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codinghorror, 3 months ago to random

It's strange, but I feel the overarching lesson of Twitter was "how snarkily funny can I be" whereas on Mastodon it's "how kind and generous can I be" and good lord I am so here for this change, even if it results in less clickbait and "engagement"

codinghorror, 3 months ago to random

When someone really loves you, they delete all that ridiculous querystring nonsense from the end of the hyperlink before sending it to you. 💘

codinghorror, 8 months ago to random

The Programmers' Credo, via the ineffable pinboard, Maciej Ceglowsi. Yes I had this bronzed myself. Twice, one for me, one for him. And we deserve every bit of it! 😉

codinghorror, 8 months ago to random

The Olivia Jaimes reboot of Nancy: proof that, despite much evidence to the contrary, life should continue to exist.

codinghorror, 3 months ago to random

Excellent cake execution, no notes, ship it

codinghorror, 1 year ago to random

"In General Electric’s annual report from 1953, the company bragged about how much it paid in taxes and how much it was spending on payroll. It explicitly said that “maximizing employment security is a prime company goal.” The founder of Johnson & Johnson said that the company’s responsibility to its employees was higher than its responsibility to its shareholders. Corporations then had a radically different conception of their role in society compared with corporations today." https://archive.is/66hPb

codinghorror, 7 months ago to random

I love how these casually genderswapped images illustrate how weird things are, and hint at how we could do better

codinghorror, 5 months ago to random

"Every person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying."

codinghorror, 6 months ago to random

“The most accurate image AI has ever generated” via https://skeeet.xyz/profile/justingarrison.com/post/3keb43sucp42n

codinghorror, 10 months ago to random

People say "decentralization doesn't work as good as the centralized facebooks and twitters", but then I post here on highly decentralized Mastodon a silly little joke about the commando character in the old video game Command & Conquer from 1995 and get a response from someone who worked on the original game! .. uh, maybe it is working already? https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/110646289254212237

codinghorror, 1 year ago to random

lol Utahns

codinghorror, 3 months ago to random

"The death of cached sites will mean the Internet Archive has a larger burden of archiving and tracking changes on the world's webpages." 😬 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-off-cached-webpages/

codinghorror, 6 months ago to random

Imagine you are given the opportunity to design an ideal society. You can structure it any way you want. Now, repeat the experiment, but this time there are two things to keep in mind: 1) after setting up the system, you will be reborn into the world you designed with no memory of having designed it, and 2) you will be randomly assigned a gender, race, age, wealth, intelligence, and ability level. This thought experiment was created by philosopher John Rawls (1921-2002).

codinghorror, 3 months ago to random

"Let me repeat that: the people who created the first Super Mario Bros. game are still at Nintendo 38 years later." https://newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/lateral-thinking-with-withered-technology/

codinghorror, 4 months ago to random

The sketchy SEO adjacent job of “prompt engineer” has been around a while (via the excellent Ironic Sans newsletter https://ironicsans.beehiiv.com/)

codinghorror, 3 months ago to random

“Many times when I identified as Libertarian, people said to me, “It’s just rich white guys that don’t want to be told what to do,” and I had a zillion answers to that — and now that seems 100 percent accurate.” https://www.cracked.com/amp/article_40871_penn-jillette-wants-to-talk-it-all-out.html

codinghorror, 11 months ago to random

"Even more disturbing, in a change never recorded in the past century, the probability that children and adolescents will live to age 20 is now decreasing." https://wapo.st/3oLl8iX

codinghorror, 1 year ago to random

how you know your brand is in serious trouble: a single friend of mine told a potential date he drove a Tesla and she said "ew"

codinghorror, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

via https://hausofdecline.com

codinghorror, 7 months ago to random

I thought I had seen all the good flat earth memes by now but this one is a masterpiece of the form

codinghorror, 4 months ago to random

10x developers, unite and take over!

codinghorror, 6 months ago to random

A museum of ancient Internet Artifacts: https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

codinghorror, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

I Fight For The Users: a post in support of migrating away from Twitter and generating funds for The Trevor Project. Please bid as you see fit for a good cause! https://blog.codinghorror.com/i-fight-for-the-users/

codinghorror, 11 months ago to random

I know that I know this, but it's still bonkers.

codinghorror, 3 months ago to random

Men, please read this article and really take it to heart. And I mean me too. https://medium.com/