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webmd says hating mondays is one of the most common symptoms of lead poisoning
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2022, 3:19:57 PM
Metal wind sculptures are fun.. very zen https://t.co/6HixoGLL1h
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2022, 1:09:14 PM
It is very strange to see something you co-created featured in the background of major TV shows and/or movies, in culture generally. Surreal. https://t.co/ifuxhpuII3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2022, 7:27:48 PM
“being online did not make most people more aggressive or hostile; rather, it allowed a small number of aggressive people to attack a much larger set of victims” https://t.co/Ed9sLmqSO4
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2022, 5:14:31 PM
It’s got what butterflies crave! https://t.co/TS8DUFDZba
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2022, 3:28:41 PM
"Not taking four seconds to put my glass in the dishwasher is more important to me than you are." https://t.co/pMRKpd9fjF
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2022, 12:55:54 PM
From a 1990-1992 book by George Gilder titled “Life After Television”. I can find *nothing* on a company named “Frox” https://t.co/VwAnPxcT4Z
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2022, 5:08:31 PM
I do enjoy the charger cables with built in watt meters. It’s interesting to learn how the devices decide what level to charge and how fast (and to see which chargers deliver the rated amounts) https://t.co/ocfNcHy2tb
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michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
Apr 10, 2022, 3:55:15 PM
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Ethical behaviour is NP-hard (via @notmedic): https://t.co/UIhAcSPLK2
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2022, 3:54:56 PM
This was / is WeWork’s competition. I never noticed them before. https://t.co/ErLxeB3x57
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2022, 1:43:52 PM
Documentaries work to raise awareness of larger societal problems, e.g. "The Blackfish Effect" https://t.co/ldmKikRpL8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2022, 1:38:53 PM
I hope we can turn this around. 63 is far too large a number. https://t.co/sVTjYfng6Y
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2022, 4:57:47 PM
I was surprised to recently discover an RTX 2060 on sale via Woot for $389! Is all this ethereum mining nonsense over now?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2022, 11:32:06 AM
I hadn't followed this 2017-2019 Foxconn/Wisconson story: https://t.co/GD9LgcFTU9
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2022, 11:14:26 PM
Not exactly news to anyone, but still.. fascinating stuff. https://t.co/qQAEIrIFOf https://t.co/R9yUkai5TF
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2022, 3:55:14 PM
@mondain no, it does not require rep to make the edit. Remember that is an incognito browser screenshot. The edit has to be approved by other users with enough rep to approve edits.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2022, 3:51:44 PM
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When the ad is supposed to be a joke, but.. isn't https://t.co/dhj7cOemrv
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waxpancake @waxpancake
Apr 7, 2022, 11:29:37 AM
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You innies better get moving if we're going to meet our quarterly quota. This macrodata isn't going to refine itself. https…
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castrojo @castrojo
Apr 7, 2022, 11:25:56 AM
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TIL from @mattdm that Discourse has a feature that will put an automagic time zone converter in a post, what an awesome idea.…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2022, 9:31:45 PM
Schrödinger’s cat pants https://t.co/YCjdrjlrf1
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2022, 9:23:28 PM
Migrated to a new motherboard/PSU (PSU asplode), decrypting my main 980 Pro M.2 SSD in Windows 11 / bitlocker and it's taking 5+ hours. This is with only 139gb of data on it. Disk still shows 100% usage in taskman though. Guess I'll let it go overnight.. 😨
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sailorhg @sailorhg
Apr 6, 2022, 8:26:41 PM
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✿ home sweet homepage ✿, a comic about growing up online!

https://t.co/ONhsxzAqbp https://t.co/0xDzrRxLjc
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2022, 8:24:00 PM
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I got two of these to thank @pinboard for everything he did in the 2016 and 2020 election efforts. So, thank you, and thi…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2022, 8:20:03 PM
@mondain Not at all. Try it now. Go into incognito mode and press "improve this". It will be queued and reviewed by users with more rep. I've just done this in my own browser, see screenshot with highlights https://t.co/5Z28ikpPxj
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2022, 6:44:59 PM
Congrats -- that is the goal, small "fun size" units of work where we teach each other, in wiki-editable form (and since it apparently surprises people every time I say this, remember every Q&A in SE is editable by any anonymous user, just like wikipedia!) https://t.co/bBWQISlqB2
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JohnDiesattheEn @JohnDiesattheEn
Apr 6, 2022, 2:57:04 AM
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Some of us have been watching the exact same cycle play out since 90s-era IRC chat room days https://t.co/xdGsBIdhaT
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supererogatory @supererogatory
Apr 6, 2022, 2:21:02 AM
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Time to finally share one of the weirdest things I ever came across: a pitch for an officially sanctioned Zardoz (yes,…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2022, 12:18:50 PM
Whoo boy do the political email titles ever get A/B tested to infinity… and beyond! Clicks are life. https://t.co/X2MDSyMkXK
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2022, 6:18:46 PM
The truth hurts https://t.co/Znlnwy0LKW
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gknauss @gknauss
Apr 3, 2022, 6:18:33 PM
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Cleaning out the storage unit, digging through boxes not opened for 20 years. Thank you, Marina. You have no idea the impact…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2022, 3:09:15 PM
We'll be expecting a lot of SORRY for this utter tragedy, my Canadian friends https://t.co/vbk2coZwtw https://t.co/31QzFCCsEk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2022, 12:17:53 PM
I guess those 193 Republicans must not have any diabetic friends or family .. 😠 https://t.co/kR4C5lwg2Z
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2022, 11:21:43 PM
📽️ Is this a new thing, projector screens that actively reject light not projected at the correct (e.g. from the actual media projector) angle? https://t.co/77UKnqwa0j
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2022, 10:16:30 PM
Oh no! Don’t want to be left out of the VR, er I mean 3D, revolution! https://t.co/2AbdIUr7jj
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2022, 7:36:31 PM
Real time ray traced DOOM is .. really cool https://t.co/WqtegwRntp
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2022, 6:55:28 PM
Looks like the Ayn Odin (think Nintendo Switch, but Android / Snapdragon 845) is the device to beat! It even handles PS2 games well. https://t.co/FpF2hGHvKm
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lexaloffle @lexaloffle
Apr 1, 2022, 5:59:31 PM
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Dithering patterns should have weird names the way that colours do.
#pico8 https://t.co/e2Kpj2XaPt
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Even though it’s April Fools’ Day, I am very serious; what if medical science and the CDC could create the first “Anti-Fool vaccin…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2022, 4:48:45 PM
I do not have an update, but I once built a tool to generate a universal, works-forever search link for any given internet page based on the 5 least common (aka most unique) words on that page and it worked .. perfectly. 👌 https://t.co/I9Vnccm5Hf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2022, 4:43:35 PM
I wonder what could possibly be in this box? It's a mystery! https://t.co/Au5IF2BALt
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2022, 2:34:28 PM
Still the most savage takedown of Apple vs. Microsoft in history https://t.co/tQE1qaJiLf
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teri1337 @teri1337
Mar 31, 2022, 2:21:02 PM
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A little over 20 years ago I spearheaded a video pinball project for Midway/WMS. I recently wrote an article about it, which…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2022, 11:24:41 PM
How deep does the keyboard rabbit hole go? 🕳🐰 yep that is an 8x9 = 72 key tester 😱⌨️ https://t.co/Y6WV1dDL26
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2022, 8:20:47 PM
welp, it finally happened. Chrome reached version 100. https://t.co/al5WNJJNlU
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2022, 12:54:35 PM
I always wondered why Windows didn't support country flag emoji. Maybe they were right not to? https://t.co/uiiN672qh8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2022, 9:38:11 PM
I've had the domain https://t.co/W1KJZ4RLYs for 10 years now and was hoping to hand it off to someone at Stack Overflow.. but they can't use it. Anyone else want it to make something cool? Email me. (My email is listed on my blog.)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2022, 4:08:19 PM
@TimAppleCodes that's kinda the goal of great comedy IMO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2022, 1:39:08 PM
No video has ever summarized America better than this one, in my not so humble opinion https://t.co/hTddOJInqu
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eleanorkpenny @eleanorkpenny
Mar 28, 2022, 9:47:41 PM
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Down with toxic masculinity, avanti whatever’s going on here https://t.co/djrjjqwyqT
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JimMFelton @JimMFelton
Mar 28, 2022, 9:21:21 PM
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… do you have any other urologists I could talk to https://t.co/d5D237KgGJ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2022, 2:25:19 PM
Always wanted to see this movie, now is a good time as any https://t.co/th2yfpdntK
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NVIDIAAIDev @NVIDIAAIDev
Mar 28, 2022, 2:20:57 PM
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Trained in minutes, rendered in seconds. ⏱️ Our Instant NeRF from NVIDIA Research turns 2D photos into 3D scenes in the…
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duanrui1205 @duanrui1205
Mar 28, 2022, 2:03:43 PM
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Modified iPhone 13 Pro Max Ultra, added USB-C + 3.5mm interface, built-in dual cooling fans, doubled the battery life, and…
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Will Smith smacks Chris Rock, a breakdown https://t.co/Fh75AxM8TT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2022, 7:29:27 PM
I honestly wish a lot more of the gun-nut-dont-tread-on-me-flag crowd would get out there and defend freedom, if they believe so much in it. Or is it just freedom for *you personally*? https://t.co/o7bhjXJF5I
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2022, 7:14:08 PM
This is fantastic -- a cottage industry company offering to refurbish "battery dead" airpods. The pessimist in me says this company won't survive because convenience dominates everything.. but we'll find out.. https://t.co/Inj2ACO0cp
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The Academy banned physical screeners this year, but the pandemic may have killed demand for Oscar screeners for good. It's time…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2022, 2:08:12 PM
One of the biggest video game cheats of all time https://t.co/zFjlBWbJAv
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2022, 1:03:39 PM
Its 2022 report, which found that distrust is now “society’s default emotion,” recorded a trend of collapsing faith in institutions such as government or media. https://t.co/WddZKnmboX
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2022, 12:02:20 AM
Not eating for 30 days .. doesn't sound like a good idea? https://t.co/IXbJOtjtLk
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pomeranian99 @pomeranian99
Mar 26, 2022, 7:53:36 PM
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"The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers": https://t.co/UxEQcJTcIK

My latest essay in a series on how AI and automat…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2022, 7:53:21 PM
I love these simple, inexpensive “usb or sd card” digital Nix photo frames. Load ‘em up with all our family photos on a 256gb or 512gb usb stick / sd card and let them randomly cycle through family memories! https://t.co/wvvvtCTZIq
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2022, 4:35:07 PM
"[In almost every job], someone with extraordinary soft skills (honesty, commitment, empathy, resilience, commitment to the journey, willingness to be coached… the real skills that we actually care about) is going to outperform." https://t.co/GuB1xCqU6i
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2022, 1:01:07 PM
I've always loved this twins photo. It neatly summarizes the twin parenting conversational experience! https://t.co/OtmibdFTGW
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2022, 12:39:39 PM
"We want to be able to deliver our vision of what VR is", and that vision was .. apparently, a giant pile of money 🤑 https://t.co/OLtY54IO2k
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2022, 12:23:50 PM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2022, 11:44:22 AM
@loydcase we actually have some of these!
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wonderofscience @wonderofscience
Mar 26, 2022, 11:37:39 AM
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Amazing octopus stretching its tentacles to form a huge balloon filmed by EVNautilus at a depth of around 1,600 meters…
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francescagino @francescagino
Mar 26, 2022, 11:35:36 AM
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When generational differences make you think… https://t.co/u2CkqsQ1Pk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2022, 12:19:33 AM
Here's the floppy drive that the @stackoverflow exec team sent me in April 2011 to torment me over my insistence that "username/password logins are the floppy drives of the internet" https://t.co/cvEnpSoLkR
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2022, 10:17:28 PM
inspired by https://t.co/tH5AL5fA65 let's try a different variation of this. What's the most USEFUL item you've purchased from Amazon in recent memory? Bonus points for obscurity.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2022, 9:42:20 PM
Between watching Super Pumped, and The Dropout, you'd certainly get the idea that silicon valley startups are madness. But the reality in my experience is that the company strongly reflects the personality of the founder, and some people are.. egomaniacs or charlatans. Or both.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2022, 7:16:01 PM
One of the least known but most innovative computer peripherals ever was Jef Raskin's SwyftCard. Study the failures, because they're far more interesting than the success stories everyone already knows.. https://t.co/IFDZobh6LA
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2022, 7:08:09 PM
"Electric Pencil, the first word processing program for the Apple II, was the archetype for all word processing packages that followed .. In 1978, Electric Pencil had 250,000 users. By 1981, it was forgotten." https://t.co/fH8bsNw5OL
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2022, 6:23:00 PM
JK Rowling has convinced me that maybe all this Extremely British Wizarding was never a very good idea in the first place
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2022, 5:52:37 PM
I am a middle aged white man who just changed the wiper blades on the car and am therefore now capable of every possible task, AMA
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2022, 4:04:33 PM
Putting some Bluetooth logging thermometers in.. Curious how well the fridge and freezer etc are at regulating temps over time https://t.co/8ZvFAKiHI9
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JimMFelton @JimMFelton
Mar 25, 2022, 2:35:59 PM
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When JK Rowling sat in that cafe all those years ago, there’s no way she could have known she’d one day be endorsed by Vlad…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2022, 2:25:53 PM
"Companies in the Web 2.0 era produced only goods and services, value denominated in dollars or other national currencies. But companies in the web3 era offer a third product — tokens — and the value of those tokens is far less tethered to reality." https://t.co/Y1LJZycdvi
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MisterABK @MisterABK
Mar 25, 2022, 1:33:05 PM
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Cartoons today vs cartoons when I was a kid: https://t.co/0AUESWVaoq
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 24, 2022, 10:34:22 PM
Well, the Surface Duo is certainly inexpensive now, picked one up for $350 to test with. You can do split screen (one app per panel) or drag to the middle for full screen… https://t.co/oNfLCNNZ1f
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aschmelyun @aschmelyun
Mar 24, 2022, 2:24:42 PM
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So here's why I bought a receipt printer: Every time one of my GitHub repos gets a new issue, I now get a physical ticket…
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jongalloway @jongalloway
Mar 24, 2022, 12:53:28 PM
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Every year or so, @codinghorror and I reply to our random 15 year old e-mail threads requesting status or giving additiona…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 23, 2022, 6:47:25 PM
So @zogstrip went to one of these recently and .. it was quite the, uh, "experience"? https://t.co/Kinamegeqr
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marcelocordova @marcelocordova
Mar 23, 2022, 3:43:06 PM
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#Morbius 3D poster (Milan) https://t.co/JiwtaxBbo6
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 23, 2022, 3:19:12 PM
One thing I love about @discourse is how easy it is to create a linked topic, and the bidirectional links that automatically appear when you do. But I am a *little* biased.. https://t.co/BYcFZ9V0n7
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 23, 2022, 2:30:17 PM
Not sure what to do about climate change? Let's start by planting some trees, together! 🌲🌳 https://t.co/OWEfOzYTiH
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Despite the tendentious and misleading questions from Cruz, Jackson couldn't possibly rage and cry the way now-Justice Kavanaugh…
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pomeranian99 @pomeranian99
Mar 22, 2022, 4:02:49 PM
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Real estate agents in California report that more homebuyers are going off the grid, spurred by blackouts, brownouts, and…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 21, 2022, 11:47:50 PM
Hey, the Galaxy Tab S8 is the first Android device I've ever owned that cracked 100 on Speedometer! 👏 Welcome to approximately .. 2018! Now we need the rest of the Android ecosystem to drag itself across this baseline. https://t.co/emo3rCMCWZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 21, 2022, 10:37:07 PM
new phishing reels just dropped 🎣 https://t.co/blq6rPC6oQ
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LarsJohanL @LarsJohanL
Mar 21, 2022, 7:45:58 PM
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National Geographic Picture of The Year. Black images are shadows of zebras. Zoom in and you will see zebras. https://t.co/…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 20, 2022, 11:34:55 PM
"styropyro is literally the only person who, when he says 'Please don't try anything you see in this video at home', I don't even question it." https://t.co/WjKIWW74L8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 20, 2022, 11:28:18 PM
"what if I fully embraced the horror?" https://t.co/NwGtZV9z6c
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joffreyjaffeux @joffreyjaffeux
Mar 20, 2022, 10:50:39 PM
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So many people lecturing you about maintainable code actually almost never stayed more than 5 years in a company…
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spirantel @spirantel
Mar 20, 2022, 10:30:28 PM
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still the hardest image of all time https://t.co/MMQ9ottNsu
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