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Shane Sveller

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Rust, Kubernetes, Elixir, Git, jj-vcs, Wheel of Time books, The Expanse books & show, board and video games AI is a huge net negative and deserves as much scrutiny and skepticism as we can possibly muster

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If it's good enough for beltalowda it's good enough for me!

03.03.2026 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My go-to example of something that is technologically very long in the tooth but basically immortal due to network effects is BoardGameGeek. I have debated often whether I could make a more modern and pleasant UX for that niche without having that user base or all the domain-specific content ready.

19.10.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty much every creative software under the sun most likely has a native MacOS version, but particularly for visual arts IME

17.10.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You'd think WoD IP being under Paradox would mean it would be a marketing machine turned loose, right?

They're on the YouTube circuit pretty heavily atm, but maybe they don't want to answer questions like "why did the game I preordered in spring 2019 take until winter 2025 to release?"

17.10.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you have recommendations for space/astronomy documentaries, lay 'em on me. We watched The Farthest last night about Voyager and it cheered me up a lot to escape into that world of hope and discovery for a couple hours.

11.10.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Should you care to read the other side of that purported story:
bsky.app/profile/indi...

10.10.2025 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The RubyGems β€œsecurity incident” Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning β€œIncident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. Fir...

Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...

10.10.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 201    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 18

Mackinac Island or Ypsilanti

08.10.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

presumably they mostly think "I paid X for ads and gained Y users in that time period, so clearly It's Working and There Are No Other Factors Involved"

07.10.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Even using a proper ISO-ordered date πŸ₯Ή

06.10.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was randomly looking up tabletop RPG stuff on YouTube this weekend and found a campaign where they were two of the player party without being advertised prominently. Backed out of that one right quick.

06.10.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ghost of Yotei is sooooo pretty. I only left the first region last night, and got some really beautiful story beats (that are not in the screenshots).

06.10.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

06.10.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 301    πŸ” 137    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 6

There's a part of my brain muttering "man this is so cool" every few minutes while playing Ghost of Yotei, and Tsushima before it. Very happy with my time spent with each.

05.10.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think it's entirely uncommon to write only "12a" or "12p" if the context is already understood to be a 12-hour time of day.

01.10.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every time I think I remember how hideous it is to read DHH's writing with my own eyes, I've still always underestimated how bad it is.

25.09.2025 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Saw a GitHub phishing attempt using an impersonation of a YCombinator account and a malicious GitHub app, be careful out there! (Already reported)

24.09.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Guessing this was another comment thread that was approximately about "some arbitrarily selected Rust software should build as-is with the toolchain available via apt on Debian stable, and it's a moral failure if it can't"?

21.09.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#TheExpanse A Little Death #1 is in stores today!

Co-written by Wes Chatham (who plays Amos in the TV show) and myself; art by Francesco Pisa; covers by Christian Ward, Justine Florentino and BjΓΆrn Barends.

Good hunting, beltalowdas! πŸš€

17.09.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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All six seasons of #TheExpanse are back on Amazon Prime, if you want to check it out sometime...

11.09.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 323    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 12

Ryan Reynolds 100%

10.09.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where can I preorder!?

08.09.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am sad to say it but I personally didn't like any follow-ups as much as the first Mistborn trilogy, and it wasn't even close. If you choose to continue, I wish you better luck!

06.09.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lace, in Deep Docks

06.09.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am so unbelievably bad at Silksong. One boss kept me stymied for at least an hour straight yesterday, and it's still quite early.

06.09.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We're definitely on the timeline where we wind up with a real life Wayland-Yutani in ~100 years. Honestly, that's like... kind of a hopeful take, even. If you put various contemporary CEOs into the world of the Alien movie franchise I have no reason to believe they'd be any less cruel to employees.

05.09.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Predator 2 with the narrow miss of "LA during a heatwave"

05.09.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

particularly the Monster Hunter one

04.09.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No new pictures, where are you at mentally?

26.08.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a woman is making a funny face in front of the word what . Alt: Anna Kendrick in Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, saying "What?" incredulously

Me reading lots of positive hype about Superman (2025)
Ok cool, I don't love Gunn's other work but I guess I'll give it a shot

Me actually watching Superman, roughly every 5 minutes:

25.08.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0