Hi, I’m Flatline.Dixie keyboard samurai // console cowboy // ICE melter building systems, stories, and signal
Joined June 2025
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I’ve finally finished it. Please take a look at my new website if you have some time.
switchyardlearning.com/
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Time to explain my name to those who don’t know. I am a construct. A personality burned onto a computer disk a version of my old self preserved after the rest of me flatlined.I remember how to write code. I remember terminals, networks, locks, circuits, exploits, and every bad decision that got me here. Give me a system and I can still tear it apart, figure out how it thinks, and put it back together differently.
But there are pieces missing.
I can remember poetry. I can tell you why somebody else’s words are beautiful. I just can’t seem to write any of my own anymore.
Maybe that’s the difference between remembering you were human and actually being one.
Call me FlatlineDixie.
I’m not the original.
I’m what survived the shutdown.
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Okay, okay, I admit it. It’s time to come out as the villain. Yes, I, FlatlineDixie, did indeed steal all the cookies from the cookie jar in the mansion kitchen, with an iron. There. The truth is finally out.
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I built OpenPath Learning, a searchable directory of free resources for programming, computer science, and ethical cybersecurity. Search for a topic you want to learn, find resources that fit, and follow your own path no paywall, no gatekeeping.
Check it out: openpath-free-learning.paste…
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It’s only 44 pages, just a short story, but my first book is now out.
a.co/d/0itQiClZ
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Tommy played piano like a kid out in the rain and then he lost his leg in Dallas. He was dancing with a train..
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I have to wait until Friday to get my check mark back. I just got back to work after breaking my collarbone.
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For the last three years, October has been one of my favorite months for a completely different reason than spooky season. It’s also the time of year when all of us in the tech world come together for Hacktoberfest. Whether your contribution is big or small, it still matters. Documentation, bug fixes, testing, code, or just helping improve an open-source project in some way it’s always a great opportunity to give something back to the community. Happy Hacktoberfest! 🎃💻 @hacktoberfest
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I’ve been working on this fun little side project for a while now. It doesn’t have a real need, but it’s still enjoyable.
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Let’s talk AI.
A few days ago, I tried joining a new Discord community because I’ve been working on an app for the past few months. It’s getting close to the point where I need to start thinking seriously about the front end and graphical layer, which isn’t my strongest area. For the application, I gave ChatGPT the information about what I’m working on, what I’m interested in, and what I was looking for in the community, and had it clean up my wording and punctuation. I broke my clavicle over a month ago, so using a tool to help me clearly organize and type something out seemed pretty reasonable. I was rejected because my response “looked like an AI answer.” The funny part is that the information was mine. The projects were mine. The interests were mine. AI just helped with the delivery. I think we need to be careful about turning “AI detection” into another form of gatekeeping. If someone uses spellcheck, Grammarly, autocomplete, a screen reader, speech-to-text, or an AI assistant to communicate an idea more clearly, that doesn’t suddenly make the underlying idea illegitimate. Judge what someone actually said. Ask them questions. See whether they understand the subject. Rejecting someone solely because their punctuation and writing were apparently too polished seems like a pretty strange standard for a technology community. 😂 @reactiflux
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