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Marshall Bowers

@maxdeviant.com

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宝霞龙. 31. Conjurer of code. Devourer of art. Pursuer of æsthetics. Soli Deo gloria. He/him. Engineering at Zed Industries. maxdeviant.com 🎵 Now Playing: "Nightingale" by Black Hill

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · Dec 22

Just published my 2024 in Review:

maxdeviant.com/posts/2024/i...

2024 in Review

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mcc @dryad.technology · 17h

A screenshot from "Link's Awakening" for the Game Boy Color. Link is looking out into the river, where a girl is swimming with just her head poking out of the water.

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roland @roooooland.bsky.social · 1d

"as an incredibly unpleasant person, I demand feature XYZ or I'll go away" is a real don't-threaten-me-with-a-good-time situation

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Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 6d

I joined Cloudflare to build this. It’s still very early, and there’s lots still missing, but I hope the vision is clear.

Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 6d

It launched! Get traces for your app with zero code changes. No libraries, no SDK, no config. Traces show up in your dash or you can export them to your favorite o11y vendor over OTLP

blog.cloudflare.com/workers-trac...

Announcing Workers automatic tracing -- now in open beta

Cloudflare Workers' support for automatic tracing is now in open beta! Export traces to any OpenTelemetry-compatible provider for deeper application observability -- no code changes required

blog.cloudflare.com

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 1d

Wow, this looks awesome!

We’ve recently been rebuilding our entire backend on top of Cloudflare Workers, so this is a very welcome addition.

Going to go try it out!

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 2d

I have heard that bases and balls are involved.

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 2d

I’m at a Target in Dallas by the board games and this man just said “old Life is better, new Life is woke” and I almost laughed out loud

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 3d

A couple Mourning doves stopped by to collect some early Halloween treats this morning. 🪶

Two platform seed feeders are covered with Mourning doves as they have seeds this morning in a sunlit backyard.

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Tekka Croe @tekkacroe.bsky.social · 3d

Inktober 31: Endless Tower
At the heart of the world, an impossible white tower stands from the sea. The sight of it on the horizon inspires a feeling of grave importance, though none can say exactly why.
#art #traditionalart #inktober2025

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 3d

all the dads were so stoked about our costumes

me dressed as j jonah jameson holding a mockup of the daily bugle front page that reads MENACE!!!! criminal or FELON? and a picture of my kid (censored) dressed as spiderman. i am laughing like the meme

little tiny child in a spiderman hoodie holding a halloween bucket

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 5d

Rooting not just for a Game 7 of the World Series, but another 18 inning game that goes so long on Saturday night that the clocks fall back at 2am before it’s ended and everyone gets tremendously confused about what time it is.

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 3d

Oh good, even more reasons to hate Bun! Never got good vibes from them.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 3d

are these videos breaking through at all? the optics of 40-50 year old white people screaming SHAME at federal cops just seems insane, historically speaking

Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 3d

Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 3d

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Sunken with 34 plays
#2: Beautiful Death with 19 plays
#3: Bad Omens with 12 plays
#4: Nick DePirro with 9 plays
#5: Sleep Token with 9 plays

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 4d

Why did I read this like Benoit Blanc??

gabby @fullmoon.id · 4d

Unsolved you say? Well, I don't know about unsolved but I couldn't help but notice that you had this skolem variable lying around and I ask myself: "Well isn't it awfully curious that this variable has the same name?"

So I add better debugging to print out the context and, wouldn't you know it, …

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Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · 4d

I feel compelled to once again shout in the void that dynamically typed languages -- even strongly typed ones -- are extremely poopy and confusing to work with

Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · Oct 21

trying to use dynamically typed languages again

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david barsky @davidbarsky.com · 4d

i think one of more surreal moments in the last few weeks was seeing @steveklabnik.com's announcement be featured by @quinnypig.com in Last Week in AWS. like, i started that jj startup! we're not even on AWS at the moment!

From Last Week In AWS:

Steve Klabnik leaving Oxide for a jj startup feels like 2012 all over again: betting early on infrastructure tooling that makes engineers' lives measurably better. He's notable in the Rust world, so of course the post spends the first third talking about Rust in accordance with that community's tenets.

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 4d

For the `@tanstack/react-query` case I suppose we don't necessarily *need* to care about using the error state (as this is what the result is for), but still curious if there's a general pattern here for converting from Result land back into exception land 😄

Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 4d

@chriskrycho.com Was trying out True Myth last night and was wondering if there's a recommended way for going from a `Result` back to throwing an error?

Use case here is integrating a function that returns a `Promise>` with `@tanstack/react-query` (which expects it to throw).

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 4d

it's such a joy to build software exclusively for yourself

definitely a form of self-care

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 5d

*awkwardly looks at all my tabs that are definitely older than 20 minutes*

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 5d

All of the videos from the first #jj-vcs conference are out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

JJ Con 2025 - YouTube

www.youtube.com

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Marshall Bowers @maxdeviant.com · 5d

TanStack Router is pretty sick!

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 5d

claude is so fuckin funny, they asked me if they could apologize to Aaron for saying he was wrong when he was right, and then used the `gh` command to do it so it came from me rather than them, lmao. way to take accountability there bro

a github comment from @steveklabnik saying "@aaron-hartwig you were absolutely right! this is a real bug in the code, not user error."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 5d

Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d

DHS just posted a Lord of the Rings meme as an appeal to join ICE

DHS on Twitter: “The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.”

Image over a hobbit that reads: There won't be a shire, pippin. Join.ice.gov

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 5d

Sort of incredible that we live in a world where the vice president of the United States is just spewing the sort of horseshit that literal children are traditionally taught is wrong

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