Bressain Dinkelman

Bressain Dinkelman

@bressa.in

Pronounced Bressen 😅. Member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Father of 4. I've been accused of acting my age on occasion. Also post on Mastadon at https://techhub.social/@bressain

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Utah lawmakers can raise taxes with a simple majority. If voters approve Amendment B, citizens who try it through a ballot initiative would need 60%. Under Amendment B, 2018's voter-approved Medicaid expansion would have failed. Amendment B explained: utahpolitics.news/utah-amendme...

utahpolitics.newsUtah lawmakers can raise taxes with a simple majority. Citizens would need 60% under Amendment BAmendment B would have blocked Utah’s 2018 Medicaid expansion

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It is 1000% more likely that your child will be shot at school than they will come home a different gender than they were in the morning.

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1,080 new Utah voters registered Democratic *just last week* 2026 YTD (thru Oct 05) 🔵 DEM +12,504 (+5.0%) 🔴 REP -8,109 (-0.9%) 🟣 UNA +17,335 (+3.5%) 2026 is the first year on record in Utah where DEMS have outregistered REPS (never happened going back 12 years)

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Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

'oh so you want china to beat us' bro what the hell do i care leave me to the humble life i am trying to build for myself

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🎉 Introducing npmchart.com Analyze npm packages (downloads, releases), Github activity (releases, stars, commits, issues, PRs), compare packages, user pages, download or copy any charts, and more!

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There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.

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🚨 OCTOBER 17 — NO KINGS: VOTE EARLY! With our democracy at stake, we're showing up again to promote unprecedented voter participation in the midterms. Our goal is to translate the historic protest power of No Kings mobilizations into a massive wave of voter turnout.

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The best HR training I ever attended was led by an ex-Marine. I was the only non-man in the room. We watched the video demonstrating sexual harassment. A young guy piped up, “I just don’t see what the big deal is.” The ex-Marine never raised his voice. He didn’t need to.

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Twitter died a long time ago and X isn't worth it. Before I made the jump, my ego was holding me back. I was too concerned with vanity metrics. I finally realized if you're posting stuff people want to follow, then they'll follow you, even when you leave. www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/k...

siliconrepublic.comOpen-source champion Kelsey Hightower on the promise of BlueskyAnn O’Dea spoke to US software engineer and open-source champion Kelsey Hightower about the promise of the AT protocol.

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I asked my daughter Beth: how do we get the AI excited about writing tests? "First it needs an endocrine system." The model has no enthusiasm of its own. What exists is us plus the genie. The caring part is still ours.

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One thing I am hearing that is top of mind for many eng leaders "What are we doing to deal with this ongoing increase in code review load?!" Everyone is seeing it, no one seeing a solution, but lots of experiments from better tooling to starting to admit code review wont scale

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Potentially unpopular opinion but I feel like too many products are coming out that are already existing words. We need to make up words more! Make your app become a verb someday! Make it easy for me to look up because it's a little weird! Get the dot com domain name early!

I'm getting tired of tech being broken. I need to do a transfer with my bank: the transfer tool doesn't work. I've been asked to sign a thing in an HR app: the submit button does nothing. It's easy to blame AI (tbh, it's a likely reason), but damn folks, test your stuff before releasing things.

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Memorial Day 2026 vs. last year 🇺🇸 ⛽ Gas: +41% (four-year high) ✈️ Airfare: +20.7% (YoY... but holiday tickets booked early are ~6% CHEAPER) 🐄 Beef: +16% 🍅 Tomatoes: +40% ☕ Coffee: +18% 🌭 Hot dogs: +11% 🏨 Hotels: +4.3% 🥚 Eggs: −39% 🍗 Chicken: −1.8%

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More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a lot from over the years feel like they are speaking into a void, to the point where they are losing motivation to continue making content, which got me to write my first post on my site in over a year... www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell...

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Heartbreaking. And a wake-up call. It is no longer about being difficult to find a way to sustain yourself through your work online. It is no longer sustainable to keep a website up now. Axel has done so much for the web and all of us. Buy one of his books if you can. We've learned so much from him.

1/ I’m still processing what’s going on in tech at the moment. I used to feel at home in that world. It used to feel incredibly creative and positive. Now it’s increasingly full of bugs, dark addicting patterns and AI slop. 2ality.com

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Why does AI suck at front-end? 🗑️ trained on garbage 👀 it can't see ❓ it doesn't know why 🏞️ no environmental control there's no human v20.2.1 to target. we're a LLM combinatorial explosion ⤷ nerdy.dev/why-ai-sucks...

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Attacking civilian infrastructure is barred by the Geneva Conventions, but Trump said he was “not at all” concerned about committing war crimes.

Saw the new Super Mario movie today with the fam. Not as good as the first one but I still enjoyed it. Very much a fan service film that tickles this guy who was raised on the game series.

LLMs are pretty great at emulating what it sees in the code base. If what it sees are confusing or inconsistent patterns or difficult ways to test or run things, its results are going to be sub-par. DX and code cleanliness still matter.

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In honor of Rep. Trevor Lee going 0 and 12 for bills during the 2026 Legislature, I have composed this haiku: Twelve bills, all dead now Even your party said no Ha ha, I can't breathe

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Agentic engineering is driving the cost of code to zero but the cost of good taste and product sense is going to go sky-high.

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UPDATE: The Davis County Clerk says they've finished counting packets and there are enough signatures to put SD7 over the threshold by 48 — AS OF NOW. There are still removals to be processed and whatever changes come from the secondary review of those rejected signatures.

Robert Gehrke@robertgehrke.bsky.social

WILDEST finish to Prop 4 repeal! GOP-led repeal group has met the statewide mark & qualified in 25 of 26 required Senate districts. But they're 8 sigs shy in SD7. Davis clerk says he has THREE packets left and "a pretty good bunch" of removal forms. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...