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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 11, 2019, 2:06:03 AM
Stranger Things season 3 .. isn't good?
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veryimportant @veryimportant
Jul 10, 2019, 6:26:33 PM
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forums were better than twitter because you could just hate the same guy every day instead of always having to find out…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2019, 6:09:37 PM
It looks like @deadprogrammer and I might be visiting Chernobyl as part of our Ukraine speaking trip https://t.co/FhyZxrQfBj (insert inappropriate "Chernobyl so hot right now" radiation joke)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2019, 5:28:00 PM
the infinity cube is the only "fidget" toy I've actually enjoyed using for any length of time https://t.co/0wnCLvIPGm
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knightcolumbia @knightcolumbia
Jul 10, 2019, 2:07:16 PM
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BREAKING: Second Circuit affirms, President Trump's practice of blocking critics from his Twitter account violates the…
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iKenndac @iKenndac
Jul 10, 2019, 2:06:30 PM
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When I went to WWDC this year, I found the constant cheering and high-fiving horribly uncomfortable. I've been debating sendi…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2019, 1:49:44 PM
I donate to @EFF for an Internet that respects and empowers users. Join me https://t.co/jC78hE4HO4
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matthew_d_green @matthew_d_green
Jul 9, 2019, 9:11:43 PM
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I used PGP to encrypt email surrounding a paper we wrote on Dual EC and the main legacy is that most of those messages…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 9, 2019, 7:10:39 PM
@doewrath Well @Pinboard’s other cause is tech unions and I think corporate pac de-funding both makes more sense and is much more achievable
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 9, 2019, 7:06:53 PM
“see what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real” https://t.co/5q2pVWNlTL
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 9, 2019, 6:13:29 PM
if you work at Microsoft, I recommend you escalate this internally. This is a fixable problem. Apple and IBM don't donate to any political causes. https://t.co/eLSwUqXgpG
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 9, 2019, 5:37:08 PM
Anyone who abuses our team gets fired as an open-source user.. even as a paying customer. Cheers @ILOVETHEHAWK 👌 https://t.co/NOcA8Gy0z9
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 9, 2019, 4:59:51 PM
Take a penny, glue a penny to the ground. Then watch for hours of comedy
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sarahjeong @sarahjeong
Jul 9, 2019, 4:07:46 PM
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The kicker is brutal and telling https://t.co/Ya2skzbN2G
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 9, 2019, 3:47:36 PM
Semiotic Standard - For All Commercial Trans-Stellar Utility Lifter And Heavy Element Transport Spacecraft https://t.co/L1C4wTOS8v
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 9, 2019, 3:18:43 PM
finally a proper answer to the trolley problem https://t.co/yd4KtCrJGc
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mijustin @mijustin
Jul 9, 2019, 2:04:00 PM
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@patrickc This article on “The Great Divergence” dives into this as well: https://t.co/fH5URvFGLe https://t.co/efhIzK8Ajp
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Carnage4Life @Carnage4Life
Jul 9, 2019, 1:57:06 PM
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Is just me or is it mind blowing that tweets like these didn't violate Twitter's terms of service until it was updated to…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 8, 2019, 10:31:11 PM
Brb gonna hit ebay for vintage 1992 calendars https://t.co/OXwLXoKjeC
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recursecenter @recursecenter
Jul 8, 2019, 4:52:52 PM
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We're funding Fellowships of up to $10,000 for women, trans, and non-binary people to work on programming projects, rese…
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lizardbill @lizardbill
Jul 8, 2019, 4:11:33 PM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 8, 2019, 3:16:46 PM
Most of our colocated hardware has been very reliable. One recent notable exception: one server was 30-40% slower than the others with *identical* hardware. None of our servers are deployed without passing memtest and mprime overnight, so I took it home to test
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Chrome has started warning users about lookalike URLs.

Try surfing to https://t.co/0Tr5ePsW3Q, but replace the 'g' characters…
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BrianRoemmele @BrianRoemmele
Jul 7, 2019, 8:37:42 PM
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This was a 1TB hard drive in 1937. It was the largest vertical letter file in the world. 4000 SqFt. with over 3000 draw…
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The good news: according to spam, we've been given a "Best of Business Award" by the Small Business Community Association!!! Yes…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 7, 2019, 6:22:14 PM
The Freshmaker! ™ https://t.co/A2tq8Xtdoo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 7, 2019, 3:50:37 PM
Her name is Renee Kheller https://t.co/VUq5qK12U4
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 7, 2019, 12:37:49 PM
Don't like apologizing? Do it when and where the least people will see it https://t.co/hqNlUaGseh
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"Participation shot up. In 1972, when title IX was passed, there were only 700 girls playing soccer at the high-school level in…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 7, 2019, 10:50:43 AM
“This is no longer the story of the AMD that is trying to catch up to Intel; this is now the story of the AMD that is once more a formidable rival to Intel.” https://t.co/AEHE2iqQg0
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 6, 2019, 10:00:25 PM
This guy is fully committed https://t.co/DEEXCWTZrh
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waxpancake @waxpancake
Jul 6, 2019, 9:23:55 PM
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oh, to be young and online https://t.co/ngOIK6XxLY
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petition to make weird al's "dare to be stupid" the temporary-ish national anthem
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 5, 2019, 1:47:48 PM
49th southeast old threshers reunion, Denton, NC https://t.co/ulCZzjnFRi
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 5, 2019, 11:48:03 AM
I was on a podcast discussing TempleOS — weird bit of computing history https://t.co/4bYVeB0NDY
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DrPinball @DrPinball
Jul 5, 2019, 10:42:16 AM
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For this weeks #FridayFun Nokia ad we are going all the way back to '96 when the smartphone was heralded by the Nokia 9000.…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 4, 2019, 10:58:38 PM
''And if baboons can do it,'' he said, ''why not us? The bad news is that you might have to first knock out all the most aggressive males to get there.'' https://t.co/8ynq3j559d
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mrs_hippiequeen @mrs_hippiequeen
Jul 4, 2019, 10:27:55 PM
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today is the 7th anniversary of san diego accidentally setting off their entire show at the same time, resulting in th…
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francescagino @francescagino
Jul 4, 2019, 3:03:54 PM
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After noticing that many of its $3,000 bikes were getting damaged during shipping, a Dutch company redesigned the packag…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 4, 2019, 12:42:38 PM
Happy 4th of July, this is what all of us deserve https://t.co/ygxxSCbeKl
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 4, 2019, 12:30:19 PM
Ok this is pretty funny https://t.co/VS1KyLfMcg
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ironicsans @ironicsans
Jul 4, 2019, 11:53:51 AM
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I dutifully typed in every line of the Mad Computer Program. https://t.co/SrglPCCg3X
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itsdaneesaur @itsdaneesaur
Jul 4, 2019, 11:46:41 AM
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Can everybody just Please look at this cat https://t.co/GEPe1XzurJ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 3, 2019, 11:32:57 PM
"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, ‘wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?’ Now I take great comfort in the hostility and unfairness of the universe."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 2, 2019, 10:32:51 PM
When people tweet about basketball in my timeline https://t.co/rApoZGAK0y
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Classic macOS: it’s important to know what your focus is. When defocusing a window, every single control in it goes dimmed. OS X…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 2, 2019, 3:09:08 PM
Visiting The Staircase house in Durham NC 🦉 https://t.co/86nDz9pVBF https://t.co/wrV9pzYo2r
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sarahjeong @sarahjeong
Jul 2, 2019, 1:39:04 PM
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sure sounds like a good and healthy workplace where absolutely nothing is going wrong https://t.co/Ig8ZKnSTGI https://t.co/…
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mikeindustries @mikeindustries
Jul 2, 2019, 1:28:19 PM
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Superhuman is an email surveillance app that encourages its users to spy on friends and co-workers without their consen…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 2, 2019, 2:25:32 AM
This book (recommended to me by @cwodtke) is quite good but it feels like the state of the art in public social media stoning has advanced so fast that it is already out of date https://t.co/8Y8cimE2Yn
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ROMchip_Journal @ROMchip_Journal
Jul 1, 2019, 9:23:36 PM
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// FIRST ISSUE LAUNCHED! // We're thrilled, delighted, humbled, and honored to launch this issue. Click thru to enj…
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DanielPink @DanielPink
Jul 1, 2019, 7:17:46 PM
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Women rate higher than men on 17 of 19 leadership skills, including: - Championing change - Solving problems - Being bold…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 1, 2019, 7:13:18 PM
For the best in customer service https://t.co/bFjlnAc7mg
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DougCollinsUX @DougCollinsUX
Jul 1, 2019, 4:43:42 PM
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A designer is about to learn a critical lesson in affordance. Just because you can doesn't mean you should, but if it l…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 1, 2019, 4:42:56 PM
Grandma has this set up at her house 😂 https://t.co/l92z9L0HNK
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Public_Citizen @Public_Citizen
Jul 1, 2019, 1:03:17 PM
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In the Trump administration, conflicts of interest are basically a job requirement: A conflicted shipping heiress runs…
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kpoulsen @kpoulsen
Jul 1, 2019, 12:21:52 PM
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NEW: Federal prosecutors say this tweet, threatening Virginia senatorial candidate @QasimRashid with lynching because of his…
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You may have heard the news – but the reports of our death are greatly exaggerated! We still need our readers to stay alive. H…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2019, 10:32:13 PM
legit excited there is new Taylor Swift and Bieber drama
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2019, 10:01:15 PM
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing programmers that making whitespace significant was a good idea ht…
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MikeTyson @MikeTyson
Jun 30, 2019, 7:00:42 PM
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Y’all wild for this one 🤣 https://t.co/ee0HkLrqpi
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textfiles @textfiles
Jun 30, 2019, 3:30:42 AM
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https://t.co/OgHretSkjb Weird article - I was bringing this stuff up in 2004.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2019, 1:56:44 AM
I appreciate that Twitter has actually gotten better at abuse mitigation (considering they started from absolute zero, this is not a huge compliment) but I constantly see examples of sentiment analysis utterly failing in my replies. https://t.co/CcgB5ryr0J
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2019, 1:24:08 AM
homo sapiens: sucking at random for 315,000 years https://t.co/JeL6dIJzR5 https://t.co/CiyR6qCMXl
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2019, 12:54:34 AM
She's right, if you were a man this wouldn't even be given a second thought https://t.co/FPgcHxAF4h
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2019, 12:44:09 AM
oh man I had totally forgotten about the modem cartridge games https://t.co/NaKgUwLefy
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richard_littler @richard_littler
Jun 29, 2019, 1:51:48 PM
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I couldn't help myself. https://t.co/oIpvTdfTMi
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 28, 2019, 5:42:48 PM
be sure to hit that like button and subscribe to my channel https://t.co/1UcGkl0EDK
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 28, 2019, 4:18:38 PM
Well, that's one way to get governments to update their software, I guess? https://t.co/v4SlPC4eQb
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Popular opinion: the hotdog theme from Windows 3.1 was objectively the best color scheme for any operating system ever invented…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 28, 2019, 12:21:45 AM
Well, that response was.. predictable 🙄 https://t.co/Ug6k8KCzBk
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annadrezen @annadrezen
Jun 27, 2019, 10:28:39 PM
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Four weeks into a job, you’ve seen everybody’s shirts
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 27, 2019, 7:28:20 PM
Docker peeps: there's really still no way to write uncompressed (or minimally compressed) images to a docker registry? https://t.co/TPJsZeiqll
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MIT_CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL
Jun 27, 2019, 3:28:36 PM
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Describe programming in only six words. We’ll RT all the best ones. Ours: Turning ideas and caffeine into code. #Progr…
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ironicsans @ironicsans
Jun 27, 2019, 3:04:24 PM
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Idea: Apple should redesign their Thinking Face emoji so it’s posing like Steve Jobs. https://t.co/rd4GDLaSHT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 27, 2019, 11:01:05 AM
The titanium yo-yos have a number from 1-500 engraved. This person was particularly happy with their results in the number lottery, which just arrived today. https://t.co/Xwnmb7Rgtr https://t.co/rD7emdXpfb
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 26, 2019, 4:33:06 AM
Finger guns easter egg in Battlefield V 🤣 https://t.co/el0mDJdJoL
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 26, 2019, 1:05:51 AM
Go Bronconeers! https://t.co/Tx8SpVoMam
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Gabriel__Lewis @Gabriel__Lewis
Jun 25, 2019, 11:25:20 PM
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This is how I plan on using my iPhone from now on https://t.co/s9V29jEqjL
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MichaelCK @MichaelCK
Jun 25, 2019, 10:15:12 PM
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Please don't be in mice.
Please don't be in mice.
Please don't be in mice.
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https://t.co/at3CMz3Czu

@justsaysinmice
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Josh_Friedman @Josh_Friedman
Jun 25, 2019, 6:55:15 PM
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Most of Twitter is just an Ask Me Anything where no one asks you Anything but you just Answer anyway.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 25, 2019, 5:33:46 AM
You can watch the new Twilight Zone in black and white for that authenticity factor! https://t.co/TitDyecqlF
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lisackaplan @lisackaplan
Jun 25, 2019, 12:12:31 AM
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THREAD: Today I went to the public library for the first time in a long time. A woman came up to me and asked me to help h…
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tinymakesthings @tinymakesthings
Jun 24, 2019, 6:40:28 PM
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nobody:

me: i made a hamburger key and hotdog spacebar for your keyboard 🤓 https://t.co/2k2cHTK8rD
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 24, 2019, 6:30:09 PM
The Citibank business website is such an inspiring piece of software engineering, every time I log on it's like "welcome back! your last logon was {just now}!"
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Pinboard @Pinboard
Jun 24, 2019, 3:18:06 PM
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This Washington Post article about how "Google’s web browser has become spy software" contains 11 megabytes of ad cruft and i…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 24, 2019, 2:05:15 AM
Raspberry Pi 4 looking great! https://t.co/hlZ1RDn3eq
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 24, 2019, 1:38:43 AM
I have concluded I'm not smart enough to figure out the time travel show Dark on Netflix https://t.co/dMi58ONovC
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arstechnica @arstechnica
Jun 24, 2019, 1:15:14 AM
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The Raspberry Pi 4 brings faster CPU, up to 4GB of RAM https://t.co/hkBrjBtB5M by @RonAmadeo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 23, 2019, 10:54:28 PM
Wreck This Journal is super fun for the kids. They're loving it. https://t.co/rqTgM8Dq1H
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what does debugging a program look like? https://t.co/dYf1gPFCWI
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bigshika @bigshika
Jun 23, 2019, 8:12:43 PM
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whenever someone says that something is the worst [song/album/music] ever, I laugh, call them weak, and then make them listen…
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