Personally, I love making life-or-death decisions involving...
@skamille Personally, I love making life-or-death decisions involving my children, using incomplete information, set against a constantly shifting collage of political infighting.
Collect about 20 recipes, do gravy calculators, gravy...
Collect about 20 recipes, do gravy calculators, gravy recipe generators, etc, etc. Vegan gravy. Gravy history. Offer some special gravy prayers. Just freaking own gravy. This is what WordPress is for.
You know what's wild is if you search for "gravy" there is...
You know what's wild is if you search for "gravy" there is no canonical gravy site. You don't get to Wikipedia until the 4th SERP. It feels like you could, between now and next Thanksgiving, assemble a truly great SEO-optimized gravy site and retire.
The thing I love about writing on the web for real though...
The thing I love about writing on the web for real though is that no matter how things are going, no matter how hard you work and how carefully you tune your language for maximum appeal, you are never, ever, ever going to beat a recipe for cranberry sauce.
...even though shit has many uses as fertilizer and even...
...even though shit has many uses as fertilizer and even though at many sewage treatment plants being "treated like shit" would be a high honor indeed.
A clicker game where you are playing a video game and it...
A clicker game where you are playing a video game and it just keeps asking you to download updates and infinite expansion packs and you can only win if you never try to play.
I think Flash was a great mediatype for self-contained apps...
@osulop I think Flash was a great mediatype for self-contained apps and a really insecure, opaque SDK for rich Internet applications that interacted with external APIs.
2000 me: How does HTML work now?
2020 me: Pretty easy, you...
2000 me: How does HTML work now?
2020 me: Pretty easy, you define app logic as unidirectional dataflow, then fake up pseudo-HTML components that mirror state, and a controller mounts fake-page deltas onto the browser surface.
I mean it's not exclusively them, although they took the...
@overlayered I mean it's not exclusively them, although they took the commons for granted and then did little (not nothing, though) to incentivize thoughtful growth and tons to incentivize pure, high-velocity signal, and now there's a ton to clean up.
We held hands and at the end I said what I was most...
We held hands and at the end I said what I was most thankful for about each family member, except my son licked my thumb to be funny and I knocked over a dish pushing away and yelled at him.
It's very depressing to think that we once shared a country...
It's very depressing to think that we once shared a country that responded to a public health crisis by funding the development, rehearsal, marketing, and performance of creative works.
VIRIONS! A LIVING BLOG POST PRODUCTION ON HUMANKIND'S...
VIRIONS! A LIVING BLOG POST PRODUCTION ON HUMANKIND'S CONQUEST of COVID-19! Brought to you by the Federal Streaming Video Project, a division of the Federal Internet Progress Administration. [Silhouette of someone smashing a coronavirus with a bat.]
Stove Top is a wild product in that you probably want it...
@michelet@fka_tabs@kosamari Stove Top is a wild product in that you probably want it only a few times a year max but when you have it it's just tremendous. It's just a perfect commodity.
Amazon is hiring Pinkertons and Apple's head of ethics is...
Amazon is hiring Pinkertons and Apple's head of ethics is accused of bribing cops with iPads in order to get a concealed carry permit. Anyway that's Monday. morganhilltimes.com/...
I was broke but bright so I got a lot of potential speeches...
@tressiemcphd I was broke but bright so I got a lot of potential speeches as a kid. I just kind of kept hitting reload on the same mental web page for 20 years. Constant planning. Expect no support or even comprehension: My job is to explain what I'm doing and why it matters. Repeat forever.
Gerry Rafferty
Steve Winwood
Traffic
Al Stewart
Peter...
@buzz Gerry Rafferty Steve Winwood Traffic Al Stewart Peter Frampton Joe Walsh Don Henley The Eagles Boz Skaggs Steely Dan Thin Lizzy Roxy Music Creedence Supertramp The Who 10cc Bob Seeger Genesis Carole King James Taylor Paul Simon Carly Simon CSNY Neil Young Gordon Lightfoot Poco
Imagine getting through all the slides and driving your...
Imagine getting through all the slides and driving your point home and then saying “Thank you for coming to my Tad Tilk.” And that's it. You remember you're the Tad Tilk person every night before you go to bed for the rest of your life.
Fun fact: I met @maureenflaherty at a cleanup event...
Fun fact: I met @maureenflaherty at a cleanup event canoeing and pulling trash out of the Gowanus Canal, and now we've been married over 600 years. Sure, it might look like a toxic, death-spewing superfund site to YOU but...well, I mean, it is, but nearby rents were cheap. x.com/...
Right but nothing is more vertically integrated than...
@ShortFormErnie@harrymccracken Right but nothing is more vertically integrated than selling 20-packs of C batteries AND shitty remote-controlled dune buggies that require about 20 C batteries per hour.
MY constitution guarantees that I can drive my tank 90 mph...
@GordonAChaffin@Greg_Lindsay@tressiemcphd MY constitution guarantees that I can drive my tank 90 mph to the store for six pounds of beef and if some cyclist gets in my way I can murder them.
The PDF export is a mess too. But the collaboration is...
@ChappellTracker The PDF export is a mess too. But the collaboration is great. Maybe the new aesthetic is that the end document doesn't matter if the social experience of creating it is good.
Today someone for the first time shared the classic parable...
Today someone for the first time shared the classic parable of free market economics "I, Pencil" with me for the first time and literally every paragraph made my eyeballs pulse. So I share it with you. Don't let them move your cheese, my friends. fee.org/...
Waldo I swear to God if you read it your brains will fall...
@waldojaquith Waldo I swear to God if you read it your brains will fall right out of your ears. Someone trolled me with it today and I am just about burst into flames. It has an afterword by Milton Friedman.
One day this we will be moving on from all this chaos. It's...
One day this we will be moving on from all this chaos. It's my job to plan and think about how that will go, so I wrote a little about Tech After Trump. postlight.com/...
I like the way the kitchen looks like they just...
I like the way the kitchen looks like they just cut-and-pasted one kitchen several times in photoshop. Come on ultra-high-net-worth individuals it's a kitchen island not a kitchen archipelago.
I've read a lot of cyberpunk fiction and there is no way...
I've read a lot of cyberpunk fiction and there is no way they had an Umm Kulthum hologram concert in Dubai without at least seven warring Eurasian hacker combines attending and exchanging illegal black ice neural uplink microsofts.
Maybe we should just be able to Venmo elementary school...
@fluxistrad Maybe we should just be able to Venmo elementary school teachers $100 for inspo. They need the money and we need the advice. From the same document: "Try once. Try again. Take a break."
If you need to unwind, here's a 1979 interview with...
If you need to unwind, here's a 1979 interview with composer Laurie Spiegel about algorithmic and digital composition, with lots of her music. archive.org/...
We are lucky, there is good practical stuff and she's...
@fka_tabs We are lucky, there is good practical stuff and she's encouraging him to be a helper in the class because he loves to cheerlead and that helps him focus etc. It was just very sweet.
She's very patient and effective and has broad parameters...
@DearDara She's very patient and effective and has broad parameters around remote learning, which has ended up with him being a "helper" who boosts other kids and helps rally them to do math and stuff. It's good practice and we are lucky.
This event was truly fun today and the questions were...
This event was truly fun today and the questions were great. We were expecting 20 people and 100 came. We'll do another one soon. Thanks for coming! x.com/...
Want to add one more Zoom call to your day? In JUST A FEW...
Want to add one more Zoom call to your day? In JUST A FEW minutes @richziade and I are going to be doing our first ever @Postlight WEBINAR (I'm sorry) about how to keep your software project from being killed before it even starts. Come on over! us02web.zoom.us/...
I'm a grandson/son/brother to vets. I've been advising and...
I'm a grandson/son/brother to vets. I've been advising and working with Vets Who Code for years. It's a tightly-run coop org focused on building skills, deeply intersectional, free, and it gets vets into good tech jobs. Support it for Veteran's Day! x.com/...
I once downloaded all the books in Gitenberg spreading the...
@dancow I once downloaded all the books in Gitenberg spreading the load across 12 simultaneous cores and then screwed something up and had to git pull all of them again and git did not care at all. Never peeped. APIwise it truly dgaf. Twitter would have come to my house with cops.
We just did a rehearsal on this and it's slowly getting...
We just did a rehearsal on this and it's slowly getting more and more ridiculous. Come if you want a brief distraction from democracy. Thursday at 1PMET! x.com/...
If you're looking for some chill audio to listen to, this...
If you're looking for some chill audio to listen to, this oral history with a much older Upton Sinclair about how he created EPIC (End Poverty in California) in the 30s, lost his race for Governor, and avoided getting beat up is good stuff. archive.org/...
“How can a nation capable of turning the simple act of...
“How can a nation capable of turning the simple act of revealing the gender of your child into a wildfire that burns down an entire state be so insistent on screwing things up?” mcsweeneys.net/...
In total seriousness in at the 11 minute mark he stops...
In total seriousness in youtu.be/... at the 11 minute mark he stops talking about the great election robbery and starts selling cigars. @richziade found it first. One of all-time great videos in American history.
Even though I love and can't imagine leaving NYC, I still...
Even though I love and can't imagine leaving NYC, I still sometimes feel in my heart that PA/Philly is a more authentic state/city pairing than NY/NYC. x.com/...
Whoa been following @JohnFetterman since all the Brooklyn...
Whoa been following @JohnFetterman since all the Brooklyn wheatpaste artists moved off the Gowanus Canal to Braddock, PA, and it's really great to see him thriving.
I've done the Big Unfollow 2x and it absolutely drives...
@maura@hhavrilesky I've done the Big Unfollow 2x and it absolutely drives people bananas. But you know what works great is take a couple hours to unfollow everyone who doesn't follow back or who posts > 5x daily. You end up in a much chattier, smaller place.
Just about every night I hit up the Internet Archive to...
Just about every night I hit up the Internet Archive to find the audio that will put me to sleep. Tonight I found something exceptionally sleepy. archive.org/...
I actually did see a bunch of dudes on big motorcycles...
I actually did see a bunch of dudes on big motorcycles riding around Brooklyn with Biden flags. Like a month ago. Revving engines and everything. On Church and Coney Island Ave. x.com/...
There was a moment in the 90s as people started using...
@robynkanner There was a moment in the 90s as people started using Illustrator where everyone went gradient wild. That was tough. But I really like a nice gradient and you can pull in some surprising colors without blowing up your brand system.
Just the order ballots are counted. Many of the votes...
@xxbobbyzxx@realDonaldTrump Just the order ballots are counted. Many of the votes getting counted in PA are mail in ballots and going Democratic 7 to 3, or from Dem strongholds. They expect him to win NC but the rest are leaning pretty Dem.
When I was briefly planted at Bloomberg I joked about there...
@emilybell When I was briefly planted at Bloomberg I joked about there being no place to cry and...someone did and sincerely so tell me about the crying stairwell.
Just shouting this out again if you're in Ditmas. They're...
Just shouting this out again if you're in Ditmas. They're feeding so many people with max efficiency and tons of community involvement. People In Need - COVID19 Food Insecurity Campaign gofundme.com/...