January 2020, by Paul Ford (Ftrain)

Jan 30, 2020

It's been a while since I just stared at a screen shocked...

It's been a while since I just stared at a screen shocked by a product decision. I'd never heard of @practicefusion before today but it'll be part of case studies for the next 50 years. x.com/...

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Jan 30, 2020

The White Carbs are a band I started and our big songs were...

The White Carbs are a band I started and our big songs were Seven Serving Army and Paul and Biscuit.

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Jan 30, 2020

This is 500% related to me cutting out sugar and white...

This is 500% related to me cutting out sugar and white carbs.

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Jan 30, 2020

Now that I have 40TB in my home NAS, this weekend I used...

Now that I have 40TB in my home NAS, this weekend I used @CommonCrawl to download the index listing for a few billion URLs and extract a database of 50 million plus domain names. I have no idea what comes next but I'm excited.

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Jan 28, 2020

I see this and I think, what a shame that we're murdering...

I see this and I think, what a shame that we're murdering our planet.

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Jan 28, 2020

Any pictures of like a looming cat shot from below with the...

Any pictures of like a looming cat shot from below with the caption “what my fries see when I'm headed home from Arby's,” or whatever, just absolute gold, every time. Everyone has a love language and a meme format and those are both of mine.

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Jan 28, 2020

I've been mulling it over for some time before tweeting...

I've been mulling it over for some time before tweeting about it, but I think it's important to say that some of the commenters on my Mad Men recaps in Slate were extremely rude and unkind.

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Jan 24, 2020

This just feels like the simulation designers forgot to...

This just feels like the simulation designers forgot to finish their work.

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Jan 22, 2020

What is the best API documentation on the Internet?...

What is the best API documentation on the Internet? Everyone stays Stripe. What else?

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Jan 20, 2020

When you give your life to the advertising industry that...

When you give your life to the advertising industry that makes you a brandalorian.

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Jan 20, 2020

Everyone at home is upset that I pointed out that, now that...

Everyone at home is upset that I pointed out that, now that we have two cats, our house has twenty nipples.

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Jan 19, 2020

curious to see how this goes, sanctimonious spectacle is...

curious to see how this goes, sanctimonious spectacle is hard to pull off

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Jan 18, 2020

this is neat

this is neat nototo.app

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Jan 18, 2020

After a full year of thinking about it I finally bought my...

After a full year of thinking about it I finally bought my NAS and 40TB storage.

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Jan 16, 2020

The opposite of Steve Winwood is Steve Losewouldnt.

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Jan 15, 2020

Our cats are both a little sick, and the vet told us a sign...

Our cats are both a little sick, and the vet told us a sign of recovery is “zoomies,” when animals just run all around the place. Turns out that's the friendly term for Frenetic Random Activity Period, or FRAP. The good news is our cats FRAPped all over the place this morning.

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Jan 13, 2020

I've never seen perfection before this morning.

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Jan 12, 2020

There is apparently an actual store in the UK called...

There is apparently an actual store in the UK called Poundland and saying you're taking someone there just means you're going shopping.

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Jan 10, 2020

I went to get some labwork done and they couldn't transfer...

I went to get some labwork done and they couldn't transfer the prescription to the lab computer system because the doctor “used a special character.”

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Jan 9, 2020

A blog can have a microblog, as a tweet.

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Jan 8, 2020

If you remade Glengarry Glen Ross today it would just be a...

If you remade Glengarry Glen Ross today it would just be a screencast of Salesforce.

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Jan 6, 2020

I wonder if those old Time-Life book series are on eBay he...

I wonder if those old Time-Life book series are on eBay he asked himself as the deadline came closer.

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Jan 5, 2020

This is our cat Printer. He's named after a Brother printer...

This is our cat Printer. He's named after a Brother printer (basically). @maxhawkins put his Brother printer online and allowed anyone to print two pages to it, so @maureenflaherty sent Printer to his printer. x.com/...

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Jan 5, 2020

When your boss is like, what CMS are we going to use? And...

When your boss is like, what CMS are we going to use? And then you Google and the results are absolute SEO'd/paid advertising garbage? We made a list: github.com/...

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Jan 2, 2020

I mean really, if you want something worked out, look for...

I mean really, if you want something worked out, look for the busiest person who doesn't have any answers, that's the expert.

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Jan 2, 2020

It'd be a hell of a world if we could tell the difference...

It'd be a hell of a world if we could tell the difference between confidence and expertise.

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Jan 2, 2020

Pitch in confidence, write in despair.

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Jan 1, 2020

The parched landscape was littered with the remnants of the...

The parched landscape was littered with the remnants of the long-ago war. Jax set her ship next to the ancient alien Cathedral.

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“You can't land there! It's filled with alien bones!” she yelled at the ship. The AI couldn't see the cathedral, who knows why. “Let me drive.”

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Jan 1, 2020

Since I'm up I'd like to point out that the vast majority...

Since I'm up I'd like to point out that the vast majority of hard sci-fi short stories could be improved by cutting the five pages of scene-setting up to the first moment of dialogue (inner dialogue fine) and then using light exposition to explain the character's actions.

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Jan 1, 2020

Got that three hours of fitful 2020 sleep before my 6am...

Got that three hours of fitful 2020 sleep before my 6am shift to watch the sick kid. Although my wife's shift was the rough one—she never got to sleep and now she's wandering and mumbling in a daze. I owe 1,500 words to a magazine on the 2nd and they need to be funny.

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Dec 31, 2019

Our son just threw up most of 2019.

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