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Pimoroni began back in 2012 with the aim of selling laser cut acrylic cases for the Raspberry Pi. Yes, in 2012 our Pibow cases were our first and only product. Fast forward to 2026, and we're now 14 ...

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Jimothy fever gripped me today. I apologize. www.printables.com/model/178505... You can print your own little Jimothy if you wish!

New litter PSA just dropped

my personal sisyphean rock is telling people that no amount of dashboards, documentations, or automated tools will be able to substitute the work of talking and listening to your stakeholders when making a process change

I’m really late on this year’s repost of this, sorry.

Sean k@logik.al · 2y ago

Hot temps (likely record-breaking, again) are coming. Fire season is coming. Get your cooling and air filtration figured out now. Do not wait until it's already 90F out, and the forest near you is going to burn until the fall/winter rain comes.

OH: "If we just focus each silo on the same thing, we don't need to fix the silo-ing problem!"

This is a really useful post about what you need to know about Cyclospora. I learned things. You will too

Explosive foodborne outbreak

It's a real shit show out there: What we know, don't know, and what it means for you.

yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com

Sharing this with everyone I know:

Tfw @dbsmasher.com is watching World Cup games 🤣

Schrödinger’s Mitch McConnell

www.drcathicks.com#book I am very much looking forward to this book from @grimalkina.bsky.social and if you follow me, you likely will be too.

Dr. Cat Hicks

Leading the science of software success

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I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

Am receiving disappointing news it did not happen today. We hope for it again tomorrow, and every day after until it does.

Sean k@logik.al · last mo.

Maybe it’ll happen today

Maybe it’ll happen today

Did you ever write Infrastructure as Code? Configuration Management? Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or stupid shell scripts? Read this. webframp.com/posts/you-we...

PSA to people on Instagram: people who don’t have Instagram can’t see your posts! They see a login prompt. That information about your business or your event? Literally inaccessible

If you’re ever wondering why your stuff doesn’t get reposted, try alt text. A lot of folks won’t even consider reposting without it. And they’re right

Kira Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️@kiraleigh.bsky.social · last mo.

i hate to keep skeeting about alt text, but it allows people with vision impairments to be included. that's what we want. we want an accessible online space that everyone can enjoy. please—especially big accounts—take the time to write alt text for your images. it only takes maybe an extra minute!

“We didn't pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers.”

Boy's Exaggerated Shocked Pretends

Alt: Boy's Exaggerated Shocked Pretends

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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last mo.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

okay but what if I don’t want an AI summary, what if I want you to summarize it? what if I want you to read it , then select the words you’d use to describe it, with your own brain? What if I want your understanding and your expertise, not just whatever’s fastest?

this is also how maintaining software works

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Also something oddly relatable about a succession of contractors working on the reflecting pool being like "the last guy really screwed it up." The three certainties in life are death, taxes, and the contractor you hired for a project telling you that whoever did it the first time messed it up

this fuckin' guy

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Trump: "Nobody plays rougher than the United States. Look, our elections are totally rigged. We have rigged elections."

If somebody’s trying to tell you some other app is a more secure alternative to Signal, they are ignorant, malicious, or trying to sell you something and you should not take them seriously. Every other app is going to have the same human problems and worse security. Ask every reputable cryptographer

if you live in the PNW and have hepa filtration units for wildfire times now’s a good time to clean em and replace the filters and make sure they are ready to go

I love WSDOT.

WSDOT@wsdot.wa.gov · 2mo ago

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

I enjoyed cackling while reading this. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

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Seriously @portofseattle.bsky.social deputize me to give people tickets who are loitering at SEA curbside.

My loves, please stay doing your business on Signal

Bluesky@bsky.app · 2mo ago

What's up, chat! Group chats are rolling out today in the new v1.124 update. This is our first feature built for communities, and there's more to come.

I am this close to running a browser in a VM so this stupid video training will run in the background.

That’s pretty neat. Fitting for me, too. I'm a Drifter. Find your developer type: cronotype.vercel.app/logikal

Sean K is Drifter

Sean K's commit-time rhythm is Drifter. 50th percentile.

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As ICE ramps up their bullshit for the summer, a reminder that me and a whole bunch of other folks will get whistles out to you, for free, in quantities of 100 to thousands, to distribute in your communities. Just send a request here linktr.ee/3Dwhistles