I had to buy new shoes not because they were worn out, but because they developed a persistent squeak. It was like my own personal Tell-Tale Heart, reminding me how annoying I am all the time, everywhere I went. 😱

"Can you tell me a little about this hole in your resume here?" "I went to prison." "Wait - for what?" "Not really. I built…

First @option8 made a floppy disk visualizer for Apple II disks; then @16kRAM did it for Atari 8-bits, then @a8bit made it…

From dark blue to green this is how the global population pyramid changed from 1950 to today. And in shades of yellow the UN…

@lowellheddings that's $18k/year

I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles: https://t.co/h7lXi3ENmR

Oh wow apparently poet Emily Dickinson spent most of her life sleeping with her brother's wife https://t.co/pbe7oxwIwZ

Can we have a collective moment of silence for the Beef Meximelt™ 😭 https://t.co/AgfvqozheZ https://t.co/GV3gpfqtF4

The crew of the USS Chocstromo really should have seen this coming https://t.co/bhNQqysTXf

The Latest In Home Security: ADT Now Provides Stickers For Your Front Door To Warn Robbers Your Stuff Sucks https://t.co/Y6k…

So @betsyphd recently referred to shoes as “feet traps” and I can’t stop thinking about this

"What is the point of health insurance that you can’t use?" https://t.co/jkfUetxrUd

#archivepix (saved 25 Apr 2013) https://t.co/QzxX93OEeu

Interesting details in "Unmasked: What 10 million passwords reveal about the people who choose them" https://t.co/wGOajheAvU htt…

I finished scanning the Summer 1990 DAK Catalog. The Archive also has other scans I've done of 1984, 1987, and 1988. You eit…

when your friend throws you a dumb idea like a URL-based graphic eq, don't think twice, just do it. https://t.co/gBOQR2Ew…

What keeps me up at night now is how the "have you tried JavaScript?" punchline guy from The Daily WTF was actually right.

Arizona Iced Tea Unveils New 4-Foot-Tall Cans https://t.co/q8Vm8OfiSk https://t.co/Px23TDz0Pn

Fantastic.
https://t.co/wngh1aOg8j

It's great if you're into programming; but equally fine if you're not. The world needs all kinds: product managers, te…

You can now prototype your own keycap color schemes for free at https://t.co/PLuBLgYmwf. Here’s my first attempt: GMK Sele…

your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should https://t.co…

ME: whose dog are you DOG: I'M YOUR DOG I'M YOUR DOG YES YES YES TWIRL TWIRL ME: whose cat are you CAT: Possession is a so…

why does this presidential campaign look like its going to teach me python? https://t.co/H5TGLLf8ft

For me, changing my mind is a process of hearing a lot of perspectives and data over time, and a slow shift to a tipping point. It’s never, ever been a case of “I read X and immediately realized how wrong I was!” Forget changing minds -- just tell your story.

If you're scared of pushing to production on Fridays, I recommend reassigning all your developer cycles off of feature deve…

Trump campaign spending nearly half (44%) of its Facebook ad budget to target users over 65 years old, vs Democratic can…

More Cities Providing Bins For Materials That Look Recyclable https://t.co/xn0JD1mqA4 https://t.co/795MvVtA9c

You've probably seen this linked by now, but you should definitely read it. Too many great parts to even pull a single representative quote https://t.co/hz5bBTiEWI

https://t.co/SQak6uRRAx is matching donations to special needs classrooms today! https://t.co/DUagKEPoar ...and if you want…

@lowellheddings clearly you need to upgrayyed to the BEYOND UNLIMITED FOREVER PRO ULTRA plan, my man

I never watched Battlestar Galactica (except as an 80s kid) so I thought I'd try the modern one. I was a little disappointed by the "robot as sexy human lady" trope until she .. uh.. kills a baby in like the 3rd scene 😱

With 22 tech company co-signers, today we're sending a letter to the Privacy Committee of the California Assembly in suppor…

ﾅﾅｰﾅﾅﾅﾅﾅｰﾅｰﾅｰﾅ-ﾅｰﾅｰﾅﾅｰﾅｰ https://t.co/QTb3ycorVH

@lowellheddings We have made it so over time they expire in various ways, particularly for totally inactive accounts and admins (highly privileged accounts).

This amused me more than it probably should have. https://t.co/5rqKZpbKXa

The source code for Zork, Deadline, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Planetfall, and many other Infocom games, is now…

Me coding with ~5y experience: 1. write code Me coding with ~30y experience: 1. read docs for fopen() 2. write 1 line of code…

TFW you take a break from trying to locate “The One”, and decide to have some laughs in the Construct. #TheMatrix https://t.co/…

At a cafe, empty tables everywhere, a woman moved all the dirty plates and cups from her table to another, that another…

Yu Darvish, 99mph Triple Kill Fastball (with motion tracker). https://t.co/34DtSIigFG

Me after 24 hours with the new 🐈 we adopted https://t.co/6grPvWNRtq

#archivepix (saved 19 Apr 2013) https://t.co/uaLA2YScw0

I have an unreasonable love of people who hate the same obscure things that I do https://t.co/q8Ma3ST92n

RIP Gene 😢 https://t.co/RL1yQORaOF

The number of people who happily create new topics with titles like "what the heck just happened?!" and "have you seen this?" are a source of endless frustration to me. This is why trust level 3 users in @discourse can edit topic titles and recategorize, for the record.

I was struck by this passage in Susan Orlean's THE LIBRARY BOOK (2018) and I'm thinking about it again today https://t.co/N9KszjKv…

"The early days in coding were genuinely meritocratic, because no one knew how to do it. Companies hired people who could…

as I get older I find I am becoming more and more of a deletionist. Maybe Snapchat had the right idea -- at least for some common chat-like form of communications, you don't *want* persistence or permanence.

Hey, coders-for-democracy: My friend Brian Boyko has launched a critical new project — Recruiting Techie Activists: Help me bui…

Full confidence in your own code. https://t.co/Ns8S1OC6LM

This optical illusion – one of the best of the last few years – will really mess with your head. How many black dots are…

Forget the sad desk lunch and take a walk instead. Workers who walked at lunch were both more relaxed and more enthusiasti…

So from what I'm hearing my "clever" strategy of skipping the Game of Thrones HBO show and reading all the books in the series first, in the (apparently) vain hope that more books would come out soon.. is disasta pasta?

.@CaseyNeistat on how money solves money-related problems. https://t.co/F8ksvKMXGD

I saw this late last night before bed and it literally haunted my dreams https://t.co/CUlosr7iLo

Bay Area Cost Index. TIL my hairdresser and her family decided it made more financial sense for them to buy a home in Ar…

I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO FARM SO HARD IN MY LIFE https://t.co/8vkstk9OAS

Meanwhile, in Canada. https://t.co/1ADmTFaV2Y

More Hamilton! https://t.co/rmsCivRbQR

Reminder this is one of the best poems I’ve read, ever https://t.co/G34wsm7sM2

cleaning out the keyboard I've used for more than three years https://t.co/d8XbkBBDGe

It still feels too soon, but what the hell. #EpisodeIX https://t.co/HIkAznI3g0

If you're looking for insight into why Ecuador might grow weary of housing Assange after six years ...https://t.co/u0XU1AstGM

Benefits Of Open Office Not Extended To CEO https://t.co/gPfnwmwLcg https://t.co/PcHzSbPVpQ

"You merely adopted the Hot Dog Stand. I was born in it, molded by it." via @markdalgleish and @kitatchung https://t.co/YEOmEbh9Bb https://t.co/ajxkuKa9OX

A classic "it's complicated." People may never truly fix themselves, but I do think they can make better choices, and those choices add up to something incrementally better over time. https://t.co/rWyOAbIWik

@codinghorror Thanks. It's one of my personality traits that I've been quite mindful of recently. I hadn't made this connectio…

We're now going through this same cycle with @discourse almost a decade later. I've added tag synonyms to the 2.4 release plan.. https://t.co/Qh0q3PHVhd

It makes me unreasonably happy that we were able to help @ZogStriP realize his racing dream with Discourse! 🤩 https://t.co/DwY8fJsBua

i am sorry that the image whose Earth-sized baselines yielding a 20 μas beam resolving 5 Schwarzschild radii whose deconv…

There's a ton of pedantry in programming. This may be confusing until you realize that programmers spend 8+ hours a day working with the world's most irritating pedant -- the computer. And the computer is .. kind of an a-hole to be honest.

Just 12 bucks right now on Amazon Dot Com: https://t.co/t5y0hH3RAP

We need this song, but for code. Code.. code removal mac-hi-hiiiiiiine.. https://t.co/nw6CyHL3HY

"If you look at the people in your circle and don't get inspired, then you don't have a circle. You have a cage." - Nips…

ok but my dog is named g5$65F(3.Fzh[!hp https://t.co/fL1YFNMrf9

Recognize this song that got stolen and put in a videogame, anyone? cc @Beschizza https://t.co/XbRwmeQFCD

How Game of Thrones ends: https://t.co/Iadt1RUztu

Why dog should NOT be your co-pilot... https://t.co/u6iFZ3fsDd

The Biggest Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older: - Not asking for help. - Trying to make bad relationships work. - D…

The New York Times fancy new 'Privacy Project' homepage is stuffed to the gills with third-party tracking scripts. https://t.…

Peace out, Assange ✌ https://t.co/x0TcLr0Lb2

This is a solid list, the standouts for me (over the obvious ones like Wire, Breaking Bad, Shield, etc) are the lesser seen Leftovers and Rectify https://t.co/0BBUTJxHCT

I am so excited to learn a new collection of short stories from Ted Chiang is being released in early May! His stories are…

A Flock of Seagals 🤭 https://t.co/aSZcFVd9bs https://t.co/XaUndz5Rmt

OMGGG someone added clippy to @discourse to nag people about correct code formatting https://t.co/QMdMg9vwAr

"a grueling thread which neatly encapsulated all the worst qualities of Buckle Up Twitter" https://t.co/tVbDehphq0

"But another team could easily come up with five wholly different and equally valid ‘whys’. And any single string of ‘5 whys’ can provide only a blinkered view of the complex causal pathway that led to the incident." https://t.co/P1d2VNvlVY

And the best thing? It looks exactly like what we thought it would look like. Check this out: simulation on the left, actual ima…

I now have the most swagger @github profile, EVER https://t.co/CWzKUU7IoK

The Mask of Sorrow is a monument perched on a hill above Magadan, Russia, commemorating the many prisoners who suffered…

Congratulations to Katie Bouman to whom we owe the first photograph of a black hole ever. Not seeing her name circulate…

@codinghorror Right now I'm looking at the column "field_location_contrib_address_value" in the table "field_data_field_loca…

Of all the technical debt you can incur, the worst in my experience is bad names -- for database columns, variables, functions, etc. Fix those IMMEDIATELY before they metastasize all over your codebase and become extremely painful to fix later.. and they always do.

"Do your parents have any money? Are they coming to visit you [at the hospital]?"
"They died.. in the accident?"
"That's not very helpful to me, Gabriel."

Killing Eve Season 2 delivering the goods 🤣 https://t.co/qHKSf2EHHR

Tired: “Jira is down” Wired: “Atlassian shrugged”

This "where are they now" series of Garbage Pail Kids is kinda.. disturbing https://t.co/Inzeh8I5aa