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Josh Vlk
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Dad of 2, software developer, functional programming enthusiast, PC gamer, and very into Pathfinder.

Contributor to @rescript-lang.org.
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Josh Vlk @vlkpack.com · Apr 20
I spent the past 3 days in Vienna at the @rescript-lang.org contributors retreat and we've got some awesome stuff shipping very soon!

Tldr; AI ♥️ ReScript
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nick-tune.me
LLM: this code is special it's impossible to test. I need to exclude it from the coverage reports.

Me: No, it's not.

LLM: You're right, I agree. I'll write those tests now.
September 9, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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nick-tune.me
Now I have the full picture. Wait, let me check....

Now I have the full picture. Wait, let me check....

Now I have the full picture. Wait, let me check....

Now I have the full picture. Wait, let me check....

Now I have the full picture. Wait, let me check....

Now I have the full picture...
September 7, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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paizo.com
It's never too late to learn something new! NOW THROUGH TOMORROW, get $10 off our new Beginner Box, Pathfinder Game Night: Dawn of the Frogs, AND Starfinder Game Night: Murder in Metal City to begin your journeys in Pathfinder and Starfinder!

Start gaming: https://bit.ly/3R6IjlT
The image is of a dark blue gradient background with Starfinder gear across the bottom. Starting in the middle at the top is text that reads, "New Semester | New Campaign, 10% Off Of 1, 15% OFF Of 2, 20% Off Of 3+, All Physical SF2E and PF2E Adventures & Adventure Paths."
September 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
vlkpack.com
That's weirdly correct! I lived in Portland for over 10 years, and now I'm in the Boston area.
September 4, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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cmgriffing.bsky.social
Wake up! The new node_modules visualization just dropped
August 31, 2026 at 8:35 PM
vlkpack.com
I'm starting a new job on Monday and it'll be my first time working with Next.js. Any tips? I'll be focusing a lot on performance and build times.
August 28, 2026 at 2:04 PM
vlkpack.com
How did I miss this? I've been wanting to make a journaling app and this will be perfect!

docs.deno.com/runtime/desk...
Desktop apps
Build self-contained desktop applications from a Deno project, with framework auto-detection, hot reload, native windowing, auto-update, and cross-platform distribution.
docs.deno.com
August 28, 2026 at 2:03 PM
vlkpack.com
Death to the barrel files!
webpro.nl Lars @webpro.nl · 19d
❌🛢️ unbarrelify v1.1.4 is out

Fully automated cleanup: unbarrelify rewrites consumers to import directly from source, then deletes the barrel files.

Why? Read more at github.com/webpro-nl/un...

Trust me, you don't want to do this by hand and your agent will screw up and bill you nonetheless.

👇
August 28, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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witchytq.bsky.social
TWITCH AI TRAINING IS LIVE - ON BY DEFAULT

here's how to turn it off:
- settings
- security and privacy
twitch ai training "training for generative ai" consent screenshot
August 12, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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Anthropeum.com · Aug 7 2026
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65,571 · top 31% of players today!
Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
Anthropeum.com
August 6, 2026 at 11:22 PM
vlkpack.com
Downplay a book or movie:
The One Tower
ionchy.ca ionchy @ionchy.ca · Aug 3
Downplay a book or movie:
Inclination (2026)
noncommutativity.bsky.social the curse of nnortality @noncommutativity.bsky.social · Aug 3
Downplay a book or movie:

Scott Pilgrim vs. Some People
August 3, 2026 at 5:32 PM
vlkpack.com
This is how fines should work for trillion dollar companies.

"Lawyers for xAI argued that the law violates First Amendment protections and said the penalties are too steep, potentially costing a business whose users created 100,000 prohibited images “an eye-popping $50 billion dollars.”"
lorak.bsky.social Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · Jul 29
SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...
Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over law to ban 'nudify' apps
Elon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX, is challenging a law that would ban so-called nudify apps in Minnesota
www.cnbc.com
July 29, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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edzitron.com
You're damn right
www.wheresyoured.at/the-openai-b...
Anyway, for Oracle to make all the rest of that money, it will have to build five more Stargate Abilenes. If you’re wondering how that’s going, Stargate Shackelford only broke ground in December 2025, Stargate Wisconsin appeared to have a single steam beam in March, Stargate Michigan only got its first steel beams two months ago, and Stargate New Mexico is still waiting for permitting to begin construction. Based on Lancium’s presentation and discussions with sources familiar, Oracle will pull in somewhere in the region of $10 billion in annual revenue from the (assuming it’s ever done), completely-finished 824MW of critical IT infrastructure at Stargate Abilene. It is unclear how Oracle hopes to be paid even a fraction of its $300 billion compute deal, because in its current state, its annual revenue from Stargate projects currently sits in the region of a maximum $5 billion a year, or less than a tenth of its FY2026 capex. For the most part, Oracle has funded the various Stargate data centers with project financing, meaning that a nebulous SPV will be responsible in the event it defaults on any of these contracts…until Stargate Michigan, which only closed when Oracle agreed to guarantee the $14 billion in bonds raised. All of this revenue — both theoretical and otherwise — sits in Oracle’s “Cloud” segment, the only part of the business that’s actually growing, as the rest of its business has either been declining or plateauing for about a decade. In any case, for Oracle to actually get paid its $300 billion, it will have to build upwards of 6GW of data center capacity…in a year and a half? This deal is meant to be worth in the higher range of tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue by FY2028, which begins on June 1 2027! Stargate is horribly, impossibly delayed, to a level that makes me wonder if anybody other than perhaps Anissa Gardizy has bothered to think about Stargate for even a fucking second. Anyway, Oracle’s entire future rides on this deal.… To be clear, Ellison has around 1.16 billion Oracle shares, leaving him with around 810 million or so left, allowing him to pledge them as further collateral rather than having to either dump them on the market or dip into his reserves of about $10 billion in cash and $15 billion in Tesla stock, with Ellison historically never selling more than about $4.7 billion in stock. We don’t know the exact scale of terms of his personal loans, but do know that he’s got a shit-ton of them, and that his entire fortune rests on the idea that he never has to sell Oracle stock. That becomes a problem if things drag on with the Warner Bros deal, as he’s also guaranteed $40 billion from the Ellison Trust, effectively barring him from selling or using those shares until the deal clears (and the money from the Middle East arrives to fund the deal). The amount of shares that Ellison has committed has oscillated on a year-by-year basis, sitting at 305 million in both 2018 and 2019, rising to 317 million in both 2020 and 2021, dropping to its lowest level in 2024 (217 million) before bumping back up to 346 million in 2025. While the board theoretically keeps an eye on his loans and what he’s pledging, he holds 40% of Oracle’s stock and the undying loyalty of veterans like former CEO Safra Catz and co-CEOs Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia. To get specific about how the Paramount/Warner Bros deal breaks down, $24 billion will be covered by funds from the Middle East (primarily sovereign wealth funds), with Ellison providing $22 billion and bank debt funding the rest. If the deal doesn’t close by September 30, the Ellisons have to pay around $650 million a quarter in fees. If it does, Ellison will likely either have to liquidate his Tesla stock, hand over cash, or take out further margin loans on his Oracle stock to fund it. Those would likely increase the amount of shares he’d have to commit somewhere between 150 million and 300 million (at a loan-to-value of 25% to 50%) at whatever pr…
July 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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kimmymonte.bsky.social kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · Jul 15
your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals
July 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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Good! I hope Massachusetts does the same, along with every other state!
July 15, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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typescriptlang.org
📣 The moment is here. 📣

TypeScript 7 is officially released! 7️⃣

devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...
Announcing TypeScript 7.0 - TypeScript
Today we are proud to announce the availability of TypeScript 7, a 10x faster native port of TypeScript! Since its early days, TypeScript has promised to
devblogs.microsoft.com
July 8, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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sachagreif.com
The 2026 State of Devs survey is now open.

This survey's goal is to take the pulse of the developer community regarding things like career, workplace issues, and mental and physical health, and I think it's more important than ever right now!

survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...
State of Devs 2026
Take the State of Devs survey
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July 7, 2026 at 2:23 AM
vlkpack.com
I'm running the Pathfinder 2E beginner box on Foundry through @startplaying.bsky.social tomorrow night! I have 3 seats still open!
Join Learn Pathfinder 2E! Beginner Box - Foundry VTT / Discord - Pathfinder 2e | StartPlaying Games
Are you curious about Pathfinder Second Edition? Do you want to test out the waters of "Mathfinder"? Do you like big numbers and a system that has a rule for just about everything? Come learn the bas...
startplaying.games
June 28, 2026 at 3:23 PM
vlkpack.com
@zed.dev continues to get better every day! I love the worktree picket and the ability to quickly create a new agent thread in an existing worktree, or to create a new worktree.

I'm experimenting with planning in one thread and worktree and then passing off implementation while I continue to plan.
June 26, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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paizo.com
Get ready for Free RPG Day next Saturday, June 27th! Support your FLGS next weekend by stopping by and playing our two new adventures, Starfinder: Rescue on Raxil and Pathfinder: Things Go To Hell!

Read the blog: buff.ly/fJsbkyn
June 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM
vlkpack.com
This is magnificent! I've been reading the Foundation books and it's such a strong series. I'm on Foundation's Edge now, and it's cool to see the changes in Asimov's style 40 years after the the first book.

He was always a great writer, but his prose aged like fine wine.
michaelwhelan.bsky.social Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · Jun 19
HARI (1985)
Acrylic on Canvas - 32” x 20”

Hari Seldon, the benevolent grand architect of the next millennium is seen here against the splendor of Trantor at the height of its power. It is a world completely sheathed in metal: one gigantic city that is the hub and nerve center of the Empire. 1/5
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An elderly man bound in a wheelchair sits with eyes cast to the sky. The white satin blanket trimmed in gold and decorated with stars and planets covers his legs. Visibly beneath it, his feet are set awkwardly askew, not firmly on the ground. Beneath a white suit jacket with a raven pinned to the lapel, he wears a black mock turtleneck with diagonal stripes on the collar. He looks stately as his arms are crossed and he props a vibrant red book in his lap. Beyond the platform where he sits, the planet has been transformed into a mechanized, futuristic city as far as the eye can see. Rendered in purples and blues, surface entirely metal. Topped by saucers of various styles, towers extend to a sky rendered upward in a gradient from pink to peach.
June 19, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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And here it is with most of the supports removed.

"A warsworn is an animate mass of corpses composed of dozens, sometimes even hundreds, of victims of battle."
June 17, 2026 at 1:43 AM
vlkpack.com
One of the greatest feelings is waking up to a successful 3D print that took 9 hours over night.
June 16, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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dbushell.com
reading: AI Economics for Dummies

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

I'll think of this every time someone tells me I'm being "left behind". Enjoy shovelling mule shit :)
AI Economics for Dummies
“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...
www.mcsweeneys.net
June 13, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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zeu.dev
i thought they meant fable the video game
June 13, 2026 at 8:44 AM