Steven Hicks

@pepopowitz.bsky.social

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Ok, I guess I'm here now. Milwaukee, software, devex, trail running, triathlon, art... All of them with astounding mediocrity. Streaming to the void at https://youtube.com/@FriendsWithCode.

My front yard, with a new sign that says "congratulations 2026 Wauwatosa East graduate"
Top score results showing me in third place.
allbirds stock price chart with a massive spike after pivoting to ai
Wrinkly green t shirt with the text "maximize shareholder value" in "live laugh love" font, with hearts and a little yacht.
Very rough black and white digital sketch of a retro propaganda poster design. A dizzy, nervous retro robot, and the text "Deterministic tools for deterministic problems."
GitHub PR diff count -- 3,493 additions, 1,274 subtractions. A big f'ing PR to review.
MVP Trail golf disc dyed with a blue, aqua, and yellow swirl.
Black ink linocut print on paper. Reads "maximize shareholder value" in "live laugh love" font with a yacht icon and smiley face with dollar signs for eyes.
Dyed golf disc. Gold rim, yellow block mostly behind disc name (aviar), wine & aqua green circular swirls like a vinyl record.
Dyed Kastaplast golf disc. Blue and purple flower effect over the center, streaks bleeding out toward the edge.
Disc golf disc dyed with a red, orange, and yellow swirl pattern.
A snippet of a conversation between Claude Code and myself. Claude: "Run this and share the debug output so we can see what's being extracted from the status table." Me: "Run it yourself"
Dyed golf disc. 3/4 covered by swirls of dark teal, light blue, and neon green. 1/4 pure white.
Purple and pink lotus flower dye in a Mint Salamander golf disc.
A brush applying dye to the rim of the spinning golf disc.
A disc golf disc spinning on the turntable.
Turntable mat spinning.
Westside Discs Anvil dyed neon yellow, neon green, and blue.
Sal Frelich meme, looking confused about how he started a run saving double play by botching a stolen home run ball.
A Westside Discs Bear golf disc, dyed swirly blue on top and purple on bottom.
Very tall disc golf basket on top of a collection of tree stumps which double as steps to gather the disc from the basket.
A pink clear Westside Hatchet golf disc, with two shades of purple in spiral waves around the edge, leaving the center of the disc undyed.
Clear glue with blue and purple dye in a spiral shape.
Dyed golf disc. Uncentered concentric blobs, on a blue background.
Same golf disc turned upside down, with a blue lotion covering the bottom of the flight plate.
A dyed golf disc with some vibrant colors but some very pale.
Clear disc golf disc soaking in concentric blobs of colorful dye inside an ultimate frisbee.
Linoleum block with the word "hum" carved into it, with motion lines resembling electrons of an atom.
Screen capture of After Midnight. Graphic on screen shows "couch game," which is when Taylor Tomlinson says "it's time to play couch game." YouTube auto-caption: "time to play counterterrorism game."
SKIPPED=$(git ls-files -v | grep '^S' | cut -c 3-) if [ -n "$SKIPPED" ]; then echo "⚠️ Reminder -- You have skip-worktree files:" echo "$SKIPPED" | sed 's/^/⚠️ /' echo "⚠️ To unskip them, run 'git update-index --no-skip-worktree <file>'" fi
Screenshot of my Aerospace workspace list in the macos menu bar. 1(JunkDrawer) 2(Comms) 3(TODOs) AliceBlue Bisque Cornsilk DeepSkyBlue Emerald FireBrick
River rapids on the Payette River in Idaho, viewed from the front of a raft.
Linocut print of a rainbow trout. Pink to green faded body, heavy black outline.
Six prints laid out to dry. Shapes of color, striped pink and green.
Block print of a rainbow trout, very dark green ink on white paper.
Carved linoleum block with the outlines of a rainbow trout.
A T-shirt flat on the counter, with a fresh black linocut print of a rat. "The crusty tagalongs" spelled out in the rat's body.
Linoleum carving of a rainbow trout, with a pfeil carving tool.
A lit ski trail at night, surrounded by pine trees. My snowboard with my boots strapped in, in the foreground.
Screenshot of Ready, Set, Go!, an app for timing a triathlon without fancy equipment. Athletes are shown in different phases of a triathlon, with their elapsed times.
A printed sign posted on a wall, with the text: PLEASE FOR YOU PROTECTION NO SHOES OR SHIRT DO NOT ENTER NO SHOES, NO SHIRT NO SERVICE
Block printed pirate treasure themed key maps, filled in for the keys of two other layers, next to an iris CE keyboard.
A black and white printer of a runner, with the words determination, strength, and dedication.
6 different colored prints, of a keyboard layout map, in the style of a pirate treasure map.
6 different colored prints, of a keyboard layout map, in the style of a pirate treasure map.
Left: Elf on the Shelf; Right: Kristen Wiig as Gilly on SNL. Both wearing similar clothing, big side-eye, and coy smiles.
Early morning sun peeking through clouds over Lake Michigan, sandy beach and a leafless tree in the distance.
Holiday lights lining the soffit of my old stone home.
Five prints left to right, each darker than the next. The ink-covered block on a cutting mat, and a roller on an ink tray, in the foreground.
A black print of a pine cone on white paper.
GitHub change count indicator, showing 0 additions, and 508,900 deletions.
Two carved linoleum blocks. The larger block features a pine cone, with marks radiating outward. The smaller with a silly banner that reads backwards "pinus resinosa," the scientific name for red pine.
Procreate design of a pine cone in black and white. Tiny needles outlining the cone.
Procreate design of a pine cone in black and white. The pine cone has no outline.
A mostly-carved Speedy Carve block of pink rubber, of some negative space seen on a photo of a pine cone. Lots of messy pencil scribbles on the block too.