Sam 北島-Kimbrel @samkk@wandering.shop
delightfully queer. does software sometimes? @skimbrel on birb site. he/him
Regarding Facebook tracking non-users Mark Zuckerberg said "This kind of data collection is fundamental to how the internet works."
I'm not a networking expert but I know enough to be able to confidently say that nothing at all about this data collection is fundamental to how the Internet works. I guess he was using Silicon Valley speak where "the internet" means "huge corporations who make most of their money by selling ads and illegally collecting as much data as possible".
RT @Hillelogram@twitter.com
It's Hard to Reason about Systems
This rings so incredibly true for me. And not just for software dev, but for IT in general. I can't seem to find a truly junior job to save my life. (via @phildini): https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/who-killed-the-junior-developer-33e9da2dc58c
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear the dogs occasionally decide to eat something that’ll upset their stomachs on purpose because they find the “reset” diet of boiled chicken and rice infinitely tastier than their usual kibble.
Hey! Do you contribute to #python packages? Do you have a patreon or liberapay or paypal where people can give you money as a way of saying thanks?
Let me know, I want to add you to https://github.com/phildini/thanks
this is a silly thing but I really love it when Apple puts out new screensaver videos for the Apple TV. they’re gorgeous and the game of “what city is this?” is exactly my kind of puzzle
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and also the 75 mm, particularly when there are turtles around!
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Spent the last week on Hawai’i and rediscovered the joy of my Olympus camera and 9 mm lens 😍
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A lovely thing at work yesterday:
Overheard a manager and our recruiting director planning an event with “pizza and beer”, so I walked over and pointed out that this is not the most inclusive of menus.
The response was a 100% genuine “gosh, I really just had never thought about that! What do you recommend instead?”
I like this job. Working with people who genuinely care about improving things every chance they get is amazing and gives me hope for our industry.
helping your smol friends get up to high places, agree if you boost
Q: what's the difference between a comma and a cat?? Show more
Yesterday I wrote code until I was physically exhausted, for the first time in a year or two. I’d forgotten what that was like.
some ideas for ways to honour Ursula K. LeGuin:
- punch a fascist
- pet a cat
- invent a gender
- join a collective
- have an orgy
- run for city council
- live in the woods
- protest in the streets
- dream
Most of the cooking I do is a Rule Magic (like the Craft Sequence or Fullmetal Alchemist; takes three hours and has 30 steps), this five-ingredient pressure-cooker stew is nothing short of an ancient Wild Magic. A+++ would make again. http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/05/colombian-chicken-stew-with-potatoes-tomato-onion-recipe.html
I am once more trying to get more #actuallyADHD friends! Pls boost if you have ADHD or ADD!
If we’re already mutuals pls boost anyway :)
I'm genuinely intrigued by these calls to rebuild the future as a by-the-people-for-the-people retrocomputing DIY FOSS micro revolution, but I wonder how many folks actually understand how tough it is to support Unicode when building something from first principles of bits and bytes.
If your homebrew future tech assumes text is made up of 8-bit characters, you're building a world in which you can't communicate with most of the world and re-entrenching biases that have taken decades to overcome.
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