Mark Kristensson

Husband, Father, Family Quartermaster and IT Guy

Semi-retired software engineer who has worked on enterprise, SaaS and mobile software for 25 years.

Interested in projects that house and move move people because cars ruin cities.

Skier (nordic, AT, downhill), Biker, Runner, Triathlete

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2026-08-19 14:46:16 UTC

Looks like the Adderall addicts in the white house have decided that a financial speedball (ie refinancing long term debt with shoter term debt) is the best way to try and keep the stock market party going https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/19/treasury-announces-upscaled-buyback-operation-for-longer-term-debt-sending-yields-lower.html

2026-08-19 10:38:57 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 I think this story is also about to blow up because the leverage these kinds of accounts have is effectively gasoline on a bonfire and helps explain the equities melt up that has happened this year https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-fidelity-charles-schwab-tax-aware-investing/

2026-08-06 14:49:17 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 yup https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/06/apple-raises-trade-in-values/

2026-07-31 21:23:54 UTC

"it's that certain conservative values have been abandoned by the people calling themselves conservatives. Things like order, honor, duty, family, loyalty, respect. Of course the chuds hate "The Odyssey"—they're the suitors. They are the ones tearing down civilized values, breaking up families, and eating food from another man's table."
@nprofile…yz28 with another banger edition of Endnotes
https://www.endnotes.net/chud-waterloo/

2026-07-05 17:16:18 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 I think the anti-AI movement is going to become a defining feature of 21st century politics

2026-06-30 14:50:54 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 I think that's the least significant of the 3 upsets coming in Colorado tonight/tomorrow. The big shock will be Hickenlooper losing, but he really needs to lose because he's an oil/gas shill and the worst sort of corporate Democrat
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/some-thoughts-on-a-possible-big-primary-upsets-in-colorado

2026-06-24 15:19:42 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 Ars has a good write up of it too https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/trump-may-be-mystery-patient-in-odd-case-of-79yo-getting-experimental-obesity-drug/

2026-06-24 15:17:26 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 I'm excited to see the hissy fit next week when at least 2, probably 3, Dem incumbents lose their primaries in Colorado https://www.vox.com/politics/492225/colorado-primaries-melat-kiros-julie-gonzales-hickenlooper-degette

2026-06-18 19:19:01 UTC

From a strict security perspective this is true. But as my family's IT manager, both passcodes and single sign on are nightmares that I now actively avoid. They perpetuate lock in by large companies, removing any flexibility in who/when/how you can log in.
Need to share a log in with your spouse? Impossible.
Teenage kid traveling without the family and wants to watch a show? Impossible.
Mom in the hospital and you need to pay her utility bill for her? Impossible.
#nevent1q…jevk

2026-06-09 07:45:11 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 Right there with you https://www.williams.edu/admission-aid/tuition-aid/calculate-your-cost/
https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/116/719/033/232/814/629/original/7b91994b50a2e4e2.png

2026-06-08 11:51:49 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 the evidence that big tech is this generations tobacco is really starting to pile up. Everything is about addiction and seizing attention

2026-06-08 08:05:10 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 I’ve watched about 10 of his videos over the past year, so maybe he’s always been hilarious, but he seems to be getting funnier

2026-06-04 10:22:51 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 Meh, I wouldn't read anything into the confidential filing. That's been a very common tactic with tech companies for a while because they are trying to keep a lid on "hype" and trying to assess (time) the market.

2026-06-03 18:18:44 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 When I learned that the plastic industry designed the resin identification codes to be deliberately confused with the recycling symbol, I also learned that plastic recycling is basically all bullshit

2026-06-02 12:53:52 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 @nprofile…gywt I think you're spot on Ricardo. I too was wondering why Berkshire would invest in this craziness, but $10 billion is a tiny fraction of their cash hoard and a small price to pay for some FOMO insurance.

2026-05-31 07:20:12 UTC

"Underwater bollards protect fishes"
#nevent1q…7gdj

2026-05-29 15:21:32 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 I cannot image we'd be so lucky as to have this bubble start to burst before all three go public, but ....
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-29/spacex-lowers-ipo-valuation-target-to-at-least-1-8-trillion

2026-05-25 13:04:50 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 i think the lackof churches and singing in churches is the biggest factor. The off tune singing of a congregation makes it a very safe spaceto experiment and practice

2026-05-18 09:30:32 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 even *I* have been wearing sweaters in the evenings. I've been wondering the same thing about the AMOC, even though all of the modeling seems to show it primarily impacting countries north of the Iberian peninsula. The climate change models have all been incredibly slow to pick up on the major changes

2026-05-16 11:02:33 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 That's gotta be a joke, right?!?

2026-05-14 13:56:49 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 this is along the same lines as the argument that Josh Marshall is making in his latest post about the corrupt legal system in the US. Many liberals are products of, beholden to, and captured by a corrupt system and as a result are unwilling/unable to accept that the foundations of the system are corrupt https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-on-the-fancy-lawyer

2026-05-13 18:52:32 UTC

I think @nprofile…yz28's model train metaphor summarizes this very well except for the fact that my grandfather never harbored any delusions of profiting from his model train hobby
"And then, the men. Neither of my friends’ husbands actually makes money from AI. Not yet."
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/

2026-05-13 08:14:37 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 after the UAE news yesterday, I'm not surprised. But who is leaking this? The US and/or Israel is my guess to try and keep the UAE and Saudis from breaking ranks

2026-05-08 10:40:13 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 huh, did not think he would be your type
https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/116/538/527/553/070/358/original/cd82457b4218860b.jpeg

2026-05-08 08:31:23 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 That's Catalunya specifically, not just Spain. And I LOVE that they have "Mitjana de pisos" in the stats

2026-05-06 10:22:41 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 wait, they tried to push copilot on xbox?!?!? I clearly am not plugged into that world at all

2026-04-30 10:05:02 UTC

Just got home from Spanish class and all 7 people in the class had a story about an older relative (mom, dad, grandad, uncle, aunt) who spends hours a day mindlessly scrolling social media and is completely unable to engage with the rest of the family during meals.
Tell me again why we're trying to ban kids/teens from social media and not just ban algorithmic social media entirely?

2026-04-30 05:46:05 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 I think the facts on the ground are forcing the price up with tankers paying millions for Panama canal spots and spot prices at ports in US, Mexico, Nigeria because countries are desperate and effectively out of oil

2026-04-29 21:05:18 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 brent (the int'l standard) is back at $120/barrel so up almost 20% in a week

2026-04-26 15:07:16 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 If it's anything like what happened after the .com bubble burst, they'll all end up as lawyers or marketing weenies

2026-04-22 15:17:59 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 Oh man, that looks amazing. And Foghorn Leghorn is one of my favorite characters

2026-04-21 15:08:28 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”
Super Dumb People sounds like an SNL skit

2026-04-16 10:51:09 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 The Air Current is similar, very niche but very high quality https://theaircurrent.com/subscribe/

2026-04-15 19:48:10 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 and/or people on the spectrum https://german.millermanschool.com

2026-04-11 07:20:02 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 Just a good ol' boys
Never meanin' no harm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67gig0f4HLo

2026-04-09 12:06:32 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 we had two awesome bookstores near us and for years after our son turned ~8 every time we visited we would ask about good books/series for him and they pointed to either materials that were too easy or clearly targeted for girls. We tired to get him into a few of the fantasy series, but no luck. When he grabbed the Martian off my shelf he found something he loved. But there are only a few books like that. We need a lot more!

2026-04-09 11:57:41 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 I'm actually all for this because there has been a dearth of good reading material for boys between 8-14 that doesn't have a bunch of dated references/sexism/racism baked into it. Most of the recent material has been targeted at girls and Weir really did capture something that was missing: somewhat technical, collaborative not competitive, low emotional stakes. This shit really does matter! And yes, lots of adults want to decompress with material that is escapist too

2026-04-09 10:55:17 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 as bad as LinkedIn is here, the attack vector is Chrome, which is why I consider that browser malware

2026-04-08 20:08:54 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 Still completely delusional over there. At this point, I have no idea what it's gonna take for reality to actually penetrate this bubble.
https://cdn.masto.host/thepitsocial/media_attachments/files/116/370/894/437/488/811/original/05802762d35ff31a.png

2026-04-07 17:46:34 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 @nprofile…vw3j Last year I came to a similar conclusion after the 4th (or 5th?) S Korean president in a row was jailed for corruption. You can be president for but you will also go to prison afterwards for at least a few years

2026-04-07 12:43:24 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 That really does sound like someone psyching himself up to use nukes. Even Alex Jones is calling for the cabinet to "25th amendment his ass" because he's so clearly of his rocker.

2026-04-07 06:54:19 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 first!

2026-04-07 06:44:10 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 I boiled it down to this: which does Trump fear more 1) being humiliated by backing down and losing to Iran just like Jimmy Carter or 2) being disliked/unloved/hated by wall street for crashing the economy due to skyhigh oil prices.
I think it’s #1 so he’s probably gonna escalate
BTW, Carter didn’t lose, Reagan sabotaged him. And Ike and the CIA started the whole mess

2026-03-31 06:39:11 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 LMAO "shower drain of languages" is quite a euphemism for sewer

2026-03-28 15:51:46 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 You sound as frustrated as I was with the boomer guy I ran into in January who was talking up jared polis for president because he just wanted to "win" and was sure a "moderate" democrat is the best bet. Buddy, the country you knew ain't coming back, you can either continue aiding the fascists by proving democrats are useless or you can strike out in a new direction.

2026-03-27 11:55:30 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 Self hosted or hosted by someone else? There a few others that are explicitly European based if you wanted hosted

2026-03-26 15:17:46 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 Honestly, I'm kind of for it. There's something about writing and the connection to our brain that typing doesn't replicate. We've become a family of manual note takers because we've all found we remember things better when we write (physical paper or tablet) and don't type. A bit of friction, if you will

2026-03-26 05:44:45 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 the markets and maga are the only ones who seem to still believe him. I’m genuinely astonished by this CNN analysis from their front page because it’s so straightforward, no sanewashing https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/26/politics/trump-iran-peace-talks-us-troops-analysis

2026-03-24 13:54:04 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 and @nprofile…ss8w sometimes hangs out here

2026-03-24 06:04:24 UTC

What’s the range of a shahed drone? More than the 200 mile maritime boundary for international waters? And could easily be launched from a ship?
Refineries have a bad habit of juat blowing up given that they’re designed to boil highly combustible petroleum, but if I were engaged in an economic war with the world’s largest oil producer (and refiner)…
#nevent1q…xt92

2026-03-23 13:28:55 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 I’ve been thinking about him all morning, just the worst possible feeling of guilt and sorrow because he clearly was working his ass off and realized almost immediately that he’d made a mistake

2026-03-23 11:57:14 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 The Iranians know they have gained the upper hand in the PR war:
"Meanwhile, Tasmin news agency also commented: “Trump Backs Down!”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/3/23/iran-war-live-tehran-vows-to-completely-close-hormuz-if-power-plants-hit

2026-03-23 11:55:32 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 my kingdom for an editor at Bloomberg/CNBC/WSJ to run a headline like "S&P futures up 1000 as traders believe Trump's BS"

2026-03-09 17:20:59 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 🖕 for the 0.2 seconds of hope/relief

2026-03-08 07:52:43 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 the whole $5000 deposit thing smells a lot more like a russian hit than a DOJ/FBI job

2026-03-02 09:06:56 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 ROTFLMAO, so glad these "thinking" machines are there for us

2026-02-27 16:52:05 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 nazi memorabilia seems like an odd nickname for your penis, but I'm guessing a lot of the right wingers are doing it these days

2026-02-20 17:05:47 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 at _every_ triathlon I've done in the past 5 years, the announcer has had to ask to see if someone has a spare shifter battery. Why the fuck would would I want the stress of having to charge more shit just to ride my bike. AND you have to install security updates...fucking insane

2026-02-20 16:56:59 UTC

One buddy's bike GPS wouldn't charge until he installed a software update. Another buddy's electronic shifters stopped working until the mechanic reset and resynced them and even then they only partially worked, enough to limp home.
"Tell me again how software is making everything better" says the recovering software engineer.

2026-02-04 16:47:05 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 I really should check on my brother in law. I just have absolutely no desire to listen to a single thing he has to say

2026-02-03 17:55:20 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 Europe is moving faster on deamericanizing than I expected, but the French and Canadians (not yet part of the EU ;-) seem to be leading the way because they’re the most pissed off

2026-02-03 17:52:10 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 yeah, but how are you gonna listen to it???

2026-01-29 15:58:34 UTC

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@nprofile…yz28 And yet the stock is barely down. Just the most bizarre cult

2025-12-20 13:09:56 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p the first time I ever saw the ternary conditional operator was on a Stack Overflow post, so it's certainly not unique to LLMs. They've just made that stuff easier to find

2025-12-20 11:30:36 UTC

"Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider."
Big European companies, but especially the defense contractors like Airbus, Saab, Rheinemtall, etc can't leave this to an RFP. They need to *make* this happen because they simply cannot trust US based cloud providers
https://social.lansky.name/@hn100/115751525311257147

2025-12-20 11:17:03 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p the anthropomorphizing of the LLMs has gotten a lot of people addicted and turned them into zealots in a way I did not expect...truly cult-like

2025-12-18 23:31:41 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p @nprofile…v72m don’t undersell it, it was truly an edified discourse about the myriad ways that mr trump is improving life for trillions of people

2025-12-18 23:01:37 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p i think he was really BIG MAD about you saying that Ziclas are better than paint-only bike lanes

2025-12-13 10:37:07 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p ask the guys who invented cold fusion at the ice cream shop

2025-12-07 18:17:39 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p I remember lusting after the 6 D cell maglites because they were actually bright...plus they were a really effective weapon

2025-12-06 20:48:00 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p huh? The DeepL maga->sane person translator cannot parse this

2025-12-06 14:26:07 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p The whole football/soccer thing and renaming the NFL makes me think his dementia worse than we've imagined

2025-12-04 19:48:08 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p Apple's RAM markups may start looking cheap by comparison. They have integrated the RAM (along with the GPU) into their SOCs and because they have purchased TSMC production for the SOCs years in advance, they shouldn't be affected by RAM price increases

2025-11-26 19:09:31 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p Will Shortz as Minister of Puzzles

2025-11-26 09:13:15 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p good pie crust is amazing, but my problem with fruit pies is the texture of the filling. So I love a good pie crust with a quiche or a pumpkin filling. I'd rather have fruit cobbler or a cake than a fruit pie

2025-11-25 17:23:48 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p i’d vote straight JS and then some typescript. There are soooo many JS frameworks that you’re better off leaning the basic, raw JS first

2025-11-22 12:32:04 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p i've been thinking about this a lot and have come to the conclusion that Apple "missing the bus" on the AI boom may actually work out better for them in the end because they (mostly) avoided getting distracted by the BS part of the technology and jumped straight to the useful parts

2025-11-22 08:49:04 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p Wow, that is amazing and very, very familiar

2025-11-22 07:28:46 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p grifter sums it up perfectly given this piece of info https://religious.social/@kraft/115590852865351031

2025-11-19 09:23:29 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p a bit yes, but my second major was history and more than anything that taught me how to write

2025-11-19 09:17:35 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p Oh, now you're in my house talking about one of my biggest pet peeves. I pride myself on my technical writing ability and regularly receive compliments for it, but I am a practically a unicorn among developers. Why? A few reasons.... 1/?

2025-11-10 19:52:07 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p i almost added #oldmanyellingatcloud

2025-11-10 19:34:46 UTC

I hate how modern UIs refresh just as you start reading something or move your finger to touch a button/link with no warning or visual indication that the app is about to change the screen.
I just read an article titled “Kolo Muani to see specialist majority shareholder in Athletico Madrid” and spent a good five seconds trying to decipher it before realizing the app had refreshed half way through.

2025-11-09 13:08:11 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p @nprofile…scce
Ditto! I love the photography threads (and photos!) from @nprofile…fn3d
The fun, less serious stuff help make this place feel like a community

2025-10-29 07:43:39 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p This is specifically targeting me

2025-10-27 11:23:44 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p ahhhh, yes I’ve heard of coaches telling the team no sex before games. Okay, I thought it might be some fetish like the piss drinking

2025-10-27 11:18:34 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p wait, whaaaattttt??? Like retaining it in their testicles? Or in like jars????

2025-10-14 16:38:46 UTC

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@nprofile…9j4p I've read a few articles about small colleges/universities in the NE going under, but the problem is a lot bigger than I thought. All through the rest belt, even into the plains there are little colleges that just won't survivie

2025-10-11 14:04:03 UTC

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@nprofile…cg79 your theory about trump being big mad for not getting the nobel peace prize (lol) was spot on, but he directed his ire kind of randomly, not at Norway or Venezuela. So, lesson is that next time something happens that angers him, short the whole stock market for a day or two.

2025-10-03 06:03:18 UTC

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@nprofile…cg79 https://www.invicti.com/blog/web-security/sql-injection-cheat-sheet/