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@zack.fyi.bsky.social

Interested in Ruby, Rust, information security, and building cool things with software ✨

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Well uhhhh, oops! The optimization patch really works w.w

(previously it topped out at like 50 kilohashes per sec)

02.08.2025 15:51 — 👍 68    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
a glowy sphere shader thing

a glowy sphere shader thing

I made a very pretty mistake

28.07.2025 19:54 — 👍 3627    🔁 160    💬 84    📌 4
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

Tom Lehrer died today. He was one of the great comedians our culture ever produced. Without Tom, there's no Weird Al, probably no that entire branch of comedy.

He went alone and beat the odds.

youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?...

27.07.2025 23:43 — 👍 4237    🔁 804    💬 100    📌 55
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Jello shot - Wikipedia

Fun fact about Tom Lehrer: He invented the Jello Shot!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jello_s...

28.07.2025 04:23 — 👍 31    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2
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me (genius): what if gear, but also spring??

the goopy gear:

27.07.2025 13:04 — 👍 1336    🔁 71    💬 60    📌 9
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Here are the murals in the movie. Kinda cools how they took the idea from original ones in the building

26.07.2025 14:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Cincinnati's Union Terminal takes the spotlight in new Superman movie
YouTube video by WLWT Cincinnati's Union Terminal takes the spotlight in new Superman movie

só acho injusto que não falam do desenho dos Superamigos www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JYN...

26.07.2025 13:19 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Cornhole - Wikipedia

> Cincinnati's west side (near Ferguson Avenue)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornhole

let's gooo 🔥

26.07.2025 15:59 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I had to look it up, and while there were some variations coming from a few different places in North America leading up to the modern version, the wiki says this:

“Cornhole as it is now known originated and gained popularity on Cincinnati's west side…”

🥇

26.07.2025 14:58 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
A line featuring all the little aliens of Little aliens forever
"Glug" "Blug" "Flug" "Week" "The Pink One" "Piddle" "Milly"

A line featuring all the little aliens of Little aliens forever "Glug" "Blug" "Flug" "Week" "The Pink One" "Piddle" "Milly"

DA ALIENS.. and their names!!

24.07.2025 22:22 — 👍 1806    🔁 363    💬 36    📌 13
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These will be displayed at Open Sauce for Elegoo. I made these wings with all 3dprinted PETG from @elegoo
Using fiberglass rods, some bolts, 3mm addressable led strips and mini linear actuators to complete the whole setup, it weighs only 3.5lbs (no battery) #3dprinting #opensauce

14.07.2025 19:20 — 👍 158    🔁 22    💬 4    📌 2
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IP over Tin Can and String 😁 #electronics #OpenSauce #OpenSauce2025

20.07.2025 17:15 — 👍 48    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0
Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event | Jeff Geerling

Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event #opensauce2025 www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/op... cc @opensaucelive.bsky.social

22.07.2025 16:14 — 👍 41    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0
4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved

4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved

Replication Crisis

xkcd.com/3117/

21.07.2025 23:54 — 👍 4864    🔁 651    💬 29    📌 28
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fstrings.wtf - Python F-String Quiz Test your knowledge of Python's f-string formatting with this interactive quiz. How well do you know Python's string formatting quirks?

How well do you know Python’s f-strings? I built a thing inspired by JavaScript’s Date constructor quiz but for Python. fstrings.wtf

19.07.2025 09:15 — 👍 104    🔁 28    💬 8    📌 3
Open Sauce 2025 vlog: Day 0 (Preview night)
YouTube video by Level 2 Jeff Open Sauce 2025 vlog: Day 0 (Preview night)

Today @opensaucelive.bsky.social begins; last night some of us were able to preview the exhibit halls and talk to the amazing exhibitors.

Here's a quick video giving you a small taste of the zany and often brilliant stuff you'll see at #opensauce2025: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQWQ...

19.07.2025 14:35 — 👍 42    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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new Date("wtf") How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

I made a quiz about the JS Date parser is. It's very easy and you will score very high.

jsdate.wtf

11.07.2025 17:10 — 👍 480    🔁 162    💬 64    📌 105
a plush flug, in the corner. behind them is . green. forest. scenery.. so beautiful

a plush flug, in the corner. behind them is . green. forest. scenery.. so beautiful

are u guys seeing this??????????????????? wat is tat

12.07.2025 20:28 — 👍 2012    🔁 261    💬 20    📌 6
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Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable Than Ever Peter Naur's 1985 theory of programming explains why experience matters more in the age of AI-generated code

I really like this article's perspective on software development as theory building; it succinctly conveys a lot of what I've felt is lost when too much of your code is generated by AI: cekrem.github.io/posts/progra...

26.06.2025 20:05 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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“Piracy. It’s a Crime.” PSA From Wikipedia: “You Wouldn’t Steal a Car” is the first sentence and commonly used name of a public service announcement that debuted on July 12, 2004 in cinemas, and July 27 on home media, which wa...

TIL: The 2000s piracy PSA used a font designed by the fantastic Just van Rossum, whose brother Guido created the Python programming language.

20.04.2025 01:14 — 👍 652    🔁 169    💬 5    📌 28
fun fact: changing Ctrl+C

technically you can use stty to set a different keyboard shortcut for Ctrl+C, like "u"

stty intr u

this is extremely chaotic and I can't imagine a reason that I would ever do this though

fun fact: changing Ctrl+C technically you can use stty to set a different keyboard shortcut for Ctrl+C, like "u" stty intr u this is extremely chaotic and I can't imagine a reason that I would ever do this though

current status: putting a few weird terminal facts that I do not have any practical use for into the terminal zine

(mostly I’m keeping it extremely practical but I think it's fun to have SOME weird stuff)

17.04.2025 18:31 — 👍 226    🔁 23    💬 15    📌 1
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my stupid son ❤️ his name is slop

19.04.2025 00:17 — 👍 44    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
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week, as the butter, on toast

week, as the butter, on toast

19.04.2025 20:54 — 👍 4889    🔁 744    💬 33    📌 15
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You should be using circuit breakers.

I've seen too many apps go belly-up because some external service went down. Please wrap your service calls with a circuit breaker to save yourself the pain.

#ruby #rubyonrails

17.04.2025 16:27 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Screenshot of Ruby code which shows use of the `Etc` module. The full code is reproduced below.

Etc.getlogin # => "jamie"
Etc.getpwuid # => { name: "jamie", uid: 501, gid: 20, dir: "/Users/jamie", ... }
Etc.uname # => { sysname: "Darwin", machine: "arm64", ... }
Etc.group { puts it }
# => #<struct Etc::Group name="_appowner", passwd="*", gid=87, mem=[]>
# => #<struct Etc::Group name="_knowledgegraphd", passwd="*", gid=279, mem=["_knowledgegraphd"]>
# => ...

# Docs @ https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.4/Etc.html

Screenshot of Ruby code which shows use of the `Etc` module. The full code is reproduced below. Etc.getlogin # => "jamie" Etc.getpwuid # => { name: "jamie", uid: 501, gid: 20, dir: "/Users/jamie", ... } Etc.uname # => { sysname: "Darwin", machine: "arm64", ... } Etc.group { puts it } # => #<struct Etc::Group name="_appowner", passwd="*", gid=87, mem=[]> # => #<struct Etc::Group name="_knowledgegraphd", passwd="*", gid=279, mem=["_knowledgegraphd"]> # => ... # Docs @ https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.4/Etc.html

The Etc module — part of Ruby's standard library — provides access to all sorts of system data: user, groups, architecture, and a bunch more.

No need to run commands like `uname` in your #Ruby code!

docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.4/Etc.h...

18.04.2025 12:46 — 👍 25    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

love how they kept the mascot :]

12.04.2025 23:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A bunny stands on a tree stump. He is surrounded by hedgehogs, which are advancing slowly up the stump. he is cornered! A second bunny on a tree branch above offers him a hand. It is not clear why the hedgehogs are upset

A bunny stands on a tree stump. He is surrounded by hedgehogs, which are advancing slowly up the stump. he is cornered! A second bunny on a tree branch above offers him a hand. It is not clear why the hedgehogs are upset

Daily bunny no.2913 has upset the Order of the Hedge

03.04.2025 03:22 — 👍 1782    🔁 372    💬 10    📌 7

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22.05.2024 19:23 — 👍 514    🔁 282    💬 10    📌 3

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