Social Notes

Short posts that are often pushed to social media (a.k.a. tweets).

  • @steve_vladeck All things equal, sure, I’d rather him not drop f bombs in public. But this was not a Clayton Williams moment. (In 1990, as R gov candidate, he dropped a rape joke… Thunderstorms are like rape, when you know they’re coming, relax and enjoy. That tanked him, Ann Richards won).

  • I have a Bash wizard in my group who broke my brain with his stuff when he started. Now that I’ve pulled JSON from an API, piped it to jq, and then ran it through a command via xargs with it working on the first try… is this what Gandalf felt when he became the…

  • @ssevener I’m just glad we agreed it was a good idea. Would have been awkward if he was totally against it and only then did I realize I already implemented.

  • Had a whole conversation with my lead about something that a sibling project within a8c is doing and if we should look into doing it ourselves. Then, I look up our code base, and see that we’re already doing it! Then, see the implementing PR and see that it was mine. 🤦‍♂️

  • @jamesrambin Thanks for sharing. It’s always a bummer when a batch of eggs doesn’t make it (or when we walk around the lake and realize the number of ducklings is slowly decreasing…)

  • @ssevener What companies do you think are funding the lobbyists to prevent it from happening? 🙂