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Using my Sennheiser HD 380 “pro” cans today and they’re really lovely. Could use just a bit more oomph on the low end though.
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I’ve been listening to it for 20 years, and Björk’s remix of Hyperballad on Post still makes me tear up.
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Trailer for the new Ghostbusters movie!
Looks so good!
/via @jkottke
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.@TDBank_US your websites are vulnerable to eavesdropping via DROWN, please fix ASAP.
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In which John Oliver reveals Trump for the spineless repugnant charlatan that he is: youtu.be/DnpO_RTSNmQ
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The Iron Giant gets me every time. Masterpiece.
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NYC friends in computing: I’m hoping to attend the first TechYes! Diversity in Tech Meetup tonight… join me!
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Any Rubyists following me? I’m having trouble with SimpleCov (which looks great) and MiniTest.
Help?
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I just backed @wikitongues’ “Share and learn every language in the world” — only 3 days left and so close!
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TIL Google blog search is still possible:
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Rallies at Apple Stores today at 5:30 PM local time to support Apple in its fight to protect our privacy.
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Anyone looking for up-to-date Kafka benchmarks: @ConfluentInc runs them nightly and posts the results here: testing.confluent.io
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Real-world Ruby. https://t.co/pgCNOp0VX5
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TIL if using Ruby’s MiniTest and want unit tests to run in a specific order, just call:
i_suck_and_my_tests_are_order_dependent!
😁
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Fellow parents of young children: the Shaun the Sheep movie is for rent for 99¢ on iTunes.
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NYC friends! I’ve got 2 tickets to Best Coast tonight that I can’t use. Can you use them? Show’s at Terminal 5 at 7:30.
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Had a series of fun interviews at @Spotify today. Whether or not it works out, kudos to them for creating a great process.
/cc @Spotifyjobs
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Just upgraded my iPhone passcode from a 4-digit number to a long alphanumeric phrase. #Spooked
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Tim Cook’s open letter explaining why Apple is protesting the US government’s order that Apple build a back door:
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Going to see @BestCoast next week!
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Oh shit, @TooManyZooz hit their funding goal to make their first album! Sweet!
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“…undebuggable production systems are their own punishment…”
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Run any WSGI app on AWS Lambda + API Gateway: github.com/Miserlou/Zappa
and a Django-specific version: github.com/Miserlou/djang…
/via @sapessi
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I really like this RSpec/Minitest (Ruby) extension by the legendary @jimweirich:
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My Current View on REST, HTTP, and RPC for Business Software:
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My Current View on REST, HTTP, and RPC for Business Software
I just wrote this to a colleague at my current consulting gig and thought it was worth sharing more broadly:
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This is just delightful:
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Even if you’re relatively healthy, sitting can kill you:
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I was kinda skeptical until now, but holy shit what @KeybaseIO is building is inspiring!
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Seriously, Ruby?
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Ben & Jerry’s is now making non-dairy and vegan ice cream!
/via @ElizabethN
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Just registered for @abstractionscon looks promising!
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Downloading the Internet!
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“…in Datomic it is idiomatic to use 2 or more simple queries, where in SQL you might try to jam a complex operation into a single query.” 🤔🤓
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I’m really relieved that Trump lost Iowa. Every day with him in the race hurts America.
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Temporarily using a non-HiDPI screen at my current gig because it’s larger and has better ergonomics than a laptop, but oy, text is so ugly.
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Wow, working with ISO-8601 date/times in Ruby is *ridiculously* easier than in Python.
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Holy crap, working from home is really hard.
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I just backed Fruit Coder: an app that teaches girls how to code on @kickstarter kck.st/1RADieW /via @codinghorror
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“Actually… the Module class of module is the superclass of the Class class of class.”
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Tripped me up: in Avro records the `type` property must be “A JSON object defining a schema, or a JSON string naming a record definition.”
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Ramping back up on Ruby again today… interesting language.
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I love following both @codinghorror and @damienkatz because I get to see shit like this once or twice a week: https://t.co/RUbeTmk9CM
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I think I’m in love! youtu.be/wmO8fvcWpkY
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This is infuriating: twitter.com/latentexistenc…
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Key sentence: “GitLab is built in the open.”
about.gitlab.com/2016/01/15/mak…
Competition is good!
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A few hours of flow can do wonders for my day.
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I just received a phone call and 4 devices on or around my person “rang” — I might just be a caricature of myself.
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I just backed Too Many Zooz needs your help to complete their debut album! on @kickstarter kck.st/1J017JP
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Been using Spotify and I miss the comments feature that Rdio had.
