Justin Huff

Justin Huff

@jjhuff.social

Dad. 🏳️‍🌈 Trail/Ultra runner. Software Engineer. Seattle. Currently: https://playful.app Formerly: Picnik, Google, PicMonkey

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Absolutely stellar day out in Olympic National Park. Bonus: randomly running into a friend and a bear sighting!

Human factors at the airport: the normal pre check and touch-less pre check logos look very similar. Predictably, people end up in the wrong line...

5 days of running in Triglav National Park (Slovenia), here I go! This'll be my first time doing Via Ferrata routes, so, there's that.

My friend David was the very last person to get off the waitlist -- the afternoon before the race. Rest up buddy, we have a date in Slovenia in a couple weeks!

WSER 2026: wow, what a race! Total nailbiter -- which isn't something we normally have in ultrarunning. New CRs for men and women. Top 3 men under 14hrs, including OutTrails founder (and freshly minted MBA), Ryan Montgomery. 🏳️‍🌈⛰️🏃 📷: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks

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“And the building shakes in Seattle!” PNSN’s seismic stations captured the crowd response to both Alex Freeman’s goal and the VAR decision overturning the offside call. It’s #USMNT 2 to Australia 0 at half-time. #WorldCup2026 #FIFAWorldCup #SportsSeismology

I love that Seattle shows up with the science!

FIRST GOAL USA! #USMNT is up 1-0 after an Australia own goal off Folarin Balogun's cross. Here's the seismogram of the Seattle Stadium crowd reaction on PNSN's HWK5 station. #WorldCup2026 #FIFAWorldCup #SportsSeismology

Me: "Oh great, this product supports a reverse proxy config so I can deliver nicely integrated urls" .... Product: "Yeah, but you still need to do a DNS-01 challenge for your domain so we can issue a certificate on your behalf" 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

My dislike of Ring doorbells has increased now that my morning dog walk takes me by row houses where the developer installed one on every house. *Every*single*one* tells me "Hi, you're being audio and video recorded"

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Wow. What an evening. I watched a friend and their dog get hit by a car while arriving for a monthly queer trail run that I help with. It looks like human and dog will be okay (for some definition of okay 😕) Also: the queer and trail running community is really amazing. ❤️

I have a Fidelity Charitable account, and I've been generally happy with them...until this shit. I have complained and I'm evaluating alternatives.

Is this the new pink slip? Claude Code error: Failed to authenticate. API Error: 403 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"permission_error","message":"Account is no longer a member of the organization associated with this token."}}

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In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces. 249 years later, we have this idiot.

NYT: "5 Things to Know About the Unusual March Heat Wave in the West" Me (Seattle): *staring at a snowman* Has anyone put together a map of what east coast journalists think our country looks like?

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BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

My favorite use of AI? Making tooling. I've always seen myself as a tool maker. That quick and dirty CLI to drive your API had always paid off in ways I never expected -- and it doesn't need to be precious or "production quality".

It seems like that's been multiplied now because it's quick, easy, and asynchronous. I literally don't care how sloppy it is because it's narrow in scope and infinitely better than *nothing*.

"enterprise" SSO is still a monumental shitshow. (said as I'm trying to recover access to a service after a SAML cert expired)

I would love it if random Democrats would stop texting me from random numbers. I want off whatever list(s) they're working from. Seriously. Makes me not want to contribute.

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Replying to @mekka.mekka-tech.com

When I say that we don't need School Resource Officers in elementary schools arresting 5-year-old Black boys, understand what that means in practice. This isn't sadder when it happens to kids that aren't Black.

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Yeah, I'd be pretty furious if I got spam email from some "AI agent" thanking me for my contributions too I dug into what happened here, turns out it's an experiment called "AI Village" which unleashes all sorts of other junk emails on the world: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/...

simonwillison.netHow Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness”Rob Pike (that Rob Pike) is furious. Here’s a Bluesky link for if you have an account there and a link to it in my thread viewer if you don’t. …
rob pike@robpike.io

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

"A swift water rescue specialist from Texas can use a boat and lifesaving equipment that belongs to a team from Nebraska." And this is why we want a competent federal government.

NPR@npr.org

America's urban search and rescue teams are facing financial and political pressure. But their work has never been more in-demand, as weather disasters get more common. n.pr/4ploDqu

Fond memories of representing @uwcse.bsky.social at ICPC Worlds back in...ahem...2000.

Allen School@uwcse.bsky.social

Congratulations to @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen programming team Jiakrico on their 1st place finish at the @icpc.bsky.social Pacific Northwest Regional Contest earlier this month! Next up: The North America Championship in March. 🎉🏆 Final standings: pnw.na.icpc.global/scoreboard/2...

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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

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After much deliberation and a grueling interview process, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve accepted a new job and will not need any financial support from my parents to cover the high costs of childcare going forward. #AmericanDream #ThisIsYourCity

Just placed my deposit for 7 days of running hut to hut in the Julian Alps. See you in July, Slovenia! A decade ago, my husband and I went on a bike trip in Slovenia and Croatia. While I was a trail runner then, I'm not sure I had any idea what fun adventures I'd be tackling 10 years later.

Heading out to go run my first 100mi race. Wow! It's been a really great training process with LOTS of hours in beautiful areas. Let's goooooo! #trailrunning #ultrarunning