secretly, my favorite SO site is http://serverfault.com ; it's the Empire Strikes Back of the Trilogy.

rt @jldio #devdays was a great success IMHO. http://www.jimdio.net/?p=23

goto: so harmful, yet so deliciously wonderful

Related Tags: [ponies] [waffles]

r @henningp we adjusted our authorize.net settings, so international credit cards *should* work now. Sorry about that!

rt @waxpancake "Boing Boing shut down Offworld" aw, that sucks. one advantage of running a site for love first, money second.

@henningp ah, thanks. I am a total CC noob. code monkeys unleashed on that.

r @WindyCityEagle in about 30 days we'll light up the employer side of http://careers.stackoverflow.com

r @stolton @voidspace @henrikpaul a naughty programmer checked in a minimum openid protocol v of 2.0. beatings in progress. fix deployed

Introducing Stack Overflow Careers http://bit.ly/24Nkcd

rt @shanselman More people should read this great Free "Foundations of Programming" ebook http://bit.ly/fVXEb from @karlseguin

not @spolsky 's most popular SO answer, I suspect: http://is.gd/435VB

wow, massive bug in the plain text quoted-printable algorithm for the .net mail class, produces illegal line length. Consistently. bah.

The good news is, you eventually do get to sleep through the night as a parent. The bad news is, it takes 6 months and discipline.

r @digitalbush total breakthrough with @rockhardawesome , we did "humane cry it out" sleep training ~ 6mo and IT WORKED!

my favorite project management tool? THE BLAME-O-METER! Set phasers to stun.

rt @timbray Somebody is Wrong on the Internet. Worse, in Wikipedia. Fixed.

Toni Basil's Mickey is the only song I know of that is far better in Spanish. Tell me I'm wrong: http://is.gd/41j3h

behold and gaze in awe at the perfect Rock Band song http://bit.ly/2X5dlc

rt @waxpancake Was Boing Boing bought by Gawker, and I missed the memo? http://bit.ly/12V3CV (bad, bad redesign)

Vivid nightmares of drowning, so intense that I woke up. Any connection between this and our DevDays stuff, coincidental I am sure :p

r @kevindente Google already hired @jonskeet as professional answerer! But Google can't contain his answerosity.

the 80's Betty Crocker is a total hottie. That's all I'm saying. http://bit.ly/vuEkQ

r @drewm wow, that's quite a compliment. thank you! we try very, very hard not to suck. sometimes we even succeed.

I would swear Amazon's "Askville" is ghostwritten by Onion staffers. http://bit.ly/1o6InK

"De fer, the two sweetest words in the English language."

hear the crushing steel. feel the steering wheel. http://bit.ly/4BRwW5

rt @RockBandAide Check out the video of Lego David Bowie in action: http://bit.ly/3zPLd0

rt @jzy the inversion halloween "costume" http://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/4/trickortreat/

r @groby if you're hosting my website, I pay you for 3 months, 6 months, or 12 months. Then you invoice me again.

so @nathanbowers and I disagree -- I say all recurring billing is inherently evil, and favor lump payments of your choice.

so instead of writing blog entries, I am writing copy. COPY. I am a COPY WRITER. KILL ME NOW.

I have considered divorcing @betsyphd because she doesn't like Spandau Ballet, but then I realized, well, it's Spandau Ballet.

the ultimate CAPTCHA: cold, hard cash money.

this "scrapbooking" thing must be stopped

the writing of code is the easy part; determining what the hell it is you're DOING, now that's the hard part.

have I mentioned that @jzy is 105% awesome and has helped us with all recent SO design work?

r @wilshipley IT ISNT JUST AWESOME ITS FRIGGIN NSAWESOME

rt @ilcrawford my mom took me and my brother to see Fast Times at Ridgemont High. all was well until the pool scene

ok @rockhardawesome just had poop on his head. on his HEAD! The comprehension of baby poop physics is way beyond mere mortals.

kermit does Once in a Lifetime http://bit.ly/3VUJH

I just quoted Eddie Murphy's Raw routine in an email. I went to see that with my mom at about age 15. UNCOMFORTABLEEEeeee

"If California was an experiment then it was an experiment of mass irresponsibility." http://is.gd/3VVBR

r @estep I think human beings are too valuable to put in combat aircraft, in the long run

"No one is going to fly an F16 using a web app." Pretty soon, no *humans* will be flying anything, my friend.

now getting direct sposal usability reports on the SO engine from @betsyphd as she uses http://moms4mom.com/ lol

Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393

rt @betsyphd Jon Skeet is the #4 user on moms4mom. That guy is everywhere (in the SO universe)! http://is.gd/3UPJl

dear sweet JESUS eweek.com has a lot of ads. And programmers complain about our minimalistic SO ads? madness. http://is.gd/3UfYU

woo, Pingdom says we have TRIPLE NINES uptime on the SO sites! Can you *feel *the quality?

remember how awesome basecamphq.com ethos and design was in 2005-2006? Seems shockingly dated now. World caught up I guess.

rt @howtogeek The Microsoft Security Essentials is Excellent Edition http://bit.ly/RXhYY

hey cool the adjustable-height GeekDesk! http://is.gd/3Txji

Someday, Handel, someday you will make it big. http://www.harkavagrant.com/nonsense/foxhandelmacbethsm.png

and yes, I do love blaming the user.

r @kevindente I will pay you $100 if your "can't sleep" problem happens on a clean from-scratch install of Win7

“My God, who will tell me about Big 12 football! Where will I find a recipe for spicy chicken wings!” http://is.gd/3SXEu

r @wilshipley it is unamerican to admit that you make mistakes. I'm a patriot, so everything we do is just, right and correct.

aw, man, you got me! We are working on a friends list, real-time chat, and super zombie poke system for Stack Overflow!

How is Stack Overflow DevDays Boston not sold out already? It has Resig, de Icaza, Dan Pilone, Ned Batchelder! http://is.gd/3RB0b

the stackoverflow team (@jarrod_dixon @superdalgas) are working like dogs on a major new feature to be announced at DevDays!

more lolz, why is there a twitter failwhale graffiti in Left 4 Dead? http://is.gd/3RvDk

lol, why is "Reed Copsey" a link our google onebox results when Googling "stackoverflow"? No offense Mr. Copsey!

I had forgotten how dark 1999-2002 was for Apple. http://bit.ly/XhD5I

'You are being shagged by a rare parrot' http://bit.ly/tmm4b

I don't think I'm smart enough to understand what Google Wave is. Click paralysis. Where do I even begin? What is this for?

I hope these steroids help with my *FREAKING FACE PARALYSIS*. Although I guess it's cool to talk like Popeye. Sort of.

rt @mLewisLogic Recruiting at a career fair yesterday, I met a CS student wearing a suit and tie with no shoes. Black socks. No shoes. WTF.

your disaffection with Google Wave has been duly noted by the Google Overmind

we all need some pettin' and lovin' on our rain-soaked hides, sometimes http://bit.ly/12rajS

r @benjaminws 1) it is a joke 2) the joke isn't funny 3) it causes problems with corporate 'net filtering software 4) giant waste of time

r @ryanmeador BrainF**k is the 2 Live Crew of programming languages. It's not worth defending. It's just stupid.

a simple plan http://bit.ly/4uYoCm

I see a trend in this graph http://is.gd/3PSUS

rt @spolsky VSS revolutionized version control by proving devs would tolerate trashed repos as long as the box said Microsoft

the song Gay Bar is apparently coming to Rock Band 2. ALL MY DREAMS, THEY COME TRUE!! http://bit.ly/151Qv4

@howtogeek congrats man! this time for real :)

another Stack Overflow milestone: our first million pageview day! http://bit.ly/iOXYx

"even Hungarians are not using hungarian notation any more."

interesting that Adobe is willing to advertise on Stack Overflow, but Microsoft isn't. I guess Microsoft doesn't care about developers.. :)

no cases went to trial today, all jurors excused. Apparently, Justice is a dish best served by ... settling out of court.

At jury duty in Richmond, CA

rt @naceves I've found that TDD gets in the way of rapid prototyping. I've migrated more towards just integration and regression tests.

"most of what people say in our industry is dogma, buried in fashion, with a light dusting of truth."

my job used to be going into corporations and trying to teach programmers TDD (among other things). TDD was the *least* of their problems.

of course every programmer *thinks* they're writing the perfect reusable library, natch!

there are definitely scenarios where TDD is a huge win (libraries, APIs). But treating it as one-size-fits all is as profoundly dumb.

rt @jzy Protect Insurance Companies PSA http://bit.ly/uHgiu

"If your work is good, it will find an audience." http://philip.greenspun.com/samantha/FAQ/wilcox.html

@FeedleDeedee I envy the fake plastic rock virgin experience you're about to have! also, see: http://is.gd/3Njrv

y'know what? partial paralysis of the left side of your face is wayyyy less cool than it sounds.

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

rt @agatheb The chart tree of Metal http://www.metalmartyr.com/files/2009/09/metalintro.png

I can't remember the last time I've laughed so hard at a response, mister @gameboymicro

the entire "nu-metal" genre is such a wasteland. It's like the pizza delivery guy's idea of what music should sound like.

This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call 'The Twilight Zone'. http://is.gd/3MP8c

I just saw @jonskeet make a (very, very minor) mistake! Beginning to question my own sense of reality and perception.

r @anildash people still visit Slashdot? I remember when slashdotting was a thing, man.

"The PSP Go is challenging the Gameboy Micro for worst possible product update at this point."

fun fact: our working codename for Stack Overflow was "The Jon Skeet Honeypot Project"