Colin Dean

@colindean
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Bon vivant, scholar, champion of the oppressed. Software engineer and community builder. My words are my own. Quotes and boosts are not necessarily my views, but something I want followers to see. Soms toot ik in Nederlands.
Websitehttps://cad.cx
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RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war?

RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition

PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!

Rule number three of cat ownership:

The cat always uses the litter box minutes after you completely replace the litter.

With this weekend's snowstorm causing our FIRST EVER weather-cancelled #BuildNight—and the first announced-then-canceled BN in 3 years…

The February 23 event will be our FIRST BUILD NIGHT OF 2026! 6 pm at Avenu on Meyran Ave in #Oakland #Pittsburgh.

Come build some cool stuff with us.

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/pittsburgh-code-supply/events/313088637/

#software #softwareengineering #design #indieweb

Build Night, Mon, Feb 23, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Let's get together and build some awesome stuff with code. We'll hold an impromptu co-working space where you can work on a project, pair, learn, and mingle. You can hack o

Meetup
Architecture: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | LEGO® Ideas

This is a 1:1000 scale architecture model of downtown Pittsburgh and the three riversWith this model, I have set out to capture the spirit of this amazing city …

Not at #FOSDEM, but I am excited to see this talk from @vladh on identifying binary packages! This is the more difficult part of PEP 770, especially as a general solution:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7NQJNU-binary_dependencies_identifying_the_hidden_packages_we_all_depend_on/

FOSDEM 2026 - Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On

The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management

System package managers and language package managers are solving different problems that happen to overlap in the middle.

Andrew Nesbitt
The Sticker Standard has been updated to allow for conforming stickers at integer (sub-)multiples of the default sizes. The published pages also picked up 7 years of Bikeshed updates.

https://sticker.how/
Stickers Standard

Wow…so after #America 🇺🇸 forced #Tiktok to sell the “American side” to #Oracle & friends, TikTok now bans mentioning #Epstein on its platform.

👉🏾 BREAKING: After Trump's allies took over TikTok this week, any mention of "Epstein" in DMs are not permitted. Here's proof. Anyone else is free to try it. https://x.com/krassenstein/status/2015911471507530219?s=61

Yet another reason to have an alternative to centralized social media platforms (like #Peertube, #Loops, or even #WordPress video) on the #Fediverse.

Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) on X

BREAKING: After Trump's allies took over TikTok this week, any mention of "Epstein" in DMs are not permitted. Here's proof. Anyone else is free to try it.

X (formerly Twitter)

You'd think that every news report of Trump's dispatch of Tom Homan to Minnesota would prominently remind people that Homan was caught on video taking $50,000 in cash, plainly an intended bribe.

Sadly, you would be wrong. I'm still looking for any mention of it.

Reminder: https://newrepublic.com/post/200788/tom-homan-50k-cash-bribe

Tom Homan Accidentally Makes Crucial Admission on That $50K Cash Bribe

Trump’s border czar was asked on Fox News about accepting a bag full of cash. His answer said it all.

The New Republic

I can't recommend this read enough! Thanks to @susankayequinn and @djwfyi for getting it in my timeline!

"We didn’t even get to the full distribution phase before they freaked out. The mere presence of one dildo at their feet was enough to trigger chemical weapons. That’s how paper-thin their authority is. That’s how little it takes to make them go full riot-cop meltdown mode."

https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation

#resist #minneapolis #minnesota

THE DILDO DISTRIBUTION DELEGATION

The revolution did not arrive with speeches, pamphlets, or a carefully moderated Zoom call about optics.

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