Engineers sadly seem to love to devalue core skills :( twitter.com/danluu/status/…

@kingkool68 you can, but it is trickier, as twitter then claim ownership. I export mine to kevinmarks.com/tweets but twitter have stopped sending me archive dumps

means posting on your own site and then to twitter, if at all

Good article on AOC: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

@girlziplocked the wonderful @AKMA

"When people of color enter elite spaces, they’re often attacked as undeserving charlatans. @AOC is no different." 👏�twitter.com/AdamSerwer/sta…lk

I was looking at the "likes" on the Youtube page of Buckey Wolfe, the QAnon follower who is accused of killing his brother. Wolfe also told a 911 dispatcher "God told me he was a lizard." I want to share the trajectory of his Youtube likes in this thread. youtube.com/user/Buckeywol… pic.twitter.com/M9r2ClmIbo

@KatieS Double down on it - who could resist this? pic.twitter.com/xlpHSFlLEJ

logged into whatsapp with a new phone number today and the message history from the previous number's owner was right there?! this doesn't seem right.

The fundamental problem Design Thinking attempts to solve is that 90% of design is…thinking. And thinking is invisible. Invisible work makes managers really itchy. The downside of Design Thinking is that now we think faffing about with Post-Its is design.

@chrisbiscardi @EddieHinkle If you think those ones are, you should see mention.tech

@timoni “They have exalted notions, because they have not yet been humbled by life or learnt its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things-and that means having exalted notions.” classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/rhet…

Here's a true story about my dad. When I was little, we were on a beach in Oregon and he found a message in a bottle. The note contained an address, with a plea in a young boy's handwriting to send a postcard and let him know how far the bottle had traveled.

@tomcoates How can they have forgotten @plasticbagUK?

Very happy to see @SalesforceEng adopt a unified code of conduct across all our projects! Even happier that it’s based on Coraline’s Contributor Covenant😎 Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen🎇�twitter.com/coralineada/st…KknK

@souris @hunicke Emergency Sandwich at the Globes twitter.com/anne_theriault…

@LarryChiang @brendan_beck3 @elonmusk Or Near Offer - was the owner British?

Wired Magazine started out as Omni for the internet age, and then turned into Forbes for people who think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

feel like this is missing a key plot point theverge.com/2017/12/14/167…

Fantastic dissection of a resilient quiz that works without JavaScript /ht @adactio dracos.co.uk/wrote/css-only…

This story is wild- who knew UI fails could compound so spectacularly? gizmodo.com/how-cartograph…

A jaw-dropping twist this morning to the story of the Colombian IT guy who helped the FBI crack El Chapo's encrypted comms network. He also helped the feds tap the kingpin's texts w/his wiife, Emma Coronel, taking us deep into the intimacies (and crimes) of their marriage.

“Facebook is, in a phrase, “so high school”; however, unlike “so middle school” Myspace, the slow death of Facebook is infinitely more justified.” - @mcmansionhell thebaffler.com/salvos/404-pag…

That “I really need to hack something together to do X” moment being promptly answered by @aaronpk having already built the component parts to make it work.

@neilhimself @crazywritinfool It sounds like a case of what @jnd1er calls "capture error"

@JonnElledge @DavidCShipley @alexhern You're almost always better off not alighting at Bank at all, as you are likely to spend ages in an underground labyrinth when there are easier stations to exit on all lines nearby.

Is this some kind of avant garde social media production of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, or did someone hire this Boot chap intentionally? twitter.com/MaxBoot/status…

@patio11 If your dev is *nix servers and browser clients it does both pretty well

@MaxBoot @PostOpinions Imagine if your whole job was to understand politics and politicians and you couldn’t tell the substantive difference between Ocasio-Cortez and Sarah fucking Palin. Imagine sucking that much at your job.

@amandamull @actioncookbook Do you already have a pressure cooker?

Hire Anthropologists. twitter.com/kevinmarks/sta…

@wilkieii True, but we did have single character macros for clear screen in PetSCII en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII

@BriannaWu Test Driven Democracy?

@psb_dc @mercer @UnconventionVc Why are these supposed generations all different durations? And who is working that was born in 1900?

Do you work in ? Do you care about being ? Of course you bloomin’ do... so come to @doteveryoneuk responsible tech summit and learn some tricks - last tickets left doteveryone.org.uk/responsible-te…

I wouldn't even upload a photo of it as then people can copy it. theguardian.com/science/2008/n… twitter.com/BBCTech/status…

BTW here's the full piece from @doctorow locusmag.com/2019/01/cory-d…

@codinghorror @rauschma @LeaVerou Browsers do handle this with the "do not track" header that all those sites ignore. eff.org/issues/do-not-… Maybe ignoring that should be treated as a gdpr violation?

“…1 thing that we can immediately do as engineers, PMs, designers, & managers is to push back on ‘engagement’ as the primary or only metric for ‘success’. It’s game-able & heavily gamed, & does not remotely capture the real experiences of real people…” noncombatant.org/2019/01/06/sta…

@cavaticat Can he look at the Hugo winners for the last few years maybe?

Technology makes a lot more sense when you grasp that many people working in it have derived almost the entirety of their political, moral, philosophical and historical understanding from playing Age of Empires and/or Civilization, rather than from actually reading anything.

Every form of Brexit is bad for the country and far worse than our current EU membership - but no deal would be a catastrophe for manufacturing, the NHS and our young people. The Prime Minister should rule it out. news.sky.com/story/more-tha…

Over the last few days, it's become clearer and clearer to me that, without intervention, coverage of the 2020 campaign is likely to be a disaster for everyone except Trump and his core voters, who want to watch it all burn anyway. In this thread I describe the danger I see. 1/

1/ Electricity is the new oil. China just killed the future of the internal combustion engine. And climate action (energy transition) is neither scary nor costly to the economy, but will pay for itself over twenty years. That's why I've written Oil Fall. gum.co/OilFall

shock photo of the British origins of the Gilets Jaunes protest pic.twitter.com/RabChZFHhp

Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And most of all, don't blink. twitter.com/AdamParkhomenk…

@jeffjarvis @AOC This point from Interface is part of it too - HDTV is a different medium a.co/g3aVyRZ

When your friends write books, buy them. Read them. Write reviews. Buy copies for other people. The publishing industry is a hellscape and the people who are still trying to create something good in it need you.

@Paradosso I commuted SJ to SF and could work on the train, but I was coding not calling.

How @realDonaldTrump and @AOC do media differently, and what that means for their politics and constituents, writes @jeffjarvis in latest GRC Ideas bit.ly/2sdvQOw @BuzzMachine pic.twitter.com/CHjk8fOPv6

As the host of the political YouTube channel "ContraPoints," Natalie Wynn has managed the remarkable feat of bringing the spirit of Socratic dialogue to one of the most vicious battlefields of the online culture wars, @Clifton_Mark writes on.theatln.tc/eeCLLpT

@film_girl Listened to Rocket, and I think the other thing not mentioned is that apple has lost photo quality leadership - pixel 2/3 with night sight are ahead, and others are at parity

"Likeable" for female politicians seems to be akin to “articulate” for black people — even if people say you possess this quality it only means you’ve passed a test you shouldn’t have had to take in the first place and which has kept most of your peers out of contention.

Discover a modern sf classic. Download for 99p on ebook 'This is one of the greats: a story and a central character that have stayed with me for thirty years, from the first moment I picked it up' - Conn Iggulden fal.cn/r56c pic.twitter.com/H1GtIzM0jR

Everyone loves SpaceX, and thinks of Elon as the genius founder that invents new types of rockets that are cheaper, faster, more efficient. It's fun to think of it as SpaceX versus NASA, or Silicon Valley vs Aerospace. But let's talk about D&I, and logs. Logs as in timber. 🌲

Talent is everywhere. Opportunity is not. The goal of inclusion work is not "More black folk!" Or "More women!" The lack of black folk and women is a symptom of the root cause: opportunity to succeed and thrive is not evenly distributed.

Love that feeling of logging on to Twitter after a few hours and finding a Chopped basket full of batshit clues to try to cobble together into the news of the day.

@thomasforth @foodgov its address id 125010600 in Epoch 63 of the OS Address data, 26 Sinclair Street

Some screenshots of the software @netflix created to make work: pic.twipic.twipic.twitter.com/39OXU1Q7lY

Other theories I hear from FB employees: - That reporters are being hard on FB for the clicks - That the media is trying to shift blame for its own role in 2016 election - That the media is retaliating for Facebook disrupting their business model twitter.com/DylanByers/sta…

@alastc @AmazonKindle and when I do try to deregister, I get an error. pic.twitter.com/Cek3WnLeNH

@alastc @pixie359 I can see registration date, but not last used date. Each time I click on one the sort order reverts. Some books give me warnings that I have too many active copies, but @AmazonKindle makes it really hard to work out why.

@tfoale @eamo1236 @IBrasso @OxfordDiplomat Well, as long as we aren't going downhill at some speed…

@pixie359 if there was an easy way to tell which ones are long dead and cull them I'd do it…

If I want a Kindle without a glowing screen, which one should I get? (as amazon helpfully points out, I have plenty of glowing ones) pic.twitter.com/cCYnK2elzl

@benwerd @tfitzsimons @buzz @kevinmarks @davemorin Do they have a general philosophy of grab the content/data now and analyse later?

I’m leaving Facebook and you should too gri.gs/587/im-leaving…

Come work for @OpenRightsGroup on data and democracy. Focusing on e-voting and the use of personal data in political campaigning- two big debates that you can have a big influence on. Apply here! charityjob.co.uk/jobs/data-and-… pic.twitter.com/oyDJa9oSNW

@youngvulgarian @swardley This is @pomeranian99's secret superpower - he can read theses and explain them for humans

@brucel @jrlarsen X86 added the xchg instruction so these tricks are historical curiosities now.

@brucel @jrlarsen Though you hit overflow issues with integers - use xor instead there.

Is it time to get reacquainted with the Sun? bbc.in/2AdeINg

This is a really interesting question to explore. Definitely worth attending! twitter.com/DigiCatapult/s…

The delightful dancing video of AOC that is being circulated right now* is actually part of a pretty storied, if now mostly forgotten, remix culture phenomenon. If you'll allow me... -- * apparently by numbskulls incapable of joy

Aw, a friend is at her 1st ever academic conference & she just ran into the wall of “Hello, I am a white man professor of a certain age! I realize you were talking to someone, and I have no desire to actually meet you, but I am in urgent need of someone to pepper with questions!”

@jessysaurusrex Our poodles have done the Jurassic Park "they can open doors" thing a few times, but Ceophie (who is blind) operating the pedal bin that's as tall as she is to steal food is the most impressive

@nehashah_ This is literally Orwellian @sajidjavid pic.twitter.com/fYxoTyWfU2

@AnaMardoll I have a terrible feeling that their tech advisor tried to explain pair programming and they missed the point that hard

@AlecMuffett I think the mine project was ahead of its time, and that @adriana872 had a vision that is now playing out in , the and projects like DAT and scuttlebut

@nehashah_ This is literally Orwellian @sajidjavid pic.twitter.com/fYxoTyWfU2

@film_girl what do you think of @om's idea that Apple is hurting from China's slowdown as it is now more of a fashion business than a tech one? om.co/2019/01/02/app…

I talk to my children the way I talk to adults because the only way you learn new words is by reading and hearing them. I understand the need to adjust diction to the audience, but in general, I try to keep it the same.

Podcasters! We’re having a meetup in London on Thursday 10 January. 6-8pm in the bar at @KingsPlace. Come along!

I took the time to read this through today. It doesn't mention nuclear energy - 55% of America's zero carbon power right now - once. I really hope this is oversight rather than deliberate omission. twitter.com/AOC/status/108…

Sale Of Massive Spanish Solar Farm Offers Glimpse of Things To Come ow.ly/9gKM30naEzw

Happy , everybody! ☀️🤗twitter.com/BadAstronomer/…2

Machine learning researchers empirically prove Goodhart's law: techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/thi…

@GailSimone I was thinking Doctor Who until that last clause.

@tomfgoodwin @cmccrudden Guys, what if there was a deliveroo for milk using electric vehicles?

Because trains in the UK are incredibly fucking expensive and lower income households can’t afford to use them you absolute loo rolls twitter.com/YouGov/status/…

Now that people have already said highly controversial stuff like ”debugger is useless for C++ development”, I think I can share my own controversial thoughts about unit testing, DRY, copy-paste coding and function length, etc... with 20 years of C++ programming experience.

It's 2019. We're now exactly halfway between y2k and the 32-bit Unix time overflow.

@WebOrganics If you want to chat in person, come to Homebrew Website Club London hwclondon.co.uk/meetups/201901…

@slightlylate @dakami @blueben @io_r_us @SwiftOnSecurity Is it also about the interrupt models in use? MacOS and iOS have a separate round robin interrupt model that is used for audio (and maybe display) that has a guaranteed latency and is higher priority than memory paging.

@erdegrey we did this as a CD-ROM technique 20 years ago - worldcat.org/title/vermeer-…

@WebOrganics we could move over to chat.indieweb.org/microformats/ - it has most of the twitter thread already

This is somehow more absurd in Japanese twitter.com/773O3/status/1…

@WebOrganics The mf2 prefixes aren't namespaces, they're parsing directives - they tell you where to look for the property, rather than each implementation having to update a hard-coded list. This gives greater flexibility in defining new microformats or adding properties to existing ones

11. Britain is fast becoming the King Lear of the diplomatic world, rampaging insanely around the stage & blaming everyone else for the loss of his kingdom. For "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless Commonwealth/Continent!"

@WebOrganics Can you document that agreement? I have no recollection of it, and what we do have about DC says the opposite: microformats.org/wiki/vote-link… - namespaces were the pointless part. Microformats-2 has extensive consensus and interoperating implementations and we'd love to add yours

The real hero of Home Alone is the commuter railroad era urbanism that allows Kevin to meet his needs (grocery store, pharmacy, park, church) within walking distance

"Facebook is about people you used to know; Twitter is about people you'd like to know better." Ivor Tossell via @shellen's blog

@nicksdjohnson Well, I think zero is a pretty stable value. When it converges to that it'll be stable.