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Jeremy Clark
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Trying to help programmers past the roadblocks where I got stuck. Plus, cats.
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wildermuth.com
(1/3) It's World Suicide Prevention Day. I have a history of trauma and C-PTSD. I am very lucky that suicide was never an option for me for some reason. But suicide has followed me for years. Friends and family. My uncle took his own life. My father died of what I would call a passive suicide.
September 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
jeremybytes.bsky.social
It's hard to believe that this little girl has lived with us for 2 years already. We didn't do the best job of naming, though: Zoë (which means "life"). She has brought more small animals into our house than all the other cats I've had over the last 20 years combined.
#cats #catsofbluesky
Black and white tuxedo cat curled up on a lap.
September 1, 2026 at 5:50 PM
jeremybytes.bsky.social
Timeline cleanser: Lulu the beagle has a bit of a scratch.
#dogs #dogsofbluesky #dogsOfFedi
August 31, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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estherschindler.bsky.social
I laughed
August 26, 2026 at 12:47 AM
jeremybytes.bsky.social
Small joys (literally): Tiny flowers growing out of cracks in the concrete. (Second picture has my hand for scale.)
#flowers
Small, daisy-like flower with lavender petals and a yellow center. Small, daisy-like flower with lavender petals and a yellow center. The flower is held in a hand to show how small it is (about the quarter of a thumb nail).
August 12, 2026 at 5:36 PM
jeremybytes.bsky.social
Max got into a fight a couple weeks ago. We took him to the vet to make sure he didn't get infected (his fur is almost grown back where they shaved him). He's fine; but he ended up with an aural hematoma resulting in cauliflower ear. He looks like this now.
#whiskerswednesday #catsofbluesky #cats
White and orange cat sitting laying on a book. His right ear is standing up normally. The left ear is folded over. White and orange cat sitting laying on a bed. His right ear is standing up normally. The left ear is folded over.
August 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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jaunty.art
She excels in her field
An illustration of a woman wearing glasses in a blue dress and flip flops with one leg up. She is doing devil horn hand pose with one hand and is working on excel on a laptop that’s on a standing height desk. She is in a green field with a blue sky. Text reads “she excels in her field”
April 9, 2024 at 6:36 AM
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ardalis.com
A developer I know recently asked:

"Since we can produce code so fast now, does the code actually matter that much? Assuming the code fulfills the requirement through actual user testing, who cares what the code looks like?"

I have thoughts:
ardalis.com/why-care-abo...

#AI #code #programming
Why Care About Agent Authored Code Quality
If AI can write code a hundred times faster than humans, and AI is going to be maintaining the app too, why should we care about code quality as long as it works? The assembly language analogy is comp...
ardalis.com
June 29, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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ctmurphy1.bsky.social
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
bayesianboy.bsky.social Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · Jun 17
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
June 17, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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charlesreynaart.bsky.social
May 30, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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garyerskine.bsky.social
The hidden arrow in the FedEx logo is design perfection.

Paris Tennis School: Tiens ma bière.
May 23, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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xkcd.com
182.8 Meters

xkcd.com/3248/
Comic. [Person with bun gesturing at informational sign as she talks to person with ponytail, another person, person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat] PERSON WITH BUN: In some places, the bay is more than 182.8 meters deep. [thought bubble above another person’s head] PERSON: *”More than”?* Why would they use that for such a precise... Aha! 100 fathoms! [caption] My hobby: reverse-engineering original units
May 21, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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mtrc.bsky.social
Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.
First, I’d created 2000 free-text responses and labelled them ‘UK’. Then I copied and pasted the exact same 2000 responses but labelled these ‘US’. Finally, I combined them to create a dataset of 4000 total responses, and jumbled them up. Despite the responses being identical for the UK and US, Copilot produced a rich, detailed summary of how US and UK respondents differed.
May 20, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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oregonzoo.bsky.social
We just released 22 endangered turtles back to the wild. Time to shellebrate!

www.oregonzoo.org/news/zoo-par...
Zoo, partners return 22 endangered turtles to the wild
22 northwestern pond turtles reared at the Oregon Zoo have something to shell-ebrate this week.
www.oregonzoo.org
May 19, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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adammc.bsky.social
Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding.

androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...
Leave Me Behind | Android Essence
Simplified Android Development
androidessence.com
May 17, 2026 at 10:50 PM
jeremybytes.bsky.social
Oliver, the bookstore cat, held me hostage when I looked at the books on the lower shelf. Fortunately he gave up after a few minutes, otherwise I might still be there.
Vintage Books, Vancouver WA
#cats #catsofbluesky #books #booksky
A large tabby cat sits on my legs as I sit on the floor of a book shop.
May 8, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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jaunty.art
and also with you
May 4, 2026 at 9:05 AM
jeremybytes.bsky.social
The cats sharing a door mat this morning.
Max is on the left, Zoë on the right.
#cats #catsofbluesky
Two cats sitting on a door mat on an outdoor patio. The cat on the left is a white and orange tabby. The cat on the right is a black and white tuxedo.
April 28, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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wnwagner.bsky.social
A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.
Handwritten note taped to a power pole that reads: if you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means NECESSARY. I ain't giving up. I swear.
April 28, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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jaunty.art
True Story
Panel 1 Man points at hole in ground, asking “What's that?” Another person replies “Oh, that's the pit of overthinking every conversation, fabricating catastrophic scenarios, and repeating easily avoidable past mistakes.” Panel 2 The first person is seen dive bombing into the pit shouting “WHEEEEEEEEEEE!!!” Text box reads “True story.”
May 16, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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dividerdecider.bsky.social
Uniter
Immigrant ally angels hand out clothes to families so they can visit loved ones at ICE Delaney Hall Detention facility in Newark, NJ

These families often don’t know DHS’s strict dress code.

🎥 @andremalok nj.com
#DV1 #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
April 27, 2026 at 2:47 PM
jeremybytes.bsky.social
Still a good car after 18 years. Although the paint is a bit faded, he still cleans up nicely. He's always gotten me to where I need to be. There's still a lot of life left (for both of us).
Side view of a small, red four-door hatchback (2008 Honda Fit Sport).
April 25, 2026 at 4:25 PM
jeremybytes.bsky.social
I've never understood the idea of curling up with a cat and a good book. Max says "No".
#cats #catsofbluesky
White and orange cat sits in front of an open book and looks at the camera threateningly.
April 21, 2026 at 2:53 PM
jeremybytes.bsky.social
Found in my yard today.
#flowers #flowerphotography
Clusters of small, pink, four-petaled flowers.
April 20, 2026 at 9:50 PM