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😼 Everything interrupted by 1d8 cats πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Principal Software Engineer 🎲 Typical geek hobbies πŸ”” Greater Philadelphia 🌐 https://jon.camp πŸ‘¨ he/him

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You can smell the number of people who wasted time wordsmithing that reply to ensure appropriate blandness.

04.08.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Comments and let me have a trailing comma!

04.08.2025 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AMAB and I take TRT. I went from sleeping thirteen hours a day to feeling great, working in the yard, re-engaging with my hobbies, etc.

The best part? The helpful tips I learned for applying androgel came from the trans masc subreddit. Those dudes have written countless posts with do's and don't's.

03.08.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A meme that reads "them: 'as you get older, you'll become more conservative.

me: *every year I've been alive*" 

Below is a screencap from the music video for the "Electric Slide" with the subtitle "slide to the left" at the bottom.

A meme that reads "them: 'as you get older, you'll become more conservative. me: *every year I've been alive*" Below is a screencap from the music video for the "Electric Slide" with the subtitle "slide to the left" at the bottom.

03.08.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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She faced $500 daily HOA fines for an unapproved door in her home. A new state law saved her California has new HOA rules. For most homeowners, fines are now capped at $100, thanks to a new housing bill.

The people in the comments who are annoyed that California limited HOA fines to $100 per infringement are something else.

Saw one person who said everything would be dirty without an HOA and I... like have these people never been outside their enclave?

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

03.08.2025 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some days, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

It was definitely the right that convinced me to pledge "not to get laid until marriage" when I was a kid.

It is definitely the right that wants to ban books on how to have safe sex.

What has the left taught me? Consensual, safe sex is fun!

01.08.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Authors don't support AI slop, k?

01.08.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Two cats are giving their backs to the camera while their heads are in their food bowls.

Two cats are giving their backs to the camera while their heads are in their food bowls.

My wife bought a box of 200 paper straws and they are, apparently, the best cat toy ever.

These goobers have balls and toys out the wazoo and they were up all night tackling straws.

31.07.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't high-level competitive sports all about a biological glass ceiling?Phelps is genetically different in a way that benefited him in sports. Another athlete could follow the same training & not get the same results.

(Don't get me wrong, the training is heckin important. This is an AND situation)

31.07.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In my area, you can't even buy a house for the list price. They get multiple bids over the list with promises to skip inspections.

We sold our last home 7 years ago to someone who bid over asking and no inspection. I know it's gotten worse since then from friends who have tried to buy a house.

30.07.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

More torpedo than loaf.

30.07.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist - James Baldwin

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist - James Baldwin

So we can't write someone off for... writing off a whole group of minorities?

30.07.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone who doesn't know the difference between an IF statement and an LLM shouldn't be allowed to write their own Medium about tech, let alone for the NY Times.

29.07.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Alysia Yeoh with her trans flag bat.

Alysia Yeoh with her trans flag bat.

Hey, did y'all know you can read the Alysia Yeoh story I did with @protokitty.bsky.social, @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social and @airy.bsky.social for FREE on DC Infinite? I just learned that today.
www.dcuniverseinfinite.com/comics/book/...

18.07.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 360    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 4

I guess I have to "git gud" or whatever, but Doom: The Dark Ages is pretty awful. Who decided to turn a game about franticly shooting demons into one where you have to block, dodge, and reflect bolts back at even low-level mooks?

29.07.2025 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The bulleted list of prohibited adult topics seems like it would prevent me from publishing games based on stories from the Christian bible. This includes 2 Samuel 13 (rape) and Exodus 21:7-11 (selling children as slaves).

Is it fair to contact PayPal and ask them why they've banned the Bible?

29.07.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats in advance! Sending you well wishes!

28.07.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cheesy? No way, it rocks!

My dad's retirement activity is Postcrossing. He gets so many cool postcards and notes from all over the world. They're just fun, bite size nuggets of what people want to share -- about their area, food, or interests.

28.07.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That whole blog post could have just said "we like money more than trans people"

27.07.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The vast majority of open source contributors are unpaid volunteers who, more likely than not, are users of the software there contributing to. So I'm really not sure what point you're trying to make.

26.07.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The software development industry is killing the junior developer with layoffs and AI. I'm lucky to already be past that point & foresee that cleaning up vibe coding messes will keep me gainfully employed til retirement.

But I miss mentoring, coaching, and frankly, handing off more rote tasks.

26.07.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone should tell this author how much of the Internet is powered by open-source software.

26.07.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I immediately thought of the wild-shape romance scene from BG3. Would that be allowed?

26.07.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Volatile Memory was an immediate wishlist. Sounds awesome.

25.07.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very nice!

I don't know if you find kneecap tattoos as spicy as I do, but my first thought was "sweet, avoided it perfectly!"

25.07.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I find it helpful with discreet tasks (convert this to Typescript, add a function that does X, simple scripts...)

Every time I've tried to have it do something prolific, it gets stuck or does something I have to tweak. And I get nervous about it slinging dozens of files I have to go review.

24.07.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We were using it to do a code kata the other day and it introduced a situation where it put configuration files in a directory that the framework required to be empty. It got stuck in a loop of not being able to put the configs anywhere else until the framework finished setting up.

24.07.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Gonna quote this post the next time engineers are fighting over tabs vs. spaces...

24.07.2025 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high β€” Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming Xbox controversially raised the base price of its mainline games to $80 in an announcement a few weeks ago. Now, it seems to be backtracking. Good, I say.

I told my wife they were thinking about making Borderlands 4 cost $80 and the face she made...

www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/...

23.07.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who's awkward at small talk, "What's your opinion on ghosts?" is going in the back pocket.

20.07.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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