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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
It is a wonderful minefield. I will just sit here and wistfully gaze at it from afar.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Why are you so afraid to walk into this minefield I just created? What are you, some kind of fraidy-cat?"
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wilshipley
@wilshipley
@codinghorror I also don’t respond well to open hostility, no matter how worthy the cause or how much I agree with the prem…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Shrug. Not a fan.
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tomdale
@tomdale
Watch the talk that brought EmberConf to tears and earned @devarispbrown a standing ovation: http://t.co/l5IQSMHu9A

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Just got the new "improved" Twitter profile. WHOEVER MOVED MY CHEESE IS GOING TO PAY WITH THEIR LIF.. actually, I am OK with this.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@MrBradricks very soon!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@ZenSaiyuki is that what I said? Or is that your interpretation of what I said?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
pretty much the best Discourse plugin ever https://t.co/0fwTCF0W8k

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
That time where I was able to use Vanilla Ice in non-ironic way to illustrate a point about UX https://t.co/c69papyCdH

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Happy Easter! http://t.co/0NEmmyWTGY

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
something is security theater when you need some absurdly specific situation in order for it to be useful. https://t.co/5U1GhcLs3c

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Gentlemen, everything sucks.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Thing is, all your desktop 4k options are really bad. Hackintosh? Linux-on-the-desktop? Windows 8.1 frankenstein edition? LAWL.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The only real hope is that "Metro"/Modern apps are fully desktop capable in Windows 9, and everything moves to that.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Windows is so profoundly bad at high DPI that I just don't care about 4k displays. It is beyond awful on the Surface 2 Pro.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Indexes ARE magic! http://t.co/5xg3LalfmT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Have any of the so-called Craigslist alternatives made a dent in Craigslist?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I forgot to mention! Big Nexus 5 / Android camera app update for Google. Hopefully it can hold a freaking focus for more than 1 sec now

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@icambron is "person" really inclusive enough, though?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Are you a brave, brave (non gender specific entity?) Try our near-final @discourse install, and give us feedbacks! http://t.co/5nRG3lZ9mH

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
this music video will go down in history as one of the all-time greats, alongside “weapon of choice” and “sabotage” http://t.co/VQt9TA4xck

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Is it Friday yet? Let's pretend it is! Enjoy this, which is mostly work safe... mmmmostly. https://t.co/qIHK5YGntA
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Nick_Craver
@Nick_Craver
A good post by @marcgravell on understanding and paying down technical debt, with a #stackoverflow codebase example: http:…
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ironicsans
@ironicsans
In the future, (unclosedparentheses are the new hashtag.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"The most successful bunko man is one who bunkos himself before he goes after a sucker." http://t.co/A8tFDiTdw3

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
my three things today: blog post, deploy 2 new servers at datacenter, fill out customer billing forms. http://t.co/ICVv9S6ISY

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Three Things http://t.co/gIAecrbDai

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Do not frick with the train engineers. https://t.co/oQDXR9INfO

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I'm just not even going to bother any more with passwords for sites I visit infrequently. Email me a single use token.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Big Bang Theory http://t.co/smQRZVFfZi
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nchan
@nchan
prints of lovely paintings from old byte magazine covers: http://t.co/w0XH3dUtve

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
“How can I know who I am until I see what I do?” http://t.co/fh0tmxiFjo

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
You want to set up @discourse? Sure you do. https://t.co/rchHWI5Ad0 Enter promo code 'DEPLOY2DO' at Digital Ocean for $10 credit!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Did I find you, or you find me? https://t.co/b9QNoqzGzu

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"How can {thing} happen?" Because people don't love themselves. Quite the opposite most of the time.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"It's a real honest kind of love song. I don't think I've ever done a real love song before." http://t.co/OGFNHptZaV
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eviltrout
@eviltrout
If all these web sites think we should should change our passwords, why aren't they forcing us to? Wouldn't that be safer?
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brianhogg
@brianhogg
"Sure I could program in PHP, but I could also use a sundial to tell time" #microconf
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shog9
@shog9
@rossipedia @JasonPunyon @marcgravell @SaraJChipps Sounds like something we need to advertise. http://t.co/cwXfJ8A4ZH

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I love the Wolf of BuzzFeed so, so much. https://t.co/y7eaKzIsyr

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
you think you're all smart and college educated, then you try explaining basic things to your five year old and .. realize you know jack-all

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
was reading a kids book about the solar system today with @rockhardawesome and I realized how little we actually know about these planets

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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donlbe
@donlbe
Just watched it - really great show. "Borderland’ Is to Debut on Al Jazeera America" http://t.co/JbSW4Xq5LE @ajam

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Signed a contract to install artificial grass in our 17' x 20' back yard. Feels like I personally stabbed the Lorax in its wee heart.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Verifying myself: I am codinghorror on Keybase.io. rIvPI-HlzchiWEyedcPwrspw780Z7V3bbwgh / https://t.co/TYXClmMa8L
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vikhyatk
@vikhyatk
@codinghorror Starting pay at companies like Amazon/Microsoft is ~$2500/mo, and around $300-400/mo for TCS/Infosys-type consu…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
According to an email I just got, the starting salary for a new programmer in certain areas of India is $150 per month?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Quora: answers nobody wanted, to questions nobody should have asked in the first place ™
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rejectedjokes
@rejectedjokes
Congrats! You've written for 8 seconds straight! Reward yourself by spending the next 10 hours clicking on nonsense on t…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
OK I am trying to set up GnuPGP for the first time and I have concluded if this is the system, everyone is screwed

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Can we rub some bitcoin on the SSL to fix it?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the single most catastrophic design bug in the history of computing: the null-terminated string http://t.co/ld2qp9hwrT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
http://t.co/zkvwptYdM6 "nearly every security bug you've experienced in your entire life was Dennis Ritchie's fault" truth.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
By the time Microsoft is done patching the UI in Windows 8 it's going to be more unrecognizable than Plants vs. Zombies 2
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lizardbill
@lizardbill
IMDb finale rating vs. average episode ratings http://t.co/FqWltWljOf

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@pgmcgee we think so yes

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Our population is becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray" http://t.co/slXT2P83ld

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@AwesomeRobot now you're getting it. Tear open your inner Walt Whitman.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
who sings the praise of fluorescent light fixtures and tan cubicle walls, office carpet patterns and stained acoustical ceiling tiles? I do.
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betsyphd
@betsyphd
TIL if you type "set timer for x minutes" into Google it will set a little timer for you that beeps when the time is up. Hand…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
When venture capitalists get angry with each other, do they call each other Lifestyle Businesses?
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ZachWeiner
@ZachWeiner
"If there were Transformers, why aren't there Cisformers?"
"That's called a car."

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Cloud to Butt Plus https://t.co/pbNZli46eI

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
so you're mad about something on the Internet.. http://t.co/f4GVXg5Vvz http://t.co/zwfbn9J9ZW

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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waxpancake
@waxpancake
Worth noting: Quora has no public API, no backup/export tools, blocks anonymous display of answers, and banned the Wayback …

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@funruly hard to say! 20 people simultaneous?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
whoa, my Windows desktop just booted to the desktop. That was mad crazy yo!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Converting a low-volume educational Discourse instance from Heroku at ~$152.50/month to Digital Ocean at $10/month.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the real enemy wasn't the NSA, it was open source! https://t.co/MM3meSRJS8

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
hey guys what's the temporary mitigation of this SSL issue we're having eh http://t.co/x2OQ5jVVFd

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@landley and! every change requires full audit of all code again, even if it's 1 character. Good times!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
See, this Heartbleed thing just goes to show you that given enough eyes, all bugs are shall (explosions, screaming in the distance)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
No, no, no. The best way to learn something is to start *complaining* about it.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Have you upvoted someone today?
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samsaffron
@samsaffron
Hosting on Linux? stop what you are doing and check if you are vulnerable to Heartbleed http://t.co/pmhyaYAsQD , get openss…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I feel like I am not smart enough to understand what I am supposed to be using BitCoin for.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@outdoorhabit @rossrubin mobile years are dog years. 3.5 years on mobile is 25 years of normal time.
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rossrubin
@rossrubin
Gingerbread is Google’s XP. RT @toddogasawara: iOS 7 adoption: 87%. Kitkat adoption: 5.3%. Gingerbread 2.3 shrinking but sti…
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codepo8
@codepo8
Basic is soon 50 years old! http://t.co/DGjWyIOaK2 50!!!!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Great Pando article on Glitch, failure, and success with Slack http://t.co/WtUcanskax

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The many faces of Comic Neue, all of which need punching http://t.co/aFZbF6Gpn3

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
In all fairness, the speed of light has not been giving 110% lately. Where's the hustle, photons?
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johnhiott
@johnhiott
finally going to make time to try and read all of Code Complete @codinghorror

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
it pains me to say this, but it is better to locate servers on the east coast for better pings to large european audiences
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mangopieface
@mangopieface
I'm about as good as my mum with Linux but last night with 1/2 of wine in me I installed @discourse on @digitalocean box,…
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Rob_Vela
@Rob_Vela
#Protip: the closing line “Sincerely” is lame and uninspiring. Try finishing your business letters with “By the power of Grey…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Important Message For Programming http://t.co/5rJzlBKVf0
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rrhoover
@rrhoover
"Writing code? That’s the easy part." - @codinghorror http://t.co/IqLLVoyiVT
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tarashoe
@tarashoe
lord give me the strength to accept the terms & conditions

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I am not convinced the Windows 8 Frankenstein approach was wrong yet. I want to see the kindler, gentler all-together-now version first.
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NonCombosMentos
@NonCombosMentos
A group of pedants is called an "actually"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@JapanJapan0 best profile image evarrrr

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"I think half of the Facebook business model is based on people accidentally clicking things" http://t.co/Frub5wp8Yy

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Season *six* of Hoarders? Why? I would rather watch Intervention than Hoarders. But really neither.






