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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I am eagerly waiting on a package and UPS is letting me follow the truck around on its tracking website. I am so frustrated that the truck is circling my house but never going on my street.

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Ended the night watching Uzbekistan vs Colombia at the local pub. Good match! Colombia was the better team, but it was hard to root for the underdogs, especially after their first World Cup point.

Vincent and Tammy selfie at an outdoor pub. FIFA flags and condiments adorn the background. Vincent wears a Panama hat.Tammy wears her pink cap. Both are smiling.

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Watched a little soccer. Drank a little Turkish tea. So far, a good day.

Vincent, blue shirt, glasses, holding a glass of tea in a Turkish cafe.

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Just completed another loop around the sun—almost to the minute of this post! I'm celebrating my crawling through a cave this weekend. Party on.

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

We just concluded a primary election here in California. It seemed to be a bigger deal outside of California than in. Lots of folks online (and not in CA) were getting heated about the governor primary, and here in the state, it was a pretty boring election.

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

@mactunag read somewhere that the Scottish Parliament may have approved a referendum for Scottish independence. Is that true? And what does a referendum mean? What are your thoughts? (If you care to answer, a valid respond is to tell me to google it)

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

@JessTheUnstill The GenX pipeline from starry-eyed sci-fi nerd child to luddite middle-aged burned-out adult.

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

So I ask, am I the one living in the asylum? Or is everyone else? \end

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

The exec no longer impresses me because he admitted that he outsources creativity to a plagiarism machine. This is not the hallmark of a good leader. It also dilutes the quality of this output since he can't claim to have originated it. The band enthusiast found a neat niche for the tool, but […]

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

Coldly, neither of these usecases are commodities. One cannot convert "I don't code anymore"—which is what the exec said AI was good for, the testing tools digression was a non sequitur. And creating websites, if there is any lesson from web 1.0 to be learned, is that not profitable. \5

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

In (1), the exec admits that he's terrible at code review—or the code review process is terrible, same difference—and the solution is better tooling, which doesn't exist. In (2), the professional created a fan website rather quickly. Did I miss something? Neither of these folks made a […]

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

2) Professional has a band they adore. Using Claude Code, he quickly coded up a website to track and follow their latest tour, including dates, track lists, "SEO-compliant" (I don't know what that means), venue maps, etc. He was really impressed with the iteration speed with which he was able […]

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

1) Exec says that he doesn't look at code anymore. In that, he means that he still performs code reviews, but doesn't write code from scratch. When broached about how he errors in errors in the code he does review (and admits there are always errors), he pivots to asking how would testing tools […]

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

#AI Someone(s) have lost the plot. Is it me? On LI, I saw two posts from people I consider smart, or at least listening to. 1) First one is an exec. 2) Second is career professional. \1

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2025

The squirrels and crows are having a showdown on the roof. Karina is rooting for injuries—and snacks. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Karina the Siamese mix stares up and out the window at unseen squirrels and crows. Her tail is twitching. The sky is blue. How she wishes she could eat them up.

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2025

@grammargirl A little bit from column A, a little bit from column B.

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 25/12/2024

Oh no

Asked Google on Wednesday, December 25, 2024 - is today Christmas? Google AI replied "No, today is not Christmas, but it will be on Wednesday, December 25, 2024.

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2024

I's odd to me that a primarily children's entertainment company took this long to make a Star Wars that is fun for all ages. It's not like they don't have a braintrust the size of a planet to fall back on. Probably the self-serious and highly toxic Star Wars fandom had something to do with it […]

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Vincent :coffeecup: @vincent.mastodon.coffee.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2024

With it billions of dollars, Disney, and previously LucasFilm, were incapable of using their Star Wars IP into something fun, interesting, and exciting. Everything since Jedi IMO has been either self-serious or ridiculously introspective. Mandolorian came close to being fun—until it started […]

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