jmoiron plays the blues

So the twitter NFT profile feature essentially allows anyone to buy an NFT of your face and then appear to be a morā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦PH

The @NYCTSubway and MTA have repeatedly decided that platform edge doors are "too expensive", which can only mean tā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦nN

Every single Twitter ad I've seen today is NY targeted sports betting. gothamist.com/news/online-spā€¦

Probably bad that using mercator is the 2nd most problematic projection issue with this map https://t.co/X538Bgt5hg

Ring in the New Year with these punjabi bangers (bhangers) that I heard about 100 times each at the wedding I wentā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦K9

Watching this happen to my home while I'm not there is like an out of body experience. twitter.com/qkate/status/1ā€¦

wow twist ending where this outcome is actually bad is late 90s m. night shyamalan twitter.com/popo/status/14ā€¦

The "log4j security issue shows memory safety isn't everything" take is very "zonal marking", where people treat meā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦FW

wasn't web2 just ajax and css and rounded corners and proxima nova

people on twitter accusing other people on twitter of being 'performative'

Still one of my favourite postmortems. twitter.com/jmoiron/statusā€¦

Android 12 gesture system where swipe left and swipe right both mean "back" makes no sense and it being either/or mā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦GV

This double edged sword is why data science is dominated by Python, and why Python data science libraries are not wā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦8G

"No, there's an 'I' in it.. no, before the 'R'. Yeah, sure, that's fine. Yeah, haha, tough time in grade school." twitter.com/shaundai/statuā€¦

The focus on "never forget" feels more like misdirection every year, an excuse to "never remember" the shameful jinā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦gZ

I wish spotify and shopify did not look identical to my brain.

I keep reading developers who praise Go's simplicity but have ultimately decided it's not for them because they'veā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦ng

Even the fact that there were people who were 100% right back in 2001 about what the war in Afghanistan would becomā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦nK

Every time I see a link that is about Datalog: "Oooh.. oh."

This is a nice rhetorical change in posture that I think would prevent a lot of common mistakes people make when thā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦Gq

Gutted to learn this morning that incredibly funny man and carrot-in-a-box world champion Sean Lock has passed away.

People hate this trope; they think others outproduce the median only through self sacrifice, setting a toxic examplā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦eL

Vaccine hesitancy is an public health emergency and we need to treat it like one. twitter.com/redouad/statusā€¦

Be wary of taxonomy masquerading as abstraction.

The most clever micro-optimizations feel great to write, but they have a limited shelf life, because they exploit fā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦8P