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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 1d

probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 5d

https://www.dpreview.com/news/2744582289/affinity-photo-apps-pulled-from-sale-big-changes-announced-canva-purchase

I only boot into Windows once a week to use CaptureOne, Affinity Photo, or Affinity Publisher. If this means what I think it means, then two of those are about to get discontinued

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 5d

‘If you’re in charge of some complicated humans-and-processes machine, wouldn’t you be at least a bit curious how it really works?’

Measuring Up | blarg

exple.tive.org

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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 5d

Legalize it

Discover the Microlino

100% electric. Space for two and everything you need.

microlino-car.com

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 5d

OkHttp 5.2.1 fixes a crash closing connections on Android Lollipop and Marshmallow! 🍭
square.github.io/okhttp/chang...

Change Log - OkHttp

Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM

square.github.io

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 5d

OkHttp 5.2.1 fixes a crash closing connections on Android Lollipop and Marshmallow! 🍭
square.github.io/okhttp/chang...

Change Log - OkHttp

Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM

square.github.io

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 7d

Seriously, this is amazing.

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 7d

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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AGTMADCAT 🇺🇳 @agtmadcat.bsky.social · 7d

Love when @hankgreen.bsky.social makes a video screaming what I have screaming in my head. It's good to not feel so alone.

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

YouTube video by Hank Green

www.youtube.com

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 8d

OkHttp 5.2 does connection upgrades. 👩🏽‍✈️

Change Log - OkHttp

Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM

square.github.io

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Meta Open Source @metaopensource.bsky.social · 9d

🚀 Introducing OpenZL, a new #opensource, format-aware compression framework!

It uses a unique “graph model” for compression, enabling modular, high-performance codecs and a universal decoder - perfect for structured data at scale

Link: https://loom.ly/z09xoNw

#DataCompression

Introducing OpenZL: An Open Source Format-Aware Compression Framework

engineering.fb.com

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 10d

Exotic Snax!
share.google/f2e3E3OH8UKM...

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 10d

Mojito Pepsi is good

A can of Mojito-flavoured Pepsi from Korea

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 12d

Apple has this mechanism and they're being coerced to use it

Google could quietly reprioritize theirs so that it never ships

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 12d

I don't think it's as useful for drawing commands because many plans yield the same output.

Suppose I wanna assert that a function draws a checked checkbox. I can't tell if a plan does that without executing it.

(And the benefit is separating planning and execution.)

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 12d

The latest Oxide & Friends covered the benefits of code that splits making vs. executing plans.

I love that pattern so much! Last year I wrote about how I use it.

publicobject.com/2024/03/10/d...

Decisions, Deciders, and Executors

Most of the software I write exists to automate a process. It might automate a high-level workflow like peer-to-peer money transfers, or a low-level implementation detail like encoding an HTTP request...

publicobject.com

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Martin Bonnin @mbonnin.net · 14d

IJ 2025.3 EAP + AKCP = 💙

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 14d

Android’s new security screening feature is bad and I fucking hate it.

They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers.

But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.

A new layer of security for certified Android devices

Starting in 2026 and in select countries first, Android apps must be registered to a verified developer in order to be installed.

android-developers.googleblog.com

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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 15d

"A corridor can be either a road or a street, but not both. A road moves vehicles efficiently. A street provides access to destinations. The moment you try to make one corridor do both jobs, you guarantee congestion, along with crashes and ridiculously high costs." -Charles Marohn

The Buttonhook Isn’t Designed To Solve Baxter’s Mythical Congestion

In Baxter, “fighting congestion” is the sales pitch, but corporate subsidy is the goal.

buff.ly

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 16d

Crash in prod! Fuck! Fuck!
Hang on, this code has good tests.
That makes it easy.

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Jigar Brahmbhatt @jigarbrahmbhatt.com · 17d

Totally! And they have unfortunately burried a setting to turn it on under advance settings.

Screenshot of Samsung S25 advance settings for notifications

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 17d

But my S25 doesn’t have this feature, like at all?

This is malpractice.

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 17d

I love Android’s ‘Notification Channels’.

Each notification has a channel & configuration is per-channel. Long press a notification to toggle that channel.

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 17d

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