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Stefan Hodges-Kluck

@stefanhodgeskluck.com
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Dad, cyclist, software engineer, recovering academic. All opinions/likes/shares are my own.

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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 20/05/2026
"So what does VA need for a recall election?," he asks only half-jokingly.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 17/05/2026
Nice evening ride in North Garden/Batesville region. Sure is some nice looking country around here.
Top of Heards Mountain climb View coming down from Heards Mountain Sunset near Batesville Sunset near North Garden
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 16/05/2026
Also, just asking...what if VA just decided to ignore the court and redistrict anyway? Because... that's kinda what the administration does.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 16/05/2026
Last year I was excited to leave a one-party state (TN) and move to VA, where my vote could actually count. But if our governor is anti-labor and the courts don't give a fuck anyway, I guess "having my vote count" is just a little too unrealistic in this country?
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 14/05/2026
Fucking hell. "Spanberger said she supported collective bargaining, but not the way it would be implemented in the legislation before her." "I support [insert progressive issue here] abstractly but not in a concrete way I can do something about right now" is why progressives hate the Dem party.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 13/05/2026
@chancebonar.bsky.social has anyone coined the phrase "secondhand slop"? Because if not, it's yours.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 08/05/2026
That worm in his brain needs to finish the job.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 05/05/2026
They want to restore us to how things were at the time of the country's foundation. Well, except for all the places that they openly fly in the face of every non-white supremacist ideal the founders stood for.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 03/05/2026
Sideloading shouldn't require a 24-hour waiting period and a 9-step gauntlet. Google's 'advanced flow' is designed to fail. Keep Android Open! @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.org
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Keep Android Open
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 27/04/2026
So who should @avalanche.bsky.social fans want for the second round: the franchise that broke our hearts in 2003 and 2014 or the one that broke our hearts in 1999, 2000, 2020, 2024, and 2025?
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Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It's inevitable that AI will make CEO's obsolete. Sounds ridiculous, right? That's how the AI push is working. Just keep telling people it's inevitable (which it's not) and people will start to believe it. So, let's make CEO's obsolete! It's inevitable!
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 24/04/2026
It's a pretty damn nice time to be on gravel in Virginia right now.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 09/04/2026
Haven't been very active recently, a lot has been going on. Here's a new post, discussing my recent time in between jobs. www.stefanhodgeskluck.com/blogs/what-i...
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What I Just Did With a Month of Unemployment
Late in February of this year, I had the unfortunate experience of being laid off.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 19/03/2026
As a co-op member, I'm very disappointed in REI right now. On 3/25 I'm going to vote to boycott, and I suggest you do as well. www.ourrei.com/boycott
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Vote to Boycott REI
Learn why co-op members are boycotting REI after years of broken promises and anti-worker, anti-democratic behavior.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 18/03/2026
Man, I bet Roberts is pissed at the guy who ruled that Trump has presidential immunity.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 11/03/2026
Adding extra work on package maintainers' plates doesn't seem like a good way to encourage OSS devs to produce & maintain the great parts of the Flutter ecosystem.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 27/02/2026
Lifelong NHL fan here, getting more into the watching @thepwhl.com because 1. Several live games are watchable on YouTube 2. I get to see badass American athletes who totally owned the Olympics AND are not Trump bros
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 23/02/2026
I love how at the Olympics we can enjoy seeing American athletes win without thinking about the absolute fuckwits who have taken control of the countr--ah, nuts.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 09/02/2026
What it's like to work with AI: a 🧵
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 30/01/2026
It's going to be below my normal threshold, and possibly snowing (but hopefully not...we don't need more snow). But I'm planning on bundling up and getting out for this.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 29/01/2026
So I didn't need another reason to hate Sam Altman, but here's one all the same.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 27/01/2026
@thisweekinrust.bsky.social , I just wrote a blog post detailing my impressions after working through Luca Palmieri's Zero to Production in Rust. www.stefanhodgeskluck.com/blogs/lesson...
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Lessons Learned from Building a Server In Rust
What working on my Rust project has taught me about being a programmer.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 22/01/2026
This kid is just about Ian's age. I don't have the words to say how vile these monsters are.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 19/01/2026
You can now sign up for email updates on my new blog posts! (lmk if you enter your email and it doesn't work for some reason) www.stefanhodgeskluck.com/blogs/new-bl...
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New Blog Feature: Email Newsletter!
I’m excited to say that you can now get my blog posts delivered directly to your inbox!
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 18/01/2026
Well, normally when you win the turnover margin by +4 the game isn't that close, but...at least the @denver-broncos.bsky.social wonN
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Southern Jacobin @thomas26july.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
200 ICE agents arrived in Richmond to celebrate our Democrat Gov's inauguration. They were going door to door in Church Hill yesterday. Familiarize yourself now with the DOs and DONTs immigrantjustice.org/for-immigran...
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Know Your Rights: If You Encounter ICE - National Immigrant Justice Center
All individuals in the United States have rights, regardless of immigration status.  The following information can help you protect yourself and your
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 10/01/2026
I still can't believe Sarah is gone. She was such an amazing professor, organizer, mother, and friend. This is a great cause if you have a little bit to give in her honor.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 08/01/2026
Not sure I've ever experienced anything less in all the calls this past year. Glad there's a Dem running against him this fall.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 02/01/2026
New year, new post! Nerding out on #tolkien while discussing #genAI here. 🤓 www.stefanhodgeskluck.com/blogs/is-gen...
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Is Generative AI Really the One Ring?
And if it is, can we resist its power?
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 29/11/2025
Newest post. I wish the subject matter was better, but happy to be writing again. www.stefanhodgeskluck.com/blogs/is-thi...
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Is This What a Mid-life Crisis Looks Like?
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. The truth is, this hasn’t been the easiest fall for me.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 05/11/2025
How many of these squares can you fill at your workplace? www.workersdecide.tech/resources/20...
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AI Implementation Bingo - WorkersDecide.tech — Make Tech Work for Workers
A Group Exercise for 2-20 Players
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 03/11/2025
@klhkhistorian.bsky.social and I are watching the Sean Bean Robin Hood. It's 2025 and there is still not a single decent Robin Hood adaptation that doesn't have either talking foxes or Mel Brooks.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 23/10/2025
Very disappointed in UVA today.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 20/10/2025
Wow, did not expect that comeback from @denver-broncos.bsky.social!
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 18/10/2025
Out sick today for @indivisiblecville.bsky.social No Kings 😥. Solidarity to all showing up ✊
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 13/10/2025
"History is different from commemoration. History is about what happened in the past, while commemoration is about the present. We put up statues and celebrate holidays to honor figures from the past who embody some quality we admire." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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October 12, 2025
On October 9, President Donald J.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 08/10/2025
Definitely not the exact same attachment to artistic creativity in what I do, but I think a lot of what @theoatmeal.bsky.social says here about how AI makes fields worse by eroding practice and process really does apply to software. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 01/10/2025
"When you see everything as an outcome — an outcome you may or may not understand, and definitely don’t understand the process behind, let alone care about — you kind of already see your workers as LLMs." www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
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The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 28/09/2025
Give a man a fish, he'll have food for a day. Give a man an LLM, he'll brag about his fishing skills and claim that fishing as we know it is obsolete. Meanwhile, he won't know what to do when his fishing pole pulls up a piece of garbage.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 27/09/2025
Not a big CFB fan, and haven't really adopted any #UVA fandom since moving here, but when I don't have a horse in the race, I do always love me a good upset. Nicely done knocking off the #8 team in the country. #GoHoos
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 27/09/2025
This would be amazing to do, if it weren't virtually unviable for those of us who live in Southwood and have to drop their kids at schools off Avon. Take my kid in my bike through the 5th Street Station shit show at rush hour? Yeah, no thanks. Let's get that bridge to Biscuit Run!!
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jamie kerber 💫🩵🌷 @kerberjg.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This is a bit sad but really good to have out there: LLMs remain a viable tech for SOME use-cases, but trying to slap it on top of everything (we already knew, but it is now proved) is completely irresponsible Tech optimists: carry on, a better solution will show up one day, but this ain’t it chief
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 18/09/2025
Again, someone please tell me when anti-vax went from "I don't want my kid to get vaccinated" to "I don't want anyone's kid to get vaccinated." The former view, while problematic given how contagion works, at least had some semblance of grounds in an individual freedom argument.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 13/09/2025
"With AI learning {subject} is going to become less necessary" is a really great example of what I hate most about all this hype.
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 13/09/2025
"Robinson appears to have admired the “Groypers,” led by Nick Fuentes, who complain that more mainstream organizations like Kirk’s Turning Point USA are not “pro-white” enough and have publicly harassed Kirk in the past." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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September 12, 2025
Since a gunman murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, both social media circles and the political sphere have been alight with accusatio...
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 13/09/2025
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 09/09/2025
Today in "Well, Duh."
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Stefan Hodges-Kluck @stefanhodgeskluck.com · 05/09/2025
If you tell me I can watch my kid during the day because I work remote, I'm going to come to your office and spend all day asking you to play with me, then scream and break stuff when you tell me you need to focus for five minutes.
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