@joeatwork doug mcilroy won’t see all the nice things you have to say about pipes but your followers toiling in the REST mines _will_

@jeremyosborn that’s such a hilarious holdover from when both spotify and rdio (iirc) used queues as a way to classify streams on unpaid accounts as “radio” to opt in to a more favorable quasi-legal status

hilarious to speculate as to why my post settings on my phone have been set to “unlisted” for god knows how long, replying to random accts in the last two weeks and crickets

@bmp this was me using subtle/webcrypto last night realizing i “needed” to now write my own der/asn.1 parser because another spec (webauthn) requires wrapping signatures in der format for specific extremely common key types. (fwiw node’s crypto lib solves this out of the box but really disorienting and confounding when you get two verify functions disagreeing)

@mgiraldo @daringfireball ios, haven’t tried desktop 😬

@mgiraldo @daringfireball they’re recognized in photos.app though! i discovered that this year when we kept getting them texted or emailed to us for school things

@hannah The Seventh Seal (1957)

@cabel amazing evangelion vibes

@jeremyosborn can you cut out some neutral density gels to tape over the light meter for indoor stuff to get it to overexpose a little indoors?

thinking about how i once proposed that we name a grad studio book "repetition equals emphasis"

Duolingo’s new Unicode lessons just dropped.

remain absolutely baffled at the number of people who get into cs who a) hate to read b) hate to write more than a few words at a time.

it's interesting to me that i've tried writing a lightweight TIL style blog post and failed a few times before just writing a gist that annotated some code i had written along the way. the gist isn't even that interesting, but it's interesting to me (all that matters tbh)

@durumcrustulum yo d, i finally got around to listening to the musk in the middle episode and like 2/3 the way through the audio gets totally messed up @tqbf 's channel got unmuted and shifted over so it was overlapped on a completely unrelated set of conversation (more than usual in any case :p)

this sucks for the community, but the irony of an entity suffering an unexpected problem involving private insurers, medicare, medicaid, inability to find work during a pandemic resulting a collapse into financial ruin and actually wait it's a hospital and not a private individual is just a messed up system.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/illinois-hospital-links-closure-ransomware-attack-rcna85983

@pamelafox @jeremyosborn wow you two know each other?! what a small world!!!

it’s weird to see people complaining about how usable or confounding swift macros make the language for beginners and like, did they all forget how confounding manual memory management and objc’s object lifecycle was for jr devs as well???? did they think everyone just “got” pointers??? nothing is intuitively obvious

i guess what's so hilarious and pathetic about it in hindsight is that it was so nakedly thirsty in the way that we lampoon midlife crises: web3 was the red sportscar of a whole group of mid career techbros who were living (or could picture in the near future) a dull corporate future that they hadn't signed up for and signaled their diminished relevance. so web3 became a solution for doing something, anything, as impractical as getting milk in a cherry red dodge charger so loud it wakes everyone in a neighborhood.

when i posted this in… 2019, it struck me as indicative of how upper middle class people had rationalized their “economic anxiety,” the realization of visible, tangible achievement marred by the post-2008 reality of its precariousness compared to their parents or older siblings.

but looking now, i feels it better captures the nonsense behind crypto and web3—a whole cohort of people roughly my age who missed, by virtue of age or being in school, the spoils of both web 1.0 and 2.0, who had arrived at well paying tech jobs just a little too late for the golden equity offer, felt they had accepted the right job at the wrong startup, or just not exited as early as they had hoped and who desperately wanted, needed, to find a way to manufacture a movement they could helm, that would lead them to the kinds of prosperity they had seen as just out of reach during the years they were still struggling to establish themselves.

https://nsfmc.tumblr.com/post/184259789624/its-good-to-be-in-something-from-the-ground