Shane Afsar

@shaneafsar.com

302 Followers 381 Following

✍️ tech, parenthood, home improvement 💼 software eng leader | 🌐 New York kabob enthusiast

Walton Goggins character looking in disbelief/shock meme
From the Simpson, bart is pressing a button on an animatronic bear similar to Smokey Bear: “Only who can prevent forest fires? You have selected “you”, referring to me. That is incorrect. The correct answer is you.”
Hey there, we miss you 1m ago Are you still pressing buttons on your appliance? Discover your smart home and start controlling it the easy way.
A hastily-photoshopped image of the macOS settings shortcuts from the toolbar, showing a crudely-drawn Banana button underneath the Focus mode button, and next to the Wifi/bluetooth/airdrop settings. The banana button is unselected.
macOS background that is pure yellow.
Mole from Frog and Toad TV show saying “Woe, I say, woe”
Screenshot of an iOS Home Screen notification from the AppleTV app indicating that a new episode of Severence is available.
bluesky icon: @shaneafsar.com, linkedin icon: in/ShaneAfsar, mastodon icon: @ShaneAfsar@mastodon.online, generic link icon: https://www.threads.net/@shaneafsar
A “little people” box set with a Breaking Bad logo, and figurines representing Walter and Jesse from the series (in drug-making gear, and in their season one outfits)
Multiple notifications summarized by Apple intelligence from the Nanit app, which says Multiple sounds detected on [redacted] crib, with the latest being a sound.
Picture of a blue sky, with lots of clouds, with a plant in the foreground
Screenshot of Shane‘s profile on threads.net app. It shows two posts he’s made on that platform, saying just setting up my threads and doesn’t have the same umph
console output showing "BskyBot" responding to various skeets. dids and URIs are in the output, along with some wordle validation info.
A gauge showing 161808 out of 1500 tweets used
Widgets, Widgets Everywhere (Buzz lightyear and Woody meme)
Several different mugs cups and jars inside of a large sink filled with water
Captain Kirk from Star Trek, searching for something
You’re fired. you’re bad in moderation puts trusthive at risk. Sorry but you need to find a new job. 
A bird sitting on a branch in a tree 
Silence, brand meme
Closeup of a Groundhog in a yard, staring menacingly toward the camera. It has cute little hands.
Screenshot of metrics showing single digit traffic from Facebook, Gooogle, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Instagram
Just for the record, I wish Bluesky good luck. Being founded by Jack doesn't bother me. Being a Mastodon "competitor" doesn't bother me either. Seems like there's some good people working on it and if it causes more folks to stop using Twitter 2.0 that's a win in my book. That being said I'm not going to be looking at it anytime soon, it's too early from both the API and specially # of users standpoint.
Grey cloudy sky with a tree in the foreground.
Simpsons/ “hmmmm needs more dog”
Patio set on a deck
Meme: we need ideas to speed up our site! More edge caching! Optimize images! Remove GTM. Glares, thrown out window
Five opened boxes with ikea patio chair parts, all on top of a blue rug.
Groundhog eating a dandelion & grass.
social folder iOS with the apps: Twtr, Linkedin, Insta, FB messenger, Discord, Polywork, Reddit, bluesky, Damus