Joshua Walker

@jshwlkr.bsky.social

Ann Arbor // Tech Lead & Fixer Commonly referred to as a shit-starter. Perpetually annoyed. Not escaping Samsara anytime soon. Yearning to create shareholder value. https://jshwlkr.info

As much as I like Bunny and (the idea of) Astro, the communities are absolute jank. Uploading anything to Bunny from command line is torture, iterating recursively over a directory with curl is not my idea of a good time.

Trying to impart this argument in Higher-Ed is so utterly wearying. People are so attached to their 90's-style ideas of SEO and the deep satisfaction of worthless busy work in the name of reach that they'll defend copying a story anywhere and everywhere they can. #linksfromwork

Fragmentation is not reach

More websites don’t create more reach. They dilute authority, clarity and investment. Every digital boundary must earn the cost of its existence.

jonoalderson.com

BREAKING: Enbridge’s aging Line 5 pipeline is spilling natural gas liquids in northern Wisconsin. The rupture occurred just east of the Bad River Reservation near Lake Superior on August 25, 2026. According to Enbridge, an unoccupied semi-truck rolled into an excavation site and struck the pipeline.

"Let us refuse to play dumb. Trump’s executive order has nothing to do with a sincere effort to improve public health, it is not the result of a serious process of evaluation. The people behind this push are not good-faith actors, but extremists driven by paranoid conspiracies."

The Assault on Public Health and the Self-Sabotage of a Nation

MAHA channels vague grievances into a radical project. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right. We must stop it

steady.page

"Lawyers from the Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center said that Hernandez Lupercio was out on a fishing trip on the Manistee River when he was stopped by DNR agents for what appeared to be a routine fishing license check, but which eventually resulted in Hernandez Lupercio’s arrest."

DHS account, court records raise questions about DNR role in ICE arrest • Michigan Advance

On Oct. 18, 2025, ICE arrested and detained Jose Pedro Hernandez Lupercio in Brethren, Mich., along the Manistee River — and both records and official statements indicate that Michigan Department of…

michiganadvance.com

#a2council Some have said that the reason Ann Arbor has high rents is because Ann Arbor has high taxes. So I pulled the Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI) and compared it the interest rates for those cities, and the correlation is both weak and negative

Bild

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

getting tired of people on the left still launching substack newsletters after all the reporting on that company in recent years