HeyJaredA Perfectly Cromulent Software Engineer
Writing my way out of depression and building tech along the way.
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I don’t know you but I know your dog (opens the original)
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I’ve been walking a lot more recently. Melbourne weather has been good better and I’m finally crawling out of my cave. Hay fever aside, I’m now averaging eight thousand steps a day. Most of that is me walking to and from the dog park. I’ve made some friends along the way.There’s a man I see with two little dogs. One is named Chip and the other is named Fish. Chip and Fish are two little hotdog-shaped dogs with Chip being smaller than Fish. I’ve spoken to and been licked by them both but I can’t
I don't see color, said the person who saw my color. (opens the original)
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Pauline Hanson is gaining a lot of popularity here in Australia. Her platform is pretty much a copy of the current Trump strategy. That is to appeal to the downtrodden who feel slighted by globalization. She appeals to the “whites”. “I will not apologise for being white… I’m sick of hearing about white privilege.”I obviously am not a fan, being a brown person and an immigrant. Where I was originally born, Fiji, is also going through another round of identity and nationalism conversations thanks
It’s much easier to write bad code than it is to exist around bad people. (opens the original)
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I really appreciate those of you that reached out to me. I didn’t think I’d form a relationship with strangers on Substack to the point where we’re sharing WhatsApp and Signal contacts. But I did and I don’t want to close the door on that.There’s always someone saying they left a community because they felt slighted, unsafe, bored or all three. I don’t think I need to reshare my feelings about the platform. Recently, I’ve been putting my head down and focusing purely on a startup I’m involved in
All the Warhammer 40k videos I like to watch online are now being narrated by AI. (opens the original)
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All the Warhammer 40k videos I like to watch online are now being narrated by AI. Here’s the thing:It’s not just narration. It’s the soul of the Emperor’s finest lore — flattened into a voice that has never known fear, never felt the weight of a bolter, never once whispered “for the Emperor” and meant it.And let’s be honest. We need to talk about this.Because in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. But apparently, there is also only synthetic voiceover with a slightly-too-perf
The chapters continue to close (opens the original)
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My uncle died recently. He was my father’s brother and one of the few I actually communicated with. He had a sense of humor that resembled my father’s. I didn’t know him too well, but I’ve come to grips with the realization that I didn’t know my father too well either.I currently hold gigabytes of email conversations and files from my late father. I kept them because, at the time, some of these files were required for a research paper. I also felt like deleting them was deleting more of the memo
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