Replace Twitter references with Bluesky in FAQ
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View βAdd Dependabot for npm and GitHub Actions
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View βDeploy via GitHub Actions
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View βMigrate from Vue CLI to Vite + Composition API
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View βSo goddamned angry.
View βBreaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.
β Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social)
Replace Twitter link with Bluesky
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View βAdd weekly Dependabot version updates for npm and github-actions
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View βDeploy to GitHub Pages via Actions workflow
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View βAdd in-browser clip upload and management with IndexedDB
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View βModernize to Vue 3 + Vite + Composition API
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View βAll Iβm saying is that while I am relieved, I am absolutely exhausted of the circumstances which brought about said relief.
View βAdd power calculator, test fixtures, and utility functions
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View βGenerational talent. Iβm blown away every time by how heart-warming Mamdani makes efficient, effective governance seem. Stop throwing around nonsense tax cut proposals and just deliver.
View βEver wonder how to get rid of a mattress? Or how to find resources for a neighbor in need? Call 311.Β Β 311 is contacted 100,000 times every day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. No call is too small.Β Β So on the anniversary of 311 (3/11), I decided to answer some of those calls myself.
β Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@mayor.nyc.gov)
Spent entirely too long wondering last night about the social protocols for bringing headphones onto an extended space flight. Iβm sorry guys but 8 days in a confined space with three other people, I am going to need some podcast/music time to avoid space madness
View βI unironically think we need to bring back dumb goofball internet stuff like earth sandwiches or contrived picture days.
View βIf Artemis IV is happening in 2028 then we need to get on top of Planetary Picture Day ASAP. Do we have a hemisphere in mind? The hotel blocks alone are going to be a nightmare
β Matt Policastro (@mattpolicastro.com)
Ate an entirely too-large sandwich for dinner, fell asleep, and am now listening to rain against the skylight.
View βApril Foolβs is always a try-hard holiday but it is ringing particularly hollowly this year.
View βFix card width consistency and add sans-serif font for web
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View βAdd light/dark/system theme toggle to web toolbar
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View βFix web app styling: dropdown panels, consistent card widths
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View βAdd standalone static web app target (dual-target with Obsidian plugin)
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View βInclude full post content in RSS feed via content:encoded
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View βIβm sorry, seals MOLT?
View βWe love a catastrophic molt, don't we, folks
β Blue sky nice ghost (@rajandelman.bsky.social)
I have gotten utterly smoked the last two nights playing Marathon and I still canβt stop thinking about it. Theyβre cooking.
View ββ¨ new video β¨ with marathon, bungie has taken its best-in-class gunplay and a frankly unbelievable visual identity and used them to lure players into a subtle shift in the way an extraction shooter can be played: one where extracting gear isn't even the point. my thoughts: youtu.be/RUtvq6BFThI
β brendon bigley (@bb.wavelengths.online)
Hey, why does WGN have a pixelated 9? Like if itβs an accident Iβm more just fascinated how that gets rendered
View βMy brain is making grinding noises trying to figure out how you get these incredibly specific numbers
View βAt Raja Krishnamoorthiβs election night party. In case youβre wondering, the senate candidate has spent more than $20 million on succeeding Dick Durbin but the campaign party is cash bar.
β Gregory Pratt (@royalpratt.bsky.social)
Iβm loopy and sentimental but if nothing else the Oscars is a good reminder to go watch stuff that makes you feel and think. (I barely watched anything last year but Sinners was a helluva ride.)
View βI was skeptical but Marathon is a stone-cold banger. Obviously itβs stunning, but the way it plays with social interaction and suspense is sublime.
View βWent whole-hog on a project with Opus and multiple agents, and... holy cats. I will happily eat crow for having been skeptical for too long.
View βWrote this (mattpolicastro.com/2026/03/11/c...) on my old blog framework and was carrying it over to the new WIP framework, to which Claude responded with the following. Strange times.
View βThese people are profoundly, send-me-back-to-mass evil.
View βLindsey Graham: "If we get in a fight, I want to win it quick. I'm in Miami. You see this hat? 'Free Cuba.' Stay tuned. The liberation of Cuba is upon us. We're marching through the world. We're clearing out the bad guys. Cuba is next."
β Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Walked half an hour to the PO to ask them whatβs up with mail being held without explanation Wait half an hour in line and for them to check the mailroom Clerk comes back up and says βyeah it just got marked as delivered five minutes agoβ Walk half an hour back muttering about the public trust
View βAccidentally took the devilβs nap (asleep on the couch after dinner) and just caught myself googling βgift guide for catβ
View β@albertburneko.bsky.social so the Dave McKenna ham story tickled something in my brain, but it wasnβt until I was with my family over the holidays that I followed up on it: I grew up in Belgium and we 100% had a ham truck that would travel into France fairly often www.thechickenman.be/en/home
View βChoosing to descend into mid-winter madness by attempting to generalize my half-dozen turkey roasting practice reps into other poultry
View βAn aggressively normal Saturday of politely disagreeing with my mechanic, wandering along the channel trail taking pictures of ducks, and baking for neighbors before being social and calling it at a reasonable hour? Few said it could be done, and yet
View βLost Whamageddon during pre-call music at work today and just burned the bejesus out of my finger pulling a pizza out of the oven, AMA
View βMade @willsmith.funβs nog recipe last night and levain-style cookies today, and am bordering on catatonic on the couch with the cat
View βFinally getting around to long-overdue updates to my NAS and wow they really enshittified the heck out of Plex, didnβt they
View βBad things, good things, all things
Working out my feelings in a difficult period.
Read βObservations on Data Science
Fleshing out some ideas around data, organizations, and roles.
Read βThe Latest & Greatest
Switching to Ghost, finishing grad school, and settling into Chicago.
Read βPikachu Shops at Whole Foods
Trying to write an essay to a less-than-satisfying result.
Read βHyper Text Transfer Protocol over Transport Layer Security
I finally got on the HTTPS bandwagon, thanks to Let's Encrypt.
Read βFitness Data: Kicking & Screaming
Poorly-considered experiments in the quantified self.
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