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Joe Woods
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💼 Fixing electronic component procurement
🔍 Code, novels, photography, meetups
🌐 Richmond, VA
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My free-to-use photos passed 100 million views on Unsplash today
A screenshot of text which reads: Insights All time Views 100,023,707
November 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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For Halloween, I’m dressed as Francine the Lowe’s Cat, a famous cat from Richmond, Virginia
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Lately, I've been frustrated that Spotify doesn't have a "skip any song you've already listened to today" feature, so I hacked together a quick script to do just that.

Does anyone else have this problem? I don't want to do the work to make it a web app if nobody else would use it. 🤪
A screenshot of a terminal window. It says: ✓ Now playing: "Horn Intro" by Modest Mouse ✓ Now playing: "Sound and Vision - 2017 Remaster" by David Bowie ✓ Now playing: "Mirror in the Bathroom - 2012 Remaster" by The English Beat ^C 👋 Shutting down Skip Repeats... 📊 Tracked 4 unique songs today. projects/spotify-tools ⬢ v23.3.0 2m 20.2s ➜ node skip-repeats.js 🚀 Starting Skip Repeats script... 🎵 Skip Repeats started! 📅 Tracking songs played since 3am (current day: 2025-10-12) 🔄 Polling every 5 seconds... ✓ Now playing: "Mirror in the Bathroom - 2012 Remaster" by The English Beat ✓ Now playing: "West End Girls - 2018 Remaster" by Pet Shop Boys ⏭️ SKIPPING: "Mirror in the Bathroom - 2012 Remaster" by The English Beat (already played today) 🎺 Queued Horn Intro ✓ Now playing: "Horn Intro" by Modest Mouse ✓ Now playing: "Strange Overtones" by David Byrne
October 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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RVA's Women Coders Coalition just announced their October social!

calendar.richmond.edu/page.html?ev...
A marketing image for a meetup event. It says "Fall social" three times on it; has a woman peering over glasses looking shocked. The date and time is Wednesday, October 22nd, at 5:30 pm, at Triple Crossing Fulton. It's by Women Coders Coalition, and sponsored by the U of R School of Professional & Continuing Studies
October 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I think this is where The Portal is but I wasn’t able to lift this rock. Good luck
A ring of mushrooms around a largish rock in the grass. The rock is partially painted grey, and is directly under a massive overpass, by an asphalt foot path. There’s a lamppost nearby; the multistory Richmond flood wall is on the right
September 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Happy 30th birthday to one of the greatest films ever created
The poster for the film "Hackers," predominantly featuring the faces of Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie
September 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I'm really loving this new theme, but it does mean that it's basically impossible to see at a glance if my pytest tests are failing.
A screenshot of a terminal, which is relatively low-contrast, which is mostly filled with "test passed" periods, and a few "test skipped" "s"es.
September 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I've moved from using Iceberg (cocopon.github.io/iceberg.vim/) everywhere to a color theme I've put together that's inspired by both Iceberg and recently getting my retinas seared at a Nine Inch Nails show
A screenshot of a desktop showing Obsidian, Cursor, and the macOS Terminal.app. The theme for each is very similar, showing a nearly-black, reddish background, white foreground text, and solely red highlights for e.g. syntax highlighting.
September 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Simply incredible.
Everyone in the crowd with their hands up for Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Nails in ELECTRONIC MODE The astonishing circular visuals on the “unpeeled” curtains for Nine Inch Nails What if everything around you isn't quite as it seems? Just Trent on the B stage, with the crowd around him illuminated.
September 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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A woman eats a pretzel while awaiting the Nine Inch Nails show
September 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Every now and then I'll remember lazy function definitions (or self-defining functions) exist and it feels like taking a football to the face
Screenshot of some JavaScript: let foo = function () { const t = new Date(); foo = function () { return t; } return foo(); }
August 23, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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A duotone image of an cat laying on a carpet and yelling about it
August 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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went looking for a new couch with M this weekend
A man sits on a very deep couch, and the perspective of the couch makes him look comically small. Also you can kind of see that he's wearing PAC-MAN socks
July 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Why does Boston consistently have tech meetups on every day of the week _except_ Fridays?
A screenshot of a calendar showing July 2025, and two days from both of June and August. Dots appear next to every day — excluding the first week, and excluding most Fridays.
July 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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My #2 and #3 artists for the last week have shockingly similar artist images on last.fm right now
Two square images next to each other of two men in greyscale looking down and to their left. One is of James Murphy, labeled with LCD Soundsystem and 22 plays; the other is of Trent Reznor, labeled with Nine Inch Nails and 22 plays.
July 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Tonight's calendar.city feature: I put a calendar in the calendar
A screenshot of calendar.city/philly, the Philly Tech Calendar. It shows a bold "Philly Tech Calendar" header, a calendar widget indicating events happening over the course of the next month, and three of the upcoming events: Pay What You Want Coworking with Philly Game Mechanics, Wi-Fi Tricks with Ghost ESP, and the Philly 2600 Meetup.
July 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Lana loves this new (?) art by Chimborazo Playground
An old dog smiles brightly in front of some tile art which spells “iLOVEU”. There’s railing behind her, with trees in the background
June 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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went to a lovely wedding
May 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Alright RVA, what's up with this hole?
May 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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@mliketheletter.bsky.social in the snow in Chimborazo Park, RVA

(She made this dress!)
A greyscale image of a woman standing in a snow-covered field. A single light on a pole casts a wide spotlight over her. A tree-lined, lit path creates a wall in the background. The woman is wearing an ornate lunar-themed dress and long gloves; one hand holds the skirt, while another is extended downward. Snow is falling, white blurs marking the foreground and background.
February 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Today's "quote of the day" is a good one
He talked about how he liked to sit on a bench at the park and feed the ducks. He didn’t try to get “better” at feeding the ducks. He didn’t try to feed more ducks. He wasn’t trying to optimize the nutritional quality of the bread. He wasn’t trying to get it over with. He realized that ultimately, he wasn’t even sure he experienced any benefit from it. He couldn’t explain to anyone why he went to the park and fed the ducks, least of all himself. He was feeding the ducks because he was feeding the ducks. —Jon Bois, 20020: The Future of College Football
February 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Wow, looks like Powhatan is almost entirely out.
A screenshot of the Dominion Power outage map (https://outagemap.dominionenergy.com/external/default.html). Powhatan county is selected; 7,454 customers out of 8,017 are out.
February 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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An extreme closeup on the face of a cat, but its eyes are glowing because of the flash of a camera
January 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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In honor of the new RVATok feed by @bryanrva.dev, here’s a pig I saw in Jackson Ward in 2016

bsky.app/profile/did:...

#rva
January 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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@shamian.bsky.social designed this amazing poster of my dog, Lana. Thanks so much!

(www.fiverr.com/shamian_/cra...)
A poster of a dog. It's a stylized, tri-tone color scheme; the top left has a dog poking out of a box and looking sassy. The bottom middle has her on a globe background, looking cute and small. On the right, she's running, with a bold outline. Her name, Lana, is covered by the picture of her running; her nicknames are also all over the poster, like "lunar lander" on the far left, with a planet icon; a list at the top right, including Luna, Lunar Lander, Loontown, Spoontown, Spoony, and Spindles. There's small text on the bottom right decreeing things like how she's from Richmond, Virginia; listing her impressive moveset (inc. sit, paw, catch); how she's very fast and anti-car; and how she's "unpredictable, unique, unstoppable.
January 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM