The short-form week of 19–25 Oct 2015
26 Oct 2015; last modified 20 Nov 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.
Monday at 05:35am
Monday at 07:12am
Monday at 07:13am
Tech consulting firm advertises in the airport: "Some things just won't work." I'm
not sure that sends the message they intended...—@ndw
Monday at 08:16am
Monday at 08:31am
Monday at 10:29am
@hunterhacker I'm just implementing my own evernote setup in MarkLogic. Everyone dies that, right?—@ndw
Monday at 10:32am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 10:33am
Monday at 07:10pm
I hate all these bloody Java frameworks. Why devs keep using them? No, you won’t die
if you write some code yourself. #accidentalcomplexity—@sandromancuso
Tuesday at 12:53am
Hello Tokyo!—@ndw
Tuesday at 02:02am
I think the 300 might be the baud rate, but the mascot sure is cute! https://t.co/7PB3siT9Co—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 01:39am
#AsciiDoctor→#DocBook 5→#HTML5→reveal.js (Yes, I know there's an AsciiDoctor backend for reveal.js; I want the DocBook
xform elsewhere)—@ndw
@ndw Perfectly reasonable approach. That's the beauty of the DocBook converter. Options.—@mojavelinux
Wednesday at 06:34am
Wednesday at 06:43am
Wednesday at 06:44am
Wednesday at 06:54am
Wednesday at 07:44am
Wednesday at 09:12am
A hard science-fiction version of Back To The Future II where they die in space because
Earth isn’t in same place 30 years in the future—@harrisj
Wednesday at 04:51pm
Owning a Mac is like playing a very slow-paced video game in which your character
has to dodge iTunes updates—@GabrielRossman
Wednesday at 05:27pm
Doc Brown from 1985 and Doc Brown from 2015 can’t be together, because that would
cause a pair of docs.—@wilw
Wednesday at 07:41pm
Wednesday at 07:41pm
Wednesday at 07:56pm
RT @AlecMuffett: Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules https://t.co/c11oUsOgXF—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:30am
My ~/Public folder (which I don't care about and would have assumed to be empty) is
full of random TTF fonts. Nearly 500. WTF?—@ndw
@ndw Adobe Type Kit? :D—@gcarothers
Thursday at 07:12am
Thursday at 07:15am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:22pm
Thursday at 10:28pm
the classic story https://t.co/WOAUXsiV1x—@BananaKarenina
Friday at 12:13am
Friday at 03:31pm
Complexity is a bug light for smart people—@Pinboard
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:29pm
So it turns out I've been paying ¥400/cup for the really awful coffee provided in
this hotel room. That's...nice.—@ndw
Saturday at 06:27pm
Not that I felt I needed anyone's permission, but I thought this was a good read on
ad blocking. https://t.co/qJ0hdwoccS /via ... someone—@ndw
Saturday at 06:28pm
Next: HND ✈ CTS. Good bye for now, Tokyo!—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 03:02am
@ndw Such a sad day... ;-)—@AlainCouthures
Sunday at 07:12am
XML Stars, the journal is out! https://t.co/wZ3RFqoqTp Stories via @ndw @georgebina @JeniT—@dominixml
Monday at 04:15am
RT @labuzamovies: Reading an 1866 complaint that the advent of book selling on trains is making people
less sociable because everyone stare…—@ndw