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Josh Jersild
@joshjers.drilian.com
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I've been programming for way too long
Also sometimes I write or perform music
Mostly I talk about random bullshit
(he/him)

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While I'm replacing the monitor mount I had with a new wider one, it's time to fix the fire hazard that is the wiring behind my screens 😬
Photo of my desk showing just an absolute nightmare of cabling - many cables going into a 3-monitor 4-computer KVM, plus a power strip and many other already-disconnected plugs.
December 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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@enikofox.com @rally.luckyraven.cc

Just got the perfect alignment of posts
Screenshot from Bluesky, showing two posts about the fantastic game Kitsune Tails (a game about gay fox girls) with a photo of a fox from "Hourly Foxes" between them
December 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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I wish I could play this game again fresh
The title screen from Outer Wilds, with a little planet in the bottom right with lil alien people sitting around a campfire
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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I watch a ton of programming videos on youtube, and a lot of them start with this sponsor logo

...is this why so many of the devs I know are trans?
A screenshot from a youtube coding video featuring the sponsor at the beginning, which is just a large "HRT" inside of an orange capsule
December 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Got our tree set up! This year I finally have a lighting setup I'm happy with, thanks to the Vintaglo LED lights which finally do the obvious thing of "use white LEDs and color them with glass so they don't have that eye-searing blue color"
Photo of our Christmas tree, which is covered in small multicolored lights, plus more ornaments than are strictly necessary, and topped with a lit star. The tree is next to a fireplace made of (faux) stone, with (faux) candles inside of it. It has a mantle with four stockings hanging from it. Close-up of the tree showing the glow of the light plus a random selection of ornaments
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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pretty sure she's a Bethesda NPC
Screenshot of one of the NPCs from Bethesda's game Starfield, showing a woman with weird lighting that looks more like the photo of Iwona B Horyn than it probably should
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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After getting another Internal Compiler Error in MSVC, this popped into my head
Version of the "Epic Handshake" meme, where two extremely muscular arms are handshaking in a super cool way. One arm is labeled "Programmers" and one is labeled "Decent Americans" and they are both shaking with the text "Fuck ICE"
November 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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I dunno, everyone, I don't think the aurora looks that cool in person
A photo of clouds So many clouds
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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We have so many mushrooms in the front yard for some reason
Photo taken at night showing a bunch of mushrooms in mulch, backlit by the porch light Close-up of one cluster of the mushrooms. It has a color gradient from a burnt orange in the center to more of a pale peach at the edge, and looks sort of like if someone took a cheese curl and extruded the inside of the curl inward and then down to the ground Sorry that's a weird description but that's how I see it lol Another shot (this time during the day) of just so many of these mushrooms
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Hows my ADHD doing today? Well I forgot my meds but I did remember to open the blinds

...most of them
Photo of my window with two of three blinds open
November 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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In this economy, even the inter-dimensional tourist mannequins need jobs
Screenshot from Pacific Drive showing an anomaly known as a Tourist (with the appearance of a relatively featureless mannequin) standing in the road, arm raised, next to a Road Work sign, behind some orange traffic cones and in front of a large concrete pipe which is blocking the road.
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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"Honey, did you park the car?"
"Yep, did a totally normal parking job just like you asked"
"...what"

#PacificDrive
Screenshot from pacific drive showing a wrecked, rusted car perched on top of some oil drums in the middle of a road. There are orange traffic cones under the car, around the drums
November 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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It's Halloween!
Photo of our two carved pumpkins (lit from inside by candles), sitting on the porch. The left pumpkin is shorter and round, and carved with a scared face with fangs, and the right pumpkin is taller and carved to look like a happy skull
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Started up Pacific Drive to play the new expansion that @ironwood.bsky.social just released, but I have completely forgotten how to play lol

So, time to start again 😁
Screenshot from Pacific Drive, showing the station wagon on a road with trees in the distance. The car is dark blue and covered in glow-in-the-dark star stickers
October 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Screenshot From Mario 64 of Princess Peach's note from the beginning of the game (with the princess visible on the right side of the image) modified to say "If the zoo bans me for hollering at the animals I will face God and walk backwards into hell" It is signed "Peach"
October 28, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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So, here are the customization options for "Customize Copilot key on keyboard" in Windows 11.

Very helpful. Thanks, you fucks.

Anyway I changed it to Search.
...it still just opens Copilot.

3/3
Screenshot of the "Select an app" window from "Customize Copilot key on keyboard" in Windows 11. The options are "Microsoft 365 Copilot" and "Copilot"
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Turns out, there's an option for it!

Great, I thought, I'll set it to custom and make it open something useful

2/
Screenshot from Windows text input options showing the option to "Customize Copilot key on the keyboard" The current selection is, of course, "Copilot" Screenshot of the option selector for the copilot key customization. Options are: "Search", "Copilot", and "Custom"
October 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Here's a goofy/cute photo of our puppy if that helps
Photo of our dog, a dark-haired pittie with a graying snoot, on the deck in the daylight with some pumpkins and a fake headstone behind her
October 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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honestly some impressive mid-taze penmanship

(bibdig.museogalileo.it/tecanew/oper...)
scan of the linked document, containing the string of letters referred to by the previous post (aaaaaaacccccdeeeeeghiiiiiiillllmmnnnnnnnnnooooppqrrstttttuuuuu)
September 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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I remember making this image in PovRay and having it take like a full day to render

at that resolution
Old 3D Rendering of the inside of a fantasy rpg inspired shop, with a fireplace on the right, and a counter displaying a helmet, a couple potions a flat object that is supposed to be a shield, and then three swords and an axe hanging on the back wall
September 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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I think about this line from Glass Onion basically every day now
September 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

For
FUCKS
SAKE
Screenshot from the linked article that says "Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here – and it marks one of the most ambitious steps forward we’ve taken with the IDE. This release brings AI woven directly into the developer workflow, performance improvements that reset expectations for speed at enterprise scale, and a modern design that makes the environment feel lighter and more focused."
September 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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I have lived at this place for over 10 years, there's been an apple and pear tree here the whole time, but this year is the first year I've gotten any fruit off of them (about 8 pounds of apples so far plus a few pears!)
Photo of a bunch of green apples plus 5 pears arranged haphazardly on a blue and white hammock
September 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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you know it's time to stop for the night when you hit a Clang warning (as error) that only has one hit on google (the list of clang diagnostic flags)
Screenshot of multiple warnings (errors) of the form "Instantiation of <function> triggers reference to TU-local entry <other function> from other TU"
August 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Oh shit, looks like we have a Wu-Tang Clan multiverse thing happening
Photo of a bottle of soap labeled "method men"
August 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM