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Todd Ballowe

@toddballowe.com.bsky.social

I’m originally from Illinois, but I bailed on the Midwest in ’97 and made Reno, NV my home. Lead Engineer at Madison AI, musician since age five, and a book junkie with a soft spot for horror—on the page and on the screen. https://toddballowe.com/bio/

199 Followers  |  146 Following  |  107 Posts  |  Joined: 25.10.2024  |  1.6395

Latest posts by toddballowe.com on Bluesky

Why don't you come to Reno?

13.11.2025 02:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Because you're a FUCKING IDIOT, Todd.

16.08.2025 17:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@drdind.bsky.social hey I think you might like to help pass this along.

23.07.2025 03:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"What about squid?"
From my partner of ten years lol.

20.07.2025 03:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Me in my 20s:
This radio station is playing my jams.

Me in my 30s:
This bar is playing my jams.

Me in my 40s:
This grocery store is playing my jams.

Me in my 50s:
This elevator is playing my jams.

18.07.2025 02:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@theonion.com I'm just going to leave this here.

07.07.2025 00:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I feel you on this one.

29.06.2025 18:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey, who can help get this idea into the hands of someone who can take action?

28.06.2025 02:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@georgetakei.bsky.social
In case you haven't seen this one yet.

22.06.2025 21:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And, oh yeah, I DONATED all of my time in exchange for a link in their website to my home page. For four years.

21.05.2025 02:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So your passive aggressive, uniformed anonymous post is childish and uniformed.

21.05.2025 02:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey just for the record... I was the web developer for that company and they sent out multiple communications over four months letting everyone know to please download any of their content ahead of time as they were going out of business and I was given permission to take over the server.

21.05.2025 02:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Now this is a #redhat I can get behind.

03.05.2025 02:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Elvira, Mistress of the bark.
AKA shagamuffin
#dogs
#bernedoodle

24.04.2025 20:20 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How Building Madison AI Screwed With My Philosophy and Saved My Inner Writer (Sort Of) Let’s start with the obvious: building an AI company was never on my bingo card. I didn’t grow up thinking, “One day, I’ll use Python to disrupt public service workflows and build municipal software s...

Again not that anyone cares.
toddballowe.com/how-building...

21.04.2025 04:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mavis the magnificent.
#cats
#blackcat
#kitty
#shelookscutebutisabrutalmurderer

09.04.2025 03:08 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Once upon a time I was a musician.

07.04.2025 20:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Syphilisisyphus:
When I take antibiotics every day but bang your mom every night.
Syphilisisyphus.

05.04.2025 03:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Real men fight for the oppressed.

05.04.2025 00:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Punch Cards and Poetry: A Coder's Journey Through Time » 🅱🅰🅻🅻🅾🆆🅴✑🎸 The journey of a coder is a winding road, full of unexpected turns, frustrating dead ends, and moments of pure exhilaration. Also, frustration and a frequent desire to bang your head against a fucking...

More bullshit about me.
toddballowe.com/punch-cards-...

31.03.2025 01:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is the best meme I've seen today. Hands down.

30.03.2025 01:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My Life in Code: Marvelous 3, AI Search, and the Occasional Existential Crisis » 🅱🅰🅻🅻🅾🆆🅴✑🎸 Alright, imaginary friends, gather ’round the virtual campfire. Today, we’re diving deep into the labyrinth of my memories and code files to unearth some hidden gems. You asked for details about the b...

The old man and the sea of code. Read yet another thrilling entry on my journey into becoming a lead AI solutions architect.

toddballowe.com/my-life-in-c...

28.03.2025 02:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Long and Winding Road to Hybrid Search: A Facebook Flashback » 🅱🅰🅻🅻🅾🆆🅴✑🎸 Hey everyone, I wanted to take a bit more time to share the story behind the development of the madison_hybrid_search function at Madison AI. It wasn’t a walk in the park, and looking back at […]

Yet another post no one will read about my journey from being a front end web developer to a lead AI solutions architect.
toddballowe.com/the-long-and...

27.03.2025 02:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh this is delicious.

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