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Ben Schwartz

@lthummus.com

Software developer who works on video game stuff. PAX Enforcer. You might have seen me defuse (fake) bombs. Hairy ball of anxiety. My posts are mine. Perpetually disappointed Seattle sports fan. He | him.

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If you are looking for a character artist, go check out my friend Ky's stuff! They are very cool and very talented

28.02.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The most wild part of this image is that the arrow for time … I mean Tim … is the wrong direction

17.02.2026 06:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

MIGHT AS WELL WIN THE WHOLE FUCKING THING

09.02.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Novels After a Unit Conversion" was A+ missing vowels imo

27.01.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of health test results. COVID-19, Flu A, Flu B, and RSV were all tested for. All tests are negative.

A screenshot of health test results. COVID-19, Flu A, Flu B, and RSV were all tested for. All tests are negative.

I've been sick the last few days and it turns out you can still get the regular cold in 2026.

11.01.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A clip from instructions on how to read the results of the COVID + Flu test. There is a heading showing "Step 7: Read your results" the instructions are

"The reader lights will display your result."

Below that are 5 possible results:

- Green light indicates negative
- Red light indicates COVID positive
- Blu light indicates Flu A positive
- Yellow light indicates Flu B positive
- Purple light indicates an invalid result

A clip from instructions on how to read the results of the COVID + Flu test. There is a heading showing "Step 7: Read your results" the instructions are "The reader lights will display your result." Below that are 5 possible results: - Green light indicates negative - Red light indicates COVID positive - Blu light indicates Flu A positive - Yellow light indicates Flu B positive - Purple light indicates an invalid result

I was looking at the instructions for the new Aptitude Covid + Flu test. I'm no UX designer, but why wouldn't you make Flu B positive a blue light!? BLUE FOR B IT'S SO SIMPLE

07.01.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Averaging one nap per day in 2026 so far

01.01.2026 22:24 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of the iMessage app on iPhone. The message that is set to send is β€œHappy New Year!” The β€œsend later” feature is enabled and this message is set to be sent at midnight on January 1

A screenshot of the iMessage app on iPhone. The message that is set to send is β€œHappy New Year!” The β€œsend later” feature is enabled and this message is set to be sent at midnight on January 1

Modern problems require modern solutions

01.01.2026 05:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)
Finite Simple Group (of Order Two) YouTube video by kleinfour

This song randomly popped back in to my head. And then I saw it was posted 19 years ago. Anyway, I hope all of these guys are doing great

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bipv...

30.12.2025 00:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - LtHummus/auththingie2: A (NEW!) small, simple authentication layer for home-hosted reverse proxies A (NEW!) small, simple authentication layer for home-hosted reverse proxies - LtHummus/auththingie2

What's the hot way to write and host documentation for open source projects? A project I maintain (github.com/LtHummus/aut...) has grown a bit too large to be completely documented by a README file. Are GitHub wikis still good for this or is there something better?

26.12.2025 22:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of the Google results for the query "sunrise"

The AI overview reads as:

Sunrise is the moment the Sun's upper edge appears on the horizon in the morning. The exact time depends on your location and the time of year. For Port Angeles, WA, the sunrise time for today, Sunday, December 21, 2025, is 3:59:33 pm due to the date being the winter solstice.

Right below the AI summary is the correct answer: 8:01 AM

A screenshot of the Google results for the query "sunrise" The AI overview reads as: Sunrise is the moment the Sun's upper edge appears on the horizon in the morning. The exact time depends on your location and the time of year. For Port Angeles, WA, the sunrise time for today, Sunday, December 21, 2025, is 3:59:33 pm due to the date being the winter solstice. Right below the AI summary is the correct answer: 8:01 AM

Very cool Google. Very nicely done.

21.12.2025 17:06 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thunder Dolphin!!

21.12.2025 14:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œFirst Kraken regulation win since November 20”

πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€

21.12.2025 05:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Football bureaucracy is truly something.

19.12.2025 06:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A photo of a grey cat sitting near a window. The cat has a surprised β€œI just saw a ghost” look on her face

A photo of a grey cat sitting near a window. The cat has a surprised β€œI just saw a ghost” look on her face

A photo of the hockey player Brandon Taney. He has a surprised β€œI just saw a ghost” look on his face.

A photo of the hockey player Brandon Taney. He has a surprised β€œI just saw a ghost” look on his face.

β€œThey’re the same picture”

17.12.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company | The Mozilla Blog Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil

Random hypothesis I just had … the folks most likely to turn of AI features in products are also likely the kind of people to turn off product analytics collection, hiding how many people actually turn off AI features.

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...

16.12.2025 23:51 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

1. C^
2. Clojure*
3. Kotlin*
4. Lua*
5. MATLAB
6. C++
7. F#*
8. Java^
9. Perl^
10. Python
11. Swift
12. Scala

* = I've never used this language before
^ = I haven't used this language in "a long time"

Of all the new ones, I really enjoyed using F# and I might look for an excuse to use it again....

13.12.2025 23:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And that's it for Advent of Code for me. I liked the new length and I thought the difficult level was good. Thanks to @was.tl for putting it together.

This year, I did each day in a new language. I liked this new challenge and I might do it again next year? List of languages in the thread below...

13.12.2025 23:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of an Apple Watch notification from the Zipcar app. The header says

U+1F3C6 Cha-Ching! You’ve unlocked a USD5 Reward

For the avoidance of doubt, the header has the literal string β€œU+1F3C6” and not the emoji it’s supposed to be which is πŸ†

A screenshot of an Apple Watch notification from the Zipcar app. The header says U+1F3C6 Cha-Ching! You’ve unlocked a USD5 Reward For the avoidance of doubt, the header has the literal string β€œU+1F3C6” and not the emoji it’s supposed to be which is πŸ†

Unicode is hard

09.12.2025 02:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I did a PC build about a year ago (November 2024) and I paid $97 for 32 GB of RAM.

I looked at that same RAM kit in the same online store today.

$274

04.12.2025 21:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A popup from IntelliJ telling me that "Long sentences (43 words here) are harder to read, according to the research; consider splitting"

A popup from IntelliJ telling me that "Long sentences (43 words here) are harder to read, according to the research; consider splitting"

Looking over some old Advent of Code in prep for tonight and ... how dare you IntelliJ ... I will keep my run on sentences thank-you-very-much

30.11.2025 16:19 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In somewhat better news, I did have some discs in there that weren't on the Internet Archive (such as CD SCHOOLHOUSE: 146 Educational Shareware games) that I took some time this morning to rip and upload and I've got some more to do

27.11.2025 23:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A burned CD with the label β€œBackup” and the date β€œ7-17-2000”

A burned CD with the label β€œBackup” and the date β€œ7-17-2000”

Never have I been so crushed I couldn’t get a disc to read. What did Ben of 25 years ago find important to back up?

27.11.2025 17:34 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hockey truly is the best sport

16.11.2025 06:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a robot 's helmet with a red light on it Alt: a close up of a cylon robot's helmet with a red light going back and forth

With that fancy LED on the front, we'll have the Cylon Line of Death

12.11.2025 19:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I miss ChuChu Rocket :(

11.11.2025 16:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Senate Dems right now....

10.11.2025 01:50 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What will we get first?

A) budget passed and the government reopened
B) perfectly cut chives

09.11.2025 18:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

https://getowlhome.com/products/owl-wired-combined-smoke-carbon-monoxide-motion-climate-sensor

these look intriguing, but I haven’t tried them. I think my Nest Protects have 5 years left on them, so I’m hoping something good comes along before then…

03.11.2025 02:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

mariners coulda done it

02.11.2025 04:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0