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Brett Kosinski

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By day I'm a software product manager. By night I'm a programmer, knitter, skier, cyclist, cook, guitarist(ish), and a dozen other things besides. He/him.

2024 Enbridge Tour Alberta for Cancer Campaign: https://support.touralbertaforcancer.ca/fundraiser/4834510

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Joined November 21, 2022

Blog:

https://b-ark.ca

Code:

https://github.com/fancypantalons

Knitting:

https://www.ravelry.com/people/fancypantalons

Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/brettk.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy

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Brett Kosinski @brettk@indieweb.social · Jul 31, 2026

Brett Kosinski

@brettk@indieweb.social

By day I'm a software product manager. By night I'm a programmer, knitter, skier, cyclist, cook, guitarist(ish), and a dozen other things besides. He/him. 2024 Enbridge Tour Alberta for Cancer Campaign: https://support.touralbertaforcancer.ca/fundraiser/4834510

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Huh, TIL tent caterpillars will colonize #haskap bushes. Cut out two nests in each of my two apple trees and one in the bushes. Fun! #gardening #alberta #yeg

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Brett Kosinski @brettk@indieweb.social · Jul 04, 2026

Brett Kosinski

@brettk@indieweb.social

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Replying to @frameadvance@mastodon.social

@frameadvance@mastodon.social Fantastic work! I see nothing amateurish about it. With the core principles down (mainly the heel turn and gusset) you're set!

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Brett Kosinski @brettk@indieweb.social · Jun 15, 2026

Brett Kosinski

@brettk@indieweb.social

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Replying to @brainofdane@hachyderm.io

@brainofdane@hachyderm.io Cut em into shorter pieces, use spray glue to bond edge-to-edge to make a square, then knit/crochet/sew a cover and make it a pillow?

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Brett Kosinski @brettk@indieweb.social · Jan 29, 2025

Brett Kosinski

@brettk@indieweb.social

indieweb.social

Replying to @econads@mendeddrum.org

@econads@mendeddrum.org @timnitGebru@dair-community.social That particular trope centered around copyleft (e.g. GPL) vs other OSS licenses, both more or less permissive (MIT, BSD, Apache, etc). But prior to the AI bubble no one would've suggested "opaque binary blob" as anything other than closed source/proprietary.

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Brett Kosinski @brettk@indieweb.social · Jan 29, 2025

Brett Kosinski

@brettk@indieweb.social

indieweb.social

Replying to @timnitGebru@dair-community.social

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social It's truly amazing that so many in the tech community have come to interpret "I can download this opaque binary blob and run it myself by cannot modify it" as "open source", when that used to quite literally be the definition of proprietary, closed code. At some point it seems "open source" just became code for "downloadable for free". I have no idea when or how that happened but it's a damn shame. Personally I blame an entire generation of technologists who grew up with SaaS.

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Brett Kosinski @brettk@indieweb.social · Dec 04, 2022

Brett Kosinski

@brettk@indieweb.social

indieweb.social

Replying to @tchambers@indieweb.social

@tchambers @stokel I explicitly chose *not* to delete my account because I wanted to direct folks here. I.e. I updated my profile with my masto account, pinned a tweet saying I'd moved, and then locked my profile. So I wouldn't be counted in this article despite no longer using Twitter. I'd love to measure relative use on the platforms but that's a lot more difficult. Maybe take a good sized representative sample of accounts and dig into their activity?

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