Brian Hall

Chuck Norris held a 183-10-2 record and was a 6x world champion in full contact bare knuckle karate. On top of that, he beat heavyweight kickboxing world champion Joe Lewis 3 consecutive times and also had a brutal sparring match with undefeated kickboxing world champion, Bill Superfoot Wallace, that lasted an hour and a half. According to Wallace, they practically stalemated and "beat the crap out of each other". Chuck was trained in kickboxing/boxing by Benny The Jet Urquidez and was also trained in BJJ by the Gracies and Machados for 20 years. Even being able to submit Carlos Machado himself on occasion. Chuck had a 315 Ibs bench press at 180 lbs bodyweight and was said to have a grip back in the day that nobody could escape from because he was so strong. Even Jean Claude Van Damme said he'd never fight Chuck Norris, despite being a kickboxing world champion himself. Chuck held a 10th degree black belt in Chun Kuk Do, a 9th degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, an 8th degree black belt in Taekwondo, a 5th degree black belt in Karate, a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a black belt in Judo. Rest in peace, Chuck!

@Stephen_Griffin @SenSanders This is so great. 😂

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

@grok @forallcurious I’m having trouble visualizing this. Does this break causality?

Sure! This is a 2025 theory by physicist Gunther Kletetschka (U of Alaska). Standard physics has 3 space dims + 1 time dim. His idea flips it: 3 time dims are the primary "canvas" of reality (one like our forward arrow, others for alternate outcomes or switches between them), while 3 space dims emerge as secondary "paint." The 6D math framework reproduces particle masses and aims to unify quantum mechanics + gravity. The image illustrates nonlinear time flow. It's speculative but has testable predictions—not settled science yet. What clicks for you?

🚨: A new physics research says the universe is built on three dimensions of time — not a single linear arrow.

He was using drugs between holes at Augusta National. Contemplating suicide for two decades. Couldn't walk into rehab without help. Today he just beat two of the best golfers alive. One of, if not the greatest sports comeback stories of all time: Anthony Kim. Father. Husband. Three-time PGA Tour winner before age 25 - alongside only Tiger, Phil, Sergio, and Adam Scott. Then his Achilles ruptured in 2012. He vanished, for twelve years. He was battling drug and alcohol addiction daily. Using during majors. Making bathroom stops between holes just to get through the round. Contemplating ending his life for almost two decades while the world thought he was living the dream. His body eventually shut down. He could barely walk into rehab. His wife Emily and daughter Bella pulled him back. He got a second chance with LIV Golf in 2024. Finished dead last. Didn't earn a single point in two full seasons. Got relegated from the league in August. Most people would've quit. He showed up every single day and worked to get 1% better after being cut from the league. He earned his spot back through a qualifying tournament on pure merit. Today, in the final round at LIV Adelaide, playing alongside Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm - two of the biggest names in golf - he came back from a 5-shot starting deficit and has just shot nine under to win the golf tournamnet. This man was ready to leave this earth. Now he just did the unthinkable. If that doesn't prove you can come back from anything, nothing will. It's never too late. @livgolf_league @AnthonyKim_Golf #LIVGolfAdelaide

COMEBACK STORY COMPLETE 🏆 ANTHONY KIM WINS LIV GOLF ADELAIDE 2026 #LIVGolfAdelaide

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#OrlandoCC is a great free event for the Central Florida dev community! We're looking for sponsors to help keep this event going!

@SpaceX Where is this being launched from?

Watch Falcon 9 launch the Twilight mission to orbit twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

This may be a hot take, but modals as a UX are a design smell. I believe that if you find yourself popping a modal in your UI, then something was missed which caused yourself to be painted into that corner.

@primelos @histories_arch Yes!! Had to scroll a while to find someone who referenced this. I guess it’s time to schedule my colonoscopy.

@histories_arch Never ending story, turtle

Behold the shell of Stupendemys geographicus, once the world's largest turtle, whose ancient ancestors graced the waters of South America approximately ten million years ago. Its colossal form bears the marks of time, etched in the patterns of its carapace, a testament to the forces of nature that shaped its existence. This relic is more than just bone and scale; it is a portal to the distant past, offering insights into the life and environment of a prehistoric world. To stand before this ancient shield is to feel the weight of ages, a poignant reminder of the ephemeral nature of life against the vast expanse of time, beauty born from the echoes of existence. #archaeohistories

@Aaronontheweb I’m not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I have been using SendGrid to host the HTML templates for sending the transactional emails. This allows non-developers to create the templates. Then I use SendGrid’s API to choose a template and send an email.

Looking for recommendations: best .NET libraries for formatting / templating HTML emails for transactional emailing. We've been using MailGun's API for doing this for years but I think we're about to outgrow that system.

Anyone else out there having issues with @Azure ?

@RegularMarek @theo I don’t have to imagine. I experienced that. Very frustrating.

@theo Imagine the hours wasted due to this bug

I really wish I could take Windows development seriously but then shit like this happens

you can't make this stuff up

This affected me. So much wasted time.

From Friday: Critter Stack Futures for the rest of 2025 jeremydmiller.com/2025/07/11/cri…

Google Finally Admits It’s Combining Android and ChromeOS dlvr.it/TLvs7c

Looking for some recommendations from anyone that has experience using a shipping aggregator API. This is specifically for tracking shipments across multiple carriers sent by a third party partner. Who did you use and what were any lessons learned?

@ozzyea @davidfowl I do this based on advice given by @stephentoub when he was doing one of his deep-dives with @shanselman on YouTube. There are compiler optimizations that can be achieved with sealed classes. Obviously it’s not a “one size fits all” but it is an easy win where appropriate.

@davidfowl Using sealed keyword in every class is a good practice?

Strongly typed configuration in aspire for the new Yarp resource (yarp.dot.net). This will be really powerful for building ingress, api gateways and more! #dotnet #aspire