Here's Studs Terkel interviewing Dorothy Parker. It's rough because he loves her work and she refuses to accept the smallest bit of praise. She's incredibly self-aware. studsterkel.wfmt.com/...
History will look back on us and find us wanting. But...
History will look back on us and find us wanting. But history is also a smug weenie in a weird helmet and plastic boots. So completely sure we were dumb and couldn't see our problems. If only HISTORY could have gotten in there it would have fixed EVERYTHING. Shut up, history.
I read this fact from 1876 this morning and went to track...
I read this fact from 1876 this morning and went to track it down and it is extremely suspicious. Citation definitely needed. en.wikipedia.org/...twitter.com/...
I wonder if one reason image-based languages like Smalltalk...
I wonder if one reason image-based languages like Smalltalk don't thrive is that with file-based languages like Python you basically are always throwing away your old code with each new project and never have to face most of your bad decisions.
There was a big fire in the parking structure at Kings...
There was a big fire in the parking structure at Kings Plaza today and the "Popular Times" widget on Google tracked that no one was going to the mall. twitter.com/...
I mean also Mavis Gallant and lots of others. There's...
@icpetrie I mean also Mavis Gallant and lots of others. There's really a lot of be said for capitalism-ambiguous, sexually-ambiguous, occasionally Catholic Canadian literature for the self-absorbed American.
(I don't know if I'm gonna reread them but the Vidal empire...
(I don't know if I'm gonna reread them but the Vidal empire series is extremely fun and doesn't get brought up enough in wonderful pulpy historical novels, especially EMPIRE, with the Caroline Sanford character.)
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2056:“Dad seems okay. He was screaming about XML again. You...
@karenmcgrane 2056:“Dad seems okay. He was screaming about XML again. You have to visit him next month, I can't handle it. It's weird, all the people in the home just go to this room they call The Lab and use these giant screens.”
MOST LIKELY—they just put you in a home, it's not like I'm...
@karenmcgrane MOST LIKELY—they just put you in a home, it's not like I'm going to live in the apartment with them, plus they won't have grandkids until I'm dead. You and I are in the exact same boat. TBH we should all just invest in a midatlantic web dev retirement community now.
That we are having a national dialog regarding the...
That we are having a national dialog regarding the acceptable parameters for randomly entering someone's home and killing them makes the concept of national dialogs very suspicious.
I think short term to evaluate tech and debug obvious human...
@ginatrapani I think short term to evaluate tech and debug obvious human stuff, and a year later to go, how would we do that today, knowing what we know now and how the people involved behaved?
Does anyone do postmortems a year later? Like if you ask me...
Does anyone do postmortems a year later? Like if you ask me today what should have gone better on project X that finished 12 months ago, I can see it much more clearly.
This is tomorrow at 6:30PM if you want free beer, free...
This is tomorrow at 6:30PM if you want free beer, free snacks, and a free chance to learn about the entire future of your technology career. twitter.com/...
And through all of it you're just slowly watching the...
And through all of it you're just slowly watching the windows of possibility for Wednesday slowly close as you know you're going to be exhausted and so will the kid you pick up from school.
At 5:50, 70 minutes into soothing an anxious little boy...
At 5:50, 70 minutes into soothing an anxious little boy (school) who can't sleep (tummy hurts, so thirsty, needs a brown blanket) I get him curled up with me on the couch and finally feel him stop twitching. A minute after that he wakes up and asks, was John Henry famous?
My first thought is that Remnants of Gordon sounds like a...
My first thought is that Remnants of Gordon sounds like a 90s alt-rock band but then I remembered that Superchunk is out here fighting for climate change and wonder what this world even has come to. twitter.com/...twitter.com/...
One of the goals when you start a studio is to earn...
One of the goals when you start a studio is to earn recognition from your peers. It takes a minute. This is year two and we're getting there. Thanks to our design team + fearless leader @redkeg for all they do. twitter.com/...
TERNARY FACT: I'm going as machine learning for Hallowe'en...
TERNARY FACT: I'm going as machine learning for Hallowe'en and my costume is 98.8% likely to be a scary pumpkin, 85% likely to be a scary pumpernickel bagel, and 40% likely to just be a scary pump. meetup.com/...
FACT: Everything they say about Bitcoin is actually true...
FACT: Everything they say about Bitcoin is actually true when it's about machine learning. SECONDARY FACT: It's going to be controlled by giant platform companies. So if you're a mammal that wants to survive the dinosaurs, come to Postlight Thursday eve. meetup.com/...
Friends we're gonna have a nice chat at work about THE WAY...
Friends we're gonna have a nice chat at work about THE WAY THAT MACHINE LEARNING IS GOING TO UTTERLY DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF YOUR TECHNOLOGY CAREER and you should come to it if you want to make enough money to send your kids to Moon College in 2035. meetup.com/...
My son does a thing where we're playing Battleship and he...
My son does a thing where we're playing Battleship and he drops all his pegs. While he picks them up he gets thirsty, so he gets water–but drops ice cubes all over the floor. While he picks those up he has to pee, but knocks all the hairpins off the sink. I call this Dropception.
My son's first day of Saturday soccer class (daughter doing...
My son's first day of Saturday soccer class (daughter doing ballet; their own requests). I ran into three other dads I know at the park field where seven different soccer academies/practices are set up. My experience as a kid was...more self-directed. This is such a whole world.
FRIENDS. Next Come on out next Thursday evening! We're...
FRIENDS. Next Come on out next Thursday evening! We're gonna make it a live podcasty kinda thing, with snacks and beers, and talk about how Machine Learning is going to ruin product development, or not. meetup.com/...twitter.com/...
tbh i'm just so into my bullshit, writing on the side, and...
@joeljohnson tbh i'm just so into my bullshit, writing on the side, and enjoying building the company and wild about the kids. just can't get the food under control. ecstasy, agony, ginger snaps.
Despite all the hermeneutic battles over REST and RPC and...
Despite all the hermeneutic battles over REST and RPC and so forth, URLs in a browser are so key to regular humans building and understanding web systems and it's sad to see them obscured. Imagine if all the books in your library had white covers with white lettering. twitter.com/...
Okay, 3,500 printed SHIP IT! THE GAME OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT...
Okay, 3,500 printed SHIP IT! THE GAME OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT boxes are headed to their destinations. The demand was high and we couldn't print enough for everyone, so we made a PRINT & PLAY PDF version of the game which you can download here: airtable.com/...twitter.com/...
i once spent a half hour explaining condé nast to a...
@karenmcgrane i once spent a half hour explaining condé nast to a therapist and he said, “thank you, a lot of my other patients work there and this has been really helpful.”
You look great, fuck them. I watched that show after...
@soniasaraiya You look great, fuck them. I watched that show after reading your review (because I'm dumb) and you nailed what was wrong with it. Worse, it knows it's pandering trash because some drone bits WERE okay and they made wonderful Wendell Pierce a sponge to soak up the lazy racism.
that marketing guy who moved to a pig farm to sculpt and...
that marketing guy who moved to a pig farm to sculpt and won't let anyone mention trump is still out there crumpling stuff completely unaware of what's happening erikhagerman.com/...
Frustrated consumers who feel underserved and disrespected...leading to joke community-created media...leading to slightly ironic fascist or socialist-realist aesthetics...proto-gamergate in the more aggrieved parts of Amiga fandom...THINKING FACE EMOJI
this is a song that was an audio track on a German...
this is a song that was an audio track on a German shareware CD of Amiga software in 2000 about how the Amiga community needs to come together and it's tongue-in-cheek and in English, but it's also very...Teutonically martial archive.org/...