A picture is worth a thousand words https://t.co/sqmqhgu0Tv — via my daughter, who asked if sketching suspects to crimes works even if the drawing is terrible https://t.co/Q6R4IWJkKQ

Aha! Bill Gates has been here! https://t.co/9fMu0Lnn1w

So much software seems like it’s designed to be demoed by an exec in a big splash rather than used by people in their everyda…

@NatureFoodJnl It's still very much the case that *what* you eat has a much bigger difference on the carbon footprint o…

@tomasradej @almo2001 Yeah they paired a strong gpu with a decent cpu for a great price. Hopefully they will make a ton more

Since October 2020, my iPhone 12
has lost 9% of its total capacity https://t.co/lJXyfV0lT8

“Fantasy is that which general opinion regards as impossible. Science Fiction is that which general opinion regards as possible under the right conditions. This is in essence a judgement call” -- Philip K. Dick

I believe, over the next two decades, we’re going to have a Cold War style red vs. blue situation in the United States, exacerbated by increasingly frequent climate change disaster events. (Wildfires, flooding, tornados, mudslides, grid failures, killer heat waves, etc.)

“Hoover was known as a poor communicator who fueled trade wars and exacerbated the Great Depression.” top 10 worst and still can’t compete with cheeto benito https://t.co/iEF2882P82

A @codinghorror post from 2008 about regular expressions and the origin of the famous "now you have two problems" quote.

https…

@TienviittaDev Regional foods found only in that state mostly

Tell me you are in Iowa without telling me you are in Iowa https://t.co/oKzQKMdzCt

@adlangx https://t.co/lFsGCcF2y2

@adlangx Have you tried one yet? It’s really not. And future gens will lose weight and get slimmer

Given what I'm seeing from Steam Deck and Aya Neo 2.. plus the whole "cross play makes consoles obsolete" argument.. Nintendo should be *very* worried. Gonna be another Chromebook style home run over the next 4 years as integrated GPUs improve.

This man is a predator and a menace but on the other hand his egregious pattern of behavior (10 women in this story!) led m…

"We estimated that a single-payer universal healthcare system would have saved 212,000 lives in 2020 alone. We also calculat…

“Most people my age remember RSS as the thing that powered Google Reader, which was an app bored millennials used to read gossip blogs during their various unpaid internships.” sez @broderick

There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

Oh this is perfect <chef’s kiss> https://t.co/hvUGelKrt7

This is true bravery (wipes away a tear) https://t.co/GhKgU48OFS

Harsh, but fair https://t.co/adktlbrtSL

Yay! https://t.co/igQw58YyK9

Is anyone aware of any Stack Overflow clone Q&A engines that have .. survived/thrived to any notable degree? I think @spolsky was right about "we should never open source Stack Overflow", but not for the reasons he thought.

Someone built a real tombstone of Internet Explorer in Korea. "He was a good tool to download other browsers." https://t.co/4…

Ominous https://t.co/CtRn6gFUiS

I think we can all agree that the real winner here is responsive web design

@GalacticFurball @kiwapebretech For chaos <3 https://t.co/V0fKfDU0T2

methinks the "code is law" folks are about to have an expensive date with the "law is law" folks 😬

Just in time behavior nudges: they work. https://t.co/edRPtTFx76 https://t.co/TT9Yg6e5e0

Man, Twitter-the-JavaScript-App has been performing absolutely abysmally for me lately in Google Chrome. Anyone else?

I did not realize the scenario depicted in Finch (2021) has odds higher than 1% https://t.co/9Lp4eHJm3T

Most popular websites since 1993 https://t.co/6eSQlPrV98 https://t.co/gdgkpH7TrE

Finally, I can understand operating systems. https://t.co/k8Cb7Ov3U5

lolwut https://t.co/jS6TlQdqMY

A few months ago I locked down my account for a week and I promised to explain when I could. So finally, here’s that explana…

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. https://t.co/jAC3Toksrn

It's true that software is historically and inherently an incredibly lucrative business (we can manufacture infinite bits for free!) but to me it's more about inequality. Why does "the company" make so much but "the workers" don't? https://t.co/X5CQBDGJkN

What’s worse

Right now you are 164 feet from a rat. https://t.co/HI1HPUaluG

Giant Spider Ravages Europe, Africa

The argument that diversity matters across the board, everywhere, is an easy one to accept because we’ve all seen just how complacent and greedy companies get when there are no viable alternatives. So yes. Diversity everywhere, for everything. https://t.co/dahZVUHHUs

As I realized this, and as I realized that Musk and Tesla were on a trajectory toward increasingly implausible and fraudu…

In 2015 I decided on a whim to check out Tesla's battery swap station that was earning the company 9 figures in Californi…

Super insightful & inspiring interview by @Steve_Yegge with Stack Overflow cofounder @codinghorror about Building in Publi…

THE OLD SYSTEM IS NOW THE NEW PROBLEM.

I wish the connection between ev car and solar home had always been bidirectional, but I know science and dev takes the time it takes https://t.co/tsIuwXkC1f

both Dall E and Dall E mini theoretically promise wild and baffling iterations on abstract ideas but in practice mostl…

As our free weekend for @anacrusisgame comes to an end, I am remembering when I was at @MarkHamill's death bed and his la…

Touching b-roll from the upcoming Arcade Dreams documentary https://t.co/LIbE5y64VY

My daughter sent this meme to me and I’m laughing so hard my chest hurts. https://t.co/susXrWwatr

Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum are perfect https://t.co/h45gtIuup1

Solar power: it’s the future.. and fun for the whole family! https://t.co/RUFhmf9Ysb

*Without looking it up*, estimate how many people in the USA you think have a net worth of more than $50m:

Shout out to "It Takes Two", which is a delightful designed-for-co-op experience to have with parent and any child of ages 6+. Strong recommend. https://t.co/SYGLUFn5s8

“If you aren't willing to put the effort into fully explaining the problem and how you've attacked it, you can't reap the benefits of thinking deeply about your own problem before you ask others to.” https://t.co/NKC2c4K2jK

PS/ Everyone should write more. This experience really demonstrated to me the power of writing. Even reading this memo 15 year…

Horror film called "Occam's Razor" about a razor shop owner and serial killer named Occam who kills people with razors, b…

Progress isn’t always about getting better. Sometimes it’s about bouncing back. Success is not only the peaks you reach—it…

Meet Sugar, she doesn't like to be ridden. If Sugar is approached with a saddle she lyes down and pretends to be asleep…

“This led many combat veterans, especially Vietnam veterans, to rate this as one of the most accurate combat scenes in movie history.“ without googling, guess which movie this is referring to. Good luck.. you’re gonna need it!

The nanosecond given to me by Admiral Grace Hopper. https://t.co/yoVFc8cA2s

Ok enough with the dall-e, people. I get it. We can produce really *hideous* looking crappy surrealist art on demand now. Yay, I guess.

@InfoSample @Carnage4Life Or to another country, why not, get it as low as possible

Random fact of the day: humans are literally the only animals with chins. https://t.co/uC2MHzhwAX

“In American culture, entrepreneurship is the highest spiritual discipline“ https://t.co/IhuhQM4kuo

This middle school yearbook listed three "big trending items" this school year: Roblox, Shrek (the movie), and.. uh.. Euphoria. 😨 er.. uh.. I .. guess .. it's good .. to learn about teenage oxy addiction in the 7th grade? 😓

I was on a podcast with the one, the only, @Steve_Yegge .. it was great to catch up, I hope others find it useful: https://t.co/XeIjdeevgD

Did.. did.. did Fortnite "change everything"? https://t.co/WTeMEr99L5

This is the animal kingdom version of why you shouldn’t spoil your kids.

Hard agree: if you are age 45 or older, get a colonoscopy. It can save your life 👇 https://t.co/OdIp6kzfVX

Boy howdy, "cover version better than the Elvis original" is a *tall* order, but I think Billy delivered the goods https://t.co/ln9mgghEdS

Not really a 🏀 fan (outside of EA's very early, excellent 1-on-1 J/Bird basketball game) but I gotta love Bird's style. "It ain't bragging if you can back it up." https://t.co/vh5vPTKRha

As if I needed more reasons to think The Flash was always one of the lamest superheroes. Thanks Ezra!

Lithium water.. for your brain! https://t.co/5BtjbiFanI

I think if a woman sits in a seat and puts her ginormous purse down right next to her that should be termed “ladyspreading”

Doesn't it feel obvious that if "play to win" was a doomed strategy, "play to earn" would be too? https://t.co/5ZTtB0H89d

Wow! A sequel to Petzold's seminal Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software. And it even comes in "dark mode" lol https://t.co/kA9mhjhjF6

The only plausible theory I've ever heard as to why Qualcomm's SoCs have such awful performance relative to Apple's SoCs is that Apple spends a ton of $/transistors on cache. https://t.co/4dPyMYk1vz

Let it be known that I am a huge, huge fan of the 2nd amendment. Specifically the "well regulated" part. https://t.co/QJ4Q9qWXiG

“You succeed when you make yourself irrelevant, when you erase yourself. Parents who fail to do that have failed.” https://t.co/O9EhiVa7LT

The future of faceid is .. freakier than I had imagined https://t.co/hAQRs7pJ3k

I made my bed and found a half eaten stick of butter in it. When I asked my child if she put anything in mommy’s bed, she…

Interesting how tattoos have become so normalized over the last 20/30 years:

Me trying this 48" monitor thing out, after deciding ultrawide curved just isn't for me (outside of gaming): https://t.co/N2UCANRzGR https://t.co/QKwJIq25MU

In California, you can literally walk into any polling location in your county, give them your address & vote today. N…

“God is dead. We killed him when we all sang that piña colada song.” https://t.co/eyB7ycvzQO

Driving video game graphics in my childhood versus my childrens experience 🤯 https://t.co/KpyLskTVBq

I didn't know Japan had already identified all the video game loot box problems in great detail aka "gacha game" https://t.co/LQNiQNH9dE

holy cow I didn't realize Intel had closed the gap so much with the 12th gen designs! i9-12900 Speedometer 2.0 results: 294 ± 4.3 🤩 https://t.co/OFF5S4qdmt

Love this content from @eviltrout ♥

https://t.co/GOegKU0ejM

heavenbanning, the hypothetical practice of banishing a user from a platform by causing everyone that they speak with to be r…

It was intended as a joke, but the whole "Elon Musk = Boss Baby" concept is .. kinda on the nose 👃

my house after I get banned from Twitter https://t.co/B7lVEtCnQq

“So what’s the Original Sin of the Internet? Nearly all business models it supports require spying on consumers and monetizing them.” https://t.co/TCcNmnjiUr

I've been telling people for two decades now that the difference between Columbine and everything after was this one fact: assault rifles massively increase lethality, far beyond what is needed for "hunting" https://t.co/XlIG9xfgMX

I heard it's #NationalSmileDay ... https://t.co/59WnWy8K16

I cut 24 traffic cones into small pieces and joined them together to make armor that I could wear. https://t.co/rTAp1m…

Remember commenting on blog posts from 2009? (scroll down) https://t.co/xPlITJf0Nx