Everyone with a stake in a software system should have the right to understandable answers for their questions about the (inside of the) system.

gm, i finished the 12th and final volume of histories of middle earth

Have very much been enjoying Shining Pearl, all of the nostalgia plus the good features of the modern games (much easier to manage TMs & HMs)

I like Bluesky because my feed on every account is almost all @goose.art

lots of books by jrr Tolkien

shelfie

Followed, im emotionally invested in the glove now

🛑 Stop!

Pasta check

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On volume 11 of 12 of the Histories of Middle Earth, The War of the Jewels.

Goal was to read all 12 this year before tackling the Silmarillion then finally rereading LOTR for the first time in over a decade.

cover of the book Morgoth's Ring by Christopher Tolkien, the History of Middle Earth Volume 10. Cover art is the gold and silver trees of Valinor, Morgoth in the form of a black knight and Ungoliant the giant spider stand in front of the trees.

"They have no certainty and no knowledge, only fears, or dreams in the dark," answered Andreth.

"But hope? Hope, that is another matter, of which even the Wise seldom speak."

History of Middle Earth Volume 10 of 12

as you get older it's important to practice falling. throw yourself down some stairs now while you still can

cometsky wen

bangin

welcome to all new bluesky users. please keep in mind that it is still in beta. there are many features still missing, so please be patient. for example, you may notice that this app loads posts and then shows them to you, instead of not doing that for some reason.

betting against yourself never fails because when you lose you win 😤

Most Brilliant Ways Elon Musk Plans To Make Twitter Profitable Elon Musk may have taken on $13 billion in debt to buy Twitter, but with his unparalleled brilliance, he’ll earn it back in no time. Here are the most genius ways Elon Musk will make the social medi...

If good old fashioned tax evasion works for his other companies, it’ll work for Twitter.

guess where we’re complaining about it now bitch

small fires everywhere now burning in silence 😔✊

Hopefully will resume soon

whenever im down bad i punch a tree or rock and my trades don't improve but then my hand hurts 👊

moved too fast to the sun and now my rates melted 😔

top tier

Moderation in a Public Commons In this post, we share why we believe a public commons is important for social media, as well as some proposals for moderation and safety tooling.

We believe that a public commons is important for social media. These proposals for moderation and safety tooling have been in the works for a while, and we’re excited to share them for community discussion and feedback with you now.

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hbd 🎈 🌭 👊

Sauron Defeated, #9 out of 12 Histories of Middle Earth and the 4th volume of the History of the Lord of the Rings

Speaking of bad ideas that will not die, the EARN IT Act is back. It's still bad and it still wants to scan all of your messages. act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-i...

I was debugging a slow PostgreSQL query in my BSky database today and learned something new about DB Query Planning that sped up my slow query by ~207x .

tl:dr; Run ANALYZE on your tables if you are under-estimating cost.

You can read about it here - https://jazco.dev/2023/05/20/postgres-analyze/

we up here 🪁

It was soooo nice! After I played an $8000 prs custom but they wouldn't let me take a picture 👀

the deepest, softest wood - the tuning pegs were wood too which I've never seen before!

guitar felt super nice but sound was = off the shelf prs (imo) but v cool to try