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Lindsay Wardell
@lindsaykwardell.com
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I'm a programmer and writer who loves to learn about the world. Engineering Manager @ Mangomint. I enjoy talking about code, writing, photography, and life. Falo portugués. Married to @rmwardell.bsky.social

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gretchenmcculloch.com
This quiz sees me.
jessesword.com Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 2d
Attention everyone I know!

Perfectly accurate, no notes.

(Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)
Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."
October 1, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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tomvanantwerp.com
The first thing people say to me when I tell them about the existence of Flock is, "But don't we want to catch people speeding?" Then I have to explain that these aren't traffic cameras and they aren't used to catch speeders.

This is a better explanation of the difference than I've ever managed.
These things are automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, a technology that works quite differently from traffic cameras (which only take photos of vehicles that commit moving violations) or CCTV security cameras (which don’t generate searchable data)—ALPRs indiscriminately record every vehicle that passes them and use AI to create a database of their movements over time. In other words, if traffic camera data tells us “a Honda ran this red light,” an ALPR says “oh, that Honda? I know her. She lives in Carlyle but her boyfriend lives in Van Dorn, she stays at his place every Friday. Also he’s cheating on her.”
September 18, 2026 at 1:23 PM
lindsaykwardell.com
New AI gore: Pictures of plates of pretzels.

I didn't realize pretzels were a moebius strip/gordion knot of dough with salt on it.
An AI generated "drawing" of pretzels, but the pretzels themselves are all odd shapes and strangely connected to each other. An AI generated "photo" of pretzels in a bowl, but all of the pretzels are basically connected to each other more like a maze or really long line of spaghetti than individual food items.
September 6, 2026 at 11:51 PM
lindsaykwardell.com
My wife writes about uplifting media on Substack and you should all go read it. Here's the latest one:

rmwardell.substack.com/p/why-are-we...
Why Are We Here?
A recommendation for: “The Last Gifts of the Universe” by Riley August
rmwardell.substack.com
September 5, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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xkcd.com
Trade

xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
September 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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tomvanantwerp.com
When's the last time Twitch chat got you a statue? How long since the Patreon members erected you a monument? What have your Substack readers done for you lately?
Statue of Alexander and Bucephalus "Presented to the city by the subscribers."
August 11, 2026 at 12:44 PM
lindsaykwardell.com
For the Love of Language

I love studying languages. Learning a new language takes time, and sometimes we assume we should be better at it. But learning to communicate with new groups helps us to understand and connect with the people around us.
For the Love of Language
I love studying languages. Learning a new language takes time, and sometimes we assume we should be better at it. But learning to communicate with new groups helps us to understand and connect with the people around us.
lindsaykwardell.com
August 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
Be a Samwise Gamgee. Support your friends, trust your instincts, be humble, lead with your heart, love potatoes, don't let one little spider ruin your day
August 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
Well I can die happy now
July 31, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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thestorygraph.com
We’re thrilled to announce that StoryGraph and Kobo have partnered to bring you a seamless reading experience! 🥳

After syncing your accounts, your Kobo progress will update automatically to StoryGraph. Head to your Kobo account settings to start syncing your sessions today! ✨
Graphic announcing the Rakuten Kobo and The StoryGraph partnership. Text reads: “The partnership you were waiting for is live!” Below, a Kobo eReader, laptop, and smartphone displaying The StoryGraph reading stats sit on a wooden desk. Photo of a person holding a smartphone displaying an ebook beside a laptop showing The StoryGraph reading stats. Text reads: “Read on Kobo. Track on StoryGraph. Your reading progress now syncs automatically.” Instructional graphic with the heading “Ready to sync?” Text reads: “Go to kobo.com > My Account > Integrations.” A screenshot of the Kobo account menu highlights the “Integrations” option with a hand-drawn red outline. Closing graphic featuring the Rakuten Kobo and The StoryGraph logos. Text reads: “Want to learn more? Discover FAQs at kobo.com/storygraph.” Three hand-drawn red arrows point toward the FAQ link.
June 29, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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davidbisset.com
Why I 🧡 the web:

TinyWind is a "pixel pirate sailing game" with real wind physics. Even has a leaderboard.

tinywind.io

#games #pirates #javascript
Tinywind — Pixel Pirate Sailing Game
Outsail the Royal Navy in your browser. Real sailing physics, 5-minute voyages, 30 historical treasures to recover. Free to play.
tinywind.io
June 15, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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alixeharrow.bsky.social
9yo and i are keeping a loose tally of the culturally specific body language for telling the ref that you are an innocent man, falsely accused

so far we have ☝️👐🤌🙏 and 🤷
June 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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kyleshevl.in
Saving this for when I have to teach someone this lesson for the hundredth time.
natemoo.re natemoore on elm street 👻 @natemoo.re · Jun 11
babe is everything okay? you've barely touched your five mutually exclusive boolean props that should have been a single enum.
June 12, 2026 at 4:58 AM
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astrokatie.com
Artemis III crew has been announced, with details of the 2-week mission. The plan:

1) Blue Origin lander launches to low Earth orbit
2) Space Launch System w/ Orion capsule & crew launches
3) Orion docks w/ Blue Origin
4) SpaceX Starship launches
5) Orion docks w/ Starship

Launch target: late 2027
June 9, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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webdevs.firefox.com
Chrome shipped an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. Here's why:
May 18, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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fullmoon.id
new blog post incoming
Type out the code Back in the day I read one of Zed Shaw's "Learn X the hard way" courses (I think it was his C++ course) and he began the course with a disclaimer that said something like "do not copy and paste the examples; type them out" because he believed strongly that doing so improved your comprehension of the material. These days he recommends something even stronger: > The best way to do this is when you complete an exercise delete what you did and do it again, but try to use your memory. If you get stuck then look at the exercise for clues, but try your best to recreate what you just did from memory. At first you'll be constantly referring to the exercise and the code, but eventually you'll get to where you can do it on your own. This will also improve your ability to remember more code, your ability to summarize how something works, and generally improve your skills faster than if you did it once and moved on. This is known as the generation effect in cognitive psychology: the active generation of new content improves comprehension compared to passive consumption of the same material. Or as Richard Feynman put it: "What I cannot create, I do not understand". I'm not a researcher, but I would still like to add my own spin as a lay programmer on why I believe this phenomenon matters for improving programming ability, even in the age of agentic coding. In fact, I think it's even more important now than ever for people to reacquaint themselves with this "ancient wisdom" because otherwise we'll end up with an entire generation of programmers wondering how anyone ever programmed without the help of a coding agent. In this post I will lay out the case for why you should do the drudgery of occasionally typing out the code, character-by-character, as best as possible from memory. That doesn't mean that you should never use developer tools of any sort to accelerate the coding process, but you also need to occasionally do the boring parts by hand and by memory
May 16, 2026 at 5:20 PM
lindsaykwardell.com
Does anyone have any ideas on how to identify artist signatures? I have this piece of Magic the Gathering art, but I want to know the artists that contributed.
A custom piece of fantasy art by numerous artists, signed as part of Caravan Tour '95.
May 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
lindsaykwardell.com
New blog post, a brief reflection on my fifteen years of using the same Kindle, and Amazon's decision to no longer support it.

www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/kindle-...

#blog
Kindle: In Memorial
If there's one thing that the Kindle got right, it was made to endure. And endure it did.
www.lindsaykwardell.com
May 10, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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d4m1n.bsky.social
there is only one correct way to redesign GitHub

and this is it
May 3, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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mitsuhiko.at
The post by mitchellh gave me the final push to finish my GitHub "obituary". I originally started writing it after the Zig to Codeberg move. It's just a retelling of how I remember OpenSource pre GitHub and what it gave us. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/be...
Before GitHub
Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction
lucumr.pocoo.org
April 28, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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merriam-webster.com
What word is your spelling nemesis?

This is a safe space.
April 27, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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theverge.com
The RAM shortage could last years
The RAM shortage could last years
Memory makers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027.
buff.ly
April 18, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
"fell for it again" award
Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch — claims of 'thousands' of severe zero-days rely on just 198 manual reviews
Many of the "thousands" of bugs and vulnerabilities it found are in older software, or are impossible to exploit.
www.tomshardware.com
April 12, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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straczynski.bsky.social
Just sharing a few random thoughts in the middle of the night....

jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/everyone-y...
April 12, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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cassidoo.co
Have you seen the new /pulls view on GitHub, yet?

If you opt in to the new experience, your pull requests get WAY more organized, with everything from custom views to collapsible sections to filtering by org and repo.
April 10, 2026 at 6:07 PM