The short-form week of 8–14 Aug 2016
15 Aug 2016; last modified 26 Aug 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 Tuesday at 08:25pm
SGML's 30th. The SGML/XML community is absolutely full of the best, most interesting
people in the world. #Balisage—@ndw
@ndw yes ... I am grateful I was able to attend SGML 30th and hear all the great stories.
#Balisage—@_james_fuller
Tuesday at 03:58pm
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:03pm
Tuesday at 08:03pm
Tuesday at 08:30pm
RT @UINT_MIN: New blog post, for all two of you who wished there were /more/ awful things you
could do with the C preprocessor. https://t.c…—@ndw
Tuesday at 08:54pm
RT @krisajenkins: This is your return type: Int
This is your return type on microservices: IO (Logger (Either HttpError Int))
Microservice…—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:01pm
RT @benjancewicz: In light of concerns re: vote rigging, I give you slot machines vs voting machines.
https://t.co/D7zQAW7XWC—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:07pm
Tuesday at 09:27pm
RT @damiengwalter: Let's remember, a British MP was assassinated by a white nationalist just weeks
ago. Trump's threats are 100% dangerous.—@ndw
Tuesday at 09:38pm
Tuesday at 10:21pm
@krisajenkins @ndw that's why orchestration+MTS beats choreography: recovery logic in one spot makes
it controllable by business logic—@leighklotz
Wednesday at 12:52pm
.@mikeloukides WTF? Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Also, you're not allowed to read the law.—@ndw
Wednesday at 12:54pm
RT @jeremycorbyn: The Human Rights Act is a pillar of our decent, compassionate society. The Tories
must re-think plans to scrap it https:/…—@ndw
Wednesday at 05:20pm
Wednesday at 09:45pm
@jschrab @textfiles Two out of three *and* unreasonably, perhaps dickishly, pleased. https://t.co/UQGoVzD5XN—@ndw
Thursday at 09:43am
@ndw To your point from #Balisage about HTML parsing just about anything... https://t.co/WD68xJFZWx—@willseth
Thursday at 11:31am
RT @ursusmiratus: Mainstream media could put Donald Trump to bed in a heartbeat. However, a one horse
race would be bad for business. https…—@ndw
Thursday at 10:59pm
Thursday at 11:38pm
"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." - African Proverb—@GreatestMindQ
In a conversation that started on Friday at 02:40am
That new car tracking-you feeling "We value and treasure the data on behalf of the
customer" https://t.co/KBwffSzi2N (via @ndw)—@libbymiller
Friday at 02:47am
just like your mobile phone, which has been spying on you for years, your car is not
your friend @libbymiller @ndwhttps://t.co/mJ4AhUq1sm—@dullhunk
Friday at 08:06am
RT @daeaves: I just published “The Empire Strikes Back: How the death of GDS puts all government
innovators at risk” https://t.co/gyQUVcys1G—@ndw
Friday at 06:07pm
Friday at 06:14pm
@mikeloukides If only there was an O'Reilly book on TeX, eh? ;-)—@ndw
Friday at 06:24pm
Trump, surveillance, racism, sexism, corporate greed, privacy, etc. it's almost overwhelmingly
depressing. What could have been...—@ndw
Friday at 07:52pm
In troubled times, I am comforted by three observations.—@ndw
Friday at 07:52pm
1. Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.—@ndw
Friday at 07:52pm
2. Extinction is a perfectly natural process.—@ndw
Friday at 07:53pm
3. In 1,000 years, our inability to plan on a time scale of 1,000 years will be self-evident.
The cockroaches will know I was right.—@ndw
Friday at 09:29pm
Saturday at 08:35am
RT @edroso: First time I laughed; second time I realized it's a little existential horror film.
https://t.co/LMFWeW0Zs4—@ndw
Saturday at 04:25pm
If programming isn’t that hard, how come nobody’s ever successfully done it?—@Catfish_Man
Saturday at 05:49pm
Saturday at 09:16pm
Saturday at 09:28pm
Saturday at 09:59pm
RT @GreatDismal: In Trump we see the banality of evil, sure, but also the brutal power, in certain
contexts and situations, of complete and…—@ndw
Sunday at 10:45am
RT @VRM: If it weren't for #retargeting, we might not have #adblocking: https://t.co/mk5yz6EmaG Yo @dmarti @AdContrarian @amazon @HomeDepot…—@ndw
Sunday at 10:13pm
Sunday at 10:50pm
RT @chrisurquhart: Imagine if Twitter was as proactive about removing abuse and harassment as it was
about removing Olympic videos that bre…—@ndw
Monday at 10:58pm
RT @RickByers: Web devs take note: Serving your content via HTTP is an invitation to ad and malware
injection from many sources. https://t.…—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:01am
RT @mermatriarch: what doesn't kill you gives you a lot of unhealthy coping mechanisms and a really
dark sense of humour—@ndw