The short-form week of 2–8 Nov 2015
09 Nov 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 01:21am
Monday at 04:12am
Hello London. I have successfully traveled from one small island nation to another.
To celebrate, plan to sleep for a week.—@ndw
Monday at 07:28am
Just a reminder: everything your beautiful 'safe' language depends on is still written
in C, and also we all die alone.—@matthew_d_green
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:22pm
Monday at 01:38pm
RT @stephenjudkins: It's crazy that once personal video recorders became ubiquitous UFOs stopped visiting
Earth and cops started brutalizin…—@ndw
Monday at 03:51pm
Every photo isn't a masterpiece. Every workout isn't a record. Every day isn't your
best. But keep showing up and some of them will be.—@james_clear
Monday at 04:50pm
Tuesday at 10:55am
@AlecMuffett Because MS Word is a pile of three-day old rotting dog's viscera that no sane person
would use? :)—@puellavulnerata
Tuesday at 11:14pm
Best ways to contact me
1. Slack
2. SMS
3. e-mail
4. Twitter DM
5. Facebook Messenger
6. Carrier Pigeon
7. Stone Tablet
8. LinkedIn—@mdkail
Wednesday at 02:53am
"I made [the font of] the listing [in this presentation] very small so you wouldn't
debug it while I'm speaking" #IETF94—@justin__richer
Wednesday at 04:42am
Wednesday at 04:52am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:56am
If this favorite / like nonsense means the JSON payloads are / have changed, I *am*
going to be annoyed.—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:57am
@mollydotcom Definitely not just you.—@ndw
Wednesday at 06:45am
Hello, Amsterdam! #XMLAmsterdam—@ndw
Wednesday at 10:56am
Wednesday at 04:35pm
Thursday at 10:05am
"Yes, I marked that tweet as offensive. Because it contained the phrase 'marketing
cloud' that's why."—@founddrama
Thursday at 11:09am
Thursday at 11:35am
This street art in a local gallery window caught my attention on my morning walk recently
https://t.co/Z0dSkAFerC—@stevemuench
Thursday at 01:50pm
Incredible juggling. Impossible. Inconceivable. Beautiful. https://t.co/77jimdU4q8—@donttrythis
Thursday at 03:54pm
@kplawver Was going to observe in my #XMLAmsterdam talk that if you'd been born when I started w/markup you'd be old enough to drink.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:54pm
Friday at 02:01am
RT @TechnicallyRon: If you let Google finish the lyrics to Frank Sinatra's My Way you create something
beautiful. http://t.co/bJUVvQZwk9—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:35am
RT @grtjn "It's all XML, some is just weirdly serialized" - @ndw #XMLAmsterdam // ...said any community tightly married to a metamodel ever.—@dret
Friday at 03:39am
"...back when we used to spell XML with 4 letters". Thanks for the reminder for us
old timers :-) @ndw #xmlamsterdam—@XMLAmsterdam
Friday at 03:40am
Friday at 03:46am
"I'm not saying they should have used XML. They should have, but I'm not saying that."
@ndw at #xmlamsterdam—@stevenpemberton
Friday at 03:47am
Friday at 03:52am
JSON parser written in SGML. Yes, you're crazy, @ndw but it must have been fun! #XMLAmsterdam—@XMLAmsterdam
In a conversation that started on Friday at 03:54am
RT @dret: RT @stevenpemberton: "#HTML5 isn't helping authors" @ndw at #xmlamsterdam // that was never a goal; it exists to help #webapp dev…—@ndw
RT @stevenpemberton: "#HTML5 isn't helping authors" @ndw at #xmlamsterdam // that was never a goal; it exists to help #webapp devs.—@dret
Friday at 03:59am
"In SGML times, there were tens of projects that cost millions. Now there are millions
of projects that cost nothing" @ndw at #xmlamsterdam—@stevenpemberton
Friday at 04:33am
RT @dret: RT @stevenpemberton: "#HTML5 isn't helping authors" @ndw at #xmlamsterdam // that was never a goal; it exists to help #webapp dev…—@ndw
Friday at 05:58am
Friday at 07:12am
Friday at 07:48am
Hello XML Amsterdam #cheerlights red green blue—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:03am
FYI: my #XMLAmsterdam talk: https://t.co/PLFKtxpKRh—@ndw
@ndw @XMLAmsterdam The omission of https://t.co/KyYFykmVNM format is too much for me to bear. https://t.co/CWpTnWaj25.—@erikagain
@ndw @XMLAmsterdam Let us speak no more of it. ;) Just wanted to make sure you were familiar with org.
It's great for structured metadata.—@erikagain
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:46am
@Twitter is a good platform for talking to yourself. What think @mollydotcom @SomSnytt @ndw @propensive @gclaramunt @AlainCouthures @et-el?—@MartianOdyssey
@MartianOdyssey @Twitter @mollydotcom @SomSnytt @ndw @gclaramunt @AlainCouthures @et Not sure replying affirmatively supports the claim...—@propensive
@MartianOdyssey @mollydotcom @ndw @propensive @gclaramunt @AlainCouthures @ET You talkin' to me?—@SomSnytt
@MartianOdyssey @mollydotcom @SomSnytt @propensive @gclaramunt @AlainCouthures Sorry, I don't think I understand the question.—@ndw
Friday at 08:48am
OMG! https://t.co/BgGPQBj5Hu is awesome! Thanks @ndw :)—@optimistic_dev
Friday at 09:19am
OMG just realised my #JSON/#Twitter payloads need changing for new https://t.co/0B8YhxQXYu schema update @ndw @argumatronic @gclaramunt—@MartianOdyssey
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:11am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 10:21am
Friday at 10:28am
RT @doctortovey: The war against #HTML5 has begun... Seize back the Declarative Web! #XMLAmsterdam @stevenpemberton—@ndw
Friday at 02:35pm
:-)FlashBack RT: Delightful tour de force: "HTML5 is the New Flash" @stevenpemberton #XMLAmsterdam (via @ndw)—@TVRaman
Friday at 06:40pm
Saturday at 08:12am
Saturday at 11:35am
If your argument can be restated as "I don't have that problem, so why are you complaining,"
you should maybe stop arguing.—@kiplet