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📚 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 📚 🚀 𝗗𝗘𝗩 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 🚀 ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ🍰🍔🍕 ₍₍⚞(˶>ᗜ<˶)⚟⁾⁾ “ᴀ ꜱᴍᴏᴏᴛʜ ꜱᴇᴀ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ᴀ ꜱᴋɪʟʟᴇᴅ ꜱᴀɪʟᴏʀ” – ꜰʀᴀɴᴋʟɪɴ ᴅ. ʀᴏᴏꜱᴇᴠᴇʟᴛ
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United States
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🎓 Master’s in Software Engineering 🎓
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☕ Open-Source Contributor for Forem and Virtual Coffee ☕
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• Jun 22
Hello 👋
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Bangalore
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B.M.S College of Engineering
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• Jun 22
🌌 I N F I N I T E 🌌 C U R I O S I T Y 🌌
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Chicagoland
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Associates in Art, Bachelors in Nutrition and Dietetics, Bachelors in Computer Science (pursuing)
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Artist, Web Developer, IT Support
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• Jun 26
Hello 👋
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Bangalore
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B.M.S College of Engineering
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• Jun 26
Lolol
🌌 I N F I N I T E 🌌 C U R I O S I T Y 🌌
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Chicagoland
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Associates in Art, Bachelors in Nutrition and Dietetics, Bachelors in Computer Science (pursuing)
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Artist, Web Developer, IT Support
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• Jun 27
😅
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Why’d you (software engineers) have to go and make things (software development) so complicated…
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Backwoods
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MSc, Royal Holloway University of London
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Product Engineer
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• Jun 24
Yeah, git is much better in Jetbrains IDEs 💯
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A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny.
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NY
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Mount Allison University
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Co-founder at Forem
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Dec 27, 2015
• Jun 22
Today’s AI comedy showdown based on the joke from the cover
Gemini
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A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny.
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NY
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Mount Allison University
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Co-founder at Forem
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• Jun 22
These are both way too busy
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I’m an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century. These days I do more software architecture and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
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Scotland
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Something something cybernetics
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General-purpose software person
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• Jun 23
AI’s obsession with giving people react-video-youtube-thumbnail expressions for everything is exhausting.
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Building jugeni. LLM mechanics · forensic watermarking · operator discipline · Polish-tech multidomain.
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Poland
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Pronounced ju-geh-nee.
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• Jun 22
“Rented time with a goldfish in a server room” is the cleanest version of the problem I’ve seen this week. Long conversations don’t have memory; they have a context window. Memory is what the operator keeps in a file the goldfish can read on day 428 — not because the goldfish remembered, but because the bowl was emptied and refilled with what still mattered. The shape that survives session reset is the shape you wrote down somewhere the bowl can’t reach.
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Why’d you (software engineers) have to go and make things (software development) so complicated…
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Backwoods
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MSc, Royal Holloway University of London
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Product Engineer
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Feb 10, 2018
• Jun 24
Always makes me cringe indeed, that’s a great anxiety producer, have no idea how people deal with it, maybe with some funny fullscreen stickers or such…
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A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny.
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NY
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Mount Allison University
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Co-founder at Forem
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• Jun 22
Pretty much
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Blog: https://blog.but.gay Mastodon: @[email protected] Pronouns: en.pronouns.page/@darkwiiplayer
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• Jun 23
I think the secret to success is learn regex with Lua; its patterns just aren’t powerful enough to do everything, so you just get used to mixing them with loops and conditions rather than trying to be smart from the beginning.
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𝐀 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦🌃 𝐇𝐞𝐲! 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢 🦄🍭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐩 🔮
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INDIA Rajasthan kota
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Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science and Engineering IIT Bombay (2024)
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Microsoft
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• Jun 22
Senior software engineer building and analyzing backend systems with a focus on architecture and performance.
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Czech Republic
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Brno University of Technology
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Senior Software Engineer
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• Jun 23
Only if you give me your phone, so I can call you when I remember my best argument at 2am on Sunday
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Senior software engineer building and analyzing backend systems with a focus on architecture and performance.
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Czech Republic
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Brno University of Technology
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he/him
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Senior Software Engineer
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Dec 18, 2025
• Jun 24
I would, but I don’t have a phone. Really, trust me. 🤣
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