Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
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Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon.
Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves.
* YMMV
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
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Apr 13, 2026
@AdrianRiskin @Ashedryden this was the single worst movie I have ever seen (at 1x speed) 😂
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
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Apr 13, 2026
@Ashedryden Tapeheads! John Cusack and Tim Robbins in a bizarre time capsule, with a self-referential cameo from Jello Biafra.
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
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Apr 12, 2026
@Ashedryden Oscar (Stallone, ensemble cast including Tim Curry). Definitely should be approached as a stage play rather than a movie, but within that context it has SO MANY good lines.
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
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Apr 12, 2026
@coderanger @Ashedryden just the best Vetinari. "Don't let me detain you."
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
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Apr 11, 2026
@grrlscientist extremely plausible, but also extremely [citation needed]
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
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Apr 10, 2026
@nixCraft @cstross that final comparison is grossly unfair. To teenagers. https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116377286633117985
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
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Apr 08, 2026
@maxleibman pretty much every aspect of digital computing boils down to "clever tricks with integers," so I don't think that's a valid dismissal in *all* (still theoretical) cases. But *these* tables of numbers? Yeah, no. Not even a little bit.
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
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Apr 03, 2026
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
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Apr 02, 2026
RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116331940556649057
This thread—or, rather, the code this thread is describing—is just bananapants, clownshoes, barking mad. It is my sincerest hope that any "engineer" who has "contributed" to a project like this be forevermore unemployable in this field.
This thread—or, rather, the code this thread is describing—is just bananapants, clownshoes, barking mad. It is my sincerest hope that any "engineer" who has "contributed" to a project like this be forevermore unemployable in this field.
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
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Mar 14, 2026
@aly yup. For a while there I had two Prusa Minis and it was great to be able to make a smol thing while a big thing was baking. Downsized once I got more into woodworking, though.
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
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Feb 13, 2026
@gknauss 27 years on, I still enjoy it.
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
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Feb 11, 2026
@spry "has retired in order to spend more time with their remaining limbs"
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
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Feb 11, 2026
@V0ldek@awful.systems @cstross@wandering.shop I couldn't even read the whole list after seeing "CNC Programmers" on it. That may not be the most absurd, but the idea of "here's a robot with a sharp blade spinning at high RPM that we're using to make a physical object with extreme precision, so we fired the human who knows how it works to save money and gave it to the hallucination box" makes Willy's Chocolate Experience seem like a warmup. I just hope there's video. Lots of video. Ideally from behind safety glass.
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
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Jan 14, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop just gonna leave this here https://ruby.social/@geeksam/115849196467117199
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Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social
Writes code, not too much, mostly Ruby. Located in sunny* Portland, Oregon. Objectivists will be blocked on sight; libertarians may be tolerated as long as they keep it to themselves. * YMMV
ruby.social
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Dec 31, 2025
@PeteLittle@autistics.life @dwm@mastodon.social @losttourist@social.chatty.monster @cstross@wandering.shop @tek@freeradical.zone humans: this scary alien has TWO MOUTHS and ACID FOR BLOOD and will LAY ITS EGGS IN YOUR BODY
aliens: they eat marmite, full stop
aliens: they eat marmite, full stop
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