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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 13h

I got sick of the ads on Stardew Planner v3 so I built my own open source one. starplan.fluin.io

Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I just realized I maintain more than a dozen cool projects, most of them open source. I just created a single spot to see what I've been up to lately. fluin.io/projects

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It seems like everyone wants search augmented AI responses, so I built it. Try it out now friendlai.xyz

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have a new plan. Recently I decided I want to walk more, and I also decided I want to watch all of Star Trek (most for the 2nd/3rd time, but I haven't watched almost any of the last 10 years). I'm smushing these two together in my Star Trek Walk Plan! By the end of 2028 I'll be all caught up...

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looking forward to some fantastic tech demos tonight #MINNEDEMO

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just updated my chrome extension with new detectors and fixed a few bugs. Want to know what tech the site you are running is using? chromewebstore.google.com/detail/angul...

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OMG emoji copy buttons on the google search page. WOHOOO!

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

5 years later and I still can't get Dropout's "Welcome to Mountport" out of my head. I love it so much. The funniest part is that the entire team thinks that you can't have a mountain next to the sea. They sing their hearts out about how it's impossible, despite there being tons all around the world

A photo of the mountain meeting the sea.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

NooooooooOoOOOooo! They are stealing our space casino! #Factorio

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I'm giving a talk today about the #Angular renaissance today at Open Source North!

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I love the fact I built this, get daily push notifications, and combine stoic wisdom with modern science and studies

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I'm live in about an hour at #Minnebar. Come say hi!

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Designing long and specific commands in the terminal can be hard. I wanted to use my LLM to help, so I built ai-cmd.sh. Just describe the command you want, preview it, and let it run! gist.github.com/StephenFluin...

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Feeling super inspired watching the launch of Artemis II. Yaaay humans.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I love understanding my code better.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Have a 3d printer? Ask your local #AI to generate openscad files and then describe the thing you want. OpenSCAD -> STL -> real world works so well.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I just donated to the kdenlive (video editor) project. I try to do this once every year to support open source I rely on. Consider supporting your favorite open source tools. Choosing to support open source creates a public good that every human can benefit from.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I'm swapping 4 drives in my NAS. It's going to take weeks (new parity dries, then take old parity drives and swap for individuals) but hopefully the extra 46TB of space is worth it.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Is the Internet experiencing another storm? I have a bunch of random services struggling right now but I don't really trust random status pages.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We just announced the #DevFest MN 2025 talks! Register at devfest.mn to learn about: * Serverless, Agents, GenAI * How to build an MCP Server * Structured & Unstructured Data * The power of non-determinism * Humans in the Loop (HitL) * Firebase app hosting * Community & resilience * Lots more!

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The latest Gemini CLI doesn't know what an MCP server is. Wat?

> how do I install another mcp server in the gemini cli?

✦ I'm not familiar with an "mcp server." Could you please provide more context or clarify what you
mean by that? For example, where did you hear about it, or what is it supposed to do? That will help
me understand and assist you better.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Come and catch up on the latest in AI, Cloud, Web from Google and beyond at DevFestMN 2025, coming December 6, 2025! Tickets are live now. devfest.mn

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I gave an #angular talk on SSR and hosting today at @ng-conf.bsky.social and the audience was HOT.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I had to close every app on my computer to get this to run (128GB of RAM and a 5090), but interacting with such an advanced model locally was worth it. Such interesting and deep thinking about the intent and purpose behind each of my prompts. #ai #qwen3

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I had a magic moment with #AI this week. I was debugging my Linux desktop computer which was failing to boot. I had googled and chatbotted unsuccessfully for about an hour at this point. I decided to take a 45 second video of the boot up sequence and suddenly the AI knew exactly what was wrong. 🤯

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

If you ask Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash for 1,000 random numbers, 70% of them will end in 3. Weird. #ai

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Whenever I read AI news that mentions an "MCP" I can't detach this in my my from the Master Control Program, the villain in the original #Tron.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It's reassuring to know it's just you, me, and 944 of your closest friends.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

A remaining frontier in #AI image generation: handstands #gemini #chatgpt #sdxl

Messed up photo of handstands. Feet, bodies, and belly buttons on the wrong side.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I'm so happy that you can (for the most part) still tell AI videos from reality. It's going to suck when that's not possible anymore.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Google. I trusted you with years of travel and memories. How can you do this? What happened to you?

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

But, like, WHY? I hate when hardware companies think they can take away features. I eventually regret every proprietary piece of hardware I buy :(.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Did you know you can create a #TypeScript type that requires prefixes/suffixes in a string?

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

With the emerging consensus about how bad scrolling is for you, here's a #reddit tip. If you use Reddit & RES (redditenhancementsuite.com recommended!), you can disable infinite scroll at www.reddit.com#res:settings... and setting "Pause After Every" to 2 and be limited to your top 100 posts.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I finally fixed my #3dprinter! It's been a huge pain replacing hot ends, fixing x-axis belts. Frustrated and almost giving up, I persevered.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I gave a presentation on What's New in #Angular this weekend. One of the most important steps is to adopt the latest best practices. Good thing the Angular team does it for you with this bundle of tools.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

About to go on stage at #DevFestMN to talk about #Angular. Great speakers this morning!

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Cooking up some fun new interactive experiences for #DevFestMN. Tickets still available. Come learn about the latest #ai #web #angular and more innovations on Saturday the 7th in Minneapolis. devfest.mn?discount=ste...

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

I don't like this future. Where are my web apps? #fitbit #timeline

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

I just knocked out a quick tutorial on how to fully resize a #vdisk with #unraid, #fdisk, pvresize, lvextend, and resize2fs. fluin.io/blog/increas...

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

I swear, cleaning up and removing old code is easier than getting rid of old toys.

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

I love data about myself. I think Dec 7th is a little early, for a recap but here is my language learning report:

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

I played with AI generated images a bunch this weekend. I think we're all safe until AI learns how to brush teeth. #uncanny

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Want to .map or .find across an HTML Collection from querySelectAll? Spread it into an array!

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Stephen Fluin @stephenfluin.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

If you don't have automated tests, you don't have quality guarantees. I was reminded of this when a hacker at a recent event hit a bug with one of our core user journeys

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