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
@ndw @FakeUnicode @fenix_app is it exploitable?—@roessler
@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
@ndw @FakeUnicode if in doubt, assume it is. Hence, abandon @fenix_app.—@roessler

Sunday at 08:26pm

@FakeUnicode @roessler @fenix_app Nope. Not that one.—@ndw

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

"...a psy'lly powerful motivation to navigate based on their dysfunctional perception, possibly resulting in fatal impact." #euphemism —@ndw

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

"...the acupuncture diagram for horses, for example, shows gall bladder meridians. Horses don't have gall bladders." #quackery —@ndw

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/VKWyobCjXL https://t.co/JNyO5E2U5a —@ndw

Monday at 10:16pm

RT @trieloff: How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes https://t.co/cq5y65vmyu —@ndw

Monday at 10:23pm

RT @JohnDobbin: General Theory of Relativity Visualised https://t.co/6qXGXoFduJ —@ndw

Monday at 10:28pm

RT @dozba: I don't know how much this guy makes, but it's not enough. https://t.co/crvSlWChIF —@ndw

Monday at 10:34pm

RT @11rcombs: With apologies Winston Churchill, Unicode is the worst character encoding, except for all the others.—@ndw

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
@ndw Which one are you trying? cmark?—@dpawson
.@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 I've used pymarkdown (with an extension) as reliable / easy to use, for a while now. YMMV?—@dpawson
@ndw @dpawson One day ;)—@mojavelinux
@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
@ndw Lucky you! I went to repeat a shoe order to get "We stopped making that model 12 years ago". Lesson to be learned there Norm.—@dpawson

Tuesday at 11:15pm

RT @SciencePorn: Perfect Magnets https://t.co/7XeNG4OGfJ —@ndw

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

RT @davidbro: Every time you add a library or SDK to your app, you are adding another team of developers that you did not interview.—@ndw

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
@ndw Ditto pymarkdown. <a name...> solution isn't too bad. (emacs macro?)—@dpawson

In a conversation that started on Saturday at 07:43pm

"Don't trust the happy. The happy are insane."—@ndw
@ndw still a good trade-off. :)—@mdubinko

Saturday at 07:48pm

"This show runs 90 minutes with no intermission. You should probably pee now."—@ndw