If you know any great project managers / business analysts who would love a great new job at a music technology company, please contact me!

“Great repository names are short and memorable. Need inspiration? How about north-american-octo-hipster.”

Nice o@githubthub.

Google Plus is ruining Google Apps.

The scourge of useless pillows!

I just marked “A Toast Story” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/qzplsvfe

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I just marked “Technology didn’t kill middle class jobs, public policy did” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/cltgypyi

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I just marked “Pairing vs. Code Review: Comparing Developer Cultures” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/qco3braq

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I just marked “Growing Up Unvaccinated” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/5c8fw9tk

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In Denver. Wish I hadn’t forgotten to bring a hat#chillyly

Wow, speaking.io is a treasure trove of excellent advice on speaking at a conference or meetup. Great design too. Thanks @holman!

Just submitted a talk to @ClojureWest 2014! You should too: cognitect.wufoo.com/forms/clojurew…

I just marked “GitHub’s Public Speaking Culture” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/ym81alor

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I just marked “GitHub’s Public Speaking Culture” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/ym81alor

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I just marked “A case for clemency for Snowden” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/qerbd9k8

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I just marked “A case for clemency for Snowden” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/qerbd9k8

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From an email I wrote this morning: (Sorry, as a software architect it’s my job to be anal about words and names, and as a software developer it’s my God-given right to be obnoxiously literal. It’s a perfect storm of annoying pedantry.)

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Wow, I’m super-impressed wit@gittowerer (git GUI for Mac OS X). Buying some licensesgit-tower.comuO

Trying out Spotify as a happy Rdio user, a feature I really miss is Rdio’s “AutoPlhelp.rdio.com/customer/porta…wrOcqi

I just marked “Elfquest, and Conceptual Space” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/jcxw53y5

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This is so good: Hot Wire 81 (Blues Power) by Jimmy Dawkins on @Rdio: rd.io/x/QV7o_SJkurA/

Posted 20 new photos to Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/avi4now/

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Posted 40 new photos to Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/avi4now/

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The Open-Office Trap m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/c…

I just marked “Silent Technical Privilege” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/nn9gxa2u

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I just marked “High Scalability – How HipChat Stores and Indexes Billions of Messages Using ElasticSearch and Redis” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/3svwz4z3

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I just marked “Auth0” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/dtqfk0j8

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I usually prefer sleepers, but how cool would it be to pull up to the supermarket in this? bringatrailer.com/2014/01/07/ust…

What happens when you don’t get vaccinated kottke.org/14/01/what-hap…

I just marked “Bitcoin, Magical Thinking, and Political Ideology” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/5lgoa2az

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I just marked “Rendering on the Server and Client in Node.js” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/gmrojajr

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I just marked “18 Brides in a Year” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/qxhf4ir0

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4 billion years ago the moon was ten times bigger in the sky & there were ~420 days in a year. @Radiolab is so great. radiolab.org/story/times-th…

Aspirational home screen apps.

I just marked “The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data’s unifying abstraction” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/ejgql6xt

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I just marked “Xaprb” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/ykcq3k2o

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I just marked “Interview: Sam Haskins from Etsy on Code Deployment, Monitoring and Failure Procedures” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/f1alsrf0

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There’s no such thing as a JSON document#curmudgeonon

I just downgraded the @arc90 Campfire account to the free plan; we’d been paying since May 2006 but it’s been supplanted@flowdockdock.

TIL: git remote prune origin

Bill Gates’ summary of 2013’s good news on global health and poverthegatesnotes.com/Personal/Year-…o0jB

First contribution to GitHub (docs) accepted: github.com/github/develop…

Spotify seems a little less album-oriented than Rdio… you can’t star an album or add one to a collection; only add its tracks to a playlist.

So I’ve organized my home screen news/reading apps by length of content. Totally normal, right?

Right? http://t.co/6ZHfFaohkb

Trying out Spotify. So far the features are OK, but the UX isn’t as polished as Rdio, and it isn’t able to access my Twitter graph.

Elina just made up an absolutely delicious Moroccan Winter Stew. Vegan and gluten-free. If you like food, definitely bug her for the recipe.

“Memorex”@SuperSmashTVshTV is just mesmerizivimeo.com/55006097yaZO /@khoikhoi

“Eating nuts during pregnancy linked to lower allergy risk for babies, study suggestsboston.com/lifestyle/heal…viJy

Word of the day: “semantical”

>> @mrgan: When the Sun burns out, when the Earth flakes away; when all is just cold, bleached bones of entropy in the desert of space-time; when mankind is over; this is the greatest tragedy that will be forgotten: no human ever managed to make a to-do app I liked.

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Come work with me! My group at @sfxii is hiring a Director of Employee Development — know anyonarc90.recruiterbox.com/jobs/28111r3t