In the depth of summer I finally learned that within me...
In the depth of summer I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible fall.
➛Ftrain, by Paul Ford
July 2021
hey bobby how's the restaurant going we were thinking of...
@xxbobbyzxx @joeljohnson hey bobby how's the restaurant going we were thinking of coming down tomorrow night
➛Mornin.
@joeljohnson Mornin.
➛did we ever figure out if friends are electric or not
did we ever figure out if friends are electric or not
➛your new prune marketing campaign is brilliant
Has anyone ever seen an netCDF to SQLite translator?
Has anyone ever seen an netCDF to SQLite translator?
➛Wow
@hondanhon @fka_tabs Wow
➛Mornin
@joeljohnson Mornin
➛I appreciate Studio Ghibli's commitment to public transit.
I appreciate Studio Ghibli's commitment to public transit.
➛Sorry kids Totoro can't come over because NIMBYs won't fund...
Sorry kids Totoro can't come over because NIMBYs won't fund Catbus.
➛Aw man the one with the bagpipes is next level.
@davidhsiegel Aw man the one with the bagpipes is next level.
➛release the cows you cow wards
release the cows you cow wards
➛It was a purely functional pattern matching declarative...
@brianleroux @slightlylate @indexzero @LindsayKubasik It was a purely functional pattern matching declarative tree transformation language! We had happiness in our grasp!
➛Me too! Dammit!
Probably more $$ tho.
has been good 2x. Their signature move is that they...
@karenkho moversnotshakers.com has been good 2x. Their signature move is that they assemble your bed so you can crash that first night without dealing.
➛Was that American Album 150th?
@ClaraJeffery Was that American Album 150th?
➛People in California can whistle a song and I can inhale...
People in California can whistle a song and I can inhale their little lung guys a couple weeks later.
➛This is a great map because you can see how my air was last...
This is a great map because you can see how my air was last week your air. earth.nullschool.net
➛Is good? Never been. We are spoiled for former Soviet meals...
@justinhendrix Is good? Never been. We are spoiled for former Soviet meals down here.
➛Right here if you're curious:
Right here if you're curious:
maps.app.goo.gl/...
➛maps.app.goo.gl/...
Just one hell of a mural off Avenue U.
Pure Twitter experience right here.
Thing.
@EleanorClarinet Thing.
➛A think of true beauty.
@EleanorClarinet A think of true beauty.
➛They should redesign the earth.
They should redesign the earth.
➛I'll just learn a little about climate change I thought...
I'll just learn a little about climate change I thought some time ago and now here I am trying to write CMIP5 data into Postgres out of netCDF files at midnight.
➛Wild that it was easier for Jeff Bezos to get into space...
Wild that it was easier for Jeff Bezos to get into space than into Queens.
➛The idea that we would move heavy industry to space to...
The idea that we would move heavy industry to space to preserve earth doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I guess you could argue that drone or robot asteroid mining could oh god that's what he believes.
➛That's great and I'm glad you're going there! @postlight...
@mala @FilFoundation @FFDWeb That's great and I'm glad you're going there! @postlight did a bunch of work with them (github.com/... working with our friend @benfinoradin, and it's the only crypto thing I like.
➛Oh Power Mac, sorry.
Classilla is kind of good if you're on a late enough...
@kjhealy Classilla is kind of good if you're on a late enough version of 8 floodgap.com/...
➛Google this recommendation is just anti-NYC slander.
good opinions everyone
good opinions everyone
➛Fellow members of Amazon Prime, today we put a dad in space.
Fellow members of Amazon Prime, today we put a dad in space.
➛I never thought I'd see this day, the day when space was...
I never thought I'd see this day, the day when space was made uncool.
➛You could animate the trains!
he wore a cowboy hat and took a random teen, that was it
Congratulations! They're great!
I thought this said "spice" and was briefly so excited.
I'm here too, it's incredibly like 1998 or so. I can't stop...
@vgr @generativist I'm here too, it's incredibly like 1998 or so. I can't stop thinking that the best thing is to accelerate the first climate crash so that we can get to the actual new economy. pets.com sock puppet washing away in a flood.
➛🎵🪕And what's on the other side.🪕🎵
@lizzieohreally 🎵🪕And what's on the other side.🪕🎵
➛Stolen pallor
@john_overholt Stolen pallor
➛Hah even better.
@bergmayer Hah even better.
➛All hands could be so amazing
Monsters walking cross the floor
@bergmayer Monsters walking cross the floor
➛Go to town. I've sounded like a smoking grandpa since I was...
Go to town. I've sounded like a smoking grandpa since I was 15. Dub anime. Hatsune Miku me into vocaloiding E*MO*TION or the Johnny Johnny Eating Sugar No Papa meme. Do it while I'm still alive. I've been on 30,000 podcasts. Make me a Creative Labs Soundfont.
➛After I'm dead you absolutely have permission to AI clone...
After I'm dead you absolutely have permission to AI clone my voice.
➛stellar
Koooooooosh
oh you typed that right into your navi
@joeljohnson oh you typed that right into your navi
➛I've been listening to a lot of Peter Gabriel recently and...
I've been listening to a lot of Peter Gabriel recently and he absolutely would rhyme “undulating” with all kinds of things, from angels mating to nations hating to photos fading.
➛This highlights the difference between Robert Smith and...
I pay for like 100 subscriptions to things and have even...
I pay for like 100 subscriptions to things and have even built a paywall so don't get your Lain: Serial experiments boxer-briefs in a twist.
➛Listen man, save some book reviews for the next guy.
Listen man, save some book reviews for the next guy.
➛I hear “You've reached your limit of free articles” less as...
I hear “You've reached your limit of free articles” less as a friendly sales pitch and more in the voice of a frustrated hotel bartender who wants me to leave.
➛Tweet
I'm also about to show this to my spouse as proof we could...
Your level of organization at that density of kid stuff has...
Ootoya on 18th St. in Manhattan!
I don't know how to say this but this is all cake.
I want it so bad.
at some level this is also true about just being on twitter...
YES I had the same thought. It was an unsayable truth and...
@shabbychef YES I had the same thought. It was an unsayable truth and he blurted it right out.
➛I forgot about that because I forget a lot of things now.
I wish I'd taken a picture because this is slightly...
@JeromeHardaway @VetsWhoCode I wish I'd taken a picture because this is slightly accurate. THAT SAID, it's a really good plan and I'm excited to see it take shape. Get those Vets those skills.
➛I'm trying to decide on the ultimate troll in this...
Crystal Quest
Look this is rough to see, but you have to remember that at...
I'm sorry about your friend and really enjoyed learning...
@waldojaquith I'm sorry about your friend and really enjoyed learning about him. But also this site is some extremely good shit to keep up on the web.
➛You just slide the little slidies and it gives you a...
@chrisbrandow You just slide the little slidies and it gives you a logarithm or something right? God I have absolutely no clue.
➛I hate that I have 100% recognition of these.
I hate that I have 100% recognition of these.
➛Android what happened
One way you figure out paleoclimate is you line up the tree...
One way you figure out paleoclimate is you line up the tree rings like a slide rule. I just think that's neat.
Yes you might say I have FOMO Fear Of Melting Oceans
Yes you might say I have FOMO
Fear
Of
Melting
Oceans
➛Fear
Of
Melting
Oceans
Maybe this is why Prometheus made no sense to me?
Maybe this is why Prometheus made no sense to me?
➛It was behind a sheet!
@jenniferdaniel It was behind a sheet!
➛Maybe I'll rewatch Alien first.
@michaelroston Maybe I'll rewatch Alien first.
➛Yes although I should keep working on my memo about the...
@michaelroston Yes although I should keep working on my memo about the intersection of the services industry and the climate industry.
➛It's got the little girl right? I saw like ten minutes of...
It's got the little girl right? I saw like ten minutes of it in 1991 on VHS and then had to do chores. Just realized this about myself.
➛You know what I've never seen Aliens.
You know what I've never seen Aliens.
➛I just crib from @simonw and
This helpful web page helps you know which geo data formats...
This helpful web page helps you know which geo data formats use (lat, lon) and which use (lon, lat). macwright.com/...
➛PAGING me not paying.
@gillpotter @presentcorrect PAGING me not paying.
➛Wow thank you for paying me these are beautiful.
@gillpotter @presentcorrect Wow thank you for paying me these are beautiful.
➛sed person
sed person
➛I was wrong, turns out HOPL *is* covering R...
Allen! Thank you! I read through the TOCs of the prior...
@awbjs @Postlight Allen! Thank you! I read through the TOCs of the prior HOPLs to look for R and other DSLs and I'm truly glad to see this.
➛Thank you, Clive, you're swell.
@pomeranian99 Thank you, Clive, you're swell.
➛So...he was a freak in the Sheets.
@karenmcgrane So...he was a freak in the Sheets.
➛Still can't get over the low engagement on this.
sigh i think my timeline ship has sailed
@mkramer @_loveallthis sigh i think my timeline ship has sailed
➛alas a million options but no obvious winners and nothing...
@_loveallthis @mkramer alas a million options but no obvious winners and nothing that'll just take files and put 'em up there
➛imo it's beyond time for the pirates to call pentagram
imo it's beyond time for the pirates to call pentagram
➛congratulations to wikidata editors for uploading the skull...
congratulations to wikidata editors for uploading the skull and crossbones as the object of the "logo" predicate for "sea piracy" wikidata.org/...
➛wild that CO2 and CC follow the same curve
Enterprise Edition, sadly.
@perryhewitt Enterprise Edition, sadly.
➛Dammit Ian I wanted to die a shitposter not a bluecheck.
They made me get verified at work, so I guess I'm an...
They made me get verified at work, so I guess I'm an economist now. 1/n
➛Then that place is dead to me.
Me: "Come to the window we have a visitor!" Spouse:...
Me: "Come to the window we have a visitor!"
Spouse: "Who?"
"Not who, but what!"
(Two minutes pass.)
Spouse: "Where is our visitor?"
I point to the cat out the window.
"Are you kidding? I put a bra on for this."
"I said it wasn't human!"
"I thought it would be a raccoon!"
➛Spouse: "Who?"
"Not who, but what!"
(Two minutes pass.)
Spouse: "Where is our visitor?"
I point to the cat out the window.
"Are you kidding? I put a bra on for this."
"I said it wasn't human!"
"I thought it would be a raccoon!"
Any time!
Chandler. Scott Rosenberg. Dreaming in Code.
I know there's a lot of discourse about fireworks On Here...
I know there's a lot of discourse about fireworks On Here but godammit if knucklebrained goons are going to drop M80s off a balcony I'm going to say “WOW! BOOM!” every time.
➛In three hours the chowderheads of Flatbush, Brooklyn, will...
In three hours the chowderheads of Flatbush, Brooklyn, will start five straight hours of intermittent absolute blow-shit-up stupidity and I cannot wait.
➛It finally happened.
Tweet
On Fridays I like to tempt fate.
@bluechoochoo On Fridays I like to tempt fate.
➛Well there's something you don't see every day.
Too late! You've been acquired by private equity!
@ChappellTracker @fka_tabs Too late! You've been acquired by private equity!
➛CS is a highly diplomatic middle ground discipline (like...
@ChappellTracker @fka_tabs CS is a highly diplomatic middle ground discipline (like IA) that increasingly rolls up to design. I mean I lurve it and what it can accomplish but its focus is on reducing friction at scale rather than applying force to an effort until it launches.
➛IMO you are lead product strategist/manager for a giant...
@fka_tabs @ChappellTracker IMO you are lead product strategist/manager for a giant mission-driven org that directly provides constituents with digital services/data. You hire vendors, work through budget with leadership, and manage a team of about five. While "plain-spoken" you are highly effective.
➛CS cannot handle Rusty.
@ChappellTracker @fka_tabs CS cannot handle Rusty.
➛rusty no. not for rusty.
@ChappellTracker @fka_tabs rusty no. not for rusty.
➛