The WHCD is comedy ebola, but useful for future historians...
The WHCD is comedy ebola, but useful for future historians as a national referendum on just how bad we sucked. Sure, we're at 85% but Bush under the table was worse. And this video youtube.com/... was HILARIOUS in 2000, but now it's a parade of misfits and sex criminals.
That said the morning after when you wake up on the...
That said the morning after when you wake up on the bathroom floor with a bull mastiff, six kittens, and a cockatiel in the bathtub next to you is a rough one.
Overall it's sensible if disappointing that you can't just...
Overall it's sensible if disappointing that you can't just have a few drinks on the weekend, then go down to the SPCA with your credit card and say, LOAD ME UP BOYS IT'S SNUGGLIN' TIME.
Google product manager: Do you like the legendary anime...
Google product manager: Do you like the legendary anime movie AKIRA?
Google designer: Hell yes it's like running through a tunnel of lights and you can't tell what is happening half the time, it just smashes into your face.
Prod. Manager: YOU are in charge of the new Gmail. twitter.com/...
I worry that 30 years from now I'll be clinging to a raft...
I worry that 30 years from now I'll be clinging to a raft off Red Hook waving a stick to keep pirates from stealing my kelp ration and my family's last remaining solar batteries, and my brain will go, oh I finally get monads!
I'm having fun imagining this meeting in 1971 when they...
I'm having fun imagining this meeting in 1971 when they were digging in and defining the Internet. rfc-editor.org/... — Their hotel is still there but now part of Bally's in Atlantic City. Everyone hungover in the Wicker Room. twitter.com/...
But for example Marie Kondo is great because you will only...
But for example Marie Kondo is great because you will only be able to take a hundred pounds of stuff on your family raft and it should be stuff you love.
There is a special place in hell for white parents in NYC...
There is a special place in hell for white parents in NYC who use their power to keep less privileged kids out of “their” public schools. (That place in hell looks like a library but every book is a Jeff Dunham ventriloquism DVD.) twitter.com/...
The present looks great, and maybe one day we could get...
The present looks great, and maybe one day we could get there, but the fact is we already spent everything on the past. So, ultimately, what it comes down to, is I've decided we should stick to the past and wait for the future before we invest in the present.
Listen. Let me pay this forward. Elan needs 156 followers...
Listen. Let me pay this forward. Elan needs 156 followers to get to the blessed relief of 15k. It's not about this person, or about you, but about the urgent need for more soothing round numbers on the Internet. twitter.com/...
For whatever reason my follower account is holding almost...
For whatever reason my follower account is holding almost exactly steady between 39,970 and 39,980 people. WIFE: [Explains incredibly complicated frustrating life/work thing.] ME: No I know what that's like, for example I cannot for the life of me break 40,000 Twitter followers.
Anyway life, huh? People are way too serious about it. You...
Anyway life, huh? People are way too serious about it. You haven't lived until you've snapped a chair in half right before going on stage for a conference at Lincoln Center.
To be clear my daughter can do anything she wants in life...
To be clear my daughter can do anything she wants in life as long as she writes about it with efficient, sharp sentences that take aim at their targets and hit them.
Also getting my regular doctor to call me back is hard but...
Also getting my regular doctor to call me back is hard but if you even WHISPER the word bariatric the same hospital system rolls out a big red threadbare carpet to welcome you because it's obviously pure profit. It's threadbare because we're kind of hard on the carpet.
I need to be here to help her avoid alliteration, to help...
I need to be here to help her avoid alliteration, to help her shape her paragraphs, and to edit out the rumination on the pair of my giant pants she finds in the back of the closet when they move out a few years after the funeral.
This is a good piece. IDK I've been thinking about T H E S...
This is a good piece. IDK I've been thinking about T H E S U R G E R Y and people who've done it say go for it. I guess I'm supposed to keep things secret but it's not like being fat is a particular secret. medium.com/...
Some personal news I didn't sleep well and my bus is in...
Some personal news I didn't sleep well and my bus is in traffic on Ocean Parkway. And then I took this picture to show you how awful everything is but instead it revealed the hidden beauty of the interactions between human infrastructure and nature. twitter.com/...
Sometimes they come back six months later and are like ummm...
@RickWebb Sometimes they come back six months later and are like ummm we sunk a lot of costs into this bad boy but it's a boondoggle maybe you could cut us a break and fix it. And you'd think you'd feel VICTORIOUS but you only feel sad, because now you have to shatter TWO fantasies.
The bad news is that it's been 4 years since AT THE HELM...
The bad news is that it's been 4 years since AT THE HELM last published—but the GOOD news is that all 20 issues of AT THE HELM, the newsletter of an 150-year-old NYC tugboat company, are online: mcallistertowing.com/...twitter.com/...
a sub-cohort of the US version of the cohort probably...
a sub-cohort of the US version of the cohort probably watched The Singing Detective on PBS in adolescence with their overenthused kulchurvulchur parents and wondered what in sweet baby jiminy creepers they were seeing with their own eyes
I go out with my son and daughter and they scoot ahead and...
I go out with my son and daughter and they scoot ahead and stop at the corner, and strangers (male and female) just REGULARLY hover over and lean in to touch my daughter and talk to her during that 30-second gap. And then I swoop in and we cross the street. It makes me bananas.
I just (well a kid just) broke a @TheMorningNews mug, circa...
I just (well a kid just) broke a @TheMorningNews mug, circa 2004?ish, and I was sad and went to look at the masthead. What a fine institution @rosecrans and @Womack founded and that has grown way beyond all the little NYC web word nerds of 1999+! themorningnews.org/...
Here they are, the 100 novels American think are the best....
Here they are, the 100 novels American think are the best. @PostlightStudio built this site for @PBS. I am sorry so many of you will burst into flames and die when you see the list. Then again I've never read Moby Dick so maybe Ready Player IS as good. pbs.org/...
The one I love is the Booz $132 million for a system for...
The one I love is the Booz $132 million for a system for reserving campsites in national parks. We should just send all American families a tent. twitter.com/...
My protocol is always use phrases like "non-urgent", "need...
@caseyjohnston My protocol is always use phrases like "non-urgent", "need your brain", "ping me, little contract question", "client called, all good, a few things we have to figure out." Partly to be kind but also because I don't want to spend five minutes waiting for a person to chill.
Rude of @BW to include a screenshot of my desktop without...
Rude of @BW to include a screenshot of my desktop without permission. (In reality this is not a video but a dynamically generated background using code and really cool.) bloomberg.com/...twitter.com/...
Our engineering take-home test is an essay on To The...
Our engineering take-home test is an essay on To The Lighthouse in which you need to project the characterizations of Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis onto six different open-source ECMAscript frameworks. Transpilation okay. HINT: Neville is Clojurescript/Om.
This is a fascinating nerdy interview and I'm continually...
This is a fascinating nerdy interview and I'm continually jealous at how truly good Select/All's coverage of tech platforms is these days, it's like the staff just refuse to recognize that their boss @max_read is very bad. twitter.com/...
The emphasis was on goofy pictures and the community had...
@jamiekeiles@michaelhazani The emphasis was on goofy pictures and the community had been around the Internet for a while, and it was a fun place to spend 10 minutes a day goofing off. The community reboot is great. In 7 or 8 years I've never been part of a fight or faction. mltshp.com/...
There was a really fun social imageboard website called...
@jamiekeiles@michaelhazani There was a really fun social imageboard website called mlkshk that shut down and I downloaded my archive of 6000 images from it. Then made a bot to repost them in order. (It got rebooted at mltshp.com.)
Titus is a tool for when the new season of Stranger Things...
@margarita Titus is a tool for when the new season of Stranger Things comes out and you need an extra 30,000 servers that week. At huge scale you can let your robots orchestrate things like that and save millions of dollars by only using cloud services you need then turning them off ASAP.
I just went looking for a Will Oldham (or Bonnie Prince...
I just went looking for a Will Oldham (or Bonnie Prince Billy?) song that I used to like but the only thing I could remember about it was that it mentioned horses. It's been a half hour so far and no luck.
i've since moved on to parsing maildir into json and then...
@kellan i've since moved on to parsing maildir into json and then importing that into sqlite and extracting that into a single sqlite3 db of my email with full text so i can use datasette as an api
None of this would be happening if we...had...a Statue of...
None of this would be happening if we...had...a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast...the same size as the Statue of Liberty on the east...as proposed by Victor Frankl... youtu.be/...
- Simple auth (no auth better)
- Swagger-like docs
-...
@EricaJoy - Simple auth (no auth better) - Swagger-like docs - Clients in big languages with ALL methods especially cursors and errors - Fully “saturated” objects returned by search - Large max resultsets on request (1000+ objects?) - Key fields (i.e. titles, authors) required/never null
and i went to one of our first dates there and it was so...
@sippey@djacobs@mathowie@jessamyn@crazyunclejoe@maureenflaherty and i went to one of our first dates there and it was so hot that we were sweaty and ill, and then a man took off his shirt he was so unbelievably all-over hairy and damp that we couldn't stop staring. It truly is a magical world of memories.
I'm real sorry to treat you all as data. I'm also looking...
I'm real sorry to treat you all as data. I'm also looking forward to looking through your portfolio, getting excited, and six weeks later getting a two-line email about how you your company was acquired by Verizon and you don't feel ready to leave.
sqlite> SELECT count(*)
FROM followers WHERE id IN...
sqlite> SELECT count(*) FROM followers WHERE id IN (SELECT id FROM ft WHERE ft MATCH '(product OR design OR ux OR developer OR director) AND (NYC OR New York OR NY OR Brooklyn OR BK OR Bronx OR Queens OR Staten Island OR Long Island OR Hoboken OR Jersey City)');
this is actual real co-founder work i don't just goof off...
this is actual real co-founder work i don't just goof off on warm days. i am querying my bios to find smart people in T H E N E T W O R K so we can ask them if they want to work at @postlightstudio. twitter.com/...
I totally forgot about t. I just fetched them in JSON via...
@xor I totally forgot about t. I just fetched them in JSON via twython and dumped the JSON into SQLite then wrote a query to make that into a proper table.
I did a top 20 word frequency of Twitter follower bios...
I did a top 20 word frequency of Twitter follower bios and...it reads pretty well.
1. design 2. with 3. you 4. developer 5. designer 6. software 7. writer 8. not 9. tech 10. all 11. about 12. web 13. editor 14. own 15. digital 16. things 17. product 18. director 19. that 20. me
You know. Globespinners. Explorers clubbers. Smallworlders....
@livlab@kleinmatic You know. Globespinners. Explorers clubbers. Smallworlders. Map munchers. The fellowship of the travelling tastebuds. Atlas, chugged.
So no, I don't want magnolia
No, I don't want to give you...
So no, I don't want magnolia No, I don't want to give you pine and No, I don't want to pick your brambles, No, I don't want none of your thyme and No, I don't want no shrubs
I truly have no idea! Someone must have posted it to Mlkshk...
@amyhoy@topfunky I truly have no idea! Someone must have posted it to Mlkshk and for whatever reason I saved it. It probably had a funny title, now lost to the metadata thresher.
This is a picture of me from today using a pocket...
This is a picture of me from today using a pocket microscope to look at a leaf. Below, Google has jumped in to make suggestions about what is in the picture. twitter.com/...
I want to make a bot that replies to every tweet with...
I want to make a bot that replies to every tweet with another tweet that says, “You know, I thought about it, and you're absolutely right.” I think it's what people need.
Totally go—it's a mix of failed military strategy,...
@theodoreross Totally go—it's a mix of failed military strategy, successful military strategy, gun mounts, big hills to climb, and good views. We brought binoculars and a pocket microscope which helped. Most of all it's a big space utterly dominated by the Verrazano.
This was after a lot of async/promises stuff that was a bad...
@harrisj@r4d1n This was after a lot of async/promises stuff that was a bad match and made me cry. Filter process is event based, building up a list of objects, and then once it emits an ending, you process objects inside one big function.
@harrisj@r4d1n Was walking a maildir, ended up using npmjs.com/... which is event-based, code ended up short and sane. I upped memory, walked files checking to see which matched my criteria, put good files in an array, and then on 'end' event I did batch stuff to that array.
If you're globbing thousands or millions of files make sure...
@harrisj If you're globbing thousands or millions of files make sure to expand your memory limit. Also many of the NPM libs around converting data are just not as hardened as those in .py/.pl/.java-land so don't be afraid to go into the lib and catch exceptions.
These were our holiday card this year and are almost all...
These were our holiday card this year and are almost all gone but still avail if you email hello+book@postlight.com with your mailing address. twitter.com/...
Friends, if you enjoy the free content I produce for you on...
Friends, if you enjoy the free content I produce for you on this website will you not vote for my branded corporate promotional podcast? twitter.com/...
Thought I just had: Thank god the seagull pepperoni story...
Thought I just had: Thank god the seagull pepperoni story is true, what a pleasant surprise to have something be pure. Second thought: I hope the pepperoni guy isn't white supremacist. Third thought: what if the hotel that forgave him isn't real and this is a false flag meme? Fou
An advertiser-pressure boycott is like a superhero named...
An advertiser-pressure boycott is like a superhero named Invisible Hand who comes out of the shadows and says, “You fucked up brand safety and now...you must...die.”
Yeah it's more that they made a lot of new things look kind...
@jackiehluo Yeah it's more that they made a lot of new things look kind of like old things and then they told everyone about that in the docs and it's like wait what...is this? They take a vast amount of bleeding-edge JS-based dev culture for granted.
Meanwhile there's the HTML5 Web Platform which I do pretty...
@jackiehluo Meanwhile there's the HTML5 Web Platform which I do pretty much understand, and stuff like ClojureScript which compiles to JS, which I love. React is in the uncanny valley—but also it's an attractive abstraction and makes it easier to reason about state and objects.
It's a weblike layer over JavaScript that renders to the...
@jackiehluo It's a weblike layer over JavaScript that renders to the web, and its community created a ton of components, backing us into a sort of decentralized SDK. The docs tell that story.
React is a pretty thorough reinterpretation of the...
@jackiehluo React is a pretty thorough reinterpretation of the front-end web, especially with JSX, but also routing, etc. The examples are very dense, there's a compile stage assumed, and an HTML doc is the main() function instead of the goal.
That got a RISE out of me, like the Christ is RISEN again...
@bn2b That got a RISE out of me, like the Christ is RISEN again from the dead on the 3rd day and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from there he shall come to judge the quick and the dead (ἐκεῖθεν ἐρχόμενον κρῖναι ζῶντας καὶ νεκρούς).
(I sometimes do try to think about for whom official React...
(I sometimes do try to think about for whom official React documentation is written. Django docs were written for MEEEE. React docs were written for people who experience the web very differently than me. I feel very HELLO FELLOW KIDS when I read them.)
This React 16.3 context tutorial by @wesbos was cheerful...
This React 16.3 context tutorial by @wesbos was cheerful and super-helpful to watch and makes up for gaps in the docs. I went from non-working Redux to kind-of-working context in an hour! wesbos.com/...
I am suspicious of this movie theater called “The...
I am suspicious of this movie theater called “The Tergiplex” in Park Slope. @40.660454" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Tergiplex/@40.660454