We all bear witness to this, the thrilling final form of Democracy -- my money can beat up your money.

I am reading this piece about Ray Ozzie’s key escrow proposal in Wired. A few random thoughts. https://t.co/SXo7W5fU6S

I'm ready to get the money mouth emoji face tattooed over my actual face. And tongue. https://t.co/LkPXNnpkwP

i, too, am updating my Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

@raymeibaum Just metal

Nice to see Gmail getting some security upgrades, but man... print screen is going to blow their minds (or probably disab…

There's all these great toys out there to teach my five year old daughter how to be a better coder but what if she is more in…

I do feel very strongly that most online interactions should be judged on their own individual merits, without the burden of history. Holding a grudge is like drinking poison to spite someone.

I haven't decided if "show me all my interactions with this person, ordered by time" is a positive (recalling shared interests) or negative (holding a grudge) feature.

Some thoughts on megatopics / megathreads https://t.co/EDpQc4uM81

JFC why hasn't the google inbox iOS app updated for the iPhone X screen size by now? #FirstWorldProblems

"You mean I can say whatever I want, and nobody can contradict me underneath my very own post? Revolutionary!" 🤣

"At a large enough scale, comments require active moderation or they rapidly go sour." https://t.co/FlC0YhiCYF

Family resemblances https://t.co/LDQusyQlw2

The data here is fascinating. @discourse is a full bore javascript app so it is the canary in the coalmine, but look at pinterest, amp, https://t.co/srPK9kZ8SB, and google ads. https://t.co/LZOIKiHqy4 https://t.co/lAMEhcWTqE

Discovering and unboxing a never-opened Robotron cocktail machine, frozen in time for 35 years: https://t.co/UQ5pSzM3kG htt…

A typical job for a variable font is changing weight/width/slant... but it really can be _anything_. Foreday is a font w…

So that's -60% parse time and -50% compilation time for @discourse! This is AMAZING!!! Thanks a lot for this work @v8 @Ch…

The levels of testing code https://t.co/UmecpG8fZM

This list of 789 dead altcoins is a healthy #cryptocurrency reality check. I'm particularly disappointed that "Useless E…

I think ALL THE TIME about this Teller essay revealing the “secret” of his magic—mostly bullet 2, working harder than people think…

The best time to plant a tree is 30 years ago. The second best time is today.

This is still one of my favorite final comic panels of all time https://t.co/Nhrb5OqPp0 https://t.co/xhvvfvVqTb

"her secret to longevity was eating delicious things and sleeping well" https://t.co/BnV0mRXodH

There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explai…

The nocebo effect! Fascinating. https://t.co/bwPxBQ18cx

"We should rub some Machine Learning on that!" is often a synonym for "we've given up!" https://t.co/4zfe8kKrKa

I can't get over how amazing the art direction is in Fortnite. It might actually be my all time favorite art style in any videogame, ever. https://t.co/L6zLgVEgnm

1. A modern telescope is a highly instrumented building, with many electro-mechanical systems with telemetry. It's basically…

RNGesus saves https://t.co/ngblZa4AaD

freeze all motor functions https://t.co/sAiuoI49Je

*job interview* Wonka: Any questions? Oompa Loompa: So we just go out and start singing whenever a kid dies?

@Cattype BTW here's a livestream of kittens running around... or sleeping, depending on when you tune in. https://t.co/At8F…

@richardtagger @IvanBrandon @codinghorror When my partner was telling me about her problems, my mind was often switching to p…

Welcome back @kanyewest! https://t.co/TJPcPiCEJv

Parenting
https://t.co/BEPclVN9Fl (click for bonus panel)
#smbc #hiveworks https://t.co/ywUzzc18Gg

This is why #Facebook needs to deploy cognitive bias “noise cancellation” rather than cognitive bias amplification: "Posts…

Gary Larson discusses his most hated comic: "The 'cow tools' were supposed to be just meaningless artifacts---only the cow or a…

Boston Marathon 2018: For men, the dropout rate was up almost 80 percent from 2017; for women, it was up only about 12 perce…

RT if you wear glasses. https://t.co/F5DkFDKRJL

I assume all you youngsters talking about “blazing 420” are of course referring to the blazing career of Alcibiades, who in 4…

I am just another freakin' human on the internet with some opinions. There's a reason I have this disclaimer on my bio: https://t.co/kCPfpIVGpk

@campuscodi @h1_sp1d3r https://t.co/Fk6JrXxsct

@waxpancake I hate to ruin more of your childhood, but there was a writer inserting Scientology principles in episodes of S…

How did I not know the work of illustrator Zohar Lazar before? Such style and versatility. Instant favorite. https://t.co/A…

We had so much fun relaunching our Baltimore and D.C. chapters earlier this month and we can't wait to watch those GDI c…

Today is a special day; 10 years ago the very first commit was made to Stack Overflow by none other than @jarrod_dixon - h…

Fortnite Camp is a great idea - hats off to @EpicGames and @iDTechCamps for pulling this off. Wish I was a kid...

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Smart use of data shows that even baseball umps are ready to leave when the game goes into extra innings; they become eve…

kudos to @pagerduty for releasing excellent open source security training! https://t.co/Z7BnbAv8zF

worlds colliding: I was trying to get Colin Beckford's autograph (a pro yo-yo player) and he told me "you have no idea how many times Stack Overflow has helped me" 🤩 https://t.co/MNel2qkUZj

just looking online for a patch to sew onto my backpack https://t.co/KZV2nIHCl2

Me: What did you do at school today? 5-year-old: Learned about dragons. Me: Your class learned about dragons? 5: I…

This is a good DRM compromise from @manningbooks: random paragraphs appear to be scrambled if you didn't purchase a book, but…

@susanthesquark This has been my regulatory agenda for a while https://t.co/qSUrzCc4m9

there is no underdog situation where singing along to Corey Hart's Never Surrender is not the right strategy https://t.co/AOtEKYI5vO

Nobody wants to hear that connecting all people to all other people 24/7 is not an unalloyed good, particularly if you introspect about why that may be. But that's central to understanding the current difficulties of Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc.

@ShawnOnTheNet yeah it seems the investors / commercial aspect kinda took over, to the point that they shut down even with a ton of investment in the bank

This was the absolute high point of Halt and Catch Fire for me. "But most of all, beware of each other." https://t.co/AyaWWYtzp6

Ready Player One is the roadmap to digital dystopia: the utopian belief that technology would make all voices… https://t.co/4JHEN…

And the response was, “That’s slower than the internet is growing; that’s not enough. You have to grow more.” https://t.co/gsqmzg1aLm

How to do you break it to someone that they aren't good at something? a) ever so gently, or b) .. https://t.co/IS5KPrDUrm

Someone griefed a nearby Little Library by putting this stuff in it 😵 https://t.co/e5abcva0kY

😬😬😬... cc @nixcraft https://t.co/TFPUyPfyfc

I've looked around and can't find any good commercial (or even sketchy) "load testing" services that can deliver a lot of HTTP GET requests from hundreds of different IP addresses, with a cookie header attached?

Just so I’m clear, laptop stickers are the tech equivalent of prison tattoos right?

Really impressed with Susan Fowler. She singlehandedly took down a pariah of a company (Uber) and now wants to end the…

we humans are tool using animals https://t.co/jk2gft5nPp

Zach found an old copy of Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib (1987 ed.) https://t.co/lgde2lP4A4

Here's how I made my fake liquid shader using solid color backfaces and movement from script. #gamedev #unitytips #indiedev…

Best Taco Bell story I have is working the midnight window. Guy orders 20 hard tacos at 2 AM. My coworker makes them.…

Beyond Markdown, John MacFarlane's proposal for the next generation of Markdown https://t.co/DZxUpSd8hY

The business and technical reasons behind Fortnite growing to dominate the battle royale genre are fascinating. IMO it is 95% project velocity. Whoever can change faster & better, tends to win.

It's weird how I used to think forum topics with 10k - 1000k replies are ok and normal, now I think of them as badly coded chat logs

Number of people who go bankrupt every year due to medical bills: France: 0 Japan: 0 Germany: 0 Britain: 0 Canada: 0 S…

"OLPC had one job to do: make a laptop that cost $100. As the team developed the XO-1, they slowly realized that this wasn’t going to happen." https://t.co/kyAm2JRMKA

what idiot called it "YAML Parser Error" and not "A Series of Unfortunate Indents"

I've had this experience over and over again: 1. I explain to non-academic friends how the scholarly publishing business wo…

our old pal bingbot strikes again, pre and post throttling https://t.co/VODhZOQqwp

@Kith00 @JoshWComeau yes, but can also be direct! see: https://t.co/20QTwCFPjt

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!! #2018 #StackOverflow #Survey https://t.co/eihbuuh2Qe

I hooked up this usb button to launch an app with joy2key for my kid, and it is *ridiculously* fun to smash. Gonna hook mine up too https://t.co/Bu1IH6Wce3

PUBG meets Fortnite, with.. explosive.. consequences https://t.co/ztwcwUpQB2

what foolish individual called it non-export munitions-grade cryptography and not weapons of math destruction

I think sometimes programmers forget that their primary job is to help create a world where we need _less_ programmers, not more.

Dreamscreen, ambiscreen, lightpack, lightberry .. I am a big fan of bias lighting but I'm not sure the screen matching RGB stuff is really necessary? https://t.co/XmNiV938XX

I'm loving this Reader's Questions series on the Ember.js Community Forum: https://t.co/CkH5QYKjYn -- I also love the new de…

achievement unlocked: live to be old enough that a pair of your favorite headphones now have completely disintegrating foam cushions

Evolution of “Horse” in China https://t.co/jwXigV7jpR

"We cannot afford the advertising business model. The price of free is actually too high. It is literally destroying our society, because it incentivizes automated systems that have these inherent flaws." https://t.co/fQbBT4quky

The future of programming, as indicated by Stack Overflow traffic from 2009 - 2018 https://t.co/p8CDA0YrzK

Oh, you got some gripes? I got some gripes, too. https://t.co/slPcsH2Z6x

how the words you choose reveal who you are https://t.co/A5GFipL0YU

If you are, or ever plan to be, a parent I strongly recommend this longread on how Tiger Woods lost his way. It is profound. https://t.co/jGaiNejaaT

At cal states yo-yo in jack london square https://t.co/M0i5eBnDQp

That DAN A4-SFX case runs surprisingly cool, this is during gameplay https://t.co/mpJvL6GjGq

I just saw a pedestrian make a visible right turn signal gesture as he turned right near an intersection. My hat is off to you, pedestrian.

The shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school happened two months ago today. Americans have made a lot of progress si…