Just in general it seems like the number of magical talking...
@RGA@emilynussbaum Just in general it seems like the number of magical talking vermin narratives has gone down a lot as the city has cleaned up. I am aware no one is asking for this thought.
The quality of audience commentary on “The Long Kiss...
@emilynussbaum The quality of audience commentary on “The Long Kiss Goodnight” was so extremely high that I would pay $200 just to go back and experience it again.
- I crowdsourced a spreadsheet of labs once a few years ago #gid=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ogShrx5UP0Ulb2knCAOZ3irmFrjIcuTP7gmOforA09E/edit#gid=0
- IMO most labs have to be non-threatening to the core business. No one funds OUR WORST NIGHTMARE LABS. But they should!
2015: WebAssembly will be amazing, we'll have native...
2015: WebAssembly will be amazing, we'll have native experiences in the browser.
2021: Microsoft presents isomorphic PHP that runs in the browser and server through the Peachpie .NET to WASM on the fly translator with PeachPHPScript annotations for type safety!
to be fair our betters went all semantic web/knowledge...
@VictoriaMia to be fair our betters went all semantic web/knowledge graph while we were still fighting about <em> vs. <i> and by the time we got our act together everyone in California was talking about AJAX
Don't hate XML. It's a reasonable document interchange...
Don't hate XML. It's a reasonable document interchange format that addressed edge cases. It was a syntax to support a document-sharing commons. Industry + JS programmers wanted a web platform to support apps (and centralized revenue models). XML wasn't that, SOAP notwithstanding.
Abstractions deliver a simplified version of what's there...
@matt_deboard@amyhoy Abstractions deliver a simplified version of what's there but you still have to learn what's there. Metaphors give you a way of seeing (and do the work for you if you follow the rules). DOS vs Mac OS 1.
Smalltalk was based on lots of stuff including cell...
@matt_deboard@amyhoy Smalltalk was based on lots of stuff including cell biology. Message passing was a new way of thinking about objects, data, and programs. MVC another example. REST for all its warts said something serious about how to see the web. Or more broadly like, Gaia hypothesis.
Which is all fine. I like that on the backend there is a...
Which is all fine. I like that on the backend there is a differentiation between serializers, views, filters, paginators, etc. And on the frontend that you shouldn't expect things to change unless you switch out the state, and that what happens next is up to the computer.
Over and over when programming my stupid hobby projects I...
Over and over when programming my stupid hobby projects I sit here and ask myself: What is actually happening here? And; Where in the framework would I typically expect this to transpire? So many challenges in a framework world come from putting things in the right place.
Bless MEL for giving that a sensible title instead of,...
Bless MEL for giving that a sensible title instead of, like, Instagram's Udder Insanity. Breast in Peace. Speak, Mammary. I would have struggled I tell you.
Hey! @monktoberfest is a KIND, FRIENDLY, nerdy conference...
Hey! @monktoberfest is a KIND, FRIENDLY, nerdy conference around open source, software development, and culture. It's held in October in Portland, Maine. They have diversity/inclusion scholarships (ticket/travel/lodging) and want people to know about them. monktoberfest.com/...
I...accidentally put “Let Me Blow Ya Mind” on repeat on the...
I...accidentally put “Let Me Blow Ya Mind” on repeat on the Sonos yesterday and now it's 9:10 AM and I'm the only person in the office. Is there is a connection.
Hating on the anti-library guy's garbage opinions brought...
Hating on the anti-library guy's garbage opinions brought together millions of people and it's a tragedy that Forbes lacked the responsibility to preserve our vital commons of cultural indignation.
It's fun to read http://www.vulture.com/2018/07/billy-joel-i...
It's fun to read vulture.com/... and then re-read catapult.co/... which drills into the Billy Joel/Bruce Springsteen axes of cornball dädrøk as it captures the varnished tackiness of our loser adult lives that Billy Joel perfectly captures, his gift to culture.
Basically I'm thinking like 30-story urban armories and...
Basically I'm thinking like 30-story urban armories and with serious weapons and defenses but solar powered and with lots of room for living and scholarship plus millions of books. Libraries as a last line of defense when everything goes Purge.
God bless the Vera center, which as always did the...
God bless the Vera center, which as always did the research. vera.org/... $42 billion in state spending and how many stupid weed or vandalism charges could we vacate in order to build one $840 million LASER-LINKED SUPERLIBRARY in every one of the 50 states.
I'm leaving Prospect Park at 9th St. with the kids and...
I'm leaving Prospect Park at 9th St. with the kids and @CynthiaNixon just walked by and said to her friend, “the F is fine, let's go,” which is more relatable than any NYC politician since Al Smith ran for Governor in 1922.
I played myself badly. I got bored weeks ago and renamed my...
I played myself badly. I got bored weeks ago and renamed my work computer “blockchain_miner_000000000019d6689c085,” but forgot. Last night I ran updates and rebooted. I have my prompt set to show machine name. I opened a terminal I went OH NO MY GOD I'VE BEEN HACKED SO HARD. twitter.com/...
I miss the tweets about how children watching the news...
I miss the tweets about how children watching the news would turn to their parents and say profound things about politics. (“Daddy why do none dawe caw it tweason?”) I wonder what happened. Do you lose your geopolitical insight when you turn five and a half?
If someone was promulgating Holocaust denial on a platform...
If someone was promulgating Holocaust denial on a platform you control, you could reset their passwords, then make them watch all of Shoah, streaming, before they log in. Absolutely could be on the table in the product meeting.
I believe that when you're born you get your own gender,...
I believe that when you're born you get your own gender, and it's a random 16 letter string that's a mix of letters, numbers, and punctuation, and no one tells you what it is.
Jacob. All God's databases are blessed! This is when you...
@harrisj Jacob. All God's databases are blessed! This is when you relax and read some old article about tuplespaces. Remember when we all thought we should learn Zope?
I mean the use case there is real but very specific. Data...
@harrisj I mean the use case there is real but very specific. Data modelling is so hard. We have tried objects, structs, types, lists, streams, loglogs, indexed trees, and full text search but the only thing everyone agrees on is that Postgres is pretty good and transactions can be ok.
I'm glad! I'm using it for a side project and it took me a...
@simonw@airtable I'm glad! I'm using it for a side project and it took me a moment to understand all the things it was doing but I'm getting fond of it. Glad to hear it makes sense in production!
Different use cases. It's great groupware for small,...
@knowtheory Different use cases. It's great groupware for small, relational high-value datasets that involve small teams. Shared tasks, editorial calendars, sales pipeline, team roster. My SQLite/JSON stuff is more about triaging gigs of trash from the commons into something easy to explore.
Receiving another company's marketing email blast about...
Receiving another company's marketing email blast about your own company first thing in the morning is utterly disorienting (but cool, once I understood what I was reading, and we do love Airtable). twitter.com/...
So a vulture goes to the airport with a dead rabbit in its...
So a vulture goes to the airport with a dead rabbit in its beak and they try to take it away from him, and the vulture says, wait! It's carrion! And that joke always reminds me of Sufjan Stevens because it's a Carrion LOL.
I'm not actually nostalgic, I love the glut, but it's wild...
@liza I'm not actually nostalgic, I love the glut, but it's wild that whole ways of folk exploration just kind of drifted away, and it seems wild in this era of hyperdocumentation and audit trails that we could even have existed at all.
Exactly, I read about This Is Our Music in Rolling Stone...
@liza Exactly, I read about This Is Our Music in Rolling Stone and went and bought it at a record store in Media, PA. And it was sort of weird on first listen but I'd paid $12 or whatever, so I made myself listen to it until it made sense.
I always think of this song today and dig it up, and every...
I always think of this song today and dig it up, and every year the sacred significance of Kramer and Shimmy Disc and rough production droney alt rock on high quality magnetic cassettes fades that much more. open.spotify.com/...
I have this fantasy of a writing desk in the middle of the...
@troutgirl I have this fantasy of a writing desk in the middle of the tent. I've also shopped for tents with closets, which exist. My wife is having none of it.
oh for me that one is HIGH NOON and you start at noon and...
@bennyfactor oh for me that one is HIGH NOON and you start at noon and go clockwise around the clock. the other one is that it's BCC like an email for border-collapse: collapse;
A NYC real estate broker keeps sending me unsolicited info...
A NYC real estate broker keeps sending me unsolicited info about this rental office space (in PowerPoint) and between the pictures on the wall and the “floor plan” and the fact that they've sent it like eight times I worry I'm in some kind of dream state and can't wake up. twitter.com/...
Ever since, whenever anyone talks about the supremacy of...
Ever since, whenever anyone talks about the supremacy of western culture or the rich legacy of European thought, in my brain it cuts right to this video: youtube.com/...
Every now and then I think back to a day much like today in...
Every now and then I think back to a day much like today in 1996 when my friend Wayne looked at me and said, “White people are singing about millions of peaches.” And I just didn't have an explanation.
my response is split evenly between "plus it was so...
@EmilyGorcenski my response is split evenly between "plus it was so amateurish back then, just goes to show you can't have a first-class panopticon without first-class devtools" and "we legitimately could have built a new and better civilization with the hours we spent debugging IE6"
My daughter just got to the part in the graphic novel...
My daughter just got to the part in the graphic novel adaptation of Anne of Green Gables where Matthew dies and just showed it to me and said, “Daddy?” so we had a little talk, but meanwhile I'm reliving my own grief about when Matthew died in Anne of Green Gables.
Paul Ford is a writer who is this and what is the address...
Paul Ford is a writer who is this and what is the address of the house and the kids are going to be in the office tomorrow and will be back in the office on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday off so I can get the money. twitter.com/...