olafurw

olafurw, 6 hours ago to random

Browser Cookies are sometimes called "Footprints" in Icelandic (Fótspor) and I think that's a much better term.

olafurw, 21 hours ago to random

Anytime English speakers talk about the Nordics having long weird words, I remind them of the word "Defenestration" (the act of throwing someone out of a window)

olafurw, 1 day ago to random

I love people that are passionate about their interests, no matter how niche it is. They always have fun stories to tell.

An icebreaker I do at programming conferences is the question "Tell me about "that bug" you fixed" and even the shyest people will light up and tell you a great story.

olafurw, 2 days ago to random

I wonder if the usage of words like "some, most, usually" spiked after the internet came along. To generalize what you're writing to avoid "um, actually" commenters trying to nail you on a technicality.

thephd, 6 days ago to random

Despite my best wishes,

I am back to editing this document.

ZachWeinersmith, 6 days ago to random

One of the weird things about writing a book called Bea Wolf is you discover the "Be a wolf" hashtag which appears to be a lot of large shaven men posting photos of themselves to each other?

kellogh, 7 days ago to random

i wish “type checking for infrastructure” was a thing

my code declares that there should be a S3 bucket that’s different from that other S3 bucket, etc. —> spin up the type checker, it reads APIs and verifies, “yep, this code should run fine”

olafurw, 9 days ago to random

I can't believe an Icelandic newspaper did this pun.

To explain it:

• Probably in Icelandic is Líklega.
• There's a common phrase that is used to mean "probably": "ef að líkum lætur" (in all probability can)

Also:
Lík means corpse.

An article about a morgue closing used that phrase as the title.
"Closes this summer in all probability"
"Closes this summer if all corpses can"

ZachWeinersmith, 10 days ago to random

There should be a version of John Wick where, as in the Iliad, whenever someone is killed for any reason you get a story about where they came from, who their parents are, and how they'll never see their son again.

ZachWeinersmith, 11 days ago to random

Lot of people telling me we know the Earth is round because the people in space look at it all the time but how do we know it's not just a very cleverly made sprite? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics)

olafurw, 13 days ago to random

(context for non icelanders, ull means wool)

Are you tired of mistyping your git commands?
Introducing: git ull

Patricia, 13 days ago to random

Sometimes I wonder if folks who have had mental issues since they were kids handle it differently than people who get them as adults.

kellogh, 19 days ago to random

this is a terrible idea show me more https://borgo-lang.github.io/

olafurw, 20 days ago to random

Automated Message: "Our queues are longer than expected, please call later"
[phone hangs up]

Oh Nordics...

olafurw, 24 days ago to random

MS-DOS is now open source, so in a time honored tradition. Lets look for curse words!

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

olafurw, 27 days ago to random

Just do the right thing. Don't do the wrong thing. Why would you do wrong things? You should strive to do right things and anytime you feel the urge to do wrong things, stop and pivot towards doing right things.

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