2021

2074 Tweets, 135 Publications

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The protestant scholars won't support arts education in the...

Dec 27 Tweets

The protestant scholars won't support arts education in the seminary in the 1950s, because they want to focus on preaching and worship, not art, but now a Catholic church architect named Patrick Quinn has stepped in to argue the case and won, arts ed belongs in the seminary.

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I regret to inform you this might be interesting, he's...

Dec 27 Tweets

I regret to inform you this might be interesting, he's taking the ferry to the Mission District (before Golden Gate Bridge) during the depression to do interdenominational outreach for $25 a month and everyone is rude to him because they're moonshiners and they think he's a fed.

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In my eternal search for very calm media to guide me to...

Dec 27 Tweets

In my eternal search for very calm media to guide me to sleep I have found an eight-cassette oral history of 20th-century California theological seminaries by a Berkeley professor emeritus of homiletics and church history. https://archive.

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To take my mind off the balmy mid-December temperatures...

Dec 16 Tweets

To take my mind off the balmy mid-December temperatures coinciding with a national weather crisis and the enormous NYC Covid spike I'm listening to Light Conductor's great second album for the hundredth time and looking at our aluminum Christmas tree. https://lightconductor.

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Retro projects are often extremely toxic, but here they're...

Dec 14 Tweets

Retro projects are often extremely toxic, but here they're taking care to set up a modern dev community (Zoom calls, code of conduct), enhancing docs, publishing a thorough annual report, and preserving "legacy" versions of the software too. https://docs.

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A new favorite project: People from 1970s PARC +...

Dec 14 Tweets

A new favorite project: People from 1970s PARC + PARC-adjacent folks are carefully restoring/gently modernizing the Medley Interlisp system, a Lisp OS that ran on the Xerox D-machines, so that it can run on a modern VM on any OS. https://interlisp.

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I mean this is exactly that, but about three minutes of...

Dec 9 Tweets

@bennyfactor I mean this is exactly that, but about three minutes of setup. Same deal: I have a few big data sets that I downloaded that I'm messing with that are clunky to move around and it's just easier to just leave them on the home machine and log in if I need them.

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Assume that I [1] have good knowledge of FS-UAE, have...

Dec 7 Tweets

Assume that I [1] have good knowledge of FS-UAE, have bought the Cloanto stuff many times, keep copies of every Kickstart/WB + nearly every game and app ADF ; [2] but don't want to buy a vintage 1200. Is MISTer sort of between those two worlds?

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Many of the characters in the new Neal Stephenson book are...

Dec 4 Tweets

Many of the characters in the new Neal Stephenson book are emphatically the people Twitter hates the most: - Billionaires - Royalty - Davos types - Literally a man who seeks to protect his family from 30-50 feral hogs I keep waiting for a dad to show up with a can opener.

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IMO folks at @Postlight have landed on a solid,...

Nov 30 Tweets

IMO folks at @Postlight have landed on a solid, culture-driven strategy for corporate giving: At end of year, Employee Resource Groups give to charities aligned with their focus, and throughout the year the firm matches donations. https://postlight.

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Nov 23 Tweets

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Nerds.

Nov 22 Tweets

@maureenflaherty @goldman @lorelei Nerds.

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Nov 10 Tweets

@bergmayer @skamille https://x.

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I just had the best interaction on the train where someone...

Nov 10 Tweets

I just had the best interaction on the train where someone asked if I liked my e-paper tablet, I gave it to her to look at, and now we will never interact again. Ranks up there with “found and returned some guy's wallet” and “chatted about Dune while they made my drink.

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I'm “participating” (tweeting) in the Carbon Brief quiz...

Nov 8 Tweets

I'm “participating” (tweeting) in the Carbon Brief quiz bowl with http://probablefutures. org and people from @WoodwellClimate , and they're amazing (I know nothing) and right now our job is to match the Sankey energy production/consumption diagram to the country.

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This article by @miriamkp nails something deeply...

Nov 8 Tweets

This article by @miriamkp nails something deeply uncomfortable about how software (in this case supply chain software) encodes gaps in our understanding of the world, and keeps us from seeing and perceiving certain things about the humans in the middle of the logistics. https://t.

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Nov 5 Tweets

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One of the best things about living in NYC is you can name...

Nov 5 Tweets

One of the best things about living in NYC is you can name any neighborhood in the five boroughs without explaining what or where it is, and it's everyone else's problem. If you're from NYC you can tweet "There are NO muffins in Outer Kingsbury" and everyone has to accept it.

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My spouse just asked if I told the people who lived there,...

Nov 5 Tweets

My spouse just asked if I told the people who lived there, and if you wanted to measure the difference between us it's that one of us would knock on a door and tell people a squirrel stole their breakfast and try to make a friend for life, but another would do nothing and tweet.

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“Agile is a kind of witchcraft wherein a coven of...

Nov 1 Tweets

“Agile is a kind of witchcraft wherein a coven of developers form frequent ‘standups’ to commit themselves to evil acts upon a code base, until finally Satan heeds their call and manifests working software. ” https://www.

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It's wild how much of the 2021 programming ecosystem is...

Nov 1 Tweets

It's wild how much of the 2021 programming ecosystem is declarative data structures evaluated by recursive functions. Maybe there's a corollary to Greenspun's Law that what drives innovation in the tech industry is a steadfast refusal to implement LISP.

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My guess is they're paying for the REALLY expensive media...

Oct 30 Tweets

@tressiemcphd My guess is they're paying for the REALLY expensive media training coaches who are used to working with politicians/seasoned executives, but these are nervous nerds who are rushing everything and they're treating the coaching as a set of rules to follow, with this as result.

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At 20 mins he's: Swung on a big swing; lived in a perfect...

Oct 30 Tweets

At 20 mins he's: Swung on a big swing; lived in a perfect house; shown us problematic cassette recordings of African polyrhythms that he tapes off the radio, keeps in a briefcase, and "steals" from; said "Mommy" into a Fairlight; recorded himself smashing a TV with a car muffler.

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I ask you, how are we supposed to survive long cold months...

Oct 29 Tweets

I ask you, how are we supposed to survive long cold months in the Amazon low-orbit WeWork, raising 30 radiation-hardened mole rat/Jeff Bezos clone chimeras to prepare them for their journey to Arcturus, if we can't survive eight semesters in the lightless Munger Arcology Educube?

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Oct 25 Tweets

@meyerweb @film_girl @anildash https://www. cafepress.

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When I was 15 I listened to Pink Floyd's The Final Cut on...

Oct 18 Tweets

@RickWebb When I was 15 I listened to Pink Floyd's The Final Cut on chromium cassette recorded in QSound, on a knockoff Walkman, and heard the crunch of soldier's feet and thought it was someone walking outside my bedroom. But not in the intervening three decades.

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You ever carry something to a party and it starts leaking...

Oct 15 Tweets

You ever carry something to a party and it starts leaking and then you realize you've got maybe a mile to walk and then you have to balance a cake on a postbox and before it falls you need to unbutton your nice party shirt so the tres leches only leaks onto your t-shirt?

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Every morning as I go to work I pass the Bonobos and see...

Oct 14 Tweets

Every morning as I go to work I pass the Bonobos and see this overproduced ad, and notice the powerful butt and the fussy type, and internalize their ongoing absolute indifference to the spelling of “entrance,” and it breaks me down a little more each day.

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Remember when you'd utterly demolish your savings account...

Oct 13 Tweets

Remember when you'd utterly demolish your savings account to buy a fifteen-pound laptop and they'd give you a receipt and send you to the basement purgatory that looked like a police station to sit for 30 minutes? Then you'd get a cab because it was such a big purchase.

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Climate Change Starting Points

By Paul Ford Oct 12

Since stepping down as CEO of Postlight, I've been learning about climate change. This work is harder, in many ways, than my work as CEO. Climate ...

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Oct 8 Tweets

@toomuchnick https://x. com/toomuchnick/status/1376149516206891011?

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Oct 6 Tweets

@phyllisstein https://laurenceraw. tripod.

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My son just retold an old story about the time a kid made...

Oct 5 Tweets

My son just retold an old story about the time a kid made fun of him for wearing sparkly shoes, and I told him I'd support him wearing any kind of shoes he wanted, and he said, What about if they were covered with really bad, like horrible, swears? Anyway I am a kidney donor.

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A testing center can enter a kid's negative Covid test...

Oct 4 Tweets

A testing center can enter a kid's negative Covid test results into a spreadsheet two weeks late, fumblefingers it to "positive," and upload that to test and trace. Now YOUR task is to backtrack NYC phone trees to debug this so the kid can go back to school.

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The way I look at it is, we can't build or maintain good...

Oct 3 Tweets

@bennyfactor @jeremybowers The way I look at it is, we can't build or maintain good long-lived cross platform GUI editing tools, and since XML is hard to read and harder to write, we thus have to accept that plain text will be the way we structure data until we die, at which point YAML is the least worst.

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We moved into a new house about a year ago and it's on a...

Sep 30 Tweets

We moved into a new house about a year ago and it's on a corner, so at least once a week I need to walk around and pick up the trash and sweep the steps and sidewalk. There's always more litter, and I just realized that no matter what I do I can't stop...

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We moved into a new house about a year ago, and it's on a...

Sep 30 Tweets

We moved into a new house about a year ago, and it's on a corner, so at least once a week I need to walk around and pick up the trash and sweep the steps and sidewalk. There's always more litter, and I just realized that no matter what I do I can't stop...

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"I'm Jack and here is the generative stuff I made with...

Sep 30 Tweets

@jackrusher @raganwald @BradyDale "I'm Jack and here is the generative stuff I made with Clojure," and then you show me something, is basically "artist's catalogue/gallery show" level of hype, which I *like*, and there's the MUCH louder "You should definitely mortgage your house to buy this JPEG of a monkey.

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I hate the surveillance state BUT NYC could make an app...

Sep 29 Tweets

I hate the surveillance state BUT NYC could make an app called CYCLE CITIZEN that lets you take photos of the backs of cars parked in the bike lane, digitally signs them w/GPS, and uploads them. Two photos of a car from two cyclists gets a ticket.

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Appreciate receiving this 12 minutes before deadline....

Sep 28 Tweets

@mat Appreciate receiving this 12 minutes before deadline. Tonally I'm trying to land a kind of ironic pejorativity—my hope was that editors will see themselves as in on the joke—but glad to add context if you think that will enhance the humor.

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Sep 28 Tweets

( https://www. theonion.

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I just ran across a French pop song, "Né en 17 à...

Sep 26 Tweets

I just ran across a French pop song, "Né en 17 à Leidenstadt," from 1990 that has: - Shameless Bruce Hornsby influence - Extreme 90s production - Lyrics asking, "Would I have been a Nazi? " - Little kids goosestepping at 2:39 - FULL Scorpions-esque chorus https://www.

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Manhattan Extended would become, unfortunately, ManEx....

Sep 24 Tweets

Manhattan Extended would become, unfortunately, ManEx. PREMIERING AT THE ERFI PALACIUM: "FORGET FREEPORT": A NOMANEX OFFICE GUY MEETS A WILD SOMANEX GAL ON A NIGHT OUT IN NEW MANHATTAN, LEADING TO ONE OF THE WILDEST MOPED AIRSHIP CHASE SCENES EVER COMMITTED TO POLYCINESCOPE!!!

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BUT ALSO, I'll DM Mike and I'm like, hey, someone I know...

Sep 24 Tweets

BUT ALSO, I'll DM Mike and I'm like, hey, someone I know building some new product needs big Salesforce help, and then a week later that person will DM me and go THAT PERSON MIKE WAS EXTREEEEEEMELY HELPFUL. So if you like joyfully helping people build their things...

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My friend @MikeTRose has, MANY times, stepped up to help me...

Sep 24 Tweets

My friend @MikeTRose has, MANY times, stepped up to help me and others in defining and developing big @Salesforce platforms. So if you're a technical architect-type person and want a boss who is kind and helpful, and who'll help YOU be kind and helpful...

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Also, to give you a sense of what kind of organization...

Sep 22 Tweets

Also, to give you a sense of what kind of organization Probable Futures is, they acknowledged EVERYONE on the About Us page, and treated us as partners, not vendors. Can't think of another time that happened in 20+ years of doing client work.

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Underneath what you see is science from one of the world's...

Sep 22 Tweets

Underneath what you see is science from one of the world's best climate research institutes ( @WoodwellClimate ), and a powerful API for mapping climate data, which I look forward to sharing in coming months as more and more of my brain turns into a climate-colored mist.

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My spouse just told me my best line in my last @WIRED piece...

Sep 22 Tweets

My spouse just told me my best line in my last @WIRED piece (not online yet) was “the thing about the dragon and the butter knife,” the one line written by my editor @anthonylydgate , which I had cut-and-pasted from his Google Docs comment. Life is a long soft roasting.

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So @simonw did something super-smart and took all the work...

Sep 15 Tweets

So @simonw did something super-smart and took all the work he's been doing on Datasette (which turns CSVs into insta-databases and lets you browse and visualize them) and bundled it up into a desktop app so you don't need to have any Python instincts: https://datasette.

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The problem with doing it and being a legend is that you...

Sep 3 Tweets

@webology @sophaskins The problem with doing it and being a legend is that you are doing it and being a legend inside a procurement system or via email to the person who just wants to get it into QuickBooks or to your accountant. (ZFG LLC is a good name tho.

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Anyway my decided route is starting at Newkirk up...

Aug 24 Tweets

Anyway my decided route is starting at Newkirk up Marlborough, along the left of the park (PPSW -> PPW) -> Vanderbilt -> Navy Yard -> Fulton -> Through the Wegmans Parking Lot -> Manhattan Bridge -> Bowery -> 17th St. -> Postlight.

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Also 10 years ago it was more "I will enter gridlocked car...

Aug 24 Tweets

Also 10 years ago it was more "I will enter gridlocked car traffic alone and emerge alive" and now it's "I will follow a flow of indifferently maintained bike paths, surrounded by an absolute chaos of ebikes, escooters, eunicycles, mopeds, delivery trucks, and pedestrians.

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I started biking again in NYC after ten years and two...

Aug 24 Tweets

I started biking again in NYC after ten years and two things I've noticed: [1] There is 5x the infrastructure but it meets 20% of the need; [2] people love to push right up in front of everyone else at the light then CHECK their PHONES and when the light changes THEY DON'T MOVE.

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Finally

Aug 21 Tweets

@benwerd Finally http://worrydream.

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Two things that I'm finding useful: learning as much of...

Aug 21 Tweets

@benwerd Two things that I'm finding useful: learning as much of basic stats as my mind can tolerate (since the true language of climate is distributions of projected anomalies from baseline, derived from models), and this very helpful free undergrad textbook: https://open. oregonstate.

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At a broad level the work for digital folks is to connect...

Aug 21 Tweets

@benwerd At a broad level the work for digital folks is to connect our abstractions—like, say, a shopping cart transaction, or real estate search, or community group post—to physical risks in the real world, which are mostly expressed in climateworld as probabilities.

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What I'm doing is learning about (and doing client work...

Aug 21 Tweets

@benwerd What I'm doing is learning about (and doing client work with) netCDFs and geoTIFFs, which are data formats for transmitting geoscience data, and thinking of ways to bring that data further into our world. The tooling in Python (xarray, gdal, netCDF4) is the standard.

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I've been looking at the different parts of big orgs tasked...

Aug 12 Tweets

I've been looking at the different parts of big orgs tasked with responding to climate change. It looks like if it rolls up to Risk it means the CEO cares, if it rolls up to Sustainability it means the CEO doesn't care, and if it rolls into Innovation it means no one cares.

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This weekend after getting zero help tidying I took...

Aug 9 Tweets

@VictoriaMia This weekend after getting zero help tidying I took pictures of paragraphs from the puberty books they find horrifying (but had left on the table), had Google lens OCR the text, pasted it into an app that does text-to-speech, and had Sonos play it through the house.

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PDF is a great format as a paper-analogue that can be...

Aug 9 Tweets

@WSC0_X PDF is a great format as a paper-analogue that can be printed/bound and it is good for archiving. But I'd ALSO love to see: Plain HTML for accessible browsing, an interactive R notebook so I can explore data directly (although their map is great), and non-DRMed epub or mobi.

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Me too! Dammit!

Jul 24 Tweets

@brianleroux @slightlylate @indexzero @LindsayKubasik Me too! Dammit!

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Jul 13 Tweets

@kjhealy @mtaylor_soc https://macintoshgarden.

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CS is a highly diplomatic middle ground discipline (like...

Jul 1 Tweets

@ChappellTracker @fka_tabs CS is a highly diplomatic middle ground discipline (like IA) that increasingly rolls up to design. I mean I lurve it and what it can accomplish but its focus is on reducing friction at scale rather than applying force to an effort until it launches.

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IMO you are lead product strategist/manager for a giant...

Jul 1 Tweets

@fka_tabs @ChappellTracker IMO you are lead product strategist/manager for a giant mission-driven org that directly provides constituents with digital services/data. You hire vendors, work through budget with leadership, and manage a team of about five.

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I thought this was great—@mcmansionhell first seems to be...

Jun 23 Tweets

I thought this was great— @mcmansionhell first seems to be Making it About Herself but ends up drawing her subject clearly (also literally! ) while writing about what people mean to us as symbols and how we use them as guideposts to achieve our own dreams.

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And while I love you very much please understand that...

Jun 19 Tweets

And while I love you very much please understand that unless you have cracked a frame coming off a curb in heavy Chinatown traffic or shorn a pedal straight off you may not understand the forces being exerted here and the necessity for heavy welds and heavy materials.

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@harper https://podcasts. apple.

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Rather than continue to be frustrated with the children...

Jun 11 Tweets

Rather than continue to be frustrated with the children leaving books in piles around the living room, we bought this Grobart library cart off Craigslist for $40. Like all NYC things it has lore: It was part of Spence, then thrown away years ago for being beige.

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Oh it seems fine! I zoomed in on mobile and it took me a...

Jun 8 Tweets

@ShortFormErnie Oh it seems fine! I zoomed in on mobile and it took me a full minute to parse that the hand was not yours, figure out why I was looking at a Quadra, realize I was looking at a video in a browser, then see the MacOSish chrome, which is on top of GTK (?

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Congratulations!

Jun 8 Tweets

@jarroddicker @mkerns @JesseJacobs434 @PeterChernin @sarafischer Congratulations!

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(Via https://mobile. twitter.

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Well also it's an entire platform and content ecosystem...

Jun 1 Tweets

@raganwald Well also it's an entire platform and content ecosystem that's totally in the commons and that provides the foundation for billions in product revenue across FAANG cos along with OpenStreetMap etc. It's a fantastic bargain for infrastructure!

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Friendly Competition: With Robots & Pencils’ Tracey Zimmerman

By Paul Ford May 31

When you’re a small but growing company, sometimes the best people to learn from are the big fish in your industry pond — the friendly ones that don’t eat you. This week Paul and Rich speak with Tracey Zimmerman, President and CEO of Robots & Pencils, a digital innovation firm working on similar projects as Postlight but at double the size.

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Walking to school this morning I told my children about a...

May 21 Tweets

Walking to school this morning I told my children about a new videogame I played where every time you stack a box your character groans, and it has a lot of animals and they all moan, and after about three minutes of this I told them it was called Whinecraft.

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I wrote a little about my favorite thing, watching...

May 19 Tweets

I wrote a little about my favorite thing, watching enterprise software videos on YouTube, and why, despite all of my cynicism, I was utterly won over by an 80-minute Salesforce presentation held by Marc Benioff in a rainstorm. https://x.

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Demo Your Values First

By Paul Ford May 18

I like to watch software company videos, the more enterprise the better. At worst they're hilarious, and at best I might learn something — usually a ...

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Leaving this here in case you're evaluating your life as we...

May 18 Tweets

Leaving this here in case you're evaluating your life as we emerge from the pandemic and wondering if a few years with nice people at a growing studio, using modern approaches, building software for many industries, is the right step for your career. https://postlight.

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More than once I dreamt the Hacker News comment threads...

May 4 Tweets

@lizzieohreally More than once I dreamt the Hacker News comment threads about things I write. What's worse is there's always one nice comment and I wake up knowing that my brain felt sad for me and wanted to give me a morsel of validation.

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It opens with her receiving the Legion of Honor in 1950,...

May 3 Tweets

It opens with her receiving the Legion of Honor in 1950, flash back to her losing friends in WWI and becoming an ardent internationalist, men behaving brusquely when she starts at the Bibliothèque National, then she's beating Nazis with the awesome force of library bureaucracy.

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I think what's particularly rough with this one is it's...

Apr 30 Tweets

I think what's particularly rough with this one is it's used by smart people using their smart voices on podcasts being philosophical and so it just drills into that part of my brain that is an owl constantly screeching WROOOONG (my brain).

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Fun fact: You can put your phone in your pocket while you...

Apr 29 Tweets

Fun fact: You can put your phone in your pocket while you listen to 700 people talk on a Twitter Spaces chat, and accidentally pocket-press the “ask to speak” button, hear them calling your actual name, then you have to unmute yourself and explain you're just doing the dishes.

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I decided to listen some old radio last night to calm down...

Apr 27 Tweets

I decided to listen some old radio last night to calm down but accidentally picked this nightly news program from 1938 on the day after the Anschluss, and it may be the most stress-producing media artifact I've experienced in my life. https://archive.

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My guess is a human is never touching this data directly....

Apr 27 Tweets

@fka_tabs @tjl My guess is a human is never touching this data directly. People enter rich text or stuff comes in off wires, or from legacy CMSes, or out of XML archives, the computer makes it ALL into this, and now you can make it into new things in predictable ways.

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@waxpancake https://www1. nyc.

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I guess calling Time "world's biggest" is sort of...

Apr 19 Tweets

I guess calling Time "world's biggest" is sort of overstretching a lot of historical context, always worth remembering that Japanese newspaper circulation numbers are out there to remind Americans that we aren't actually serious about circulation.

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So the world's biggest pub gets unbundled from Meredith...

Apr 19 Tweets

So the world's biggest pub gets unbundled from Meredith post takeover and bought by a guy who is building the next MSFT with web-based CRM as core platform instead of OS, and he promotes a climate story AND a circ platform based on currency generating 30-100 mln lbs carbon/yr.

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It's all so fancy and historical and then when you zoom in...

Apr 16 Tweets

@kjhealy It's all so fancy and historical and then when you zoom in it's a middle aged dude in a four poster bed going "When a good boy turns sixty mummy will give him his duchy" [Hits self in head] "Unless he is bad with Jeffrey" [Hits self in head] "UNLESS HE IS BAD WITH JEFFREY.

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I guess that our cohort was collectively sifting through an...

Apr 8 Tweets

@j_zimms @harrisj @dansinker I guess that our cohort was collectively sifting through an enormous trashpile of boomer detritus (often literally) to construct ANYTHING that didn't have a creepy moustache or smell like aqua velva. And we didn't have any economic power so all our media looked like samizdat.

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Book of the Subgenius and High Weirdness by Mail are...

Apr 8 Tweets

@harrisj Book of the Subgenius and High Weirdness by Mail are basically keys to unlock my personality, keys that LITERALLY NO ONE wants. Also the Firesign theater where they tell the story of American colonialism and the "true white brother" my god.

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Pleasant Office Things

By Paul Ford Apr 6

Not long ago I wrote about the secret geographies of the office for Wired. I was a little surprised by the reaction. I expected people to yell at me, like ...

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It's wonderful that everyone expects non-stop...

Apr 4 Tweets

It's wonderful that everyone expects non-stop risk-embracing celebration this summer, but it's slightly more likely people will have two glasses of wine and start sobbing for no reason, then leave the party and walk to the nearest body of water to sit on a bench and watch boats.

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Yep!

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@atlasimpure @ChappellTracker Yep!

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Yep!

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@evanpro Yep! https://www.

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Mar 13 Tweets

@maureenflaherty https://66. media.

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"So Andy you know Andy he said he wanted to come over to...

Mar 7 Tweets

"So Andy you know Andy he said he wanted to come over to [BREATHE] see the new car and that's when I told him that he needed to call his Mom before he even left [BREATH] the house. " If you can just find an unnatural breathing rhythm you can win absolutely EVERY conversation.

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A thing I wish I'd known earlier in life is that the public...

Mar 2 Tweets

A thing I wish I'd known earlier in life is that the public intellectuals and politicians who drive you absolutely up the wall aren't going anywhere and in fact some will still be going strong 10, 20, 30 years later. So you should pace yourself, and not hate all at once.

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Feb 28 Tweets

@phyllisstein https://youtu.

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Feb 24 Tweets

https://slate. com/business/2021/02/what-does-salesforce-sell-marc-benioff.

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People act like you hold a baby and magically transform...

Feb 22 Tweets

People act like you hold a baby and magically transform into fatherhood with secret knowledge, but in reality you are pushed yowling over the paternal cliff again and again motivated by a desperate need to restore any kind of order at all.

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We're watching the Secret of Roan Inish because my wife's...

Feb 20 Tweets

We're watching the Secret of Roan Inish because my wife's family came from those islands and we just saw a huge pile of seaweed in the movie and she went “ooh” and produced a bag of salty stale seaweed and now I know what it tastes like to be drowned.

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But seriously therapy is important tool for staying...

Feb 20 Tweets

But seriously therapy is important tool for staying accountable to yourself and your role in your community—and this goes double for men. And Bazzini is a delightful brand of nuts and treats that brings so much joy to New Yorkers every day.

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Feb 16 Tweets

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Baking Your Layercake

By Paul Ford Feb 16

If there is one lesson I wish the tech industry could learn about itself, it’s that most people wish we would talk less and listen more. Because the state ...

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There were like 25 children born that year including me,...

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@jfruh There were like 25 children born that year including me, and what's cool is we are going to have a WHOLE FLOOR of the rest home all to ourselves (until one day we have roommates named Braden, Brandon, Jessica, and Ashley who tell us that Nirvana is “theirs”).

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@QuinnyPig @sogrady https://progressiveintl.

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Cars: honk honk honk Planes: ding whooshhhhhh Trains:...

Feb 15 Tweets

Cars: honk honk honk Planes: ding whooshhhhhh Trains: Through dawn's mists the low whistle carried far across the mountain ranches, met only by curious cattle, as the great Silver Eagle, 6,000 horsepower, rumblingly carried its lonely load of bullion, rifles, and twelve lawmen.

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I bought a new snowblower with “35 feet of throwing range”...

Feb 11 Tweets

I bought a new snowblower with “35 feet of throwing range” and “56V battery power” but I'm not allowed to test it out because “its really dark” and “you never test BLADED MACHINES in the dark” and also “I have to be your wife and OSHA too? ” and “what the hell is WRONG with you?

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Nice!

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@matthewfamularo @Postlight @human_nyc Nice!

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I switched to Duck Duck Go and it's totally fine, Google...

Feb 2 Tweets

I switched to Duck Duck Go and it's totally fine, Google still has my email and documents and phone but at least I can search for my Amiga abandonware word processors without worrying so much about Roko's Basilisk eventually eating my brain to punish me for DMCA violations.

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first of all where are they the architecture makes less...

Jan 27 Tweets

first of all where are they the architecture makes less sense the more i look at it second of all she just asked him "how do I get RISE with SAP" and it took 60 seconds to answer and the conclusion was "call someone at SAP" how is RISE w/SAP different?

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Happily noting that continues to update 1x a day only,...

Jan 23 Tweets

Happily noting that http://electoral-vote. com continues to update 1x a day only, summarizing all the major US political news in friendly blog voice, giving you plenty to feel informed while freeing you to focus on your friends, children, communities, and local polis.

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@jcsalterego https://www. andrew.

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Reading the Lucene source in 2006 made me realize that (1)...

Jan 22 Tweets

Reading the Lucene source in 2006 made me realize that (1) well-structured code could communicate an enormous range of ideas; and (2) yeah, I was never going to do that myself, but I could learn to enjoy it and appreciate it. (That and the paper explaining rsync.

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The kids are being chill and no one wants me for anything,...

Jan 17 Tweets

The kids are being chill and no one wants me for anything, plus I bought ten pounds of apples and switched the laundry, so I'm drinking cold coffee, eating an apple, listening to Judy Garland sing about Battery Park, and reading old Whole Earth Reviews from the 80s.

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On the @Postlight podcast, @richziade and I talk about how...

Jan 12 Tweets

On the @Postlight podcast, @richziade and I talk about how if social platforms had allowed for some good chaos a few years ago we'd have less bad chaos today, and how now, before long, a hideous but utterly necessary legislative process will kick in. https://postlight.

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This is a very different kind of profile than...

Jan 12 Tweets

This is a very different kind of profile than dying-men-in-dying-town. You can see how this dude administered himself a gavage-style feeding tube of raw propaganda and incitement under lockdown, and has absolutely no sense of consequences while he self-incriminates.

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i used to get bored and then I realized that the entire...

Jan 7 Tweets

i used to get bored and then I realized that the entire umm-kulthum-less performance of the first 8 minutes was designed to make an audience go absolutely bananas with umm kulthum anticipation, the orchestra is essentially going "oh she'll be here...

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I live my life afraid that I'm going to become one of those...

Jan 5 Tweets

I live my life afraid that I'm going to become one of those older dudes emailing everyone that Facebook nanobots infest our turpentine. My thesis is that it's important to develop a harmless mid-priced hobby with an active marketplace, like vintage telephone equipment.