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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Thinking of getting a DBA I'm good friends with a custom shirt that says, "SQL on the streets, Excel in the sheets" What do you guys think?

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

If there is this. Meaning you and I don't know if the us was a truth brought on by circumstance or happenstance... but it was a truth. and I will never let it lie. #poetry

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I'm not napping at my desk. I'm waiting for my code to compile. #codeShenanigans

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

(kg/cubic meter) What choices are these Which laugh in Frost's face - I find Ev'ry path led here.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Rubble, Not Ashes There are betrayals That require more than just fire. My anger explodes. #poetry #Haiku

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Just had a random woman smile at me unprompted as I was dropping my car off at the shop. Twice! I'm gonna ride this high all day.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

What Secrets Hold the Night at Bay? Silence as night falls. The embers of days passing ignites dark passions. #poetry #Haiku

The sun sets and the dying rays illuminate fluffy Grey clouds from below, giving them a deep red glow.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This is a great haiku. Sakura remind me of many things as well.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

You mean from imgur? Yes. Fancy seeing you here.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The Moment Leaves spiral downward; the lesson of sakura - Ev'rywhere I look. #poetry #Haiku

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I love my volunteer tomato plants. The ones that bloom from fruit that fell to the wayside from the bunnies brave enough to make their way through the marigold and catnip.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Like a stubborn bloom Living in cracks of concrete You cannot kill hope. #poetry #Haiku Photo by Stockcake

A purple flower stretches upward, growing from a crack in the sidewalk concrete

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Am I hopeful that Republicans will do the right thing surrounding the ACA tax credits and Medicaid cuts? Yes, in the same way that I hope that the end users for my app are not total idiots. There's a slim chance, but I had better prepare for the opposite.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

So, what these 8 moderate Democrats (and Schumer, et al) are saying is that the last 40 days were for nothing? We're already going to primary Fetterman. I hope those in New Hampshire find their fortitude to change their senators as well.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

As a federal worker, I am beyond pissed that the past 40 days are for nothing. Way to make our sacrifices mean nothing. To paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr., I am beyond disgusted with the moderate who says that now is not the time to fight.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

"My patience SNAPs" I cannot fathom The sheer depths of your disdain For a child's hunger. #Haiku #poetry

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I wish I had a girlfriend because I just want someone to tell me good job for not giving in to my love of lemon desserts and getting the lemon pie cookie from Crumbl. I mean...there are other reasons, but that one is pretty high on the list right now.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

As a Democratic Socialist, Mamdani's overwhelming victory is worth celebrating, and can be repeated across the country if those old guard geriatric corporate puppets that are mainline Democrats can learn from this. Help or get the fuck out of the way.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

$70 and 5 hours of driving (round trip) on a Saturday for ten minutes on display. The life of a marching band parent.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Really looking forward to @governorwalz.mn.gov announcing his run for the 2028 Presidential Election. Compassionate Ethical Leadership is what this country needs. (I know that he hasn't said anything about it, but a guy can hope)

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

to do a (.contains any) for each set of roles for each possible view. That way if a user has any role in each possible view, that view unlocks. This is straight linear time. If I use a hash, it becomes constant time, but what real world savings does this have, if any. Plus the typing. Ugh. 😅

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I didn't explain it well enough. There are multiple user roles with various levels of access and two super user roles. A given person can have any combination of roles. Each role allows access to a different view. So, my initial algo was to assign each view to an array of roles then use LINQ (1/2)

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I'm coming into this app as a fresh set of eyes. It was written about ten years ago by contract and it's a mess. If I had my druthers, I'd tear it down and rebuild it, but I can't. Also, this is the only page that has this visibility issue. The original devs were...special.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Sorting outside my therapist's office eating a rotisserie chicken because I got busy at work and forgot to eat my lunch and left it in the work fridge for tomorrow and now I'm in the "cold sweats" phase of low blood sugar. Don't judge. It's been a hard week and it's only Monday. #Mondays

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

So just a lot of ctrl-c, ctrl-v, then change a couple of variables. Rinse/repeat. I hate it. Lol. Thought about using a set of hashes, maybe I'll do that. XD. I wonder how much that would improve runtime.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

It's a page load function for displaying certain items depending on a user's role which can be any combination of 10 roles. So it's like if (userRoles.Any(x => role.Contains(x))) then display y. But there are 15 possible display combinations, so I get to iterate each one to flip visibility.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I swear,one of the worst parts about software development is after you solve a problem and have your algorithms ready to go, then you actually have to type it in. Especially when the same thing reiterates 15 times with a single variable change each time. #SoftwareDevBlues #SoftwareDevelopment

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Getting ready to take my daughter to see RHPS for her first time tonight. Forgot how comfy fishnets can be. #RockyHorrorPictureShow

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

What is a throwaway line in a movie that lives rent free in your head? Mine is the little spiel that Tom Cruise gives in MI-3 where he explains that when someone taps their brakes in rush hour, you can see the ripple effect for 200 miles. I think of that every time I'm stuck in my commute.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The "Robert Jordan Clause"? Maybe Brandon Sanderson can finish this one too? 😅

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

At least Jordan had an excuse. And the WoT series did come to a fairly satisfying conclusion in the end.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I saw Chicken. I'll put it on the list after my current series. :)

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

At least you know you've got at least a couple of months of reading material. Hopefully. There's a couple of series that just got unreadable as they progressed. At least to me. Looking at you Anita Blake. Hah.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I hate when I read a book that is right up my alley and realize that it's not a complete series and I have to wait for the next one to come out. At least the author is fairly prolific, and not pulling a G.R.R. Martin. Oh, it's a LitRPG series called The Unintended Cultivator, by Eric Dontigney.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I guess, sometimes we're all 8 again, and just want our parents to make us a sandwich, cut diagonally, with a side of potato chips. Why on the diagonal? Because it tastes better.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

It is patently ridiculous that one of the reasons why I will get fast food or take out is not because I don't have food at home. It is instead because I just want to pretend for a moment that somebody else is taking care of me.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Nothing makes me feel like I've succeeded more than when I see the spark of understanding in my daughter's eyes after we've spent time going over math she isn't sure of. Also, that was a long ass sentence.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

When you said murse, I thought of Paul Flowers from Scrubs, and I was with you. Then you veered off into handbag land, and I'm still with you. I have a crossbody pack that holds everything I need and lets me keep my wallet accessible and mostly pick pocket proof.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Had a small leak at the therapy session today. It almost was ugly, but I managed to keep it together. Because that's what men do, right? Keep it together. (that's sarcasm, btw, and I'm looking forward to the day I trust myself enough to let it go. That's gonna be a day.)

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Well, I'm still excepted, so still covered, but that's still a load of horseshit, honestly.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

That would be nice. I've never really talked to other adopted kids. I do know that my fear was validated, which is kind of funny in that therapy way of "humor is the way we cope", because I was unadopted at 10, which is why I was at a group home a couple of years later.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I have no idea why this took off. Algorithms are weird. 🤔

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

It's not that terrible. Adoption is a wonderful thing. I just hope that people who adopt toddlers or older are made aware that there's going to be some underlying trauma that needs dealt with. I don't think my adopted parents were ready for that. I've made my peace with that.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The guy who cooked was a chunky retired Navy cook who would bring in this big cast iron waffle pan once a month. It was an earned privilege if you were level 3 and above that you could pick out what kind of waffles would get made. Patrick Group Home, Oak Harbor, WA. I'll never forget them.

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I sometimes wonder about other adopted kids and if they ever felt the pressure to be "better" or a model kid, like you weren't allowed to have insecurities or express trauma or you might get sent back. Just me? Okay then. #adoptedkidthoughts

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Having a 90s morning, reminiscing what it was like to be a kid growing up in a group home, listening to Jewel and making chocolate chip waffles for the other kids.

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