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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 28/09/2026

Every even marginally fun-to-browse retailer is closed now, it seems Radio Shack Papyrus Toys R Us Sam Goody B Dalton Joann Fry's Sharper Image Waldenbooks Discovery Store Circuit City Tuesday Morning Borders Pier1 Brookstone Shopping centers are so dull these days.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 27/09/2026

Bought an "erasure poem" last night at the Punk Rock Flea Market Artist is Janessa Wight www.instagram.com/jenessaliz1

An "erasure poem" - a page from a book with most words blacked out except these specifically: "I DARE YOU" "genius -" "flash" "and scintillate" "let" "the" "symphony" "play"

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 24/09/2026

I don't know how I could take a job back without being made whole on the obliterated stock vests.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 23/09/2026

You can spot AI autodialers because they sound so chirpy. Every human making a phone call in 2026 sounds exhausted.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 22/09/2026

Also, hello from the greater Seattle area

Premium gasoline pump showing 6.999 per gallon

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 22/09/2026

I had an ex-fleet 1985 Ford LTD. Yeah.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 21/09/2026

Made a little site to help with musical instrument transposition: changekey.to Give it a look if you play a transposing instrument like a clarinet, sax, or trumpet. :)

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 21/09/2026

I have quoted this film at least monthly for a quarter of a century now.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 12/09/2026

Don't hold out on us, where is it? :)

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 08/09/2026

Sentience does not reliably protect humans from being exploited or killed, and it does not prevent animals from being eaten or killed for sport. Just a reminder as we debate AI sentience.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

While you were partying I studied the blade When you were having premarital sex I visited the blade archives in the Vatican to do primary research on 14th century blades While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity I completed my dissertation on Oakeshott type XIIIa German longswords

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 05/09/2026

Watched Train Dreams. Stunningly beautiful. That one is going to stick with me.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 21/08/2026

The End of Oak Street 👍🏼

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 19/08/2026

Ah yes, in software we call that the "scream test"

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 15/08/2026

We were remembering an interesting space documentary we watched a while back and decided to look it up to watch with kiddo and it turns out Disney+ purged it and you just can't watch it anymore, the end.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 09/08/2026

Honestly, how are we not best friends?

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 02/08/2026

Amnesia plots are such a slog

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 02/08/2026

I went to see the new Spider Man on opening night, and I like Spider Man a lot, but there is no way that this one is "the best one yet" or the present 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. I like the performers in their roles and all, but both of the Spiderverse films are a lot stronger.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 25/07/2026

I know a lot of the reasons it happens. A lot of the time it is not really the "fault" of any one person, or it is "the hiring manager has a boss too," basically. But I am aware that it kind of smacks of trying to weasel out of accountability to get into those stories, which is not my goal

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 25/07/2026

I know how it happens. The interviewer is part of a panel and communication is supposed to route through a recruiter who has too much on their plate. Exec holds get placed, reqs get transferred, hiring gets frozen. It's an intricate and brittle process. I don't present that as an excuse though.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 25/07/2026

It's endemic. I was ghosted by Microsoft a couple times before I was hired. When I flew in to interview in 2018 I had to sit in an empty room for an hour because of scheduling snafus. I have been ghosted a few times since I left. And it turns out that I was ghosting people while I was there.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 25/07/2026

I did a lot of interviewing when I was at Microsoft, sometimes 5-10 ppl a week. I didn't find out until much later that some candidates were ghosted by the process. It shakes me to the core to know I was part of this and I apologize unreservedly to anyone who experienced it. Those are not my values.

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 25/07/2026

Oh fuck yes. This is a really shitty practice. Anyone who gets as far as a screening interview deserves a response for sure. I’d extend that to anyone who applies but that’s more debatable.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 10/07/2026

If you work in data and do not know YugabyteDB: I get it, I was in the same spot 6 months ago. It's neat though, genuinely. For my relational friends, you will find it more intuitive than you'd expect. It's a PostgreSQL endpoint over a distributed back end that uses RocksDB. It even runs Northwind.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 06/07/2026

I think it depends on my expected quality level for the ice cream. Chocolate on the low tier, pistachio mid. Vanilla emerges at the upper tier, then we kind of get into the S tier where I expect them to tell me their specialty.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 01/07/2026

The algorithm just served me up a teaser video to let me know that a trailer is coming out tomorrow for a show entitled "Star Wars: Visions Presents - The Ninth Jedi" and I need everyone involved in that GTM to, like, watch a sunset or something.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 01/07/2026

One of my favorite work from home things is when I go to close my office door and the dog is right outside, I ask him if he wants to join the upcoming meeting or not. It amuses me to no end. "Hey buddy, do you want to join the geospatial sync?"

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 30/06/2026

I used to eat a spoonful of peanut butter around 3 pm for a snack, but I knew that was pretty childish. So now I eat a spoonful of Nutella.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 30/06/2026

I can't pick a favorite line from this youtu.be/5KyfW79Ld4g?... But I do like "When MySQL has a good day, I wait for Ops to fix the monitoring"

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Interview with a DBA (Database Administrator)

YouTube video by Kai Lentit

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 12/06/2026

This was Microsoft life every day, it is such a bizarre dynamic

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/06/2026

Imagine being the most decorated gymnast in history, almost dying, and media referring to you as “NFL Wife” as your greatest achievement.😑 Misogyny is a helluva drug. Smh. Truly hope Simone is safe and makes a full recovery. What a horrible experience.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 09/06/2026

Ugh yeah I had that happen once: a tutorial on painting becoming a tutorial on troubleshooting stuck masking fluid 😕

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 03/06/2026

I unironically love how much faith Claude has in me

Something like (3-5) ∩ (2,4,6) ∩ (<10) → {3,4,5} ∩ {2,4,6} → {3,4} ∪ {5} wait, actually {4} plus... you'd work it out. The point is you get a canonical form.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 23/05/2026

They'll get targeted in the next layoff round if they try to fix anything. Ask me how I know.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 26/04/2026

We use this recipe, a copycat of the Little Caesars breadstick dough you can use for lots of things of that general consistency. youtu.be/CVtyA7NCRO8?...

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Little Caesars Crazy Bread (Copy Cat Recipe!)

YouTube video by Vijaya Selvaraju

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 23/04/2026

Life pro tip: toast your oats in browned butter before making oatmeal. It makes a bigger difference than you might expect.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 02/04/2026

It's the "No Time for Caution" track for this film and that suits me just fine

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 02/04/2026

Listening to the Project Hail Mary soundtrack and it strikes me that Time Go Fishing absolutely sounds like something from Cirque du Soleil youtu.be/OsSRIjgJDnI?...

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Daniel Pemberton - Time Go Fishing | Project Hail Mary (Original Motion Picture Score)

YouTube video by SonySoundtracksVEVO

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 02/04/2026

NASA’s mission to orbit the Moon is being interrupted by Outlook (New) and Outlook (classic) both refusing to open 😂

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 30/03/2026

You sure about that, Amazon?

An email listing from Amazon.com with the subject line "New book from Jane Austen"

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 27/03/2026

The lake and mountain were glorious yesterday afternoon

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 11/03/2026

It reminds me of the late 90's CommTech chips that came packed with action figures. Those were fun for like 20 minutes.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 08/03/2026

That was kind of a thing for a while there, at least I saw it a lot. "Where's that {monitor or whatever} from?" "Oh I picked it up from EPO, someone was hocking it after their paycheck bounced"

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 08/03/2026

The first time I ever saw a hit swappable RAID array was in an MCI office tower in Houston. I later heard some of the equipment from that office was taken home by employees after they didn't get paid during one of the accounting scandals.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 08/03/2026

I was trying to tell my kid about "10-10" numbers being advertised on television and it was truly hopeless. Explaining mass market interexchange carriers to someone who has no notion of landlines, much less long distance carriers.

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