Marshall Bowers

@maxdeviant

宝霞龙. 31. Conjurer of code. Devourer of art. Pursuer of æsthetics. Soli Deo gloria. He/him. Engineering at Zed Industries. maxdeviant.com 🎵 Now Playing: "Poisonous Flowers Of Violence" by White Ward

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Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· 11h

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Phoebe Bridgers with 342 plays
#2: Dayseeker with 14 plays
#3: Ethel Cain with 3 plays
#4: White Ward with 2 plays

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· 2d

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To post like Marshall Bowers (maxdeviant.com) on Bluesky, write a short, direct tech-focused thought or a sharp, no-nonsense critique about software development, tooling, or industry ethics.

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- "spent three hours debugging an issue that turned out to be a single missing comma"
- "the state of modern web tooling is genuinely exhausting sometimes"
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Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· 4d

GitHub having a case of the Mondays...

Screenshot of a GitHub repository file listing showing a warning banner that reads "Cannot retrieve latest commit at this time." with a "27 Commits" link on the right.

The file list contains a `src` folder and the files `.gitignore`, `Cargo.lock`, `Cargo.toml`, `LICENSE`, `README.md`, and `extension.toml`.

The commit message and date columns are shown as empty placeholder bars because the commit data failed to load.

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· 7d

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Sace6 with 38 plays
#2: Blackbraid with 33 plays
#3: Vended with 29 plays
#4: Sleep Token with 15 plays
#5: Bring Me the Horizon with 12 plays

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· 14d

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Charli xcx with 36 plays
#2: Enisum with 16 plays
#3: Blackbraid with 12 plays
#4: Sace6 with 11 plays

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· 17d

Like... what?

A GitHub PR merge confirmation dialog.

It shows the resulting commit message and description.

At the bottom it says "This commit will be authored by finn@zed.dev" above the "Confirm squash and merge" button.

A GitHub commit on the `main` branch that is authored by maxdeviant and pullfrog[bot].

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· 21d

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Charli xcx with 60 plays
#2: Ninajirachi with 21 plays
#3: Nightdive with 12 plays
#4: Mothica with 7 plays
#5: Windwaker with 7 plays

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· 28d

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Gracie Abrams with 93 plays
#2: Bad Omens with 29 plays
#3: Ludwig Göransson with 23 plays
#4: Poppy with 7 plays
#5: Enisum with 6 plays

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· Jul 10

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Sace6 with 48 plays
#2: Wind Walkers with 34 plays
#3: Poppy with 32 plays
#4: Shylmagoghnar with 21 plays
#5: Glass Animals with 5 plays

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· Jul 3

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Tapestry with 36 plays
#2: Sace6 with 34 plays
#3: Wind Walkers with 19 plays
#4: Black Hill with 16 plays
#5: Heklaa with 16 plays

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· Jul 2

A two panel meme from NBC’s The Office, where Pam is being asked to identify the difference between two pictures.

The first panel shows two blank pieces of paper with the text “fasterthanlime” and “ciauqwa” overlaid on top of them. The caption reads “Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture.”

The second panel is a shot of Pam saying “They’re the same picture.”

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· Jul 1

Oh, we are so back!

A screenshot of a tweet from @AnthropicAI on xcancel.com:

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

Jun 30, 2026 · 11:52 PM UTC

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· Jun 26

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· Jun 18

A three panel meme of Pablo Escobar from "Narcos" waiting around and looking sad.

It's captioned with "waiting for Fable to come back".

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· Jun 13

This is the most annoying shit

The stupid banner that pops up on Reddit now.

“Get the app to keep using Reddit.

Search better, personalize your feed, and never miss an update on your favorite communities.

Get the Reddit App”

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· Jun 12

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: 久石譲 with 27 plays
#2: Balance Breach with 14 plays
#3: Marina with 10 plays
#4: Blackbraid with 8 plays
#5: Hollow Front with 8 plays

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· Jun 6

In a bit of a change of pace, I did some work on my art pipeline today. Testing out a way to do palette swaps. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #topd

A screenshot of a window with a dark slate gray background.

There is a heading that reads "palette swaps".

Below the heading are five pixel art axe sprites shown in a row, each a recolored variant of the same axe. From left to right they are labeled: "base" (gray), "ember" (orange/red), "frost" (light blue), "void" (purple), and "gold" (yellow).

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· Jun 5

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Don Broco with 70 plays
#2: Eidola with 25 plays
#3: Gracie Abrams with 20 plays
#4: Blackbraid with 17 plays
#5: Bow Church with 5 plays

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· Jun 3

Rather fitting that a book on “Effective C” has Cthulhu on the front, because by writing C you will be faced with countless eldritch horrors.

The cover of the “Effective C” book from No Starch Press.

It has Cthulhu on the front with a little robot guy reading a book on his shoulder.

“Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming” by Robert C. Seacord

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· May 30

Starting work on instanced dungeon generation today for the eponymous Temple of Poor Decisions. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· May 29

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: The Devil Wears Prada with 42 plays
#2: Dayseeker with 10 plays
#3: Massfear with 9 plays
#4: Bring Me the Horizon with 7 plays
#5: Fit For A King with 7 plays

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· May 29

🦉

“The program is being developed by a who's-who of European cloud and
collaboration vendors, including lonos, Nextcloud, EuroStack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian, BTactic, Open-Xchange, and Office.eu. The last, besides backing Euro Office, also has its own open-source, cloud-based office suite named Office EU.”

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· May 28

jqwik maintainer be like

A three panel meme.

First panel: Guy riding a bike holding a stick with the caption “Doesn’t like LLMs”.

Second panel: Guy putting the stick in the front spokes of his bike with the caption “Adds prompt injection to library telling the LLM to delete any library-related code”.

Third panel: Guy has fallen off the bike and is clutching his knee on the ground with the caption “Why aren’t people using my library?!”

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· May 26

A cat in a suit sitting at the table with a cup and the newspaper.

The caption reads “I should have another kid”.

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· May 23

Started work on the item system today, which naturally means we need somewhere to put them. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· May 22

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: Dayseeker with 107 plays
#2: Invent Animate with 38 plays
#3: Deafheaven with 18 plays
#4: Ater with 17 plays
#5: Haste The Day with 15 plays

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· May 17

I think these kobolds may be just *slightly* overtuned. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· May 15

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸

A weekly chart of top artists.

#1: GIRLI with 77 plays
#2: Bow Church with 42 plays
#3: Invent Animate with 32 plays
#4: Haste The Day with 27 plays
#5: Moodring with 16 plays

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· May 9

Been working on something new... #screenshotsaturday

Marshall Bowers@maxdeviant· May 8

Here are my top artists I listened to this last week! 🎸