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Jon Campbell
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😼 Everything interrupted by 1d8 cats
👨‍💻 Principal Software Engineer
🎲 Typical geek hobbies
🔔 Greater Philadelphia
🌐 https://jon.camp
👨 he/him
Very bizarre line from a @screenrant.bsky.social article:

"Connie wasn't technically a member of the Cooper family. She wasn't related by blood to George, but since she lived nearby, she became a staple in the lives"

Since when do we not consider the bride's mother to be part of the family?
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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I just donated $50 to the greater Boston food bank. if you match my donation to your local charity I will send you a personal picture of my son
October 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
My wife & I both rushed to order from @aubryjoi.bsky.social's recent shop drop, without mentioning it to each other. We bought the same pin and variants of the same bookmark.

Great minds! (except the lack of communication lol)

Now we're just assuming Aubry was laughing as the orders were packed.
October 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Kicking around the idea of a world where the only magic is teleportation. But over time, mages develop techniques to use teleportation to achieve the magic we know and love.

Move Earth? Teleportation

Fireball? Teleportation circle in a lava flow.

Acid spray? Teleport a flask from you to target
October 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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I too am attempting to commune with the fancy autocorrect through arcane ritual practices
October 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Perplexity CEO defends their product being "just a ChatGPT wrapper" by saying OpenAI is just an Azure/NVIDIA wrapper.

As much as I dislike the LLM hypewave, it's incredibly disingenuous to compare models to services that just use an API to access that model.
October 16, 2025 at 3:01 AM
There's something absolutely repulsive about a company conducting a round of layoffs, providing all the ex-employees a template to announce their job loss on LinkedIn, and then putting promoting other people FIRST in that template before mentioning that the poster themselves needs a new job.
October 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I really dislike companies that disincentive their customer service reps from actually helping customers, either through policy or metrics.

Best Buy just wanted to reschedule our delivery to the 23rd (originally the 13th) As soon as I asked to cancel the order, magically it'll come on the 14th.
October 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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And if you order from @bookshop.org today/tomorrow, there is free shipping on all orders! 😍
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Man, this panel from @thisecommercelife.bsky.social hits perfectly. What's the over/under on there existing a real tombstone with an LLM written epitaph?
October 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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If there's just one piece of wisdom I can impart to everyone, it's that trying to post your way though it almost never works out the way you think it will
October 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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They are so widdle and smol I love them
October 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Random musing: the fictional personification of user personas and trying to get your company to refer to them by name is counterproductive by harming your ubiquitous language.

Fred Fish isn't an engineer's function name, an accountant's QuickBooks code, or a marketer's target segment.

Chef is.
September 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
There's no reason this company needed to spend tons of money on domains to sell licorice, caramels and taffy.

Probably explains why their Australian Red is $1.125 per oz while Wiley Wallaby is almost half that at $0.599 per oz.
September 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Hi folks, it’s survey time! We’d love to learn more about how you use Go and what could be improved. Share your feedback via our annual developer survey at google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... It should take 10 - 20 minutes to complete, and will be open through September 30. Thank you!

#golang
Go Developer Survey 2025
Share your feedback about developing software with Go.
google.qualtrics.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Tonight, Hannah Einbinder gave a lot of Philadelphia HS seniors their yearbook quote.
September 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Web developement seems easy untill you have to work on :

- Scalability
- CORS errors
- Production bugs
- Documentations
- Web sockets
- Time zone Handelling
- Handelling traffics
- Memory leaks
- SEO optimization
- Webpack config.
- CSS specificity hell
- Custom promises & Polyfills.
September 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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I don't have the proper words to say more than this now but

I was just laid off. My role at Giant Squid is being eliminated.

If your studio is looking for an environment artist, please let me know ASAP. I have 5+ years of experience.

thank you
August 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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If you're located in the US, whether you're in Mississippi or not, it might be time to go shopping for a VPN. (Last time I checked, Express and Nord were good options)

As you can see here, these things happen quite suddenly, and usually on Friday afternoons.
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Aug 22
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
August 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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August 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I don't understand* why cat food manufacturers insist on changing their formulas. Some cats can be very picky and stop eating because it's 10% more liquidy.

(* I mean, I'm sure it's because they found a way to make 2 cents more per can. Thanks Rachel Ray!)
August 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Before you make your next #TTRPG, check out my free font Polymath, which lets you create a bunch of different dice types in an accessible way:
hedgemazepress.itch.io/polymath-dic...
Polymath by Hedgemaze Press
Polyhedral dice font
hedgemazepress.itch.io
August 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Looking to speak to people who grew up in Landsdale, PA in the 90s/aughts. Message me on Signal if that’s you.
August 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Can someone at Google build an age verification system based solely on the age of my GMail account?

You don't need my ID -- that account is old enough to drink all on its own.
August 9, 2025 at 4:56 AM