No! Thank you for the tip!
@jarroddicker @relistenapp No! Thank you for the tip!
➛Ftrain, by Paul Ford
December 2020
A thousand years from now we'll all be gone and maybe...
A thousand years from now we'll all be gone and maybe they'll find miraculously-preserved bubble wrap and be completely confused but also excited and horrified to analyze the air from our era. Anyway I'm cleaning up under the Christmas tree.
➛Oh noooooooooooooooo
Every now and then I can't sleep so I look through for...
Every now and then I can't sleep so I look through archive.org for some audio to help me sleep and I find something utterly wild like this archive.org/...
➛Meatless Beat Manifesto!
Thank you for setting that up for me. Truly the greatest...
You may be, especially if it involves miners.
I'm not accusing anyone I just think it's interesting.
Also while taking this important picture I spent several...
Also while taking this important picture I spent several minutes figuring out why I couldn't get rid of this shadow until I realized I was wearing a headlamp.
Teens lived here.
are you all giants
POV “We do a little reading series and we'd love to have...
This is just an all time great thing.
@jenszalai This is just an all time great thing.
➛Never been so much a dad as cleaning the kitchen just now...
Never been so much a dad as cleaning the kitchen just now going “There's some chores in this house.”
➛Ähhmmmmmmm
@said_mitch Ähhmmmmmmm
➛Neon golden holds up!
Is it no-twist or not-wist I refuse to research it.
Is it no-twist or not-wist I refuse to research it.
➛Just little pumpkins.
@JennyMack Just little pumpkins.
➛This is true. The only song of that era I know that still...
@waldojaquith This is true. The only song of that era I know that still makes me go "whoah" is Scarecrow by Ministry.
➛Ted ted ted ted ted
For whatever xmas reason I'm listening to the music I liked...
For whatever xmas reason I'm listening to the music I liked in high school, i.e. Jane's Addiction/Faith No More/Nirvana/Alice in Chains, and what used to sound so incredibly hard and scary back then now makes me go, oh god, they're TINY CONFUSED DRUG-ADDLED BABIES, HELP THEM.
➛Merry Christmas, nerds.
Merry Christmas, nerds.
➛Merry Christmas!
Lots of buffering sets of humans into bars or at someone's...
@_cynar @funkotronic @profmusgrave Lots of buffering sets of humans into bars or at someone's house before heading to the main event. Also calling your service or home machine. Also, really late people got removed from the cohort after a few fails because they wrecked the fun. We put up with way more shit now.
➛Ah, thank you!
What's in the dome?
If, like me, you like to stare into the holiday abyss, in...
If, like me, you like to stare into the holiday abyss, in 1941 NBC created a show that was just WWII refugee kids scattered around the world sweetly calling their sweet parents back in the UK to say Merry Christmas. archive.org/...
➛Hooray!
I'm sorry for your loss.
Functional programming correctly identified that input and...
Functional programming correctly identified that input and output are side effects and by implication that we are the disease.
➛Personally I wouldn't render on the client or the server.
Personally I wouldn't render on the client or the server.
➛Yep. The glossary of safe software terms.
@waldojaquith Yep. The glossary of safe software terms.
➛Boring is the highest praise!
@waldojaquith Boring is the highest praise!
➛I don't think anyone wants to spend tons of money on...
@waldojaquith I don't think anyone wants to spend tons of money on something boring. I've screwed it up so many times and keep it reallllly simple whether selling to NGOs or for-profit orgs: Stable, fast, scaleable, world-class, maintainable, “incremental improvement.”
➛You know where I've gotten in trouble in the opposite...
@waldojaquith You know where I've gotten in trouble in the opposite direction is saying “we will use boring technologies” as a positive pointing to stable low-maintenance platforms. Unparseable to buyers of all kinds.
➛Been using it with a few friends for a year plus. It's...
@_loveallthis Been using it with a few friends for a year plus. It's truly ephemeral and goofy. Conversations come and go.
➛I was gonna write a big thing here for the @Postlight blog,...
I was gonna write a big thing here for the @Postlight blog, but mostly I just wanted to show off our Minecraft skills and say that I respect the people with whom I work. So I did. This year was rough but it's over. We're still hiring.
postlight.com/...
➛postlight.com/...
We're making a strong bet on low-poly aesthetics to take...
Tweet
It's so wild seeing YouTube "check THIS out" aesthetics...
@pauldegnan It's so wild seeing YouTube "check THIS out" aesthetics layered on top of state-level corruption exposé.
➛It's literally: Hi guys! I know you all love pranks so...
It's literally: Hi guys! I know you all love pranks so today we're going to call one of my Putin-sponsored state executioners and get him to confess to being involved in poisoning my underwear. Don't forget to like and subscribe!
➛this is the most astonishing video
this is the most astonishing video youtube.com/...
➛Hi honey how was your day? I got the bread for dinner. Did...
Hi honey how was your day? I got the bread for dinner. Did you keep hearing helicopters around the apartment? Wait, are we going on a trip?
➛That dude that Navalny pranked into spilling...what happens...
That dude that Navalny pranked into spilling...what happens to him?
➛mfw i was expecting 67 kilometers per second per megaparsec...
mfw i was expecting 67 kilometers per second per megaparsec expansion but it's actually 73.2 kilometers per second per megaparsec expansion
➛Oh god now this too
Oh god now this too quantamagazine.org/...
➛Ah interesting! (I find that period really interesting so...
@kevinbaker Ah interesting! (I find that period really interesting so maybe I should try again.)
➛I've started it a few times. IDK. I keep wanting to come...
@kevinbaker I've started it a few times. IDK. I keep wanting to come back to it. What did you get out of it?
➛ELLE is fantastic to write for and has wonderful editors!
@felixsalmon @stephcliff @ellenjpollock1 @Choire ELLE is fantastic to write for and has wonderful editors!
➛Got the splinter out, confident about posting again.
Got the splinter out, confident about posting again.
➛Pretty much done w/social media, not worth the pain.
Pretty much done w/social media, not worth the pain.
➛I got a splinter in my posting finger.
I got a splinter in my posting finger.
➛Ah, yes, nothing destroys property values like a...public...
Which imaginary Christmas album would sell the most?
Which imaginary Christmas album would sell the most?
➛Rogue One is a Life Day movie.
Rogue One is a Life Day movie.
➛Asta!
@tangoldman Asta!
➛It really is a good feeling.
@MoisheLettvin It really is a good feeling.
➛“Dad I know what kind of animal you'd be.” “Be careful...
“Dad I know what kind of animal you'd be.”
“Be careful buddy, you're playing a dangerous game.”
(Long pause.)
“A lion. Because it's proud and majestic.”
“Good work.”
“And it has a temper.”
➛“Be careful buddy, you're playing a dangerous game.”
(Long pause.)
“A lion. Because it's proud and majestic.”
“Good work.”
“And it has a temper.”
god that's a good gif
watching mandalorian friday after sundown while all these...
watching mandalorian friday after sundown while all these weird carp ads show up...gefilte disturbance in the force
➛I've muttered the words, "I will never assemble another...
I've muttered the words, "I will never assemble another piece of IKEA furniture as long as I live," at least once a year for 20 years.
➛boring conversation anyway
I'm taking this literally because the alternative is...
@jfeckstein I'm taking this literally because the alternative is terrifying.
➛Even better if you shoot a cow.
@benpopper @getpoppn Even better if you shoot a cow.
➛Congratulations!!!
@JessieNYC @oiioxford Congratulations!!!
➛I always learn like five new things talking to you, it's...
@JeromeHardaway I always learn like five new things talking to you, it's the best mentoring payoff I've had yet.
➛Cleaning up some dusty corners and can't remember when this...
Comes to us all
@AlexJamesFitz Comes to us all
➛It's gonna be wild when young millennial dads have ten year...
It's gonna be wild when young millennial dads have ten year old daughters and are saying “Yassss I stan a Nutcracker Suite ballet QUEEN.”
➛When you think about it, “luggage” is a great word. We...
When you think about it, “luggage” is a great word. We should call bedclothes “sleepage” and silverware “chewage.”
➛Boy this is swell.
it was time
It's the combination of it being both endless and pointless...
@savannahmillion It's the combination of it being both endless and pointless and yet some little voice in the back of my head going, “these are the people who will inherit the earth.”
➛Look it's fine until you start reading books about WWII and...
I'll do it if you run product
Strong agree
@jarroddicker Strong agree
➛That thread is really something else.
I know but it's so entertaining
Shame there are no YA novels that address this rarest of...
Shame there are no YA novels that address this rarest of subjects.
➛It's really too bad that absolutely no one in psychology,...
It's really too bad that absolutely no one in psychology, philosophy, ethics, sociology, literature, or art has considered parent/child power dynamics related to class, just a huge oversight in the history of those disciplines that everyone in the thread is rushing to address.
➛It's like watching Scooby Doo dubbed with the audio of a...
It's like watching Scooby Doo dubbed with the audio of a WWII documentary while on painkillers.
➛There's a tweet on here about parents being oppressors that...
There's a tweet on here about parents being oppressors that has exploded in so many kinds of outrage and inrage. It's the perfect text and I can't look away. One person entreats men to cry, someone makes a joke and is accused of genocide, another posts a sexual cookie monster.
➛Joke from my daughter (we workshopped it a little): Two...
Joke from my daughter (we workshopped it a little):
Two zombies were texting.
One wrote "WHAT'S THAT SMELL"
The other zombie wrote back, "IDK"
➛Two zombies were texting.
One wrote "WHAT'S THAT SMELL"
The other zombie wrote back, "IDK"
i swear to god i listen to music by people who don't own a...
i swear to god i listen to music by people who don't own a single modular synth
➛I published this as a self-own and now I'm listening to...
I published this as a self-own and now I'm listening to Leraine by Kettel on repeat so
➛i like all kinds of music
Das Keyboard full blast is like a train coming through.
@maureenflaherty @mmcwatters Das Keyboard full blast is like a train coming through.
➛that's just intensely...appropriate and cool
we talked about this, ⦿
Listening it's amazing!
If you love that I have a whole 20 minute stand-up routine...
If you love that I have a whole 20 minute stand-up routine about Telefon Tel Aviv's Map of What Is Effortless.
➛And is there a Fifth Tet?
And is there a Fifth Tet?
➛This is filled with great thing. Also: People doing things...
good engineer mindset here darin
i mean at this stage in my life I have like five old...
@lisafleisher i mean at this stage in my life I have like five old keyboards already broken in and ready to go
➛Is this good
Wooow
@everyplace Wooow
➛Just logged back on to share this.
Just had a dream that the Washington Examiner could show...
Just had a dream that the Washington Examiner could show video using ceramic plates, and they ended a segment using “Sail Away” by Randy Newman without knowing what the song was about, and I was trying to tweet it to mock them but my phone melted and I woke up. I'm gonna log off.
➛Tweet
No shame in it. Happens to me all the time.
No shame in it. Happens to me all the time.
➛The true twitter brain is unfolded into a single long...
The true twitter brain is unfolded into a single long unbending line.
➛I see once again we are experiencing the great brain...
I see once again we are experiencing the great brain smoothening.
➛In the promoted tweet cinematic universe that rabbit ate...
In the promoted tweet cinematic universe that rabbit ate the two MIT grads who sell wine.
➛This promoted tweet makes perfect sense and is relevant to...
Not one song about Canarsie.
Not one song about Canarsie.
➛I worry that The National gives people the wrong idea about...
I worry that The National gives people the wrong idea about Brooklyn.
➛square
Apparently I am asking way too many questions about this...
Apparently I am asking way too many questions about this Dolly Parton Christmas special.
➛So glad you left the sheepshaver window title bar.
Hooray! Beautiful!
@rstephensme Hooray! Beautiful!
➛It's a classic!
@modernserf It's a classic!
➛Cog-nisz-uh-buhl
@silviakillings Cog-nisz-uh-buhl
➛exactly
@susannahkirby exactly
➛HERE THEY COME TO FLUFF THE FLOOFSTER YEAH (alice in chains...
@DavidLublin @jennschiffer HERE THEY COME TO FLUFF THE FLOOFSTER YEAH (alice in chains but I know what you're talking about)
➛Henry is very lucky
@DavidLublin Henry is very lucky
➛We've gone from Gilmore Girls to entire conversations being...
We've gone from Gilmore Girls to entire conversations being like, "The sun...what's the color...banana?"
➛No one is discussing why, nine months into the pandemic, no...
No one is discussing why, nine months into the pandemic, no one in my family is able to finish a sentence.
➛And in the end only the brands remain
@phyllisstein And in the end only the brands remain
➛Tweet
Tweet
Lori help
Tweet
“Fuck it, Snorks.” —Disney
“Fuck it, Snorks.” —Disney
➛It's like they walked into a Kay-Bee Toy & Hobby circa...
It's like they walked into a Kay-Bee Toy & Hobby circa 1982 and went, All of this, but movies, now.
➛Please, no more content.
Please, no more content.
➛Wm. Morris said you can't have art without resistance in...
@petervandijck @benedictevans Wm. Morris said you can't have art without resistance in the materials. So: Demoscene, new retrogames, PICO8, scenes around various DAWs and synths. Anything more focused on constraint than power. Communities will/are building little cloud scenes w/low-code tools.
➛Kind of leather. But still annoyed.
Kate toast is $62
@indiemaiden Kate toast is $62
➛Would give up a year of my life to have written “the...
Would give up a year of my life to have written “the croissant is glowing.”
➛Source:
Source: nytimes.com/...
➛I will mumble “the croissant is glowing” to myself for the...
I will mumble “the croissant is glowing” to myself for the rest of my life.
➛Tweet
Right across the street here.
I don't think I've EVER seen a new media thing actually...
I don't think I've EVER seen a new media thing actually launch as quickly and efficiently as @brickhousecoop just did. thebrick.house/...
➛Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
@emilybell Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
➛I'll be 96 years old, more machine than man, buttonholing...
I'll be 96 years old, more machine than man, buttonholing people with my cyberfingers and saying, "there used to be magazines, and airlines, and colors, and the news was divided into articles, which actually had endings, which we called kickers, and they never worked. BUT ONE DAY
➛I once wrote about the Pantone color of the year for an...
I once wrote about the Pantone color of the year for an airline magazine and when I interviewed a guy (who ran "Pantone weddings") if he knew what the next color would be, he said, "I can't tell you, but I have...an inkling." And that was the day I went to kicker heaven.
➛But still very angry this was rejected
Congratulations to Spelling Bee
Congratulations to Spelling Bee nytimes.com/...
➛Shame that @patbits is disqualified by working there.
@AlexJamesFitz Shame that @patbits is disqualified by working there.
➛You just don't hear that much about the wisdom of crowds...
You just don't hear that much about the wisdom of crowds these days.
➛Oh definitely apply. We are adapting and will gladly chat...
@LexInterior @kevboh Oh definitely apply. We are adapting and will gladly chat if there is a fit.
➛Sigh.
@perryhewitt @Postlight Sigh.
➛Me too...but yeah it holds up?
@bluechoochoo Me too...but yeah it holds up?
➛Definitely a MSFT "delivered with ironic portent but isn't...
@bluechoochoo Definitely a MSFT "delivered with ironic portent but isn't it cool actually?" aesthetic going on. youtube.com/...
➛It's 2020 and Santa and Frosty are visiting @Postlight and...
It's 2020 and Santa and Frosty are visiting @Postlight and my own children refuse to unmute and are in the private Zoom chat saying rude things to me. I am the CEO.
yes!
It just is spectacular. I'm so happy.
@clockwerks @Postlight It just is spectacular. I'm so happy.
➛It's time for a new mask!
@dodaistewart It's time for a new mask!
➛Usually at this time of year @Postlight flies everyone in...
Usually at this time of year @Postlight flies everyone in from all over the world to work out of our office in Flatiron (families come too). This year...
Ahem.
@film_girl Ahem.
➛How it started How it's going
It just sucks. A whole chunk of culture just smashed to...
@neversent It just sucks. A whole chunk of culture just smashed to bits.
➛My god
My god
My god
It's just folks! I want to know how the kids are doing and...
@dkoblesky @livlab It's just folks! I want to know how the kids are doing and how the story turns out!
➛I really do believe like, three or four @-replies over a...
this does not apply to you you're exempt
Everyone who tells you they despise small talk is ready to...
Everyone who tells you they despise small talk is ready to share over 10,000 facts about Star Wars.
➛Imagine the exasperation of his Cambridge tailor when he...
@ItsTheBrandi Imagine the exasperation of his Cambridge tailor when he asks for all that specialty green fabric.
➛It's short for Woodington
It's short for Woodington
➛Woods is an extremely Harvard name.
Woods is an extremely Harvard name.
➛just...what the hell
If you hold down the shift key the Witcher runs.
Who could have predicted this incredibly unlikely outcome.
@benfinoradin Who could have predicted this incredibly unlikely outcome.
➛I'm sorry i made a mistake.
@xxbobbyzxx I'm sorry i made a mistake.
➛Tweet
What at about white papers?
I basically agree. I like the slab serif he used in...
Similar mindset. Computer Modern is a Didot-style typeface...
@Bill_Braine Similar mindset. Computer Modern is a Didot-style typeface that was released by Knuth with the free and very influential (esp. in the sciences) TeX typesetting system--the source code to the font was open, so it's nice to think of coming home to open, shared culture every day.
➛I'm actually in pain from laughing at this.
Yes but only a few blocks.
This is kind of a serious question. What if you want to get...
This is kind of a serious question. What if you want to get custom 8" house numbers for your address in brushed metal in Computer Modern.
➛When the call to action speaks to your very soul.
Rough to wake up to this.
@avram @davidhsiegel Rough to wake up to this.
➛Hustle culture looks so weak in comparison.
Hustle culture looks so weak in comparison.
➛I will think about this schedule for the rest of my life.
@mariabustillos I will think about this schedule for the rest of my life.
➛It's so good. I listened like 200 times.
Bathroom, emails
Aww man. But congratulations!
It'll be the cliffhanger ending of season 3, when Ted has...
It'll be the cliffhanger ending of season 3, when Ted has to choose whether to accept a British knighthood or return to America to become the U.S. Vice President. Then we'll all know what we did.
➛I WAS!
We should know and accept that fans are going to ruin Ted...
We should know and accept that fans are going to ruin Ted Lasso. No television show can survive that crushing level of emotional need and projection.
➛Tweet
You're going to DREAMFORCE!!!
@mathowie @scotthorn You're going to DREAMFORCE!!!
➛What is she thinking?
I keep looking at these whales from 1804.
Aww Sara you helped me find my voice!
@SaraKeiko Aww Sara you helped me find my voice!
➛In a way, Minecraft is a game about cutting and pasting.
In a way, Minecraft is a game about cutting and pasting.
➛Platforms!
@mikeindustries Platforms!
➛I just wanted to tweet it!
I mean I'd LOVE to look inside his brain. But I think the...
@mattmoehr I mean I'd LOVE to look inside his brain. But I think the thing is, once that guy decides you're going to like him, you're going to like him.
➛“I hope at the very least that they replace the Slack...
“I hope at the very least that they replace the Slack ‘brush knock’ tchk-tchk-tchk with the sound of Marc Benioff yelling ‘Ohana!’” link.medium.com/...
➛And lastly, I've been trying to write for an hour a day,...
And lastly, I've been trying to write for an hour a day, and I find the Salesforce acquisition of Slack incredibly interesting. So I wrote up a paragraph-by-paragraph reaction to the Slack/Salesforce official press release. ftrain.medium.com/...
➛"Recently, while watching The Queen’s Gambit, a beautifully...
"Recently, while watching The Queen’s Gambit, a beautifully shot and acted Netflix drama, I was reminded that I actually hate chess." There you go. postlight.com/... You think Accenture is going to take you there?
➛Second, my illustrious co-founder @richziade has an amazing...
Second, my illustrious co-founder @richziade has an amazing instinct for risk, in that he sees it EVERYWHERE. So I pushed him to write about that, and in classic Rich fashion, he used chess as a metaphor...for how NOT to look at risk, because chess sucks. postlight.com/...
➛Ben got in touch after we made fun of the Google Cloud...
Ben got in touch after we made fun of the Google Cloud hamburger menu on a previous podcast, which is a boss move, and man did we enjoy learning how he sees product at "Planet-scale compute" scale.
➛First—a podcast with @bnlwilson about being a product...
First—a podcast with @bnlwilson about being a product leader at Google Cloud, where you need to work at a very, very abstract altitude to deliver abstract things to purchasers of abstractions, and yet it all has to work. postlight.com/...
➛Got three pieces of content for you right now, a thread.
Got three pieces of content for you right now, a thread.
➛It's a TV show...about a bunch of wacky geniuses...who...
It's a TV show...about a bunch of wacky geniuses...who reinvent computing...and create a lot of plain-text data files...called PARC and RECs.
➛Boy that's a story (and thanks).
@ricmac @tomcoates Boy that's a story (and thanks).
➛Aww Danny.
Thanks! Hmm...15k impressions on the tweet, 400 reads on...
@tomcoates @ricmac Thanks! Hmm...15k impressions on the tweet, 400 reads on the piece. But it'll climb and get recirculated and eventually get up to 1-2k reads over months. I like that about Medium. Stuff keeps finding readers.
➛Sigh
@leahfinnegan Sigh
➛Dooooo it. I'm chipping in.
I had fun writing that other piece but I kept running the...
I had fun writing that other piece but I kept running the questions over in my head, so I rewrote it with more serious answers. ftrain.medium.com/...
➛yes...yes this is it
@andrew__aaaahhh yes...yes this is it
➛