James Richardson @jamesrichardson@mastodon.social

The shovel was a ground-breaking invention.

Good software engineers write simple software with simple tools, and it works. Bad software engineers write complicated software with complicated tools and it only works insofar as you run it on CPUs designed in the last 6 months on one of 2-3 operating systems on 1-2 architectures and provided you don't look at it too funny

generalized reminder that not everybody has the same boundaries as you and you'd better fuckin ask what peoples' boundaries are rather than pushing them until they push back

Signs of getting old, part 12765: I used to do "git init" as soon as I got an idea for a new project. These days I start outlining an architecture document instead.

'There is a form of #privacy being violated— activist Maciej Cegłowski calls it #ambientprivacy: “the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of #monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered. What we do at home, work, church, school or in our leisure time does not belong in a #permanentrecord.

Not every #conversation needs to be a #deposition.”'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/11/can-we-talk-in-confidence-the-death-of-candour-in-the-age-of-surveillance

1969: I bet we will have flying cars in the future

2019: Coffee with DRM

Reclaiming #RSS, by @yogthos 🔗 https://mastodon.social/users/yogthos/statuses/101071920068502468

Reclaiming RSS
https://ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rss/

To escape censorship by Big Social, all web sites and blogs should implement this one trick.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

—- Richard Feynman (disputed)

@drawandstrike As a former law enforcement officer who conducted threat assessments on persons who potentially posed a threat to themselves or others, my training and experience is that just removing their access to firearms is not the answer but temporarily involuntarily committing them for professional mental health evaluation, if indicated by the threat assessment, is a far better course of action. Threat assessment is not just about mental illness but also domestic violence.

@cwebber @cstanhope @dthompson

Tired: Someone is wrong on the Internet.

Wired: Many people are wrong on the Internet.

Mired: Everyone is wrong on the Internet.

What's wrong with #XMPP? https://blog.samwhited.com/2019/02/whats-wrong-with-xmpp/

I learned in sql that

id-1000

Is NOT the same as

id =1000

The former helped me delete 1/2 of a production database before I stopped it.

RT @jesslynnrose@twitter.com

Tech Twitter: Folks often focus on posting our wins on social media.

What's the most bafflingly stupid tech mistake you've made that you're willing to share?

RT for more sympathy-cringe responses?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jesslynnrose/status/1159075400938639361

I guess “I don’t know, make it somehow to be like OpenBSD” is not a sufficient answer to “How do you harden a Linux server?”

RT @humanworkplace@twitter.com

There is no good reason to post a job ad without a salary range. There are only bad reasons:

1. To keep current employees from learning they’re underpaid

2. To keep candidates unaware of the budgeted range

3. To use candidates’ salary histories as free market research

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/humanworkplace/status/1154903582094716930