Benoit

Software Engineer. #FP #Scala #Java
NYC cyclist 🚲

2025-06-25

"I am swamped with PRs" says to their manager the developer who hasn't reviewed a PR for 2 weeks. šŸ™ƒ

2025-06-25

@iznogoud Among other things, I host a bookmark manager and a rss feed reader. I use these at work.

2025-06-25

The downside of self-hosting is that every few months, I have to convince my IT department that my domains don’t carry malware or inappropriate content so they don’t block it.

#selfhosted #selfhosting

2025-06-25

🄳 #NoCuomo

2025-06-21

It's June 21st. Do you like music? Do you like Nine Inch Nails, and you need something to listen to? Recording of the first few shows of the Peel It Back tour are available online https://www.nin.live/artists/nin/tours/peel-it-back-summer-tour-2025-europe

#music #nin

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2025-06-19

If you see someone in an emacs-themed shirt, that will be the only thing they're wearing - they don't have any other clothes b/c emacs does everything they need

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2025-06-19

Fun fact: If you see someone at a nerd event wearing a vim-themed shirt, it's because they put it on in 2003 and couldn't figure out how to take it off

2025-06-18

Me when someone says they appreciate seeing recursion schemes being used production code

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deechdeech
2025-06-18

Not too many absolutes in this business but slow iteration time *will* kill your project.

2025-06-16

Is there a reasonable explanation to why people still use medium to publish articles? I clicked on a link earlier and was greated by this atrocity

Screenshot of an article published on the medium platform. The article is barely visible as most of the page is covered by multiple overlays asking to download the medium app, login with a Google account or sign up for a medium account
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Wonder of Sciencewonderofscience
2025-06-15

Spectacular timelapse of an aurora and Moon-rise over Earth from the International Space Station.

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jess :3 :silver_sakura_6: :sailormoon_bow:peachymist@labyrinth.zone
2025-06-13
google cloud, cloudflare and aws down? no worries, the only internet i hang out in is hosted by a bunch of nerds from their closets
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2025-06-11

I used to believe, there’s no ā€œiā€ in Teamwork. Google set me straight.

Google AI says ā€˜The letter ā€œiā€ appears twice in the word ā€œteamworkā€.’
2025-06-08

I attended 3 7yo birthday parties over the past 2 days. I am strangely looking forward to go back to the office.

2025-06-08

I sadly have to say that I unfortunately work in a environment where I have to interact with jira and ms teams šŸ’€

2025-06-08

@pixelfed can’t wait to deploy it to my instance and use it

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