The short-form week of 14–20 Mar 2016
21 Mar 2016; last modified 22 Mar 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.
Monday at 02:48pm
Weblog has simple math problem as spam countermeasure. Still gets spam. Smarter spam
robots or poor humans typing spam comments?—@ndw
Monday at 03:11pm
If you face swap Mulder & Scully they look like a great Synth Pop band. https://t.co/Sai6CsC8Am—@DannyDutch
Monday at 04:09pm
RT @sarahposner: Inside, Trump is reveling in bloodlust and violence. Outside, police are pepper
spraying protesters. In the United States …—@ndw
Monday at 06:59pm
Tuesday at 04:54pm
Wednesday at 07:04am
Now ask me again why I use an ad blocker? https://t.co/aR46iCleJ1—@aallan
Wednesday at 08:31am
Web ads aren't same as paper ads. They're code. They're spies. They're hijackers of
browsers. They're enemies of readability. They must go.—@zeynep
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:48am
The next time I feel like a curse, I'm going to try to remember this one: "May you
have to debug test failures on a remote CI machine."—@ndw
@ndw "May you live in interesting devops infrastructures."—@ronhitchens
Wednesday at 02:50pm
Of course it might be that Obama nominated a right wing judge because he's a right
wing president.—@frankieboyle
Thursday at 12:23am
RT @magicdarts: Remember, there’s only 3 Tory policies:
1. Contracts for our mates
2. Fuck the poor
3. Tax cuts for the rich
#Budget2016—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 08:15am
Latest email from @JohnCornyn includes a link to a survey that doesn't work. For the record, Senator Corynyn, no,
I don't agree with you.—@ndw
@ndw Sorry to hear you’re having difficulty with the survey. Re-tested on our end, and
it seems to be working fine. @JohnCornyn—@JessaNaomi
@JessaNaomi @JohnCornyn I consistently get: This site can’t be reached https://t.co/0Q5EaADzDo refused to connect. ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED—@ndw
@ndw that's the server for our eNewsletter system, not the site for the poll. @JohnCornyn—@JessaNaomi
Thursday at 10:45am
RT @UKuncut: #Budget2016 from Osborne:
Cuts tax for corporations.
Cuts tax for the rich.
Cuts services for disabled people https://t.co/Yha…—@ndw
Thursday at 10:46am
"The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy."—@ndw
Thursday at 11:00am
Thursday at 10:15pm
Friday at 12:12am
RT @jirkakosek: XML London registration is open with early bird rate. See you there. https://t.co/S13whE9Pg5 #xmllondon #xmlprague—@ndw
Friday at 05:13am
"One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year." - David Parnas—@CodeWisdom
Friday at 09:15am
If serving people malware is part of your business model, your business isn't publishing,
it's crime.—@mattblaze
Friday at 01:03pm
The name stuff? It affects cis-people too. And if you bake heteronormative, patriarchal
shit into your schemas, then fuck you.—@emceeaich
Saturday at 03:20pm
Saturday at 05:49pm
Holy crap! https://t.co/bYpL2RGo6X—@ndw
Saturday at 11:53pm
Sunday at 11:24pm
Sunday at 11:27pm
Monday at 11:44am
RT @alanmills405: This is a good reminder of what Tories, IDS & Osborne, have done https://t.co/fyZGynizUP—@ndw