The short-form week of 18–24 Apr 2016
25 Apr 2016; last modified 02 May 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.
Sunday at 07:50pm
Phở, https://t.co/DfsDZrkvHa and Places, https://t.co/dV6PABUoZ7 (not that there's any connection between them)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 08:20pm
Congratulations @FakeUnicode something your tweetstream completely crashes @fenix_app *sigh* Unfollow or switch apps, what to do, ...—@ndw
@roessler @FakeUnicode @fenix_app If "crash the app" is an exploit, yes. I'm not prepared to hazard a guess about something
more malicious.—@ndw
Sunday at 08:26pm
Sunday at 08:32pm
@FakeUnicode @roessler @fenix_app It gets back to here https://t.co/fpO5CgJ4In then the web and Fenix diverge. Reply to dd9000 is the last.—@ndw
Sunday at 08:36pm
@FakeUnicode @ndw @roessler @fenix_app i did already have someone else tell me an early unicode word crashed their (different)
client—@eevee
Sunday at 10:08pm
Sunday at 10:18pm
"...it might be possible to gain those benefits by sleeping next to a sufficiently
large bag of Colorado deer poop" #notaeuphemism—@ndw
Sunday at 10:26pm
Sunday at 10:31pm
"Ear acupuncture isn't as silly as tong ren, but it's still pretty silly. It was invented
by...Dr Paul Nogier, in 1957." #skepticalinquirer—@ndw
Sunday at 10:35pm
"This study is astonishingly poor science. It should not have been done, and it should
not have been published"—@ndw
Sunday at 10:53pm
RT @TwinMadeFilms: This really makes me want a coffee table book that's filled with photography of
greenscreen people working on sets https…—@ndw
Monday at 10:05pm
RT @voxdotcom: The sexism of the hyper-competent female sidekick trope, in one chart https://t.co/VKWyobCjXLhttps://t.co/JNyO5E2U5a—@ndw
Monday at 10:16pm
Monday at 10:23pm
Monday at 10:28pm
Monday at 10:34pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:00pm
I still rail against the paucity of markup extensibility in #markdown and its ilk, but hats off to #CommonMark for a clear, concise spec.—@ndw
.@dpawson I was just reading the https://t.co/K9KkF6f7Dy spec. I haven't tried anything yet. I've been using #AsciiDoc but it has no spec.—@ndw
@ndw it's purely presentational, not semantic. They don't understand or don't care. Either
way, I think there's value in the simplicity.—@chrisnitchie
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:55pm
3 year old Teva sandles have finally worn out. Remarkably *the same model* is still
available at the same price! #thatneverhappens—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:15pm
Wednesday at 10:12am
"Homeopathic owl." There are days when I think I've heard everything. And there are
days when I know I'm wrong. https://t.co/MjI2S5wjpD—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:31pm
Wednesday at 11:32pm
RT @ITStudiosi: @davidbro @bitfield and saving time. And money. And using more tested code...
Please, don't redo the wheel.—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:41pm
RT @B_RussellQuotes: Three passions have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge,
and unbearable pity for the suff…—@ndw
Thursday at 08:59am
RT @mdubinko: I have posted a rare Amazon customer review for a product. https://t.co/fo7jJ3Uuas—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:52pm
"The most F-ing bonkers..." David Mitchell on Tax Avoidance - https://t.co/Si1BIMuWg5—@ndw
@ndw @grechaw @YouTube Ironically and sadly blocked in the UK due to copyright restrictions...—@stevemallen
.@stevemallen Irony indeed. His thesis, reasonably argued, is that current tax law punishes being
nice and having a conscience.—@ndw
Friday at 10:31am
@grechaw @stevemallen You might think it was possible to buy VPN service with a foreign country IP address,
but I couldn't possibly comment.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 01:25pm
Ask me anything! I've got a Tuesday morning (10 May) "expert 1:1 walk-in" slot at
#MarkLogicWorld 2016 in San Francisco!—@ndw
And Wednesday morning as well. They just can't get enough of me :-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 05:53pm
Am I overlooking something or does #CommonMark really provide no mechanism for adding IDs that you can link to? (Short of raw HTML
tags.)—@ndw
. @ndw CommonMark 1.0 covers the "core" only w/o any "extensions". Adding IDs is solved
using auto-ids or heading ids or attribute lists etc—@manuscriptsnews
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 07:43pm
Saturday at 07:48pm
"This show runs 90 minutes with no intermission. You should probably pee now."—@ndw