Ftrain, by Paul Ford
July 2022
"You both know you're spoiled right?" "Yes."
"You both know you're spoiled right?"
"Yes."
➛"Yes."
I got some sunshine AND a chance to share Brooklyn Bridge...
I got some sunshine AND a chance to share Brooklyn Bridge facts. They got:
1/2 hr extra computer
My phone on the train to play Pocket city
Tacos
$10 Mafia ice cream cones
Individual solar-powered lucky waving cats from Pearl River
Thanks for coming on this walk with us.
➛1/2 hr extra computer
My phone on the train to play Pocket city
Tacos
$10 Mafia ice cream cones
Individual solar-powered lucky waving cats from Pearl River
Thanks for coming on this walk with us.
Made it. Got tacos. They wanted ice cream from a truck....
Made it. Got tacos. They wanted ice cream from a truck. Daughter, grumpy, "doesn't want" any, eats most of mine. Ice cream guy is from here. We chat about where the trucks park at night. He tells me: "No Mr. Softees in Manhattan." Then he winks and says, "I think you know why."
➛The worst day of their lives.
Oh they've seen the whole thread, turning this into a kind...
We're down to the last bits. Daughter gets my phone for the...
We're down to the last bits. Daughter gets my phone for the bus ride w/bluetooth headphones so she can listen to music, because she can't read on bus without getting carsick. Son gets a Kindle. They don't know it yet but I'm okay with a car home since Q is a construction mess.
➛oh they've BEEN they won't WANT to go AGAIN
@EleanorClarinet oh they've BEEN they won't WANT to go AGAIN
➛oohhhhasghrggewrtgaewr
@calebhannan oohhhhasghrggewrtgaewr
➛No you can't bring the Switch. Yes I will carry up to four...
No you can't bring the Switch.
Yes I will carry up to four books.
We cannot take a car to the bridge. B103 bus.
No you can't have ice cream without crossing the bridge.
Momma needs some alone time.
No you have to wear real shoes.
I will give you extra computer time if you go.
➛Yes I will carry up to four books.
We cannot take a car to the bridge. B103 bus.
No you can't have ice cream without crossing the bridge.
Momma needs some alone time.
No you have to wear real shoes.
I will give you extra computer time if you go.
I am about to offer the 10yo twins an outing in NYC that...
I am about to offer the 10yo twins an outing in NYC that would be, for many visitors, a top life experience (let's walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and get fancy ice cream on a beautiful summer day), and I am going to have to make my case like a politician while they yell at me.
➛Oh yeah. I wrote a little dump substring based string...
@agarcia_me Oh yeah. I wrote a little dump substring based string splitter in two minutes on top of this and now it's chomping a gig every 13 seconds or so. It just works, I love it.
➛No no I'm messing around with Wikidata dumps and truly want...
@KNF100 @EmilyGorcenski No no I'm messing around with Wikidata dumps and truly want to know how people approach a large, but still possibly desktop-sized, dataset, because my toolkit is in the "Perl, Python, GNU Parallel, eventually SQL" camp and I don't know my Spark from my Athena.
➛Let's say you have 900 gigabyte textfile. It's a bunch of...
Let's say you have 900 gigabyte textfile. It's a bunch of data on individual lines. You want to filter some of it out and load it into a database. What are the tools you reach for to get started? Languages, utilities, etc.
➛*Ancient Greek chorus voice* Acronis, Veeam, Cohesity,...
Thank you Christopher... For everything.
@ChristRobbins @maureenflaherty Thank you Christopher... For everything.
➛Me too!
@merylfriedman Me too!
➛Watch out for tomalley
@taitfoster Watch out for tomalley
➛The day I met my wife @maureenflaherty we were canoeing on...
The day I met my wife @maureenflaherty we were canoeing on the Gowanus. It was a superfund site...and she was a super fun sight.
➛bad news for perch fans
I met my wife while we were doing a cleanup on this very...
I met my wife while we were doing a cleanup on this very canal 20 years ago.
➛But there's only one answer!
@taitfoster But there's only one answer!
➛Amazing Gowanus Canal fish consumption guide via DON'T EAT
You ever see a bumper sticker that just devastates you.
This library had like 200 Switch games available for...
@ChappellTracker This library had like 200 Switch games available for checkout.
➛I love NYC but we can't sustain carpeting.
I love NYC but we can't sustain carpeting.
➛See you at the barbecue.
@ChappellTracker See you at the barbecue.
➛Enormous suburban libraries are a wonder of the world.
There is a Medieval Times ten minutes away from this hotel...
There is a Medieval Times ten minutes away from this hotel and the speed with which I got shot down.
➛Son woke me up to hear a Lindsey Stirling EDM track.
Son woke me up to hear a Lindsey Stirling EDM track.
➛It's consistently good and muckrakey, but also just...
This is great new NYC media. Happy I subscribed, utterly...
Fair
@mat @bramsonboudreau Fair
➛Thank you!
Also this is great I'm 1/2way through and looking forward...
@bramsonboudreau Also this is great I'm 1/2way through and looking forward to jamming a fistful of gummies into my mouth and finishing it.
➛I love getting my little links.
@bramsonboudreau I love getting my little links.
➛Any actually good engineer would see that and go "well now...
and because I am an old I find that with React I end up...
Nuxt is great and stable. Alpine is new to me. I tend not...
This is a Havre de Grace tweet.
The browser always wins. Even against itself.
@bennyfactor The browser always wins. Even against itself.
➛Excited for my hooks lecture.
Excited for my hooks lecture.
➛Source:
Source: #optimizing-for-performance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://lit.dev/docs/components/events/#optimizing-for-performance
➛React: If you need to control an ancestor component, there...
React: If you need to control an ancestor component, there are many options for state management. First, though, let's review state machines and reducers.
Lit: Just let that shit bubble.
➛Lit: Just let that shit bubble.
Fair
Mostly we did black box performances on the LES performing...
@anildash @katienotopoulos Mostly we did black box performances on the LES performing as local rodents which is a little different than performative video shitting.
➛I was about to say “we don't talk about this” and then I...
@anildash @katienotopoulos I was about to say “we don't talk about this” and then I remembered we all did a live event commenting on Internet videos together at Postlight and talked about it and that Steve used to do the Moth talking about it.
➛Do you like snacks and humans and cool chat about making...
Do you like snacks and humans and cool chat about making digital things? Come to @Postlight! In person! Humans! HUMANS! Next Thursday the 21st... x.com/...
➛Tweet
or...combine two interests...and
@harrisj or...combine two interests...and tonejs.github.io
➛So Jack Dangers has a project called The JDs and there is...
So Jack Dangers has a project called The JDs and there is an album called The Texas Chain Store Manager about consumerism if you ever liked Wax Trax and want to feel young again. thejds.bandcamp.com/...
➛oh i have a treat for you actually
@harrisj oh i have a treat for you actually thejds.bandcamp.com/...
➛Paul: "Now here you can really FEEL the resonance of the...
Oh god I still have the book but lost the CD somewhere....
one of the EBN main dudes was the editor of Summer of Soul,...
EBN!!!!!!
"The first EBN video project was a musical remix of the...
Well also their album was mixed by MBM and had CD...
YES!!!
Bad news for him I saw the Zooropa tour in 1993 in Hershey,...
Bad news for him I saw the Zooropa tour in 1993 in Hershey, PA, with the Trabants on cranes. And I'm going to tell him about it.
➛The words "Alexa play Believer" make me scream.
@Centuries_Sound The words "Alexa play Believer" make me scream.
➛It hurts to be wrecked over and over and over and over.
It hurts to be wrecked over and over and over and over.
➛Update: He came home from California yesterday and said,...
Update: He came home from California yesterday and said, Grammy likes a band you'd like, they're called U2.
➛joel bobby is now a ramen entrepreneur
@xxbobbyzxx @jpotisch joel bobby is now a ramen entrepreneur
➛what could be more important?
@xxbobbyzxx @jpotisch what could be more important?
➛8 years old but holds up.
So many of you have only visited one galaxy.
So many of you have only visited one galaxy.
➛i was going to write "bobby...you're making ramen" but now...
@jpotisch @xxbobbyzxx i was going to write "bobby...you're making ramen" but now i want some oishi ramen
➛Great space picture. Five stars.
I don't! I memorized one when they first came out. But they...
Plus-four ZIP codes, are we doing that or no?
Plus-four ZIP codes, are we doing that or no?
➛Tweet
Remember to pace yourself this weekend, there's 30 or 40...
Remember to pace yourself this weekend, there's 30 or 40 years of Elon Musk to go.
➛Best outcome?
Best outcome?
➛I just
Picture of my Dad watching me in a school musical.
The Met has an exhibition of painted reconstructions of...
The Met has an exhibition of painted reconstructions of ancient statues and it's absolutely bananacakes. I love it very much and now wish they would paint all the statues.
It would create so much opportunity
True
For me it's more, when you're asking someone who works on...
We need to tax the shit out of this guy.
We need to tax the shit out of this guy.
➛A little surprised to be bumping this.
There are ways. For example @jackrusher's and the web...
@doriantaylor @BillSeitz There are ways. For example @jackrusher's github.com/... and the web interface will do auto completion. The thorny stuff is dealing with truthy values via reification, like list all the stadiums, but THIS stadium didn't exist after 1998.
➛I've gotten pretty okay, I should write some tutorials!
@doriantaylor @BillSeitz I've gotten pretty okay, I should write some tutorials!
➛Agreed. Also...wikidata!
@doriantaylor @BillSeitz Agreed. Also...wikidata!
➛Tweet
Oh no
10yo son: Dad get ready to hear a classic that will BLOW...
10yo son: Dad get ready to hear a classic that will BLOW YOUR MIND (it's Otherside by RHCP)
➛and sticky!
@danfriedtweets and sticky!
➛doing anything that isn't terrible feels wrong
doing anything that isn't terrible feels wrong
➛what do you think the 10pm showing of minions the rise of...
what do you think the 10pm showing of minions the rise of gru at the kent on coney island avenue would be like
➛