runners
(Canadian Prairies, British Columbia, Australian, Irish) running shoes, sneakers, trainers.
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There’s something rude about signups for Olivia Rodrigo Amex Presale and New York Road Runners Q3 races opening at the same time.
it's mostly the CI runners that are flaky, which yeah is probably most annoying to powerusers. but it's super disruptive if you're trying to get work done :(
Happy Queue-It Tuesday to all New York City Runners who celebrate.
grand opening country is in the boathouse tomorrow! runners just have a bad time!
And of course the MSIX SDK is finally open source and finally runs cross platform so it can be run on linux CI runners. Also they finally added good docs for adopting MSIX for basically every major app platform (incl…
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(Canadian Prairies, British Columbia, Australian, Irish) running shoes, sneakers, trainers.
“There’s something rude about signups for Olivia Rodrigo Amex Presale and New York Road Runners Q3 races opening at the same time.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“it's mostly the CI runners that are flaky, which yeah is probably most annoying to powerusers. but it's super disruptive if you're trying to get work done :(”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Happy Queue-It Tuesday to all New York City Runners who celebrate.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“grand opening country is in the boathouse tomorrow! runners just have a bad time!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“And of course the MSIX SDK is finally open source and finally runs cross platform so it can be run on linux CI runners. Also they finally added good docs for adopting MSIX for basically every major app platform (including electron): learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(Australia, Canada, Ireland, Scotland) A type of soft-soled shoe originally intended for runners.
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