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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Stained glass for every window in my house, every window for everyone who wants it, and at least one skyscraper. Or several, it's $77bn. Style is irrelevant, I just want all of the colours

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I am so torn between wanting to share this with no context so that the reader can have the full experience of developing a relationship with each of the parties in the discussion to this PR, and with knowing that the full impact of what is happening here might evade many without more explanation

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DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml

DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Impleme...

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

So, this is a bribe, right? The republican administration is demanding that Harvard pay them to keep operating, with no legal basis for that payment. NYT can call that a bribe, right? And if the administration sues for libel, they have to try and prove it's not a bribe. Which would be great

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Hello. I am a human person in real life. If you shoot me with a silenced gun, I will be screaming. Loudly. Also, I will most likely survive.

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Continually surprised that "vibe coding" is the actual term for it. Vibes are the aesthetics & emotions of something. Fashion, interior design, branding even. If I'm talking about "vibes based engineering," I'm insulting the engineering

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Not Shopify telling me I can filter by country to "easily shop my favorite Canadian brands." The tariffs may be paused but the memory is not

Cropped screenshot of an android phone (my phone) (1:41pm Feb 4) (67% battery). One notification is visible, from Shopify's Shop app:

Filter search by country 🇨🇦
Easily find your favorite Canadian brands

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L. Pereira @lafp.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

After a few months taking a break from work, I'm looking for a job again. Anyone hiring a software engineer with a penchant for low-level stuff? I'm looking for something remote in the US (or, at the very least, something in the Seattle area). (Reskeet for reach? Thanks!)

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Find someone who looks at you like Jasper looks at random spots on the wall

Photo of Jasper, a short-haired tuxedo cat. He is staring up, past the camera, big round green eyes just fixated on ... Something. His paws are nicely tucked under him. He looks like he has seen an angel and also like his head is too large for his body

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Got my flu shot today! It included antigens for H5N1 (& 3 other influenzas), was quick and free. Please be proud of me, I hate needles

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year! It's officially 2025 here and I have a cat on my lap so I'm taking that as a good omen

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

@singal.shame.wtf It looks like you've mis-labelled me: I'm not following Singal and have him blocked. Can you look into that? (I have followed him - it was a misclick before blocking him - so your automation probably flagged that)

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Jigsaw puzzles are noticeably harder with a cat involved. They really are

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

"For them, giant corporations are the enemy that is harming them by only looking out for their profits, not their customers." he Still doesn't even mention the workers. Still! Like, buddy no.

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Oh my god why are the bots out in force tonight? I've gotten like 5 new followers and I don't think any of them are real

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

New Brunswick Public Libraries has an ebook collection! That integrates with Kobo! I always kinda assumed that was for Bigger & Cooler™ places

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Today on "why is Google AI like that?" Normally AI can make normal-sounding sentences. So where did Google learn "their or her"? (The linked source uses "his or her" like a normal writer)

A screenshot of a Google AI overview about S. R. Ranganathan. It includes a section on the Five Laws of Library Science. Law 2 is highlighted: "every person their or her book"

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Joseph Frusci @theaveragejoe.org · 17/12/2024

Nmap command's 🔍

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

3d printing success! A good dino! Model from @cobramode

3d print of a fictional hadrosaur-like dinosaur piled up with bags and with a lizard-type dude riding it. Photographed against a wooden desk with my hand holding its tail to keep it in position. My friend said it looked like the kind of creature you'd see on a desert planet in star wars, and he's not wrong. It's fantasy not sci-fi but it has a real Tatooine vibe anyway

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

These people are so close to believing in climate change. So, so close. And yet so far

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Cuz they bots, mostly. A few real people here and there, mostly bots trying to look normal or get engagement from me

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Why is 3d printing so damn hard? No one told me about the failure rates 😭

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 06/12/2024

hi, i wrote a post - "Defining AI". ali-alkhatib.com/blog/definin...

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Ali Alkhatib: Defining AI

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Schoellkopf mills in 1900. I feel like this could be used for a half-terraformed Mars with very little modification, and also I want a diorama of it so bad (Photo from Detroit Publishing Co., found on Wikipedia)

A slightly sepia-toned old photo. It shows a row of red brick buildings, 2-6 stories tall, along the edge of a cliff. There are some buildings build into the side of the cliff, and 2 at the base. A good dozen or so waterfalls are flowing out of the cliff face. The whole thing looks precarious and unlikely and very industrial.

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

"Your odds were 10% and have increased by 9%" Data Analyst: your odds are now 10.9% Video Game: your odds are now 19% Journalist: 10.9% probably if they/their editor has good math skills, otherwise 19% Random Poster: who knows? English is terrible and I hate it

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#BadActorBingo note for the morning: the last few days have seen an increase in accounts that automate "Reply Guys as a service" by pulling random posts and having ChatGPT write a comment that superficially agrees but pivots to trying to start a fight halfway through.

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Does anyone have any stats on how many of our almost 24m users here are bots? Cuz they are definitely out in force

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Hot new rage bait just dropped! At what point should it be illegal to play the Die Hard sound track?

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A junior developer knows how to use booleans, whereas a senior developer knows that booleans don't exist! They do not! Your data model is broken! I promise you, "unknown" and "it's complicated" are valid values. At least write down what NULL means, please

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

We've got snow here. Or as the weather network calls it, a "wintery mix," which sounds *so much nicer* than it is.

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This timeline looks like they're not doing a staged roll-out (giving it to 10% of users at a time, then 20%...) and they might be limited by app store review times rather than internal schedules. In other words, they are moving *so fast* right now

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Allowing links is also good for people (me) who don't post them (or post much at all really): I've probably read more interesting articles in the past week on bsky than in the previous few months I am so easily hacked by the algorithm 😑

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TomNomNom @tomnomnom.com · 26/11/2024

One of my favourite vim tips: delete everything between braces and then end up in insert mode ready to type a replacement: ci{ My mnemonic is "Change In {" This works for other types of braces, quotes, and a bunch of other situations See :help object-select for more :)

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 25/11/2024

if you set your database browser font to Comic Sans it's less serious when you accidentally drop a table. follow for more development tips

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

There's APTs and then there's whatever this is. I suggest calling them BPSGs (basic persistent silly gooses)

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Security announcement for all cats of Bluesky: After careful evaluation, my colleague Mr Jasper McWhisker has determined that stove tops are not for cats. We apologize for the inconvenience. You may demand extra wet food as compensation.

Mr Jasper McWhisker (a soft tuxedo cat) sits on my lap and stares longingly upwards. (It's not in frame but he's looking at the stove)

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Dumbass: the cup is a good reason to skeet and not go to bed

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M Collins @watercityflame.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I feel like I'm finally recovering from the massive burnout that built up over the past few years. Soon, I will be unstoppable! (except with more burnout) But genuinely, I feel like I can tackle things again. It's good

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