The short-form week of 8–14 Feb 2016
15 Feb 2016
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.
In a conversation that started on Monday at 12:28pm
Just booked a flight on Friday the 13th that lands at 13:13. Fun times.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 01:46pm
The @ChoiceHotels website is utterly unusable on Chrome and Firefox on Linux and IE and Chrome on Windows.
FFS. I guess I'll book elsewhere.—@ndw
@ndw We're sorry for any undue frustrations. You are welcome to email us at chsm@ChoiceHotels.com with more info.—@ChoiceHotels
@ChoiceHotels Done.—@ndw
Oh, and for good measure, @ChoiceHotels , I sent you the first 400 lines of errors from the browser console for your homepage.—@ndw
@paulainthesky_ @ChoiceHotels Nope. Forwarded to some dev team. I just called the hotel in the end.—@ndw
Monday at 04:56pm
RT @glassbottommeg: Is it possible for a GIF to be required reading in school? https://t.co/lkERv0kM9p—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:10am
Tuesday at 10:21pm
RT @sabramse: I’m whispering an invented
history to myself tonight — because
letting go is the art of living fullly
https://t.co/gec6BAAESU—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:24pm
RT @rdeltour: In exactly 3 months, my brother will be in court in Luxembourg for #LuxLeaks. ICYMI, please support him! https://t.co/rbzq8Mg…—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:28pm
@0xcafebabe It gets easier. I promise.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:29pm
@robinberjon WTF!? :-)—@ndw
@ndw Reacting to this morning's flow of pics? :-) App just went crazy!—@robinberjon
Tuesday at 10:38pm
Tuesday at 10:44pm
Tuesday at 10:50pm
RT @frazelledazzell: "I want security & everything locked down but I need to do just this 1 privileged
thing repeatedly"
No, you want magic.—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:12pm
Tuesday at 11:16pm
Tuesday at 11:18pm
Wednesday at 04:57am
Wednesday at 11:31am
Wednesday at 06:44pm
What makes some people want to drive large, four wheel drive vehicles through pristine
wilderness? And can we revoke their licenses? FOREVER—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 10:21pm
Cheers to all my friends at #XMLPrague! Sorry I couldn't make it this year. Next year! https://t.co/DMWva40ViF—@ndw
@ndw it's sad that you couldn't come for technical reasons. we really miss you!—@Wolfgang_Schi
@Wolfgang_Schi Thanks, Wolfgang. I miss all of you too! Next year! And #Balisage and #XMLSummerSchool. #XML for all the things!—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:43pm
Wednesday at 11:51pm
RT @shanselman: "What's your job?"
"Programmer."
"But what do you DO?"
"Delete email and avoid meetings."—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:54pm
RT @shelleypowers: Sorry, but I'm getting so tired of these pretentious, self-absorbed, selfish, ugly
people holding the country to hostage.—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:54pm
Thursday at 04:04am
Hello again, 3:00a. Blearghhh...—@ndw
Thursday at 04:16am
Thursday at 04:27am
Thursday at 04:54am
Don't drink and drive https://t.co/LJ7vRIMfUC—@codinghorror
Thursday at 04:56am
The aggregation that @alexmilowski is describing amounts to meets in the graph and can be implemented in a streaming
fashion. #XProc—@ndw
Thursday at 05:08am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:13am
Thursday at 05:14am
Thursday at 05:16am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:23am
Thursday at 05:33am
Thursday at 05:54am
Thursday at 05:55am
Thursday at 05:56am
3/I can't even really be mad at @_james_fuller for it. I should have known better.—@ndw
Thursday at 06:01am
Thursday at 06:09am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:21am
Thursday at 07:02am
Every #XProc meet up is a chance to bash me for the horrible error messages in #XMLCalabash. And I deserve it. Every time.—@ndw
Thursday at 07:28am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:34am
I decided to spring for Operator Mono, https://t.co/eCefKG6nIM We'll see. It's certainly interesting. But tiring on the eyes?—@ndw
Friday at 07:13am
XML Stars, the journal is out! https://t.co/G0CuMCwtV1 Stories via @RealMichaelKay @georgebina @ndw—@dominixml
Saturday at 05:49pm
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:35am
Marvel is red, Twitter is blue, I want to assign my variables to you! Happy Valentine's
Day, @ndw :)—@doctortovey
Awww. Happy Valentine's Day to you too @doctortovey :-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:57am
Proposition: God took Scalia during Obama's term; must want O to appoint next Justice.
GOP faithful should therefore ratify immediately, no?—@ndw
Sunday at 06:12pm
Los Angeles valentines: https://t.co/OCpl0HlRD1—@jbarro
Sunday at 09:02pm
Sunday at 10:52pm
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 11:23pm
@ndw @gimsieke It’s used as a JATS -> HTML «style sheet» in https://t.co/L0p9IjIp8rr. 💖💞💓—@robinberjon
@robinberjon @gimsieke So a non-standard, ad hoc implementation of a subset of XSLT defined with an imperative
language?—@ndw
@ndw Yup. The advantage: it actually runs in the environments that matter to me. @gimsieke—@robinberjon
@ndw Yeah. It would be a bigger win if I could just use XSLT, but I’m done waiting… @gimsieke—@robinberjon
@robinberjon @ndw Unimpressed. In terms of expressiveness and efficiency, this even falls short of
XSLT/XPath 1.—@gimsieke
@gimsieke @ndw Well of course, it's a 1h hack. Yet it's already more readily usable in Node and
the browser.—@robinberjon
@gimsieke @ndw Also, that's not entirely true. The matcher is an arbitrary JS function, as is the
template. JATS is only using a tiny bit.—@robinberjon
@robinberjon @ndw I wouldn't want to write a (kind of global) Matcher method when I can have XPath
in my template's matching pattern.—@gimsieke
@gimsieke @ndw It could also support CSS, or something domain-specific. Walker is independent of
it.—@robinberjon
@gimsieke @ndw There's nothing global about Matcher. It could use XPath, it would be trivial to
add given an XPath lib supporting patterns.—@robinberjon
@gimsieke @ndw Finally, it wasn't done to impress but because I need that transformation working
now :-)—@robinberjon
@ndw @gimsieke Which means there is so much potential for growth, both individually and as a group
:-)—@robinberjon