The short-form week of 20–26 Jun 2016
27 Jun 2016; last modified 05 Jul 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 Thursday at 08:16am
Non Standard, being a few reflections on twenty years in markup standards. https://t.co/giA98kPwYr—@ndw
@ndw oh frak. The contrib figures are only a tiny hint at the impact you had on us all!
C'est la vie… see ya in markup geek confs! :)—@rdeltour
@ndw I will refrain from hearting something that inspires sad nostalgia. Best wishes on
your new projects.—@aljopainter
Monday at 09:15am
Now I understand what the leave camp wants: to rewrite swaths of law quickly with
little review. #terrifyinghttps://t.co/C4yCzGvRr5—@ndw
Monday at 11:03am
RT @wdjstraw: The #EUreferendum is about what kind of country we want to be. Sign up to get involved https://t.co/7Zqx52mTkJhttps://t.co/8…—@ndw
Monday at 06:57pm
Tuesday at 08:32am
Our nominally expert-level political class was outpaced and out-maneuvered by a penny-ante
real estate developer on autopilot.—@ThomasHCrown
Tuesday at 11:24pm
Tuesday at 11:31pm
RT @DickGraceless: Dear England
You voted for cuts. You got cuts.
That's why you can't get a GP appointment, not because of Hungarians.…—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:32pm
Wednesday at 07:16am
When I go to the movie theater, I watch out for white guys with backpacks, not ISIS.
And I'm not even exaggerating. https://t.co/z07MqyMvKW—@sagark1985
Wednesday at 07:33am
RT @DeltaXML: Managing changing #docbook content is a pain right? Check out how Docbook Compare can help! https://t.co/u1bjmgEs1Lhttps://…—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:36am
.@DeltaXML Now that I've retweeted that, it's sort of embarrassing to notice that the image
is of DITA compare. :-(—@ndw
@ndw Ah that it is! Sorry Norman... My mistake, here is a DocBook Compare PDF output screen
shot! https://t.co/1602Lknk8W—@DeltaXML
RT @DeltaXML: @ndw Ah that it is! Sorry Norman... My mistake, here is a DocBook Compare PDF output screen
shot! https://t.co/1602Lknk8W—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:38am
I run docker to test stuff. I'd like to experiment with ServiceWorkers but they require
HTTPS. Possible with random, local containers?—@ndw
@ndw Perhaps useful:
https://t.co/OEbanR5Ezx
"http://localhost will also work, to facilitate testing."
related lib: https://t.co/55gAWkmEjf—@TobiReif
@TobiReif For reasons of convenience, localhost isn't an option. In the hort term, I just created
something on AWS.—@ndw
@ndw Sounds good! I switched to HTTPS https://t.co/O1PyG3Cmnn ,
might check out / use Service Workers soon ...—@TobiReif
Wednesday at 10:48am
How many times do I have to misspell a word in public before it turns up in the @wordswithfriends dictionary?—@ndw
Wednesday at 10:51am
At ~20: the Berlin Wall will never fall. At ~50: fascism will never rise in the west.
Dear Cthulhu could I be right about one, please?—@ndw
Wednesday at 01:23pm
Wednesday at 01:30pm
I don't know what's more sad, depressing, and sickening than the self congratulatory,
bigoted excrement that my congress critters send me.—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:50pm
Apple wants to teach more people to program but doesn't really want to sell computers
for programmers. Weird.—@kendall
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:22pm
Wednesday at 11:19pm
Wednesday at 11:22pm
The sound of a dozen slackbots in a dozen slacks all saying they can answer questions
about slack then being suddenly silenced.—@tomcoates
Thursday at 11:54am
Many fascinating observations on standards, markup, XML, DITA from @ndw. Wait for the hate mail... https://t.co/vYR2JCHkr3—@arh
Friday at 05:13am
"WHAT... <handbag uppercut> ...DID... <white glove slap> ...YOU... <unleashes the
corgis> ...DO?" https://t.co/kA20Pdre4u—@edyong209
Friday at 06:29am
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:20am
Friday at 10:00am
Can everybody just write in Cthulhu in November? Time to stop half-assing the march
towards chaos and just embrace it.—@jzb
Friday at 11:33am
“On Brexit, Trump, and Anti-Intellectualism” by Dave Huynh https://t.co/9mBdQAyQKShttps://t.co/LiE7l6EnLV—@duncan
Friday at 11:59am
I suggest a new function for the Unix standard C library: brexit(3): perform normal
program termination and remove the binary from the disk.—@mbalmer
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:52pm
I hereby propose the #Brexit drinking game. Annually on 23 June, we drink until we forget what happened. I'm starting
now.—@ndw
@ndw but you must tweet whilst doing so...—@alexmilowski
Friday at 05:40pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 05:45pm
@ndw @james_clark @kendall Surely Theresa May is a better choice than Boris Johnson? Or did I misunderstand
your question?—@larsga
@larsga @james_clark @kendall I don't like her positions on privacy and surveillance but I suppose you're right.
I don't like anyone's.—@ndw
@larsga @ndw @james_clark @kendall Boris this side, Donald the other side of the pond? What a pair.—@dpawson
Friday at 06:56pm
Friday at 06:57pm
Friday at 06:57pm
RT @SarcasticRover: REMINDER: Fleeing to Mars is not an option. You will die here. Stay put and fix
your dumb planet. Do not come to Mars.—@ndw
Friday at 07:15pm
Friday at 09:04pm
RT @holdengraber: If you read NOTHING else today:
https://t.co/Kdn1z8vSEihttps://t.co/LiyVjunUUS
@FT cc @GreatDismal @neilhimself @docto…—@ndw
Friday at 09:04pm
RT @FT: Thoughts on Brexit from FT commenter Nicholas are spreading across Twitter. https://t.co/IFzGSEGnHahttps://t.co/jHjXFkgLhH—@ndw
Friday at 09:14pm
Saturday at 10:40am
RT @NicholasPegg: ’Twas Brexit, and the slithy Goves
Did lie and grumble in the Mail,
All Menschy were the Boris droves,
And Nigel Farage i…—@ndw
Saturday at 06:48pm
RT @webmink: This is about the only honest and intelligent comment I have heard all day about
BrExit. https://t.co/UrAv8fPUmU—@ndw
Saturday at 06:50pm
Wednesday at 07:05am
RT @mattlinderman: Best thing I’ve read about #Brexit is @ggreenwald on the failure of Western establishment institutions. https://t.co/e65…—@ndw
Wednesday at 10:02pm
RT @xmlsummerschool: don’t forget the early-bird discount closes on Thursday! 10% off all courses, including
accommodation, meals, social e…—@ndw