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2019-10-31

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hackers.town: 2019-10-31 Thu 00:35

Apropos of nothing, I periodically revisit the thought that at one time my Nokia seemed large and unwieldy.

Nokia 925 next to an iPhone 8, which is slightly larger than the Nokia

hackers.town: 2019-10-31 Thu 06:46

I could already format messages without any extra clicky things thanks to your not-quite-Markdown markup. Don’t need to go out of your way with popups to remind me that you’re getting more annoying, Slack.

I’m still mad you took away IRC.

Slack popup informing me that I can format messages through their UI.

hackers.town: 2019-10-31 Thu 08:51

Hoped to find time for something more elaborate, but “more or less functioning adult” is as much a fantasy costume as “wizard” or “sexy guillotine” so let’s go with it.

Selfie in office

Twitter: 2019-10-31 Thu 17:26

I stopped shoving Addams Family DVDs in faces of people who tried to present Harley & Joker as some kind of Great Evil Love.

But I’ll still always RT.

https://twitter.com/blogdiva/status/1190053919285792774

Twitter: 2019-10-31 Thu 17:29

Scroll up, scroll down, scroll all around.

https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/918000040458768384

Twitter: 2019-10-31 Thu 17:57

“History never repeats but it rhymes”

Figure out what part you’re singing in this verse.

https://twitter.com/WebDevLaw/status/957256426392494080

Twitter: 2019-10-31 Thu 21:49

Making some very good points about children.

https://twitter.com/Worthikids/status/1190059523228291073

hackers.town: 2019-10-31 Thu 21:54

Documentation is like pizza or sex: if you think bad is better than none at all then you haven’t seen much of the world yet.

hackers.town: 2019-10-31 Thu 22:38

you know the story about the butcher who never needed to sharpen his knife because he just let the blade find its own way without forcing it

gosh i wish i could be like that with code

sometimes

i feel close

but no

not really

alas