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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
this geekatoo site works! Found a geek to help my mom: cable guy connected her to neighbor's wifi, neighbor moved.. http://t.co/RgSBjMJH

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I need Splinter camouflage for my minivan http://t.co/Bapnp2cB

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Is your software considerate? http://t.co/EpK9UEoI

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
there must be a German word for this: when you're using the iPhone version of an iPad app because you're too cheap to buy it again
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jeffrey
@jeffrey
I'm getting pretty tired of the @facebook social reader bullshit. it's worse than a paywall. "you can't read this unless ev ...
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TheTweetOfGod
@TheTweetOfGod
The New 10 Plagues:
1. Spam
2. Smog
3. Starbucks
4. Kardashians
5. Emo
6. Talk radio
7. Sequels
8. Meth
9. Global war ...
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senordeveloper
@senordeveloper
It's done. Every shirt handprinted and uniquely flawed. http://t.co/A2n6PtVT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Donkey King! http://t.co/mquVQ9uZ
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donpark
@donpark
liked XRegExp http://t.co/qbPXQqXy - perf penalty estimate (~40% slower) seems reasonable

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
my new business cards say "genius rockstar ninja guru brogrammer"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
note that if I'm not too sympathetic to Java exploits 0wning Macs, it's because I got 0wned myself with Java: http://t.co/ozkNNwZF

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"AVSForum is a great resource, but you have to remember that everybody there is completely insane"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Serious Sam 3 is $12 today on Amazon. Fantastic sequel if you liked the original, though it starts slow http://t.co/ZPh17VgM

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Huge Mac password grabbing exploit and 600k Mac infections can be blamed squarely on Java. http://t.co/vHEbDOlr

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Q: What's one to do when a bank/insurance company/government website password policy is "6-8 numbers or letters, no special chars"? A: Cry.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@GrumpyOldITGeek perhaps, but going to two boxes with 4 video cards each is not hard at all, and that cuts it by 1/4 to 19 days..

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
you should *really* be scared if your passwords are all lowercase. 12 chars in 75 days on my box..

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Speed Hashing, or, everything you know about salting and hashes is now wrong http://t.co/Mo05fE4i

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
salts aren't relevant, if the attacker has the password database, they have the salt too.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
my machine can brute force GPU MD5 all 7 character ASCII passwords in a little over an hour. 8 char in less than 5 days.
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vitroth
@vitroth
RT - SysAdmin fix time estimates by Utterance
Ummm=30 minutes
Uhhh=1hr
Uh oh=2.7 hrs
Oh Sh*t=4 hrs
Oh f***=27+ hrs
Hm ...
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lizardbill
@lizardbill
The Homomorphic Encryption Patent Land Rush http://t.co/pl3vGjC4

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@AurochsOfDoom good point, but I think it's a little different. We must eat to survive, drinking alcohol is optional.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
GitHub, and all code hosting sites, should have first class "pick a license" support http://t.co/tmxVavXs
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samsaffron
@samsaffron
optimizeLegibility, handy when designing for the iPad http://t.co/fkoiLF1u

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Seems like soon 'programmer' will be considered just as douchey a profession as being a banker on Wall Street." http://t.co/BAZYAF64
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rachelsterne
@rachelsterne
Bravo @Etsy for providing $50k in grants to support women in engineering. Learn more and apply: http://t.co/QdbVoGhW c ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
and it's *FREE*? http://t.co/hAfSB1cZ
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awawro
@awawro
GOGOGO RT @GOGcom: Fallout for FREE for everyone for next 48 hours http://t.co/3SxIHbtA the greatest RPG giveaway of all time!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
hey @RockBandAide do you know of any better solution for this? http://t.co/92v0tvYi

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The paragraph mark is called a "Pilcrow"? WHAT THE http://t.co/KZ8p8dUk

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"a single porn site accounts for almost 2% of the internet’s total traffic" http://t.co/l0Y55Zjh

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
new biz model: buy four iPad 3s, extract and glue the 4 retina displays together, sell as an awesome 19.4" diagonal 4096 x 3072 monitor.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Do you, like me, have a home filled with screaming children? If so, you need this. A bit spendy but AWESOME. http://t.co/iHckioTO

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Geek Squad's in-home "diagnose and repair a computer" service is $299. iPad is $399.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I don't remember the Atari 5200 being quite this exciting. http://t.co/Hx40uX6E
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seldo
@seldo
Good artists copy, great artists steal: http://t.co/vJzx6doe

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I am the crayon warrior!! http://t.co/0ZsPh5IV

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"being good at pinball is a sign of a misspent youth." http://t.co/qAVyemfE

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Oh Hydroponics Supply Stores, I don't know who you think you're fooling.
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RockBandAide
@RockBandAide
We've got more Rock Band Blitz details (including screenshots & videos), and a confirmation that export to RB3 is FREE ...
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SteveStreza
@SteveStreza
Just maxed out my Dropbox referrals by posting my referral link on Google's AdWords. 16 GB of free space. Total one-tim ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Popes don't canonicalize: they canonize. http://t.co/vj6gNmHK
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mcguirejpatrick
@mcguirejpatrick
@codinghorror today I proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that you can write Fortran in any language

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
best book I've ever read, by far, for dealing with children aged 2 to 99. Go buy it already. And you're welcome. http://t.co/LqhKKZgJ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I love reading all the user reviews of crap TN monitors from "designers" talking about the "excellent contrast and colors". Users suck.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Larry David on Twitter would be pretty good. Pretty, pretty, prettyyyy, prettyyyyyy good. http://t.co/4jngJVD0

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
http://t.co/7LJqOdtl Guy: What? For free? Clark: Sure. Guy: Five dollars. http://t.co/kMfmemXx

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
http://t.co/I9u6T6J1 looks nifty, kids electronics.
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toddbishop
@toddbishop
Surprise: Microsoft makes list of top 20 Linux kernel contributors — first time ever http://t.co/oN4CiFjU

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
proof that Star Wars fans .. http://t.co/0UyGeohe ... are truly insane: http://t.co/WUUVhZVU

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Make Your Thing: 12 Point Program for Absolutely, Positively 1000% No-Fail Guaranteed Success http://t.co/Tpr5fp53

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
good (but long) read by @patio11 Don't Call Yourself A Programmer http://t.co/pdkS7FTG

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I plan to buy this giant $10,000 book with my giant novelty check. http://t.co/AvPsedUf

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
OMG PEAK CHOCOLATE http://t.co/fxgKTFka

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Adding this flying car to my christmas list. http://t.co/8ECTISH6
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Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life
Interesting article about cheating in PC games by intercepting Direct X calls - http://t.co/iViV9MVj
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samsaffron
@samsaffron
Get it while it is hot, MiniProfiler 2.0 released! See more at: http://t.co/mQlY2gGw and http://t.co/IREr86yl
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neiltyson
@neiltyson
Tyson vs Cameron vs Titanic. One of the few times in life when it's just fine to be a "son of a bitch": http://t.co/Nne9HsB6
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dehora
@dehora
http://t.co/FNA3mXsi inspires me to delete a load of stuff
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twitlive
@twitlive
In case you missed it @kwiens of iFixIt talks to @leolaporte about the iFixit Guides, repairability and more! http://t.co/ ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Steve McConnell sent me the original Coding Horror placeholder clipart he used in the ~1992 Code Complete manuscript http://t.co/YXR0owqY
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scottymac
@scottymac
This is what nerds like me drew in their 7th grade school binders in the early 80s. http://t.co/CHKQKtJ3 /cc @textfiles

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the zombie afterlife of OS/2. Fascinating. Also: WARPSTOCK. http://t.co/ux6klGCB

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Welcome to The Library of Alexandria: It has been [2060] years since our last catastrophic loss of data."
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ToplessRobot
@ToplessRobot
It's official: Jar Jar is no longer the worst thing in the Star Wars universe. http://t.co/1d2PieLD

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I always knew this is how video games were played in the UK http://t.co/pz1V7cVf
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textfiles
@textfiles
Think Piracy PSAs are new? Here's one warning against trying to warez a Corn Harvester. http://t.co/0aT1SpxJ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Preserving The Internet... and Everything Else http://t.co/fp4CAeNm
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LeaVerou
@LeaVerou
Fascinating illustrated article explaining many of the odd characters in Unicode 6 (like Love Hotel) http://t.co/Jn7soIi8 ...
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balpha
@balpha
"a weird unicorn graphic showed up and, like MS Clippy, asked me if I wanted help parsing XML" http://t.co/lhk4hELw

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
One hell of a life goal: to love other people as much as you love your kids. Is it even possible? Children ruin everything.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
asking pointed questions is fine, but it's never OK to be a jerk in public. Nobody upvotes meanness in my experience.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Pizza vs Skeletons for iOS is truly awesome, a shining example of non suck tilt controls. Go buy it, that is all. http://t.co/1mLn7I7x

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
iTunes is history's greatest monster.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"At its heart, laughter is a tool to triumph over fear." http://t.co/L163asDA

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
geez, I had no idea Readability was doing this stuff. Good, sane overview of the controversy: http://t.co/r4DfiuzY
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utkarshsinha
@utkarshsinha
Did I just see a magic unicorn trying to help me search on a stackexchange site? @codinghorror
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petervandijck
@petervandijck
WebOS, truly the Amiga of the 2010's. http://t.co/p8hbuthE
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timbray
@timbray
Go check out today’s XKCD. Notice anything odd? See http://t.co/igQ2rcnZ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
wow, Hulu is doing the same exact april fools thing as last year? Way to phone it in guys.
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jogbert
@jogbert
wtf at the paperclip unicorn on Server Fault. Is this some kind of sick leaving joke from @codinghorror? http://t.co/T1fk68l0
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hbou
@hbou
@codinghorror yo mamma is so old, use gifs insteed of videos http://t.co/3FrjyMlO
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anildash
@anildash
Attention! A reminder: TABLET CAMERA is the official place to send all pix of people taking photos with an iPad: http://t. ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
yo momma is so fat, she runs in n! time. http://t.co/McF9w1g3

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Paul Graham told me to tell you that you suck." http://t.co/aC0PMU2S

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I posit that bad humor and inept "journalism" are functionally identical. How about an Awesome Journalism Day? No? APRIL FOOLS IT IS THEN.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
April 1st: "is this somehow trying to be funny or is it just the usual garden variety incompetent or both?" Don't Make Me Think, Man.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
reminder: Wizzywig by @edpiskor is awesome, and books 1 & 2 are free to all. http://t.co/z8cdx9gH
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mikahopity
@mikahopity
@codinghorror excellent recommendation on Code Complete. First time I couldn't put a technical book down.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The real problem with April Fool's Day: most people's idea of what's "funny" kind of ... sucks. Hard.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the "save $15 for garbage quality" mentality http://t.co/6wrwMib5

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the little girl from The Wizard http://t.co/KCgfZJoQ is Rilo Kiley! http://t.co/EU18QUnk Mind: blown.
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timbray
@timbray
This probably isn’t funny unless you’re a photog, but if you are it’s pretty funny: http://t.co/tOxE5I5R

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I find your lack of faith ... disturbing. http://t.co/CL6nToSv

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
chrome://gpu/
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Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life
Examining the tragic life of a Skyrim Hoarder - http://t.co/bFnsTIcM
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ironicsans
@ironicsans
I know the internet moved on three years ago, but the Talking Piano is still the coolest thing ever to appear online. ht ...

