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re: https://microblog.jim-nielsen.com/#20221130173429 This is actually a pretty cool way to do replies. I like it.
Hey world, what's going on? Long time no see.
Testing this locally to see if it works
Ronaldo talking about the time in his life leading up to his pressure-induced seizure before the World Cup final: “It was hard, but it was beautiful.”
Software product development: you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become enterprise.
I remember asking my dad, probably early 2000’s, why he often kept our home phone on silent and why he wouldn’t get a cell phone like everybody else. He replied, “Why would I want to allow people to contact _me_ at any time of day _they_ want?” I still think about this.
re: https://microblog.jim-nielsen.com/#20221228005416 Just got one from Beyond Menu calling me a “valued member”. I have no memory of them. Appears to be some kind of bespoke food ordering app, which sounds like a one-off thing I’d do in a pinch in a new city,. #UNSUBSCRIBE
“If we only ever design for recognizability as a quality that has to be there upfront, we'll never make any interesting creative decisions that could eventually grow into something very recognizable over time.” – @flarup.co https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnMHQ2TA8Nw
https://email-is-good.com/2022/12/26/my-christmas-inbox-was-mercifully-light/ I should start a log of every surprise marketing email I receive like this—(usually seasonal) emails from companies whose only interaction with you was a one-off purchase years ago.
“Security is a practice. You’ll never be 100% secure.” https://youtube.com/watch?v=JC-xCXcyNXI
“you know how code reviews go: the bigger the code review, the faster ‘it looks good to me’” https://youtube.com/watch?v=JC-xCXcyNXI
“You can think of Node and deno and cloudflare workers as distributions of v8, kind of like there are distributions of the Linux kernel.” - Ryan Dahl talking about v8.
While I’ve come within proximity of the issue many times in my career, I’ve survived long enough only shallowly understanding line endings. I can live in ignorance no more! Time to dive in: https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/crlf-vs-lf-normalizing-line-endings-in-git/
“If you leave a Mastodon server, you can take both your followers and the people you follow with you.” - https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/better-failure/#let-my-tweeters-go Yes, but what about taking your content with you too?
“Plain-text format can be parsed or deserialized ‘by eye’” YES! https://wiki.c2.com/?PowerOfPlainText
re: https://microblog.jim-nielsen.com/#20221130173419 I did something like this for the https://tech.sagesure.com website when I built it. ASCII art generators are fun! https://cdn.jim-nielsen.com/microblog/2022-12-20T14-58-24Z.png
Still love when web teams put little easter eggs in the devtools, like this logo for @medium.com in the console https://cdn.jim-nielsen.com/microblog/2022-12-20T14-57-36Z.png
Hello world!
