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aaronbrethorst
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Software generalist, photographer, and occasional runner.

Democracy and transit enthusiast. My day job involves healthcare technology.

OneBusAway: http://onebusaway.org

Email: aaron@brethorsting.com

GitHub: http://github.com/aaronbrethorst

Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/brethorsting.com

Photography: http://www.aaronbrethorstphotography.com

Blog: Photography: http://brethorsting.com


  1. Likewise. I was a dedicated user of Charles for about a decade. It’s great, but if you are a macOS user, Proxyman is better, easier, and more macOS friendly.
  2. What’s the sweet pup’s name?
  3. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that Larry Wall, a devout evangelical Christian and the child of a pastor, was not turning on, tuning in, or dropping out in the 1970s.
  4. I see that How to Win Friends and Influence People is on there. I'm looking forward to the inevitable And Zombies adaptation coming in 2027.
  5. And generation
  6. Friendly reminder that it's often not possible to differentiate snark or sarcasm from cruel indifference towards fellow human beings on Hacker News.
  7. Ah yes, because Jony Ive definitely made iOS better when he was in charge of its look & feel and usability. :-|

    https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-7-interface-design-...

  8. As a 40-something without any noticeable hearing loss, I’d actually be very interested in having Bluetooth ‘earbud’ implants.
  9. I did the same with my mom. Big improvement for her. She’s also subsequently gotten ‘real’ hearing aids and finds them much more fiddly to use than her AirPods Pro. She’s 83, FWIW.
  10. A lot of developers are afraid of referring to themselves in a commit message. I think this is a mistake. Treat a commit like an email accompanying a patch. Explain to the reader (probably you, five years from now!) why you’re making the changes you are in a conversational, but technical tone.
  11. How many monkey JPGs does a digital flat in Dubai cost?
  12. Learn all about it from the guy who ran the office in the last administration!

    https://www.ms.now/msnbc-podcast/msnbc/discussing-explosion-...

  13. Trump received 77.3 million votes. Harris received 75 million votes. The US population is about 342 million.

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