Andrew M 🇨🇦

@maccuaa.bsky.social

Software Dev Mgr @ Entrust. Go Habs! 💻🏒

"the round before the Stanley Cup final"... 😑 Why not just say the Conference Finals? Or the Semi Finals? I get you're dealing with a pretty low common denominator on the other site but come on. Do better NHL PR

Screenshot of a post by the NHL that says "The last remaining Second Round series shifts back to Bell Centre where the @BuffaloSabres look to stave off elimination and force a #Game7 while the @CanadiensMTL aim to return to the round before the #StanleyCup Final for the first time since 2021. #NHLStats"

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

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Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13)
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lizzie johnson
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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lizzie johnson
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Jan 25
Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

If you think Trump can’t misuse the nuclear codes because "people would stop him" well those same people just watched him bulldoze a wing of the White House.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Donald Trump's inauguration had me once again thinking of these words from H. L. Mencken's obituary for William Jennings Bryan, published July 27, 1925: "He was ignorant, bigoted, self- seeking, blatant and dishonest. ... Imagine a gentleman, and you have imagined everything that he was not."


But what of his life? Did he accomplish any useful thing? Was he, in his day, of any dignity as a man, and of any value to his fellow-men? I doubt it. Bryan, at his best, was simply a magnificent job-seeker. The issues that he bawled about usually meant nothing to him. He was ready to abandon them whenever he could make votes by doing so, and to take up new ones at a moment's notice. For years he evaded Prohibition as dangerous; then he embraced it as profitable. At the Democratic National Convention last year he was on both sides, and distrusted by both. In his last great battle there was only a baleful and ridiculous malignancy. If he was pathetic, he was also disgusting.
Bryan was a vulgar and common man, a cad undiluted. He was ignorant, bigoted, self- seeking, blatant and dishonest. His career brought him into contact with the first men of his time; he preferred the company of rustic ignoramuses. It was hard to believe, watching him at Dayton, that he had traveled, that he had been received in civilized societies, that he had been a high officer of state. He seemed only a poor clod like those around him, deluded by a childish theology, full of an almost pathological hatred of all learning, all human dignity, all beauty, all fine and noble things. He was a peasant come home to the dung-pile. Imagine a gentleman, and you have imagined everything that he was not.
The job before democracy is to get rid of such canaille. If it fails, they will devour it.

would you like to see how quickly you can scroll through one million pixels? (you would, i know you would)

Priya Misner@priyamisner.bsky.social · 2y ago

Million Pixel Dash // 13.2 seconds 🏃‍♂️⬜️⬜️🟨🟨🟩🟩🟦🟦💨 Inspired by the “million of something” #genuary prompt and the creative coding session at the Recurse Center, I built this silly little scrolling game: give it a try and see if you can beat my time millionpixeldash.com

Just released a pair of Vite Plugins that allow you to easily add a Content Security Policy to your Vite SPA app. ✨ Automatically calculates Subresource Integrity (SRI) hashes of assets 📚 Automatically handles Google Fonts. ⚡ Supports Node and Bun runtimes. github.com/maccuaa/vite... #vite

GitHub - maccuaa/vite-plugin-csp: Vite CSP / SRI Plugin for Node.js and Bun

Vite CSP / SRI Plugin for Node.js and Bun. Contribute to maccuaa/vite-plugin-csp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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