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Richard

@darklighter.bsky.social

Code monkey. Padres baseball sufferer. Comic book lover.

created June 21, 2023

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4/9/2025, 5:27:06 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marc Normandin (@marcnormandin.bsky.social) reposted

the whole internet loves the Ballers, the lovely team that made sure there was still baseball in Oakland after the A's left! *5 seconds later*

4/9/2025, 5:06:59 PM | 378 53 | View on Bluesky | view

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A little on the (bottle)nose, Jamie.

3/9/2025, 9:04:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So the Padres are in complete freefall now, huh?

3/9/2025, 9:01:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Xaver Nady is one of my favorite Guys to remember. A shockingly long career of approximately replacement level play, with the occasional moment of being pretty good.

2/9/2025, 7:00:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dane 🔜 OK Comic Arts Festival Table 34 (@monkeyminion.com) reposted

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

An empty booth with a sign that says “vendor removed for selling AI art #ArtBYHumans”
1/9/2025, 6:01:24 PM | 31514 7774 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is the best possible endorsement of Bluesky

1/9/2025, 9:06:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How was it?

1/9/2025, 6:49:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Star Trek Minus Context (@nocontexttrek1.bsky.social) reposted

DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day
1/9/2025, 3:00:58 PM | 5306 2217 | View on Bluesky | view

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A pear that wants to be a peach

1/9/2025, 4:28:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 4:27:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tired: Getting off Substack because of the Nazis Wired?: Getting off Substack because of platform lock-in

1/9/2025, 1:39:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I respect the dedication to your brand

31/8/2025, 9:07:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul F. Tompkins (@pftompkins.bsky.social) reposted

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

29/8/2025, 8:07:28 PM | 13479 3945 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 7:08:25 PM | 6642 1980 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is why Californians keep telling you we don't want him to be president.

29/8/2025, 7:22:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But it's in ROUGH shape!

29/8/2025, 7:17:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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stop bragging about how you're not 40 yet, young'n

29/8/2025, 6:37:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That seems like not a stupid price, but then you have to factor in how much you'd have to spend redoing that godawful kitchen.

29/8/2025, 5:45:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bungling the release of the first post-Eisner issue is bad enough, but this happened to Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League at the beginning of the month! How do you fuck up this badly this often?! I need @neonichiban.bsky.social to launch ASAP so I can be rid of Comixology.

29/8/2025, 5:29:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of course Amazon decided to fuck up the digital release and push it til next Wednesday.

29/8/2025, 5:14:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Old Man Uzi (@daviduzumeri.bsky.social) reposted

i've honestly gone from "openai should be out of business" to "sam altman should be in jail"

29/8/2025, 4:59:25 PM | 360 56 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 4:35:21 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No no no the rabid antisemite who thinks *checks notes* children should have food. Yeah I think she does songs too.

29/8/2025, 4:33:04 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You put a little French in Lazarus and suddenly it’s everywhere!

29/8/2025, 4:31:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The good news is you get to be in a club with Ms. Rachel and Greta Thunberg

29/8/2025, 4:30:20 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox.bsky.social) reposted

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

29/8/2025, 11:52:33 AM | 5321 1504 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kelsey Atherton (@atherton.bsky.social) reposted

what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people

28/8/2025, 10:40:13 PM | 4181 883 | View on Bluesky | view

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It is so easy to not be a complete garbage person AND YET

27/8/2025, 4:10:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait he’s a homophobe? I missed that one.

27/8/2025, 4:04:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dear Padres: What the fuck?

27/8/2025, 3:22:04 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's not shocking that Biden's ambassador to Israel thinks it's okay to murder Gazan children, but it's something else for him to say it out loud.

26/8/2025, 10:39:44 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Billy (@billygomila.bsky.social) reposted

Way too many folks talkin' about a Taylor when they should be talkin' about a Carpenter

26/8/2025, 9:24:39 PM | 266 34 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin Fogg (@criminalerin.bsky.social) reposted

If you're almost but not all the way homeless in California, Gavin Newsom and his cops have a solution for you and it is to make you all the way homeless

25/8/2025, 4:57:21 PM | 407 181 | View on Bluesky | view

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Only one group you mentioned counts as an expert witness, counselor.

25/8/2025, 7:55:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It also goes hand in hand with the ongoing demonization of teachers. Trained professional educators couldn’t possibly know what is and isn’t good for education, but anyone capable of skipping birth control knows what’s best for kids.

25/8/2025, 7:43:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Kluwe (@chriswarcraft.bsky.social) reposted

Hey everyone, you’ve been asking me to run for office for a while, so guess what? I’m running for California State Assembly! Now, I don’t like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 we’ll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.

25/8/2025, 2:29:39 PM | 7160 1630 | View on Bluesky | view

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In for $10 from San Diego. I know I can trust you not to punt on the important issues!

25/8/2025, 3:23:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture véronique emma houxbois (@emmahouxbois.bsky.social) reposted

@support.bsky.team seems bad, y’all

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22/8/2025, 7:22:52 PM | 19 11 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey, you can’t put a price on $50,000,000!

22/8/2025, 7:36:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) reposted

still wild to me that UBI isn’t like the default left of center position

22/8/2025, 1:29:27 AM | 1571 258 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sam Altman is a snake oil salesman incapable of actual serious thought, exhibit 1238473153

20/8/2025, 12:29:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Padres are winless since O’Hearn invoked Ted Nugent.

17/8/2025, 10:59:04 PM | 17 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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How much do you think a McKinsey intern got paid to make this basic ass logo in PowerPoint?

The new logo and branding for MS NOW, née MSNBC.The top line is a weird white flag with two horizontal red bars to the left of text in a heavy Helvetica-like font reading “MS NOW”. The second line uses a serif font just to make it clear the designer did not give a fuck. The nonsense marketing text reads “My Source | News | Opinion | World”. It’s all on a blue gradient background that probably shipped as a standard PowerPoint template in 2003.
19/8/2025, 12:33:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Salt n Peppa if they were into Superman’s archenemy: let’s talk about Lex, baby

18/8/2025, 9:24:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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CD AND DVD?! In this economy?!

18/8/2025, 3:48:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Padres are winless since O’Hearn invoked Ted Nugent.

17/8/2025, 10:59:04 PM | 17 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had this conversation with a Newsom supporter that made me feel like I was taking crazy pills

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17/8/2025, 6:52:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That home run was for the queer community

16/8/2025, 2:27:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“He opposed and watered down this legislation but he signed it after unrelenting action from the UFW so he’s a good politician”

15/8/2025, 6:44:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The average Newsom supporter in a nutshell.

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15/8/2025, 6:41:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nothing Newsom did stops that. Listen to people that actually work in homeless services and advocacy.

15/8/2025, 6:26:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tell me you don’t know what led to that bill without telling me you don’t know what led to that bill.

15/8/2025, 6:25:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And, frankly, when the Governor of California has a podcast, what he says and who he speaks with are indicative of who he is as a person and politician and should not be dismissed.

15/8/2025, 6:06:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s repeatedly worked against the UFW, most recently vetoing a bill to increase protections for farm laborers in extreme heat.

15/8/2025, 6:04:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s twice stopped bills that would significantly improve cyclist safety from passing. He’s underfunded public transit. He endorsed Dianne Feinstein in 2018 in opposition to the California Democratic Party.

15/8/2025, 6:02:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hi. Lifelong Californian and Democratic voter here. He has a long history of inhumane treatment of homeless people, most recently pushing to make encampments functionally illegal. He’s partnered with cryptocurrency advocates (just his latest giveaway to the tech industry)

15/8/2025, 5:56:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don't forget Tim Stauffer's emergency appendectomy!

14/8/2025, 5:27:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh my god they're going to absolutely hate each other and I'm here for it.

14/8/2025, 5:24:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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... is there a balrog in your hotel?

14/8/2025, 5:23:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fitted sheets do that to me.

14/8/2025, 4:13:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I guess if you’re a crazy tradwife hand washing with lye soap, yeah, sort before washing. For the rest of us, just chuck it all in there.

14/8/2025, 4:13:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is real “don’t use soap on cast iron” energy. It is 2025. Both detergents and appliances are designed for cold water mixed loads now.

14/8/2025, 4:12:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am gonna make “The Curse of Tungsten Arm O’Doyle” happen if it’s the last thing I do.

14/8/2025, 4:53:46 AM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Psst. The San Diego Padres are in sole possession of first place in the National League West.

14/8/2025, 4:52:30 AM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dodgers gonna get hit with the curse of Tungsten Arm O'Doyle again tonight, too

13/8/2025, 10:31:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You love to see it.

A screenshot of the NL West standings showing the Padres in first place.
13/8/2025, 10:28:45 PM | 23 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Parrot Eye Cherry

13/8/2025, 10:26:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hot take: The Padres are good.

13/8/2025, 8:19:08 PM | 9 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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the way the tension ratcheted up throughout the issue was incredible

13/8/2025, 6:06:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Curse of Tungsten Arm O’Doyle strikes again! First place Padres!

13/8/2025, 4:59:55 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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please do not spiral

12/8/2025, 9:12:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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honestly, you'd make a solid spy

12/8/2025, 6:22:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We have a new contender for "worst governmental failure to understand how computers work"

12/8/2025, 6:01:30 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Since signing Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers are 2-6 against the Angels. The Curse of Tungsten Arm O'Doyle is real.

12/8/2025, 5:49:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Going back for thirds is punk rock

9/8/2025, 4:54:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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(I'm excited)

8/8/2025, 7:08:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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- Ichiro

8/8/2025, 7:06:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean, winning 13 of their last 11 would be better

8/8/2025, 5:26:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is that good

8/8/2025, 5:20:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Your joke-writing engine doesn't support the Absolute Terror Protocol.

7/8/2025, 11:24:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm just here for the Evangelion jokes.

7/8/2025, 11:05:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're getting a Padres tattoo on your scalp?

7/8/2025, 10:45:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Smores

1/8/2025, 7:36:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fellas, is it coercive to tell a woman she looks nice

1/8/2025, 7:22:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait what? You’re like the thirstiest poster I know.

1/8/2025, 7:19:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think there's a leftist way to talk about it, but it's more about how this is a symptom of so many things our society has ruined. The existence of third spaces. The emotional education of young men. Gender and racial equity. etc etc etc

1/8/2025, 4:57:11 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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AJ Preller knows Freddy Fermin and Freddie Freeman are different people, right? It's important to me that he knows that.

31/7/2025, 8:32:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Codenames: Cryptic Non-Apology Edition looks lame

31/7/2025, 3:19:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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NYT Editorial Board:

30/7/2025, 9:36:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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counting on the Padres FO to be too dysfunctional to actually do anything

30/7/2025, 8:59:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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NYT: We're all trying to find the guy who did this

Headline: Gaza's Hunger Is a Moral Crisis Byline: New York Times Editorial Board
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And that's why he's the king!

29/7/2025, 12:02:55 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Accurate assessment!

28/7/2025, 4:49:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I made it write me a script in swift so I could verify it without having to remember any fucking bash (And I still had to correct it)

28/7/2025, 2:59:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Things I’ve used Claude for: I only vaguely remember the syntax of this API, correct it for me Basic utility shell scripts Things I won’t use Claude for: Actual architecture!

28/7/2025, 2:56:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“A little kindness goes a long way.” Guess the emphasis there was on “little”.

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