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Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life
An example of software defaults being a matter of life & death. The default option in the software is to send the chargin…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
My favorite bug reports are the "I'm trying to set up ads and they aren't working" ones where the breakage is caused by ... the ad blocker the developer is running. 🤦♀️
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TheOnion
@TheOnion
MPAA Adds New Rating To Warn Audiences Of Films Not Based On Existing Works https://t.co/RGx3N4RdY5 https://t.co/dcmoknIQAZ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
that-castle-gif-of-nathan-fillion-failing-to-disagree.gif https://t.co/HUeCkHqYQk

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
“The Elephant’s Foot initially gave off more than 10,000 roentgens an hour, which would kill a person three feet from it in less than two minutes.” https://t.co/7Q5PE0NShW
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matvelloso
@matvelloso
When Excel's AI sees you can't spell "February" so it goes along with your crazy... https://t.co/dHkB1FSrpJ
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francescagino
@francescagino
Next time you find yourself in a conflict or stuck in a collaboration, check your assumptions: if you start by thinking…
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The_Law_Boy
@The_Law_Boy
sorry Klobuchar fans but I just don't think this is ok https://t.co/ydsxu4dRGG

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I try mightily never to hold grudges, but there are also people that I won't necessarily miss ever seeing again for the rest of my life.
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The old saying "Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." is very very deeply true.
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timoreilly
@timoreilly
When you read this story about how New Orleans reduced homelessness by 90%, you realize that the answer is not rocket scien…
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hardmaru
@hardmaru
If you are having a bad day, try this app: https://t.co/xHmBIoiSmW
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graemecoleman
@graemecoleman
Hello, my name is Graeme, I have a PhD in computing, and I am a senior accessibility consultant, but when I want to type…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I beg of you, if you liked Office Space even a little, read this article. It is literally gold. IT IS SO GOOD. I'm dying over here 🤣 https://t.co/b1aBEYmhMX
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MikeJudge
@MikeJudge
More information than you would probably ever want about Office Space on the 20th anniversary, and about 90% of it is accura…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
my most on brand childhood story is how I went viral by stealing someone else's on brand childhood story tweet concept

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"I have found that, to a disturbing degree in this world, you have to believe your own hype to succeed." https://t.co/kC1sC04c5D

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@codinghorror
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DocPop
@DocPop
Bring back the RCA composite video port you cowards! https://t.co/PtHPTgHlVu
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psaffo
@psaffo
Remember everything you said you wouldn't do until Hell froze over? Well, guess what... https://t.co/yuoVcBAlmY

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
There is nothing more delicious in software development than low hanging fruit 🍒 🍓 🍊 🍎 🍈 👾 🔔 🔑
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chalkboardsband
@chalkboardsband
we got kids on Nextdoor now. truly there is nowhere online safe for boomers anymore https://t.co/ZWafcEsimC

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I would DNA-snitch on every single relative I have, without a second's hesitation. https://t.co/IXrKboBnRb

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
My new favorite hobby is further perversions of the hideous non-word "performant".
"Ah yes, this error is highly resemblant of others we've encountered recently, I shall investigate forthwith!"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
someone replied to me "after reading this tweet and its replies I have concluded that words are meaningless" and I was gonna disagree but now I think it's the truest thing anyone has ever said to me on Twitter in 10 years
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notbangalore
@notbangalore
what's the worst that could happen? https://t.co/4ZijBgsW57

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
See, spending $25 on ticket based games can pay off! So totally worth $25! https://t.co/tCsyQfX5XW
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lolitasdead
@lolitasdead
16 year old girl on depop selling her mom’s old, faded tee from 1999: yeah its super vintage so the lowest its gonna be is…
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textfiles
@textfiles
The @internetarchive is upgrading js-MAME and as a result, we now have WOZ 2.0 support. This means that a whole host of WOZA…
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seldo
@seldo
Watching JavaScript's ethos move from "you don't need types, they hold you back from poetry" to "types are going to solve every…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I have to run my Surface Pro 6 in "best performance" mode when plugged in to reach iPhone XS and iPad Pro (2018) performance levels https://t.co/m7uolELVCU

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@headmelted @tlesher Not necessarily. Running a whole company is a colossal pain in the butt. Just having employees alone opens a whole world of new pain points.
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paulcoxon
@paulcoxon
Hello my name is Paul, I have a PhD in physics and thanks to a random brain freeze forgot the word for photon so had to call…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@wembleyleach So the idea that is eating you alive is not wanting to work for other people, but rather working for yourself on your own terms. Sounds like a great idea to me 👍

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I heated myself today, to see if I still feel https://t.co/FBdTinIAxb
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siwalikm
@siwalikm
TIL the watches on @ROLEX's website uses HTML canvas elements and syncs themselves with your system time. 🤯 https://t.co/X1Ec…
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redfacts
@redfacts
TRUE FACT OF THE DAY: When falcon breeders want to breed falcons, they wear special falcon sex hats. The hat encourages the f…
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danluu
@danluu

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
After seeing users struggle with YAML and the “two spaces at end of a line for a linebreak” rule in Markdown, I can definitively say that any tool which hinges important semantics on invisible characters ... is a mistake.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
It is such a lifesaver to have this WiFi media library / battery loaded up on a family trip with the kids. The Infuse app on iPad makes a great media browsing front end https://t.co/QIBJu2dbNJ https://t.co/59qsIXoHvU
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MikeJudge
@MikeJudge
20 years ago today, Office Space came out in theaters. This is the clapper from the last scene we shot. As you can see, Step…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Deliriously bad role modelling goes predictably wrong; basically an allegory for the current US political climate https://t.co/Ty1wKCeHE0
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waxy
@waxy
Endless Jeopardy: a new Twitter bot/game from Neil Cicierega https://t.co/CIhdd8CSO7

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
If you want to start a company because it sounds like a nifty way to make money, you are wasting your time. Start a company because you have this idea that is just eating you alive inside and you have to get it out into the world for the pure satisfaction of making it happen.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Amazon: we print all our counterfeited books on demand! https://t.co/WuAEyJoHWm
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schwarz
@schwarz
Kids would pay more attention to U.S. history if teachers told them that two or maybe even three presidents in the mid-1800s w…
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jayforeman
@jayforeman
Ask most YouTubers if they want to be on TV, and they go “What’s TV, grandad?”, then they roll around in their big pile of…
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1StevieKilner
@1StevieKilner
I don't suppose you've seen those two boiled eggs I left sitting on the kitchen sideboard by any chance? https://t.co/dV…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
How do CDNs work? TL;DR -- if you are in Africa, China, or Russia.. apparently they .. don't? https://t.co/npGAW1vp1r

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Goodbye Counterpart. You were too good for this world. Time to step up here @netflix https://t.co/DVB1ppxXuL

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
how amazing are these shirts https://t.co/3NF0n4N0BE

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
It is a miracle that feedburner is still (barely) running after all this time, but its RSS-to-email is.. kinda bad and unmaintained. Any ideas for more up to date free-ish "subscribe to this RSS via email" services?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Enjoy it while it lasts https://t.co/L13f353RKf

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Lego Movie 2 was .. better .. than the first movie. 😲 Kudos. I can count on one hand the number of sequels that have improved on the original. https://t.co/eiL8mKbRJv
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Cloud is Just Someone Else's Computer https://t.co/CCFsItb39f
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dvassallo
@dvassallo
@timfox @bytor99999 @codinghorror @patio11 Author here. Since you're all curious, here's my last 3 year-end pay stubs: https…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
One of many "what the everlovin' F**K is that?" moments in Metro: Exodus https://t.co/41nhfQBZxi

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
UNIX is a guaranteed good time, every time https://t.co/5FJnhGDYS6 https://t.co/dY7QABktJY

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"I was always going to be working on somebody else’s terms at Amazon." Something @patio11 doesn't talk much about, but should. https://t.co/PT31dSBfLQ
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JasmineLWatkins
@JasmineLWatkins
Love that Steph is wearing the same style jacket as the one he had on at all-star 1992 https://t.co/jpwACyJbdL

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Cloud is Just Someone Else's Computer https://t.co/CCFsItb39f
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Windows not being Unix is increasingly a liability in my world.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
In retrospect, it is amazing how effectively the email spam problem was solved. https://t.co/Mo7zH6BvWL
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DavidSchenet
@DavidSchenet
Baby SPARC
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Baby SPARC https://t.…
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Baby SPARC
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Baby SPARC
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Baby SPARC https://t.…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Metro Exodus is a very very attractive game. Even the map is 😍 https://t.co/YdipB1EXm1

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
LOL I had not heard this John Butler song, Hand of the Almighty 🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/FennHaQn6V
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cshirky
@cshirky
Today in "Headlines It Would Take 2019 Me An Entire Hour To Explain To 1999 Me": How Kids YouTube Star Blippi Used Copyright L…
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BrianLeeWow
@BrianLeeWow
here it is. here's Farm Egg https://t.co/vEGQp1U3T5
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richziade
@richziade
Sometimes designers need that filler text and lorem ipsum is booooring. So why not find real actual bullshit to fill those b…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Every time someone says "I suuuper need that headphone jack on my electronix device" https://t.co/wdNJXTqGR1
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HBODocs
@HBODocs
“She was going to herald a revolution in medical treatment in this country.”
From Academy Award-winning director @alexgibneyf…
From Academy Award-winning director @alexgibneyf…
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sarahmanavis
@sarahmanavis
See yourself through to the weekend:
I spoke to the people who make up the one fur cent — the secretly rich furries dro…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Aww @betsyphd so totally *gets* me 😍💘 https://t.co/zan0wCvjbJ
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textfiles
@textfiles
Don't miss this excellent scan of a Johnson Smith Company Catalog from 1991. https://t.co/xVztywUiXz https://t.co/XNr4smIvqk

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Remember when 1080p used to be "high resolution"? Now it is like a cute tiny little baby 👶
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cjgiaimo
@cjgiaimo
happy valentine's day!!! do you believe in love??? these galapagos tortoises dated for almost 100 years and then they broke u…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Meanwhile, in North Korea https://t.co/jSKCN01vWN

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"The more you talk, the better the conversations become. Is this the right message to send to everyone in a discussion? More fundamentally, is this even true?" https://t.co/X3dFR3l3BG
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shog9
@shog9
Hello, friend
Are you a jackass?
Do you like annoying people?
Are you tired of posting ASCII dongs and ROFLcopters?
Why don'…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@bengunbharta Kinda, I was also thinking about the NYT article (back in the day) that they thought would give them bad publicity.. turned into the opposite, a publicity windfall.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@SnailMailGames @migueldeicaza I'm dropping System.Text.RegularExpressions

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
whoa, super cool detail -- when I visit Stripe's documentation pages, they customize the sample API code using our org data and keys 😍 that's so clever!
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DocPop
@DocPop
I can't wait to watch the documentaries about the massive Fyre Fest LARP happening in Detroit at the end of April. It's off to…
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andest01
@andest01
@HoeflerCo The designers who made Dee Jay from Street Fighter used "MAXIMUM" for his pants because they wouldn't have to re-d…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@_AdamCook I never go there, I always search from browser address bar now
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Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life
Remember all of those essays about how Apple was wrong about getting rid of the headphone jack? Airpods are now their sec…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Of all the ancient 1999 dot-com era web sites I used to frequent, to me eBay has aged the most gracefully in terms of utility. It is arguably more useful than ever for finding really esoteric stuff for sale.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I'm gonna do it, back to back Fyre Festival documentaries IM GONNA DO IT https://t.co/vBslCj28Cg

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Every time we go to a PTA meeting I like to imagine it is gonna be full of drama and sass like the Harper Valley PTA https://t.co/CMQeXq3EO5

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
ah yes, the hot new PUA "you should hire me because your product sucks" job hunt strategy. You gotta neg 'em to get in there, everyone knows that.
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TheDreamGhoul
@TheDreamGhoul
my rabbit claiming my cat’s belongings and my cat being too scared to do anything about it: a photo series https://t.co/…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"you don't need the bullet when you got the ballot" https://t.co/8r0E7nTt7L





























