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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 23, 2020, 7:05:09 PM
What are the best family card games you can play with a standard deck of cards and kids in the age range of 8 to 12? 🃏
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 22, 2020, 7:38:17 PM
Why is there a coin shortage? https://t.co/NV9Q46oHsR
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 22, 2020, 2:29:41 PM
I am confident that today’s the day we will figure out all those pesky encoding issues
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 20, 2020, 9:04:58 PM
Well, I have one of these now https://t.co/BuNZly8bTV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 18, 2020, 10:26:54 PM
Looking for change? Me too! Donate down ticket where your $ will be most effective: https://t.co/cuHqwt0eHw and https://t.co/5qDWP0szsh
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mangopdf @mangopdf
Sep 17, 2020, 10:35:20 PM
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hey youtube welcome to my hacking tutorial, today we're gonna hack.... the nsa https://t.co/2Z35GJjSZE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 17, 2020, 4:16:35 PM
Lately I've been taking a little Twitter break for mental health 🧠✨ but I will peek in from time to time.
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playdate @playdate
Sep 16, 2020, 6:44:18 PM
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And finally, it didn’t take long for DOOM to show up, as per tradition! This amazing effort from Nic (@NicMagnier) delighted…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2020, 10:51:15 AM
Interesting analysis of common password usage by country https://t.co/1JDqtsnl2U
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2020, 10:49:41 AM
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It's time to donate to that great slate! Reply with a screenshot of your donation of $50 or more, and a random donation w…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 15, 2020, 2:48:49 PM
It's time to donate to that great slate! Reply with a screenshot of your donation of $50 or more, and a random donation will be selected for an Apple MacBook Air. Your choice: https://t.co/5qDWP0szsh or https://t.co/cuHqwt0eHw -- will run for 48 hours. 🤗 https://t.co/u3swQxNLA0
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ZOO DEBUT: Ahava, an adorable 3-month-old snow leopard cub, made her first public appearance this month at the Brookfield Zoo outs…
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Pinboard @Pinboard
Sep 12, 2020, 9:36:10 PM
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Delighted to announce we have a $5,000 State Slate matching challenge under way. Here's the list of all 41 (!) highly competi…
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Pinboard @Pinboard
Sep 12, 2020, 5:08:08 PM
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Today we reached a big milestone! The Great Slate has raised over $6,000,000 for Federal candidates since its inception in 20…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 12, 2020, 1:05:52 PM
With apologies to Richard Scarry. https://t.co/lWcKVbuY2V
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mountaingrrrl @mountaingrrrl
Sep 11, 2020, 8:16:27 PM
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My kid drew a comic about the characters of remote school https://t.co/NdPYDW81pY
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SteveGrossi @SteveGrossi
Sep 11, 2020, 3:41:12 PM
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A handy guide to maximizing the impact of your politics donations: https://t.co/lzwTXrwzTm I hadn’t considered how turning…
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alex_zee @alex_zee
Sep 11, 2020, 3:39:34 PM
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One of my San Antonio friends has been using his graphic design skillz to re-label grocery store cans with facts about local/…
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doctorow @doctorow
Sep 11, 2020, 12:02:09 AM
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In 1903, Russian antisemites published a pamphlet called the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, purporting to reveal a secret J…
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cscottnet @cscottnet
Sep 10, 2020, 11:28:44 PM
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@codinghorror @mryanprice @pimoroni The shipping from @pimoroni was super-quick!

Just gonna nip over to https://t.co/3UCu7c…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 10, 2020, 8:40:19 PM
"But the predictive model included an oversight: It assumed that all of the students would do all of the things that they were told to." https://t.co/advk0dXrvc
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adamconover @adamconover
Sep 10, 2020, 7:23:42 PM
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Great post on effective political giving this election season. The big national races probably don't need your money; in s…
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kevindente @kevindente
Sep 10, 2020, 3:45:11 PM
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Now that “Cobra Kai” is a big hit, what’s next? Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald return in “53 Candles”? We watch th…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 10, 2020, 3:06:18 PM
"I mean, what are we gonna do with a vacuum hose and a book on chinchillas?" https://t.co/GVUwW693Wi
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linseymarr @linseymarr
Sep 10, 2020, 2:00:16 PM
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Why is dining indoors at restaurants so risky? No masks because eating and drinking, lots of loud talking to socialize and…
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Pinboard @Pinboard
Sep 10, 2020, 11:03:19 AM
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Where do you give this money to? I'm so glad you asked! Here's a long list of competitive state campaigns in key swing state…
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HotPaperComics @HotPaperComics
Sep 10, 2020, 10:51:01 AM
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I have solved what science couldn't https://t.co/CGwON9bIy2
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LaughingSquid @LaughingSquid
Sep 9, 2020, 7:11:35 PM
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Textile Artist Creates a Highly Symbolic Traditional Azerbaijani Rug That Looks Like It's Melting https://t.co/t4nOPZ002c
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 9, 2020, 3:41:04 PM
"One step at a time, medical and scientific advances eventually subdued that deadly virus. They could do the same for the coronavirus." https://t.co/YLl8RieDFj
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 9, 2020, 1:17:06 PM
If you're in California and the orange sky is freaking you out, calm those nerves by supporting progressive candidates that take climate change seriously. Donate now → https://t.co/kmPQ8X5lQk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 9, 2020, 12:46:49 PM
We're looking for teams of 5 or more folks to trial (for free) a special version of @discourse tailored to smaller, private groups of people working together: https://t.co/YZnAXFvHwj
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Pinboard @Pinboard
Sep 9, 2020, 11:36:28 AM
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I published a blog thing on effective political giving! Tl;dr is to give directly to candidates, enlist others to join you, n…
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CoolBoxArt @CoolBoxArt
Sep 9, 2020, 11:31:12 AM
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PaRappa the Rapper / Instruction manual / SCEE / 2007 https://t.co/7RLtXM5PjK
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kosherhotdogz @kosherhotdogz
Sep 8, 2020, 7:57:03 PM
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commercials responding to increasingly dire circumstances https://t.co/aqvWFt9Wn3
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Quote of the Day:
"I miss when it was just a pandemic and depression..."
https://t.co/UZpcb8kRHq
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matvelloso @matvelloso
Sep 8, 2020, 6:50:58 PM
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Coming next: Tabs vs spaces reveal party
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j_g_allen @j_g_allen
Sep 8, 2020, 6:33:45 PM
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When we opened windows, even just six inches, we consistently saw air-exchange rates above the “excellent” target of five ai…
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DanielPink @DanielPink
Sep 8, 2020, 5:19:03 PM
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52% of Americans age 18 to 29 are now living with their parents -- the highest rate since the Great Depression.

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jaffathecake @jaffathecake
Sep 8, 2020, 11:54:25 AM
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📝 AVIF has landed!
⬇️ Here's how to use it today, and how it performs vs other web image formats.
https://t.co/waeM2xDp7A
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yudhanjaya @yudhanjaya
Sep 8, 2020, 12:40:44 AM
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Every cooking show I've ever watched is but ashes and dust. She is the future. https://t.co/Ox8mBpoE6p
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ModDinoAttacks @ModDinoAttacks
Sep 8, 2020, 12:39:31 AM
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Stag beetle vs giant robot stag beetle - GO! https://t.co/WF71uC305S
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bum_lung @bum_lung
Sep 7, 2020, 11:19:56 PM
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Jack Chick could design degenerate satanic fashion better than I could ever hope to. I made a few more of these and some of e…
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Pinboard @Pinboard
Sep 7, 2020, 6:58:05 PM
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Thanks to a generous, anonymous donor today we have $6,500 in matching funds for Round 3 of the State Slate—11 highly competi…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 7, 2020, 11:09:04 AM
Upside down and backwards, the perfect 2020 vehicle https://t.co/xHaxtemJqa
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Yesterday I had a lot of retweets and reddit posts and such for playing Doom on a pregnancy test. But as I explained then, it wa…
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PoorMatty @PoorMatty
Sep 6, 2020, 10:59:59 PM
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Think of three friends. If none of them are beetles you are a beetle. https://t.co/nYEB5TxLFC
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sonalsk2306 @sonalsk2306
Sep 6, 2020, 6:26:15 PM
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Happy Teacher's Day @StackOverflow
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 6, 2020, 2:51:19 PM
This picture was taken from a random Discord my son is in. I absolutely *love* that @discord has a voting reminder built in. 👏 I would also love it if @TimSweeneyEpic could see fit to include a voting reminder in @FortniteGame as well. https://t.co/jtfn4oN4xN
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 6, 2020, 1:55:23 PM
Meanwhile, in Texas: "He’d never planned to become an international arms dealer, he said. The sales just snowballed." https://t.co/uRShgVGoaE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 6, 2020, 12:42:52 PM
This is damn good parenting https://t.co/uifrLMhx8l
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 6, 2020, 11:53:16 AM
Many parts of this article resonated with me. Marathons aren't easy. https://t.co/SwA0U5pf5a
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HamillHimself @HamillHimself
Sep 6, 2020, 10:33:01 AM
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No. It was for a German TV Special. I didn't want to wear it, but they seemed so disappointed, I changed my mind, thinki…
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The fearmongers were wrong. Five years since Merkel admitted 1M refugees, they have largely been a success story, judging by t…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 6, 2020, 10:20:55 AM
I know I am super late to this party, but https://t.co/XudqlQemc4 is excellent and also a fine antidote to endless doomscrolling
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 5, 2020, 10:49:47 AM
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It's time to donate to The State Slate again! Reply to this tweet with a donation screenshot, and a random reply will be…
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eigenbom @eigenbom
Sep 4, 2020, 8:20:26 PM
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Good morning programmers, let's automate! https://t.co/VK2f8rFsnu
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 4, 2020, 6:18:13 PM
I have a friend who insists covid is "no worse" than h1n1, and demands to see a direct comparison of excess mortality rates worldwide for 2009 vs. (to date) 2020. There are graphs similar to this that show previous years, but not sure they go far enough back. Got sources?
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sgbett_614 @sgbett_614
Sep 4, 2020, 4:43:13 PM
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@codinghorror I've noticed what amounts to DOS attacks on more than one occasion. We only need capacity for "mild usage" (a…
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mcdanlj @mcdanlj
Sep 4, 2020, 4:43:07 PM
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@codinghorror On my public Discourse, Bing provides 0.5% of the inbound traffic that Google does, despite being responsible fo…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 4, 2020, 4:27:16 PM
Our hosted customers pay via pageview. So tired of fighting with the terribad Bing crawler. I really, really wish Microsoft would apply the same logic that determined Edge should switch to Chromium, to Bing.. generates effectively zero visits, but chews through *huge* pageviews.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 4, 2020, 2:49:36 PM
Internet: working as designed https://t.co/RzTfx8reWo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 4, 2020, 2:14:55 PM
"Characters that have limitations force you to find solutions and charming ways of doing things in different ways." https://t.co/6wWZE5jzaC
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tonyhawk @tonyhawk
Sep 4, 2020, 2:06:52 PM
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Inspired by @katieledecky, I tried to do a bunch of basic skate tricks without spilling to little success. So I tried this as…
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I saw a tweet recently that I wanted to confirm. Sadly I can't find it right now, but it was about digital pregnancy tests. So,…
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lisafleisher @lisafleisher
Sep 4, 2020, 12:35:03 PM
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Things always seem terrible around here, but yesterday my daughter saw her first waterfall and I got to watch her face. h…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 4, 2020, 12:25:49 PM
it's interesting to compare just how profoundly bad the US response was/is to COVID-19, compared to the 2009 H1N1 response https://t.co/eVI8UCAhJA
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 4, 2020, 12:06:44 PM
It's time to donate to The State Slate again! Reply to this tweet with a donation screenshot, and a random reply will be chosen for a Pimoroni Picade (new in box) and a retroflag GPi Case, like new, assembled and ready to boot. https://t.co/gOzCqfKbMt https://t.co/mHRjyHaWSP
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algreen @algreen
Sep 3, 2020, 8:44:31 PM
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who did this? 😂 https://t.co/TzJZdbq0Xc
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Pinboard @Pinboard
Sep 3, 2020, 3:45:07 PM
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We're about halfway to our goal of raising $30K each for eleven great candidates in Florida and North Carolina, and every day…
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Handsome121Duck @Handsome121Duck
Sep 2, 2020, 9:48:44 PM
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It was time for me to get involved in local politics.

https://t.co/kJQh3sCv32
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 2, 2020, 4:30:12 PM
The completely weird, totally unnecessary historical divide between Doctors and Dentists https://t.co/s7RzVy5rxy
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MWStory @MWStory
Sep 2, 2020, 2:41:41 PM
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Mad respect for Hans Buhr, who built a working model Antonov An-225 *and* a glide-functioning model Buran Soviet space shuttle…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 2, 2020, 1:43:32 PM
apparently the new hotness in old computer emulation is.. hardware level emulation using FPGAs? "Like the early days of MAME" https://t.co/6nObZNgNux
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 2, 2020, 1:29:47 PM
@LeefTechie I remember playing the Microsoft (!) version of Decathlon on Apple //s at our school. https://t.co/45JCLXLqjm https://t.co/KsQvkgtivk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 2, 2020, 1:21:40 PM
How I imagined California, in my mind, long before I moved here in 2005 https://t.co/67eE3KULtC
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luke_winkie @luke_winkie
Sep 2, 2020, 11:45:05 AM
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For the New York Times, I profiled queen Shirley Curry, the octagenarian gamer grandmother who makes Skyrim videos on YouT…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 2, 2020, 9:07:55 AM
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Let's do this! Post a screenshot of a $20 or more donation to https://t.co/gOzCqfKbMt in reply to this tweet -- a random…
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JoaquimCampa @JoaquimCampa
Sep 1, 2020, 9:45:56 PM
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Thread of the most beautiful Libraries of the World 1. The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading , Rio De Janeiro. Credit…
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anyfreshfry @anyfreshfry
Sep 1, 2020, 9:42:07 PM
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@codinghorror The Leaf has this as an option. Here's an article on Nissan's web site. https://t.co/FcIJPVWTIs
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 1, 2020, 9:27:19 PM
possibly dumb question, but I've done some Googling and I can't tell: using a cigarette lighter power inverter on an electric car would let you power (up to the wattage rating on the inverter) electronics for quite a while via the electric car's battery, yes?
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MariahCarey @MariahCarey
Sep 1, 2020, 9:11:42 PM
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She has 2 Nobel prizes, I have 2 Diamond albums, we're practically the same person https://t.co/ZudjSKRFht
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freezydorito @freezydorito
Sep 1, 2020, 7:06:42 PM
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every time i think im doing some horrible frontend code that ‘works’ i think back to when fallout 3 wanted to animate a t…
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jedshug @jedshug
Sep 1, 2020, 7:00:36 PM
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Greg Huber (outstanding Yale poli sci) & 2 co-authors find that when protests are framed as "against police brutality" and "by…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 1, 2020, 6:03:00 PM
Let's do this! Post a screenshot of a $20 or more donation to https://t.co/gOzCqfKbMt in reply to this tweet -- a random reply will be chosen to receive a set of Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 2 and AirPods Pro wireless earbuds. Listen to your jams fancy style! https://t.co/4KOBCFufif
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Lo-Fi Player: an 8-bit room that builds a custom chill beats melody and soundscape based on your interactions https://t.co/1rLjFJ…
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I’ve thought back to this chapter from What If a lot this year https://t.co/8mLoWhsluH
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pokémon go to the polls 2020
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Noahpinion @Noahpinion
Aug 31, 2020, 1:57:04 PM
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Fun fact: Americans had lower per capita carbon emissions in 2017 than in 1947.

https://t.co/bUKiX67dp9 https://t.co/f5EuI…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 31, 2020, 11:40:20 AM
Do you want change in this country? I know I do. Here's the best, most effective place to put $ toward that change. Let's make it happen. https://t.co/d7uGA8ZRmF
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MunroHoberman @MunroHoberman
Aug 31, 2020, 9:44:12 AM
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ripples. pal({-15,1,-13,-4,12},1)a={}::_::for i=0,999do x,y=rnd(128),rnd(128) ?"⁙",x-1,y-2,max(pget(x,y)-1,1) end if(si…
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peterhartlaub @peterhartlaub
Aug 30, 2020, 10:45:43 PM
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“... and the always delicious Taco Bell.” Earlier this year we agreed that if my son got a perfect report card, for din…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 30, 2020, 5:05:06 PM
Super timely doc, pretty much an allegory about what America is gonna become if we are unfortunate enough to get 4 more years of Trump https://t.co/8svaX2QmC9
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