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Dave Pradko

@pradko.bsky.social

18 years building government software and counting

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Their episodes on "Nudge" were great. It was such a popular book under the first Obama admin

14.02.2026 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly, my first thought was, these are the credit default swaps of shitty hot takes

I started saying in about 2018 we were entering the Golden Age of Trolling. We haven't peaked yet

08.02.2026 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I assumed Supreme Court documents were already FOUO (for official use only)

03.02.2026 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very pleased to see @jonbois.bsky.social getting the scoragami credit he deserves

(now please re-boot Breaking Madden, too)

05.12.2025 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dan thought he lost his shot... Little did he know how much his life would change. Stay with us this week as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack! #obrotherwher... TikTok video by Dan Tyminski

"I'll act, you sing"

Clooney Clooney did a kind thing and changed a man's life while making "Oh Brother"

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UqmpbW/

05.12.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The author of the book and the screenwriter said it is a Christmas movie, so....

02.12.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Muppets?

27.11.2025 04:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Werewolf by Night is criminally underrated

26.11.2025 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No one appreciates our skills Peter

25.11.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Michael BublΓ© While on tour, many musicians collect mementos of their world travels: postcards, groupie phone numbers, sexually transmitted diseases. But the Grammy-award winning singer Michael BublΓ©, a Canadian, r

I remember reading, years ago, that Michael Buble's rider included a hockey puck from a local hockey team. Rather endearing by the standards of today's celebs

www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage/cr...

25.11.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Write in present tense, whenever possible. Reasons:

* Brevity.
* Consistency.
* Clarity. I was taught this back when I wrote tech manuals. "When you click on GO, a dialog box will appear." WHEN will it appear? Immediately? Or sometime before the sun goes nova?" #AmEditing

25.11.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the time to begin audits of all systems accessed, changed, or had data changed/copied/shared

I strongly suspect sensitive govt data - including about citizens - has been shared w/ multiple private companies

23.11.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a blue shirt and tie is sitting at a desk in front of a computer in an office . ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is sitting at a desk in front of a computer in an office .
21.11.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The chainsaw was to cut the tree into logs. Fortunately he let me use a gas-powered log splitter

But yeah, the parallel of an adult handing a 14 year old horror movie nightmare fuel with no instructions and then walking away is both very 1997 and very 2025

21.11.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This reminds me of when I was in 9th grade and my boss handed me a chainsaw and said, "see those 2 downed trees? Cut 'em up and split them for firewood"

21.11.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Them's prawns

21.11.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some have teased me as being a hoarder but I prefer Indiscriminate Archivist

18.11.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I was not prepared for what I'd find cleaning out some stuff

(I really do miss the slide-out Qwerty keyboard

18.11.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Live your life so you don’t notice cloud flare outages.

18.11.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 320    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0

@sickoscommittee.org not only does this need to come back, the Super Bowl needs to adopt this

15.11.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man with glasses and a beard says " i know what you " ALT: a man with glasses and a beard says " i know what you "

It's giving Papyrus

12.11.2025 06:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place

11.11.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7387    πŸ” 592    πŸ’¬ 286    πŸ“Œ 110

Deeply relieved that our Commander in Chief has time to share his mood boards

31.10.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you can take down Odd Job on slaps-only, you can accomplish anything in a video game

30.10.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A Futurama reference is always a correct reference

30.10.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know I'm old, but the 90s coming back is messing with me in a way I didn't anticipate

29.10.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Science history: Gravitational waves detected, proving Einstein right β€” Sept. 14, 2015 When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set off a whole new era in astronomy.

Happy 10th anniversary to the discovery of gravitational waves

www.livescience.com/space/black-...

14.09.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Album cover of the year

18.08.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Betty White stamps were great, too

I think I bought a half dozen sheets

17.08.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Teaching the Abstract | Clare Sudbery<br/><br/><br/> β€” The LabVIEW Experiment Podcast Clare Sudbery is an independent technical coach with over 20 years of software experience. She specialises in technical leadership, TDD, refactoring, continuous integration and other eXtreme…

How do you teach techniques such as incremental refactoring and test driven development (TDD)?

Back in January I was interviewed by @sasworkshops.bsky.social for the Labview Experiment podcast, and we had a great chat about Samman Technical coaching,

25.07.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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