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No one asked, but a couple years back I started getting back into competitive #paintball - I "blame” our sons, but take full responsibility! Anyhow, a month or so ago I played in my first national competition - the Major League Paintball Tampa Bay Open, playing Div 5. We, Bear Ridge, took home 2nd place. We're headed to the Mid-Atlantic Open in Dover in a couple of weeks.
This past weekend I playe
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I spent a couple of days of fighting with forked #Ruby processes (think, #Sidekiq Swarm, #Puma Clusters, etc…) having broken network connections. I'd made sure to cleanup and/or re-establish connections pre/post fork. Yet the errors persisted. At which point, I was convinced, “It's me. I'm the problem, it's me.”
And then… it turned out to be a Ruby 3.2+ and #macOS 26+ bug! https://bugs.ruby-lang.o
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4
Avg engagement / post
1.3%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: “The next generation of AI will be trained on code written by hu · 14 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.26 / week
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Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 2 image · 1 video.
Follower / following
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I was more like 19-20 when I found programming. And it wasn't Phish for me. But the experiences and sentiment ring true for me.
https://christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/personal/phish/flow/agents/2026/05/03/rift.html
No one asked, but a couple years back I started getting back into competitive #paintball - I "blame” our sons, but take full responsibility! Anyhow, a month or so ago I played in my first national competition - the Major League Paintball T…
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I spent a couple of days of fighting with forked #Ruby processes (think, #Sidekiq Swarm, #Puma Clusters, etc…) having broken network connections. I'd made sure to cleanup and/or re-establish connections pre/post fork. Yet the errors persis…
Because it’s weird (on paper) but fuckin’ beautiful (in a coup, and to my tastebuds).
Through much experimentation, trial, and tribulation, we have a new seasonal #margarita recipe!
“Snow on the Beach” (with apologies to Ms Swift)
Time for my annual tradition of a post-Santa duties watching of the Ted Lasso Christmas episode, while sipping a cocktail. Merry Christmas, all!
This is the kind of goofiness/just-for-the-fun-of-it I miss from those early days of #Ruby. https://github.com/barodeur/llm_rescuer
Some new (to me) ideas, and a good bit of re-enforcing, or putting names to, thoughts/intuitions I've been noodling on for a while.
"Team dynamics after #AI”
https://mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dynamics-after-ai/ #programming
poetic justice |pōˌedik ˈjəstəs| (noun)
- the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions. example: “It was poetic justice when the GenAI deleted itself.”
And now, a case from the real world: “Cursor YOLO delet…
A @kentbeck quote I seem to reach for every 6 months or so:
I get paid for code that works, not for tests, so my philosophy is to test as little as possible to reach a given level of confidence (I suspect this level of confidence is high c…
The number of times I've said/written ”Robots can pound sand" has drastically increased as the AI hype train continues to build steam.
No one asked, but a couple years back I started getting back into competitive #paintball - I "blame” our sons, but take full responsibility! Anyhow, a month or so ago I played in my first national competition - the Major League Paintball T…
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I spent a couple of days of fighting with forked #Ruby processes (think, #Sidekiq Swarm, #Puma Clusters, etc…) having broken network connections. I'd made sure to cleanup and/or re-establish connections pre/post fork. Yet the errors persis…
Because it’s weird (on paper) but fuckin’ beautiful (in a coup, and to my tastebuds).
Through much experimentation, trial, and tribulation, we have a new seasonal #margarita recipe!
“Snow on the Beach” (with apologies to Ms Swift)
Time for my annual tradition of a post-Santa duties watching of the Ted Lasso Christmas episode, while sipping a cocktail. Merry Christmas, all!
This is the kind of goofiness/just-for-the-fun-of-it I miss from those early days of #Ruby. https://github.com/barodeur/llm_rescuer
Some new (to me) ideas, and a good bit of re-enforcing, or putting names to, thoughts/intuitions I've been noodling on for a while.
"Team dynamics after #AI”
https://mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dynamics-after-ai/ #programming
poetic justice |pōˌedik ˈjəstəs| (noun)
- the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions. example: “It was poetic justice when the GenAI deleted itself.”
And now, a case from the real world: “Cursor YOLO delet…
A @kentbeck quote I seem to reach for every 6 months or so:
I get paid for code that works, not for tests, so my philosophy is to test as little as possible to reach a given level of confidence (I suspect this level of confidence is high c…
The number of times I've said/written ”Robots can pound sand" has drastically increased as the AI hype train continues to build steam.
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.3× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated89/100
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Credibility score
99%
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Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.3% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
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It Depends™, as a Service. Maker & breaker of things. Software spelunker. Good at naps. he/him
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