A photo of me wearing a blue blazer and pocket square while on a horse, looking quite dapper.

David Celis

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y’all remember when GitHub actually worked? what a time to be alive! if only they’d spend time on reliability or literally anything useful instead of just Copilot and rewriting their UI in React

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i’m so disappointed that, in 2025, people still choose to go work for places like Amazon, Meta, Google, etc. places that overwhelmingly make the world worse. people who aren’t struggling, who could have their pick of jobs, who are leaders in the community, who i’d otherwise respect. why choose that?

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the news about the assassination of Melissa Hortman and attempted assassination of John Hoffman came as my plane out of Minneapolis was taxiing to the runway. i felt terrified and sick to my stomach for my entire flight. how much more of this can we take?

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finally uninstalled Bartender in favor of Vanilla. i’d been meaning to do it for a while because of how complicated and bloated Bartender has gotten, but this bug that was making my Apple menu open randomly just clinched it for me

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my Blue Yeti randomly died the other day so i finally got a Shure and i just want to reassure y’all that the desire to podcast is still nonexistent

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spilled cold brew coffee all over my white v-neck today but the important thing is that i didn’t crash out (and that i managed to get rid of the stain)

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did some painful math to figure out how to scale up the pizza dough recipe i’ve been using so i can try making them bigger (it’s not just simple geometry) but i did it and now i never have to think about it again 😮‍💨

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shouting this from the rooftops: if you’re a recruiter contacting me on behalf of a company that mostly does AI: my answer is simply “no”.

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