The short-form week of 27 Apr–3 May 2015
04 May 2015; last modified 09 May 2015
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
Tuesday at 08:15am
Tuesday at 08:54am
WRT military exercises, TX res. are concerned that "the training op is a way for the fed gvmt to take over TX and much of the southwest"—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:15am
Stop riots with this one weird trick: Hold militarized police accountable for murdering unarmed black citizens.—@davatron5000
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 11:09am
@CustomInkStatus It's down again. :-/—@ndw
@ndw @CustomInkStatus The site is back up and we're investigating the cause. Please let us know if you continue to experience any issues.—@customink
Tuesday at 02:28pm
the only thing more important than successfully building something, is the track record you create for how you treated people along the way—@NaithanJones
Tuesday at 08:50pm
Instead of asking "why do they protest?" look at the history of the country and ask "why do they still have to?"—@Locs_n_Laughs
Tuesday at 11:02pm
We’re AppCelerVaters. Our Cloudufacturing Dronergises legacy business models. GUARANTEED UNICORN! Need $2M seed, and quickly as I’m hungry.—@gnat
Tuesday at 11:15pm
RT @micahpedia: Short story series focusing on computer science. Deception Fault, $0.99 http://t.co/oBJuCfSuOL
—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 02:20am
Wednesday at 03:51am
Oh look @ndw - more of that awesome stuff we were talking about. *sigh* https://t.co/GyZQLo9bIZ—@doctortovey
Wednesday at 06:30pm
CANNOT UNSEE. http://t.co/5MKLfnppRP
—@thekroog
Wednesday at 07:44pm
Picard management tip: Finish what you start.—@PicardTips
Wednesday at 07:50pm
I'd retweet this 50 times if I could. Maybe more. https://t.co/9xS93w7Ett—@simonstl
Wednesday at 11:04pm
@mollydotcom p—@ndw
Thursday at 04:06pm
Outlook calendar support for repeating meetings is the suck. But I guess that was to be expected.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:55pm
Thinking about alternative syntaxes for structured text. #Balisage #XML #AsciiDoctor #CommonMark.—@ndw
@ndw #win, so long as we can play nicely with the output? Ultimate SGML keyboard minimisation?—@dpawson
@ndw You might also be interested in this effort. Still getting off the ground. https://t.co/XNCWaYfVgN—@mojavelinux
@ndw This way leadeth to combinatorial explosion and devious syntactic inventiveness, you know. :-)—@donrday
@ndw Indeed. I'm watching this activity with some interest. Main concern is loss of polyglot interoperability. http://t.co/wHA1ZXVXaI
—@donrday
@ndw Structured text sounds like XML except for pertinent multiple roots, opportunities for arrays and maps/entries. XML Tools matter!—@AlainCouthures
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:09am
Friday at 04:36pm
Perspective
Apple: We'll sell you a gold-plated watch for $10,000.
Tesla: We'll sell you a battery that will change the world for $3,500.—@chronsciguy
Saturday at 04:52am
"Did you know you can tell if someone is a programmer simply by saying the word "timezones" and seeing if they cringe?" - @MappingKat
—@abt_programming
Saturday at 07:48am
Saturday at 02:49pm
In the end, we are all the same on the inside. http://t.co/oBJWB8YNz9
—@SciencePorn
Sunday at 11:01pm
RT @mojavelinux: DocBook toolchain, I really hate you. You are a complicated mess of indirection. Gives me renewed hope for Asciidoctor PDF.—@ndw