Our company @PostlightStudio worked hard and built this...
Our company @PostlightStudio worked hard and built this wonderful fact-rich website for @knightfdn. It's about how journalists interact with Black Twitter and other social media communities (and how journos could do better). knightfoundation.org/...
I know more half-assed and likely untrue things about the...
I know more half-assed and likely untrue things about the inner workings of the NYT than I do about our local or federal government and it makes me hate myself.
oh the metafont book is actually good and readable I read...
@tealtan oh the metafont book is actually good and readable I read it many years ago and much has stayed with me. i mean every character is a bit of code executed which is kind of insane oh god i just started thinking about all the compoutation ingovled in typeing this twete
I mean there's also Buzz, Wave, and Orkut. And now Meet?...
@goldman@hunterwalk@MikeIsaac I mean there's also Buzz, Wave, and Orkut. And now Meet? But for me the YouTube/Plus integration was the high point of sheer unusability matched only by the Flickr/Yahoo forced account merge.
Over the holiday I got really into systems theory and spent...
@thisisjendoll Over the holiday I got really into systems theory and spent a week looking at the Santa Fe institute and learning about all the dramas and fights in their world. It was completely a bad use of time and super useful!
For real for real? Pick one of the top think tanks or NGOs...
@thisisjendoll For real for real? Pick one of the top think tanks or NGOs or academic centers and force yourself to read one of their research reports or apply one of their models. New exterior frameworks reset your brain in ways new facts don't. And remind you that you are a good learner.
oh you mean like poured olive oil directly in your ear to...
@phyllisstein oh you mean like poured olive oil directly in your ear to shrink it based on something you read on the internet and then shaking your head really fast like an old barnyard dog
if the cotton falls off in your ear it only costs $75 at...
@phyllisstein if the cotton falls off in your ear it only costs $75 at urgent care to get it removed with alligator forceps as just happened to me yesterday, I say go for it
I agree with all of this but want it to be known I was just...
@jbenton I agree with all of this but want it to be known I was just making a pun based on the fact that Postscript is a stack-based programming language.
I used to work as a bartender and one day our door guy...
@xor I used to work as a bartender and one day our door guy didn't show up so I called everyone and no one would show up. So finally my dad, who is kind of frail, offered to work the door. I thought it was fine until my sister found out and called me and screamed YOU LET PA CARD?
Great work only comes when you treat people with respect...
@adampash@ashleyfeinberg@PostlightStudio Great work only comes when you treat people with respect and trust them to do their job! Ashley knows that, because she's a journalist in the media industry.
Working is one thing Adam does very well. But he also...
@ashleyfeinberg@adampash Working is one thing Adam does very well. But he also enjoys social media and a healthy life with family outside of working hours, which @PostlightStudio fully supports and tries its best to encourage.
Ask for a tour that will show you the map stacks, an entire...
@baratunde@kzwa@librarycongress Ask for a tour that will show you the map stacks, an entire city block of pure information deep underground, unlike any space you will ever see.
Thanks! Yes, absolutely, but also things are always...
@Aetherpoint@surfacepodcast Thanks! Yes, absolutely, but also things are always straining at their constraints and so constraints change and fashion changes accordingly, and time passes, and then things become tacky, and we start to ignore them.
I've noticed that as well; they just basically made the...
@rsnous I've noticed that as well; they just basically made the command line a client in the same way that github.com/... is a client. I sort of like it in the abstract--although it would be fascinating if you could, say, easily pipe to Chrome.
Adam is great to work with and a committed team member whom...
@ashleyfeinberg@adampash Adam is great to work with and a committed team member whom I greatly respect. I wish I could sell less and spend more time working with him.
You'd 100% read more books and would likely occasionally...
@shaneferro@max_read You'd 100% read more books and would likely occasionally just wryly smile to yourself about the human capacity for love and kindness, even in a deeply imperfect world.
I love calendar apps and enjoy discussing the iCalendar...
I love calendar apps and enjoy discussing the iCalendar standard's interesting corners so I am predisposed, but this is a good article and Melody makes an excellent point. twitter.com/...
For fun I started to write a PEG parser for MARC21 records...
For fun I started to write a PEG parser for MARC21 records today and after an hour I had made huge progress so I looked a little further into the standard and twitter.com/...
Years ago someone from the UK once explained me “It's not...
@tomcoates Years ago someone from the UK once explained me “It's not actually a crime to be poor,” and that melted my brain because we don't just have no social network but criminalize poverty and I'd always just connected the two (despite our family needing various kinds of assistance).
I appreciate how Google Photos will auto-create an album...
I appreciate how Google Photos will auto-create an album called “Saturday Night” from seven years ago and when I look inside it's just shitty selfies and pictures of my cat. twitter.com/...
A kid in Ditmas called me fat once and his mom went on a...
@krutika A kid in Ditmas called me fat once and his mom went on a minute long explanation to him of all bodies being beautiful then said to him okay let's get ice cream.
i mean unless they did it stealthily BEFORE anything got...
@tealtan i mean unless they did it stealthily BEFORE anything got traction but that would break all sorts of stuff on the open web and a zillion business cards
interestingly linkedin could have all kinds of mechanisms...
@AGoldmund interestingly linkedin could have all kinds of mechanisms for tracking and surfacing this sort of stuff—they know who worked for whom so they could authenticate reports and surface them anonymously to corporate HR
that's a huge challenge, probably impossible to route...
@AGoldmund that's a huge challenge, probably impossible to route around, but with a blockchain you could conceivably create a built-in economic incentive for content review and moderation, but then it's hard to maintain anonymity
After a lot of drama we managed to pull it together tonight...
After a lot of drama we managed to pull it together tonight and got the little boy to do his writing assignment by, after every three words he wrote down, playing a Spotify clapping/cheering sound effect. open.spotify.com/...
I've been listening to it. It's fine, never quite coheres...
@shabbychef I've been listening to it. It's fine, never quite coheres for me. As I get older I get a lot more sympathetic to 52-year-old Jack just noodling around in his studio with his stuff and it's nice he's still doing his thing.
Well I mean he's essentially a one-man Hendrix cover band....
@anildash Well I mean he's essentially a one-man Hendrix cover band. But still that's a hell of a thing to be unto itself. Then again his yacht has a submarine.
“I hung up. If I were going to attend a Klan rally I'd do...
“I hung up. If I were going to attend a Klan rally I'd do it in style! So I ripped the sumptuous thread-count sheets off my Four Seasons bed (put it on my bill!) and told my on-call seamstress to fly down from JFK with her best thread. Now–which socks said 'hate'?”
oh god i wanted that thing SO FREAKING BAD I forgot all...
@john_overholt oh god i wanted that thing SO FREAKING BAD I forgot all about it
@maureenflaherty wanted an e-z-bake oven. for christmas one year I got her a sears catalog from when she was five so she could see ALL THE THINGS she once coveted
grateful to live in the same world as the author of this...
grateful to live in the same world as the author of this amazing jimmy buffett profile nytimes.com/... (see also medium.com/... “She is, you little shit, she is.”)
I mean they did get the part of the classic rich kid story...
I mean they did get the part of the classic rich kid story right in that Kylo's connected parents sent him to boarding school where the headmaster is irrational and violent, and he gets super into witchcraft.
Don't you think Kylo Ren as the son of a well-known family...
Don't you think Kylo Ren as the son of a well-known family with a flaky dad and a big-deal mom is much less likely to be Mr. King Evil and far more likely to be a Jean Ralphio-esque, like, DJ on Coruscant?
I think a lot about this piece too. I'd do it differently...
I think a lot about this piece too. I'd do it differently now etc. etc. I remember being wildly obsessive about each screenshot supporting a theme. Also grateful to @medium who paid me to just do stuff back then. twitter.com/...
Hmm. For you I'd go with ”Director of Engineering, Mobile...
@tolar Hmm. For you I'd go with ”Director of Engineering, Mobile and Web Platform.” People HAVE to pay attention because those are words all indicate GREAT things but you still sound like someone who does actual work but also a leader. @richziade?
As I chit-chatted On Here about my kid having a concussion...
As I chit-chatted On Here about my kid having a concussion (as @maureenflaherty was at the ER doing the real parenting) eight people reached out to help, plus neighbors ready to step in. And it's mutual. We love to help. People are literally on standby for us, and us for them.
Concluding update: Everything is fine, all is well, it's a...
Concluding update: Everything is fine, all is well, it's a normal concussion, I don't have to go down there, and I'll be home all day tomorrow with an INCREDIBLY active little boy who can't: be crazy, flop around, read, watch TV or look at screens, or do puzzles. Imlucky,Imlucky.
She also forgot both her phones so she has no idea what I'm...
She also forgot both her phones so she has no idea what I'm tweeting and the entire evening has been a complex standby scenario involving neighbors ready to watch our other kid, me jumping in a car, calls from the nurse's station.
Also to be clear @maureenflaherty is the hero here, having...
Also to be clear @maureenflaherty is the hero here, having gone to the ER 2x (I was ready to go tonight but she's a better patient advocate than me hence the switch-off plan).
Further update: Twitter is a group of nice people who mean...
Further update: Twitter is a group of nice people who mean me and my family well. (I feel it's important to acknowledge times when little warm puffs of nice fellow-feeling rise up above the oily smoke from the tire fire.)
Nor when you look at things would I ever want to lose that...
Nor when you look at things would I ever want to lose that worry, because it's the connection to their weird, living selves. Being human is an insane proposition. My kids are six and I turn to my wife a lot and say, "I'm not sure I'm ready to be a father."
My son is at the emergency room, he's fine, I'm getting...
My son is at the emergency room, he's fine, I'm getting ready to go down there and relieve my wife, and I thought to myself, I would like a little vacation from worrying about my kids, just a day or two, and I realized, I will never get that vacation, it will never, ever happen.
I explained to someone the other day what it meant to have...
@textfiles I explained to someone the other day what it meant to have readers/emails from the UK and Netherlands in the early days of the Web—it was just a miracle that your voice could travel so far.
Oh that is AMAZING, I'm glad to hear about her. A full...
@AdamWeinstein Oh that is AMAZING, I'm glad to hear about her. A full half-century of chokes in the clinch and then...a hard-earned victory against, my God, the Patriots. She must be over the moon.
Watching with my wife (who gets the game better than I do)...
Watching with my wife (who gets the game better than I do) and my kids some father-grandfather-child part of myself I had no idea existed showed up. Which is a pretty obvious outcome—people still care about the Blue vs. Green chariot races in the Byzantine empire. Go Birds.
My dad is dealing with memory loss too. Lots of time on the...
My dad is dealing with memory loss too. Lots of time on the phone. In a perfect world–well in a perfect world they would have won in 81. Or the NFL would acknowledge it kills its players.
My son fell and got a concussion on Saturday. He's six,...
My son fell and got a concussion on Saturday. He's six, like his twin sister. He went to the emergency room. He's fine. Scary, though. They watched a little. It's just a game, doesn't matter who wins, bed before halftime. We yelled harder at the commercials than the game.
I was six and I'd never seen adults act that way. I went...
I was six and I'd never seen adults act that way. I went out to the other room to ask my Grandmother if everything would be okay. I know it's just a game, and a brutal and exploitative one, too. I don't see myself suddenly getting into football.
I usually don't watch football but watching the Eagles win...
I usually don't watch football but watching the Eagles win was magical. Many of my earliest 215-area-code memories are of watching all the men in my life scream in non-verbal rage at a screen while they were yet again ritually debased and humiliated. Especially the 81 Super Bowl.
We're looking for a new family car right now and just cut...
We're looking for a new family car right now and just cut the whole Fiat/Chrysler family off the list @highdiveus. And had to explain to our 6yo twins that MLK, whom they revere, didn't sell trucks or...endorse the military. twitter.com/...
The big mistake I made was trying to unify the topic...
@jwdomb The big mistake I made was trying to unify the topic taxonomy and the issue/article relational data at the date level in one big triplestore. Made doing queries like "all the issues for the decade" a nightmare, had to cache everything.
@jwdomb The options are vast compared to then. TONS of triplestores, graphDBs, etc. What I'd do today is bootstrap everything inside Postgres and then strap a GraphQL API on it and go from there. github.com/... Alternately build everything in Google Cloud.
wait though it works fine as long as you don't have...
@macfixer wait though it works fine as long as you don't have multiple accounts or want to find or retrieve any files or use a desktop computer with it
IDK, I never can understand what they're thinking. It just...
@goldman IDK, I never can understand what they're thinking. It just seems like they are increasingly in a place to actively do some good, and they seem to have aged into their vast (ultimately societally dangerous but what can you do) scale in a way that has eluded most of the giants.
I'm not kidding when I say: It almost can't be worse than...
@goldman I'm not kidding when I say: It almost can't be worse than now. It'd also be an opportunity for them to be OPEN (which is hard for them, see AMP, but good for them and us when they succeed), and really bootstrap some distributed stuff.
that's really fun. or push "discussion" to happen in...
@goldman that's really fun. or push "discussion" to happen in parallel (literally, vertically parallel) and you have to LINK to the card/news by dragging it into your conversation. like the right column becomes your bookmarks/notes. lots of sorting/structuring/tensorflow games to play.
i mean integrating platforms is VERRRRRY hard god bless,...
@goldman i mean integrating platforms is VERRRRRY hard god bless, but a lot of what could make the product compelling is almost like, just a little more throughput from different feed providers that have emerged, while the product has reverted to an auth provider
Connect Google News's algorithms, AMP, their global content...
@goldman Connect Google News's algorithms, AMP, their global content moderation teams, etc. I'd use it, it would be fun to be back in a Really Big Feed having opinions and building an audience.
I think capitalize on the fact that Instant Articles are a...
@goldman I think capitalize on the fact that Instant Articles are a dead end and the ecosystem they've built around AMP. You actually have this very nice way to work with media without damaging monetization, because the AMP views could fit well into the Google+ stream.
I would have agreed until I started using photos and my...
@amyhoy I would have agreed until I started using photos and my Pixel 2, which are both...fun, user-centric, cloud driven but not oppressively so, sharing is NBD, okay defaults, just all the stuff that was hard for them before. Something changed.
They could integrate it with Firebase as not just auth but...
They could integrate it with Firebase as not just auth but as a sort of communications/message bus private to apps—focus on the plus, not the Google, so that any Firebase app gets a social graph API for free, and the option to link out to the big Gootch later.
Also: My company runs on their stuff, I wouldn't mind a...
Also: My company runs on their stuff, I wouldn't mind a feed coming out of docs and emails and Drive or Filestream (what the hell is Filestream)? Open channels and chat, stuff that shouldn't be in Slack. Daily emailed summaries.
The way they murdered themselves was with that thirsty...
The way they murdered themselves was with that thirsty desperate mandatory YouTube integration. But now there's this global infrastructure for semi-gated medium-form media sharing just sitting around, and photos is now so good they could build ANYTHING image-based.
It's MASTERFUL, but also fascinating to read 36 years...
@markyarm It's MASTERFUL, but also fascinating to read 36 years later, because the vibrancy and excitement that they were documenting is completely faded, the museum pieces have been sold and resold, and only SQUALOR remains.
One thing to be grateful for in life is that you were never...
One thing to be grateful for in life is that you were never part of the Warhol Factory scene (the main location of which is today a Dylan's Candy Bar).
Well and I was using virtualenvs in Python which use tons...
@jackrusher Well and I was using virtualenvs in Python which use tons of symlinks and don't notice when homebrew updates. Things just don't know about other things.
it's disappointing that what is likely the best answer to...
it's disappointing that what is likely the best answer to "make the computer work reliably over time without breaking" is now "make lots of little fake container computers that never change and then only use them through acceptable ports"
56 people signed up for our blockchain event in the last...
56 people signed up for our blockchain event in the last hour (does bitcoin expert math) which means it will be attended by 150,000 people. meetup.com/...