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Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · 1d

Text objects! Perform an action inside/around parens/bracket/tag

ie to yank everything inside an html tag where the cursor is: yit

To delete everything in parens (including the parens): da(

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · Feb 10

...But at every intersection along South Broad, five or six Philadelphia police officers - who were waiting in frigid temps to conduct crowd control - gathered around one officer's cell phone, watching the game, and hooped and hollered as the Eagles advanced.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · Feb 10

go birds

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Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · Jan 26

Might have to get a Barkley jersey #gobirds

Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · Jan 11

And a hundred book recs too!

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · Jan 11

You know what people hear when you say this? Especially other men who are less powerful than you? That the status quo is inevitable, and they shouldn't bother sticking their neck out to change it. That those who care are suckers, weaker than you tough guys.
But what I hear is your own weakness.

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · Jan 11

I'm increasingly pissed off at men in leadership positions posting here that companies backsliding on DEI etc is inevitable, and treating people who are angry about it as naive children. All you are showing is that you are a leader who either a) doesn't care or b) lacks the guts to fight against it.

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Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · Jan 9

😭😭😭 debí tirar más fotos #dtmf never thought that bad bunny music would be making me cry so much

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Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · Dec 15

The shadows on the court also make it look like half the lights are on

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Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · Nov 11

Potentially! Goal would definitely be to have some topics around databases and how to use them effectively

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Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · Nov 11

Cool! Will reach out when there's more info!

Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · Nov 11

This is super nascent, but I want to build something we can be proud of. Please contact me here or at "email [at] phlsystems.xyz"

* If you can *host* meetups in Philly OR
* If you'd like to co-organize OR
* If there's any topics you can present on!

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Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · Nov 11

Hey! I've been jealous of NYC, DC, and other locales having a Systems meetup group.

So, I'm looking to start one for Philly in early 2025:

phlsystems.xyz

There's an email signup form on the website to get more info when it comes out!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Nov 6

So hey, maybe it’ll help somebody. About eighteen months ago, I found out I had breast cancer. I got a phone call and I sat there and said the right things and hung up and sat in my car and just had cancer for a bit.

Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Nov 6

I feel rather horribly calm. It’s like finding out that a cancer came back. “Ah. This again. I see.”

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Hillelogram @hillelwayne.com · Oct 29

Greetings from #srecon EMEA! Let's try the old Twitter thing of liveblogging all of the conference. One thread for each day, with today being day one. Let's get started!

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Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · Oct 28

* @vickiboykis.com
* me!

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Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · Oct 28

👋 Re-introduction post! Hey, I'm Nick, an engineer in the Philly burbs working on database + search infrastructure. I've worked a bunch with Postgres, Elasticsearch, MySQL.

Currently I'm working on internal storage platforms at Datadog, focusing on Postgres.

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v @avi.im · Oct 27

The banger opening presentation at P99 Conf by Professor Andy Pavlo

watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-0dw4gUhw

One of the slides from the conf by the professor, titled OS people hate databases

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · Oct 25

I spun up a new LLM benchmark: how well can they handle this prompt?

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

I find the results so far utterly delightful: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/25/pelicans-on-a-bicycle/

Here's Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-06-20) and Claude 3.5 Sonnet (2024-10-22):

Two images that are recognizable as pelicans on bicycles

Gemini 1.5 Flash 001 and Gemini 1.5 Flash 002:

Two images that are NOT.

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Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · Oct 25

I get flabbergasted every time they’re surprised that peanut butter and a jam goes well together

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · Oct 22

Working on a databases starter pack: go.bsky.app/7mG8msu

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noopkat @noopkat.fragile.systems · Feb 27

this is one of the coolest things I have seen in such a long time

victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · Feb 26

you’ve probably seen some posts but it’s true and it’s official: the transfemme style lookbook I have worked on for two years is finally available for preorder. www.carrarabooks.com/store/we-des...

we deserve this, a transfeminine automotive lookbook by Victoria Scott

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Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · Feb 12

The “we’re finding kids from around the globe to play in the NFL” ad isn’t as cute as they thought

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Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · Aug 8

In the most Philadelphian thing I’ve done recently, you can just go to the water ice factory and pick up a few gallons. At $8.95/gallon it’s pretty cheap too

A gallon of strawberry lemonade water ice

Nick Canzoneri @nickcanzoneri.com · Jul 23

Found some of my wife’s culture at the Art Museum today

A placard about South Jersey glass titled “South Jersey Tradition”