hornet's nest in Washington," in this episode of It's a Very Exciting Time! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ver…

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