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Dan
@blinkgood.bsky.social
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Hi. I whisper to silicon and solve security problems for @RiotGames. I like Gophers and Crabs. I'm also a very good mage in World of Warcraft
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softrains.bsky.social
We're #12 on the list, thanks @inverse.com! 💜

Go take a look at the full list below, it's got a ton of great games in it, and the number one choice is extremely correct ithcmo (in this humble community manager's opinion)
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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flemtheparrot.bsky.social
Morning.
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
blinkgood.bsky.social
I have #cats. One of my fur goblins triggered my automatic water shutoff valve because, while I was driving home from 100 miles away, she turned the kitchen faucet on
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
blinkgood.bsky.social
I can finally say that I use Arch btw.

#linux
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
blinkgood.bsky.social
anyway some of my followers/followees apparently have massive honkers
blinkgood.bsky.social Dan @blinkgood.bsky.social · Nov 8
y'all, I've been seeing posts that just say "adult content" or similar and nothing else for a while and it is only just now I have realized that they were hidden by moderation settings in my profile and didn't actually say adult content
November 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
blinkgood.bsky.social
y'all, I've been seeing posts that just say "adult content" or similar and nothing else for a while and it is only just now I have realized that they were hidden by moderation settings in my profile and didn't actually say adult content
November 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
blinkgood.bsky.social
nyx....
November 8, 2025 at 4:36 AM
blinkgood.bsky.social
Do I have any #fellowship friends here? really enjoying the game as a chronic M+ player
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
blinkgood.bsky.social
Floors finally start getting done tomorrow. I am so excited.
October 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
blinkgood.bsky.social
My new flooring arrived. On pallets. 3 pallets, each 7 boxes high, 4 boxes wide. Each box is 40 pounds.

Pray for me.
October 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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b0rk.jvns.ca
redirects

wizardzines.com/comics/termi...

(from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal", out now! wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)
redirect to a file: cmd > file.txt terminal emulator into program, program out to file.txt, error out to terminal emulator append to a file: cmd >> file.txt terminal emulator into program, program out to file.txt (append mode), error out to terminal emulator send a file to stdin: cmd < file.txt file.txt into program, program out and err to terminal emulator redirect stderr to a file: cmd 2 > file.txt terminal emulator into program, program out to nowhere, err out to file.txt redirect stdout AND stderr: cmd > file.txt 2>&1 terminal emulator into program, out and err to file.txt pipe stdout: cmd1 | cmd2 terminal emulator into program 1, 1 out to program 2 via pipe, 2 out to command line, program 2 out 1 and 2 to terminal emulator pipe stdout AND stderr: cmd1 2>&1 | cmd2 terminal emulator into program 1, 1 and 2 out to program 2 via pipe, program 2 out 1 and 2 to terminal emulator three gotchas cmd file.txt > file.txt will delete the contents of file.txt some people use set -o noclobber (in bash/zsh) to avoid this but I just have “never read from redirect to the same file” seared into my memory. sudo echo blah > /root/file.txt doesn’t write to /root/file.txt as root. Instead, do: echo blah | sudo tee /root/file.txt or sudo sh -c 'echo blah > /root/file.txt' cmd 2>&1 > file.txt doesn’t write both stdout and stderr to file.txt. Instead, do: cmd > file.txt 2>&1 cat vs < I almost always prefer to do: cat file.txt | cmd instead of cmd < file.txt it works fine & it feels better to me using cat can be slower if if’s a GIANT file though &> and &| some shells support &> and &| to redirect/pipe both stdout and stderr (also some shells use |& instead of &|)
October 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
blinkgood.bsky.social
cashier at dennys: name for the order, please?
me, in a dressing gown and beard: grandslamdalf
October 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
blinkgood.bsky.social
I am fighting Terraform today. Show me your #cats.

Computers are a mistake
October 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
blinkgood.bsky.social
My #cats are dumb.
October 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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fedi.eblu.space
the new user experience on the fediverse
September 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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numb.comfortab.ly
Dr. Evil with speech bubble over the quoted post.
September 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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b0rk.jvns.ca
meet the terminal emulator wizardzines.com/comics/meet-...

(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! (wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)
your terminal emulator has two main jobs turn your actions (typing & clicking) into bytes and send them receive bytes and display them visually Illustration of a terminal emulator, with a winking cursor face, and a program, represented by a box with a smiley face. The program has a heart above it, and there are arrows going back and forth between them labelled “bytes” a little bit of history it’s called an “emulator” because in the 80s a “terminal” was a separate machine from the computer Illustration of a bulky old monitor, with a keyboard attached with a spiral cord, and a wire running to a panl of buttons and displays, labelld “mainframe”. There are arrows going back and forth between them labelled “bytes” We still use the same 80s protocol! what are these “bytes”? the bytes are either: text (like cat blah.txt) escape codes (for example to tell the terminal what colour to display the text in) control characters example Ctrl+C is the byte 3) it’s in charge of copy and paste your terminal emulator lets you select text and copy/paste it (usually with Ctrl+Shift+C (Linux) or Cmd+C (Mac)) (copy & paste tips on page 18!) it manages colours and fonts! some terminal emulators come with a big theme library of different colourschemes! if yours doesn’t, this site has colourschemes for many terminal emulators: iterm2colorschemes.com fun fact: how Ctrl-X gets translated to bytes Ctrl-A => 1 Ctrl-B => 2 ... Ctrl-Z => 26 Ctrl is the only modifier key I trust in the terminal, all of the others can work differently depending on the situation
September 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
blinkgood.bsky.social
This is so stupid. I love it.

www.youtube.com/shorts/5L76L...
MOZART x SMASH MOUTH #lightbanter #smashmouth
YouTube video by Shitty Mozart
www.youtube.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
blinkgood.bsky.social
I finally have my flooring project paid for. Soon I shall be rid of this awful carpet
September 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
blinkgood.bsky.social
home ownership never ends.

I will be trimming this soon, I hope. flooring, base paint gets replaced in the next month

This place is gonna look so goddamn fancy once I am done with it
September 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
blinkgood.bsky.social
I am planning to build a home in a few years and I really need someone to vibe-check my moodboard so it's not super basic
September 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
blinkgood.bsky.social
Oof. The new visa bulletin got released. The current date is 4 days before my priority date. So close to being able to file, yet so far.

I need to go get turned into a pin cushion now to make sure I have all of my shots in case I am current before the end of the year
September 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
blinkgood.bsky.social
I'm tired.
September 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
blinkgood.bsky.social
what i would give for this view
mjwyatt.bsky.social Mary @mjwyatt.bsky.social · Aug 30
Evening shot of Mt. Hood. May 9. 🤍🩵☁️
Mt. Hood. Dark conifer trees, close up shot of snow covered mountain with some rock exposed, pale blue sky with two thick layers of gray-white clouds.
August 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
blinkgood.bsky.social
people will deadass get paid $300k to write YAML manifests for K8s instead of an actual configuration language
August 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM