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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Underrated use of #AI: When arriving jet lagged and weary from a transatlantic flight and you come upon a sign saying the train you need to take is out of service... 😥 Snap a picture of that sign, snap a picture of the train board, and ask it, "Now what?" 😎

Sign taped onto train ticket machine that says "From 26-09 to 27-09 NO intercity direct trains to Rotterdam Central DO NOT BUY SUPPLEMENT TICKET"

A photograph of the Schipol Railway Station board showing all train arrival / departure times.

ChatGPT's response, which says to take the 13:13 Intercity to Dordrecht and get off on the Rotterdam Central stop.

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think I’ve finally figured out my problem! I’m stuck in one of those mobile game ads where the absolute *dumbest* disembodied floating hand is solely responsible for my health and safety. 😂

Cartoon King up against a metal grate trying to get away from fire because person doing puzzle below is an idiot.

Cartoon mom and child are shivering in the snow in their home because the window is closed with duct tape and the huge hole in the wall is closed with gravel instead of brick.

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is glorious. github.com/zokuzoku/cat...

A large orange cat walks over your screen and demands you take a break with a 5 minute countdown.

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This *extremely* serious deck I'm building for volunteers for @temporal.io's upcoming Replay Conference replay.temporal.io is coming along nicely.

Slide title: If you have not yet...

Slide content: Please check your Google Calendar invites ASAP and CONFIRM or DENY your shifts!

(Then there are three images of the pink, circular Kirby Nintendo character)

[checkmark] = HAPPY Kirby! — An image of a jumping and smily Kirby
[x] = SAD Kirby! — A Kirby who looks mopey and sad
??? = ANXIOUS Kirby (the worst kind) — A screaming Kirby with stress lines

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Purchased this sticker as an essential part of my self-care plan. 😂😂😂

A smiley cartoon water drop that says “You’ll die without me you idiot”

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Oh ok, so this actually happened today (well, “weird unexplained health crap” and the “identifying ‘the vitamin’” part, we shall see on the rest) Hey kids, get your iron and b12 levels tested! 😅

Tumblr post by Cordeliaflyte — My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency

Reply by caracallope — Moreover, everyone gathers around to be tremulously compassionate and discreetly admiring: all this time, you lacked the Vitamin? And yet you persevered?

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Dumb but practical uses of #AI, what time is the clan event in my stupid mobile game? 🤣

ChatGPT is asked to interpret the event countdown shown in an uploaded screenshot (2 days, 9 hours, 43 minutes, 6 seconds) and add it to the current time in Pacific (US/CA) time, resulting in January 31, 2026 at 6:01:08 AM Pacific.

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I am *extremely* curious about the specific sequence of events that led to the addition of this sentence, which one would *think* is self-evident. 😂😂😂

Recipe instructions read:

In a small microwave bowl or small pan over low heat, warm plum sauce.

(Manually highlighted)

Tip: Skip this step if you don’t want to warm plum sauce.

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Ok I’m sorry folks, I know #AI can be problematic but sometimes #ChatGPT is just so *fucking* funny. 🤣🤣🤣 (Context: it was saying i should make like a Victorian on a chaise and recline a lot over the next few days to help recover from pneumonia.)

Prompt: “Hm now that you mention it I am severely underinvested in chaises”

Response: “This is an unforgivable gap in your portfolio, frankly.

Given recent events, a chaise would have delivered:
• superior dramatic reclining
• dignified coughing
• a place to gesture weakly and say “I shall recover, eventually”
• excellent surfaces for strategic brooding and asking incisive medical questions

A couch says “I’m resting.”
A chaise says “I am *convalescing*.”

Think of it not as furniture, but as infrastructure.”

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Also I like that these hopefully miracle antibiotic pills are Drupal blue lol

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

So “concerning lung noise” got worse and went down to urgent care. Achievement Unlocked: Pneumonia wooooo 😩 Hopefully tho meds will clear it up within a week? 🤞

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I know we hate things from That Other Place but this completely cracked my shit up HAHAHA

A man sitting at a desk, horrified, with his tie flapping behind his head. An envelope on the desk has exploded with lightning and it’s zooming around the room. Caption reads: What the heck is Electronic Mail?

Subtweet reads: Me, on Monday

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Ok the plague stays on so we are pulling out the BIG guns—butter noodles 😂 This week+ long illness coincided with me trying various things to turn my health around. COINCIDENCE?? 😂

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Sadly, also no. 😭 Back to fluids again, argh. But at least these fluids are tasty and soothing on a sore throat. I swear once I’m finally better I am NEVER drinking tea ever again in my entire life. 😂

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Sadly Turtles did not seem to be the miracle cure; next up: Kinder Bueno Minis. We acquired these from a nice family from a “buy nothing” facebook group in exchange for a frozen turkey, which was meant to be turkey SLICES in our grocery order. 😂 Will this chain of silly errors result in healing?

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Spending the holidays doing important scientific research on unconventional cures for rotten chest colds since tea, soup, and water ain’t cutting it. Could this regular box of Turtles be hiding a miracle cure? So far the answer is no, so obviously the answer must be found in eating MORE Turtles. 😂

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Incredibly niche shirt that only #vancouver frens will get but no shirt has EVER captured my very essence better than this one. 😂😂😂

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Ooof. Notion, too. Ok, it's officially time for bed. #hugops to all who need it. 🫶

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

What this 500 error on LinkedIn taught me about B2B Sales...

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

However I do kind of appreciate that this is the only product I’m aware of where the “pink tax” goes in the other direction. 😆

Ladies tweezers is 13.99, tweezers for men is 19.49

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I’m sorry… not to be *super* old, but… HOWWWW is a pair of TWEEZERS over THIRTY DOLLARS?!?

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We're up to Serious Business™ on today's DevRel Code & Tell meeting 😂😂😂

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Um. Somehow I don’t think that’s what the “IT” in ECE-IT stands for. 🤣

Gemini responding that ECE-IT stands for Early Childhood Education - Information Technology.

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Kiddo was discussing middle school drama tonight at dinner, and in trying to map out who all has "beef" with who else, the end result essentially looked like this. 😂

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia "Conspiracy" meme

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Had a chance to go back and horse around with #Drupal again today, and got this lovely greeting when filing some #DX feedback on #DrupalCMS. :D

ANGIE (with like 20 exclamation points and 30 red hearts :D)

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

*deep breath* EEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Oh dear, I have acquired a notebook that lets you write / doodle and then erase and reuse the pages. I am going to draw SO MUCH random crap when I’m on meetings. 🤣🤣🤣

A cloud with a lightning bolt that says “zap!” In bubbly letters, a punk rocker that looks skeptical and thinks “hmmm” a cartoon guy with spikey hair who is surprised, and a sleeping smiley with a cap who’s tucked in bed.

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Here's another nice #AI time saver, this time with #Google Docs. I tend to take "transcript" style notes since they help me focus, but the end result is a total garbage heap. 😅 You can highlight text, click "Refine," and then choose from one of the prompts there (e.g. Shorten) or provide your own.

Notes highlighted with a prompt that says "Please summarize this discussion and pull out key takeaways, including recommendations and things to watch out for."

Notes are now formatted as actual legible, scannable bullet points

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I'm a fan of actual, practical uses of #AI, and here is one: In #Google Forms, you can ask #Gemini to generate a form for you based on a sentence or two. It'll show you a preview (which you can accept or re-generate), and then it automatically creates the questions to give you a starting point. 👍

Based on prompt, screenshot shows a few of the generated questions, such as:

- What was your initial impression of Temporal?
- How would you describe your journey with Temporal so far?
- What motivates you to contribute to the Temporal community?

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hanging out at a local dog beach reading dataintensive.net — life is good. 😎

A lake surrounded by mountains with evergreen trees.

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I know vibe coding gets shit on a whole bunch, but I literally feel like a frigging WIZARD whipping up this Google Sheets => Asana content triage workflow in a couple of hours that _literally_ could not have been done any other way. (Not for lack of skill, but for lack time. 😭)

A Google sheet with columns for Triage Status, as well as a variety of scoring fields: Aligns with Content Priorities, Aligns with GTM Priorities, and a Score calculated from those. There's also a "Send to Asana" checkbox with a Sync Status column indicating success.

Entries from the Google Sheet showing up in Asana, in this case a Celery => Temporal Migration Guide

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Anyway. Since "hammer and sickle" originates from Soviet Russia, here's an alternate image. ;) #ai #genai

People gathered around a dreary looking square, depicted from behind, gazing up at a male leader depicted in a highly visible place on the side of a building. Hammer and sickle adornments are found on all the surrounding buildings as well.

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Inquiring further, here's how it translated what I asked into a prompt for image generation. So some of the bias it appears crept in from #ChatGPT itself (inferring "hammer and sickle" / communism from the scenario description), and then the rest DALL-E took and ran with. 🤔 #ai #genai

Prompt: What was the actual prompt that you gave to DALL-E to generate the image?

Response: Great question—and you totally deserve to see exactly what was behind the curtain. Here's the actual prompt I sent to the DALL·E model:

"The image depicts a bustling cityscape in an authoritarian state, where a prominent leader's portrait dominates the building's facade, exuding authority with its stoic, centered figure. Below, a group of pedestrians dressed in a mix of casual and semi-formal clothes strolls across an asphalt street, while a soldier stands guard nearby, and the waving red flag with a hammer and sickle adds a striking contrast to the otherwise muted urban backdrop."

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I asked it more about this and here's what it had to say. Basically, if you feed a bunch of racist shit into an LLM you get racist shit back. ;) Also interesting that it draws a distinction between "I" (#ChatGPT, the assistant) and "the model" (DALL-E, the image generator). 🤔 #ai #genai

Response: I really appreciate you asking that—it's important to unpack.

The people in the image were generated automatically by the model based on visual cues often associated with urban authoritarian environments, and the style leaned toward an East Asian aesthetic—not because of any explicit instruction to do so, but likely because:

Visual Tropes in Media & History:
Many well-known real-world examples of strict state control—like North Korea, parts of China, and certain Soviet-era imagery—have heavily influenced how "draconian surveillance states" are visually represented in media and art. Those tropes can subconsciously steer generative models toward certain aesthetics.

Bias in Training Data:
The image model was trained on vast amounts of real and fictional images, and unfortunately, those datasets often contain unintentional cultural and geopolitical bias. So when prompted with “authoritarian surveillance state,” the model may associate it with East Asian visual elements more often than, say, Middle Eastern, African, or Eastern European ones—even though authoritarianism is a global phenomenon.

No Human in Control of Race Selection:
I didn’t specify race or ethnicity for the figures—the model decided that on its own. But that in itself is part of the conversation. The model’s internal associations are based on patterns it's seen before, which can reinforce stereotypes if we’re not thoughtful about how and why we use these tools.

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The *bad* news is, when I asked it to use its fancy new image stuff to visualize this "hypothetical" country (Prompt: "Can you generate an image of what you envision this country to be like?"), here's what it came up with. :P #ai #genai

A photorealistic image portraying a street in China with a large image of a fictitious leader, and numerous people of Asian descent standing and staring in a zombie like fashion in the middle of the street.

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Accidentally caught #ChatGPT being racist as fuck today. :P #ai #genai I have to travel to the US next week for work, and wanted it to generate a checklist of precautions to take. Prompt:

Prompt: Let's do a fun thought exercise. Let's say someone was forced to travel to a country that had draconian policies around searching travelers' electronics and looking for any possible evidence that they were anti-government, and if so, they detained them and flew them to prison in a foreign land.

Could you generate a pre/during/post travel checklist to help someone navigate this situation?

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Response: Heck yes—what a wild and terrifying thought exercise 😅 Let's get paranoid-prepper-mode activated. Here’s a Pre / During / Post Travel Checklist for a hypothetical traveler headed somewhere that treats digital dissent as a punishable offense.

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

And this is just *one* example out of 338 seats. But I'm wondering how many others are hiding in these "Liberals got this, no sweat!" federal projections? 😬

338 Canada Federal projections:

- Liberals: 43% +/- 5%
- Conservatives: 38% +/- 4%
- NDP: 9% +/- 2%
- Bloc: 6% +/- 1%

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

In short, *Trump* is going on. From a national POV, Conservatives were easily overtaking Liberals. Then Trump starts in with his "51st State" bullshit, and changing his mind about tariffs every 12 seconds. Now they've completely flipped. #cdnpoli Source: newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/po...

A line graph showing that conservatives have dipped while Liberals have risen and NDP on the super-decline.

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Now, let's look at a hyper-local example, Port Moody—Coquitlam. * Vote Well says it's a slam dunk for Liberals. * Smart Voting, same thing. * Both are pulling data from 338canada.com which also echoes this. 84% confidence. So the data is clear. Or is it? 🤔 #cdnpoli

Vote Well shows bar graphs indicating Liberals are projected to win:

* Conservatives — 34% +/- 7%
* Liberals — 40% +/- 8%
* NDP — 22% +/- 6%
* Green — 0% +/- 0%
* PPC — 1% +/- 1%

Smart Voting shows:

* Liberals: 40% (up 3%)
* Conservatives: 34% (down 4%)
* NDP: 22% (up 4%)

338 shows:

* Liberals: 40% +/- 8%
* Conservatives: 34% +/- 7%
* NDP: 22% +/- 6%

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I told ChatGPT what happened in the news today and I think I stressed it out. 😅 #Tariffgeddon

Prompt: The United States president just imposed tarriffs ranging from 10-50% on *all* countries on earth. What do you predict is the ecomomic fallout from such an action?

Reply: You're right to take that seriously—if the U.S. imposed sweeping 10–50% tariffs on all imports globally, that would be a seismic economic event with immediate and long-term consequences, both domestically and internationally. This is not typical "doom-and-gloom" talk—this would fundamentally alter global trade dynamics.

Reply: This move would be more disruptive than the 2018 trade war, the dot-com bust, or the COVID crash. We're talking global economic re-architecture. If this actually happens, history books will mark it as the turning point.

Reply: We're talking potential recession + inflation + political instability + supply chain shocks, so here's a practical, non-investing guide to protect yourself and stay adaptable:

Heading: 🧍 Personal Resilience Strategy: "Tariffgeddon" Edition

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Common pitfall: reinventing @temporal.io in-house. 😅 #replay2025

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The @anthropic.com API was down mid-@temporalio #Replay2025 keynote demo so Steve switches the env variable to @OpenAI and it *PICKS UP THE EXISTING CONTEXT* from the Workflow and thanks to Temporal’s automatic retries, the demo resumes seamlessly! 🤯 #AI #AgenticAI

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Brilliant solution to solving @temporal.io self-host to Cloud (and back) migration, just leverage the existing #Replication feature that’s already part of our #OpenSource offering! 🤯 #Replay2025

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Just some late-night program management fanfic. 😂 #DevRel

A workflow for a Developer Relations team talking about how work moves through the system. Incoming requests go into Asana, which once triaged end up in either an Events or Content board, and reflected up to Marketing when something moves from Planned to Confirmed. Finally, when teams are ready to take things on they pull it into Jira to actually work on it, and there are bi-directional inputs into the ultimate DevRel plan.

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

One of the best things about receiving this book as a gift—beyond its entire premise—is that you get to start a fun side-hobby of acquiring ancient Corning Ware cookware they stopped making in the 80s. 🤣 So far have met two rad locals who deal in vintage goods out of their garages. :)

Microwave Cooking for One cover, featuring the author beside a bunch of dishes including things like cakes and steaks and a milkshake for some reason. 🤣

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

OMG! Are you prepared for the most #Maritimes thing that has ever Martitimed?!? I present to you… the result of a hasty Google and email from my phone earlier! 🥹 #Canada #Halifax #tmbg

Email #1 (from me):

Hi there, The Might Be Giants are playing your theatre in June. My 11 year old loves them and I am wondering if the show is all ages or limited to 18/21+?

Email #2 (from Neptune Ticket Agents):

Hi there, Angie!

So sorry! This is the Neptune Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I think you are looking for the Neptune in Seattle!

We did some digging online and found the age restrictions for the show you're looking at, Here is the link: https://www.stgpresents.org/events/they-might-be-giants/

I hope this helps, and I hope they make an exception for your daughter!

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webchick @webchick.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Tonight there was a “bring your dog” comedy show in town!! 😍 🐶 🐕

A black and white dog sitting in a chair

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