Mark Bennett (he/him) 🏳️🌈🧑🏻💻🏃🏻🍁
@markbennett
Dad, programmer, and runner. Aspiring swimmer and French speaker. I live in Edmonton, Canada. Married to @mattwoodley.bluesky.social
📍 Analog Banff Cafe · 419 Banff Avenue, Downtown District ★★★★★ Up early for a coffee before we go skiing. Perfect Americano. https://beaconbits.app/beacon/b2mcbcamkwyznc5fkplwlxbf/3mhkzgy5bxk2c #BeaconBits
📍 The Columbian Cafe · Edmonton, Alberta, CA ★★★★★ Stuck in traffic so stopped for a cappuccino at my favourite coffee shop. ☕️ https://beaconbits.app/beacon/b2mcbcamkwyznc5fkplwlxbf/3mfjyik6jx22t #BeaconBits
About 80% through and fully obsessed right now. Anyone else read these? So much fun. The world is so unique and imaginative.
When you just want to enable the Gemini 3 models for Copilot but @github.com is having none of it! 😔
Learning to draw and finally starting to see some progress.
Is anyone else noticing a tonne of spam notifications on @github.com in the last few days? The spam issues don't show up in my "GitHub Inbox" though they still show in the notification count. This is very annoying as it makes staying on top of GH notifications challenging. #workflow #github
I’ve now got @baselinebot.bsky.social running nightly and posting new features. Now I just need some new features to get published so I can confirm it’s all working! Also, Deno Deploy has been great so far. Thanks @deno.land!
Some morning music 🎶 💖 music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Hmm, looks like the first run with the @baselinebot.bsky.social cronjob didn’t work. Will take a look and see what’s up tomorrow!
Alright, the cronjob is scheduled to run for the first time tonight! Will see what it does!
Just found out that the Edmonton Transit Riders Union is on Bluesky! 🚌🚊🚴 Follow them at @etriders.bsky.social #yeg
Hard to see in this photo but a heart warming moment this morning. Busy commuters going downtown stopped to let a pair of geese cross the road. 🪿❤️🚗 #yeg
Just whipped up some blondies to bring to the kids school. We got some mini-eggs on sale after Easter and used them to decorate! 🥚🐰🌷 preppykitchen.com/blondie-reci...
I feel like Duolingo is calling me out here! 😂🦉
Lynxjs seems to be working as advertised! Quickstart was painless. Will need to build a real app to get a better understanding how it works though.
No complaints about this weather. So nice out the dog and I had to go for a walk! ☀️ #yeg
Just signed up for the 2,000 push up challenge. Help support Canadians’ mental health and join or donate now too! www.thepushupchallenge.ca/fundraisers/markbennett311/the-push-up-challenge HT to @basicappleguy.com for letting me know it was going on! #yeg #canada #mentalhealth
I’m fully engrossed with Monument Valley right now. The art style and soundtrack just sucks me right in, and the puzzles are fun and creative to solve. Worth trying over the holidays for sure. apps.apple.com/app/id645006...
Someone is having fun with these completion screens. Got this one this morning. I’m calling it a, “Duocorn” and it is my new favourite.
Just got me Duolingo year in review! I’m top 2% with a 318 day streak and 2697 minutes spent learning. Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch! 🇩🇪
10 things I’m into: • My husband and kids 👨❤️👨👦🏻🧒🏼 • Cooking 🧑🏻🍳 • Running 🏃🏻 • Swimming 🏊🏻♂️ • Reading (Sci-Fi, programming and a little 🔥) 🤓 • Trying new food 🍔🍱🍝 • Travelling ✈️🏖️ • Learning French & German 🇫🇷🇩🇪 • Sitcoms (Schitt’s Creek Forever!) 📺 • Science & Tech 🧪
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #454,872!
Ok JS devs, does anyone know if there's a way to get `yarn outdated` to only show major package updates? (These are the red updates that usually have breaking changes.) Everything I'm finding suggests manual review is only way! It's not even in the JSON output. #javascript #typescript #node #npm
Excited to see a new version of this fantastic JavaScript book. Many years ago I remember it was one of the first books to really help me understand how to think about programming in JS, so glad to see it’s still going strong. And still free online! 👍🏻 eloquentjavascript.net
The CRA (Canada Revenue Agency), which is part of the Government of Canada that collects taxes, has been kicked off Twitter and had their account suspended on FB multiple times. They’ve even had tweets deleted! Time to try Bluesky? www.cbc.ca/news/investi...