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YES, @repebble.com *are* bringing back the Time Round! repebble.com/blog/pebble-... Just two days after my Fossil Hybrid finally died, this is a ray of hope there may yet be something for me in the smartwatch world. Instant pre-order, as promised.

Observation: Kansai airbnb wifi significantly outclasses Kanto wifi.

I think John Wick is probably the ideal pinball table to play before a #WordCamp, because you earn Wick Points (WP)... 😏 #WCEH @ House of TARG

Pinball, eh?! Awesome find ahead of #WCEH #WordCamp

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Apply to work with us at @humanmade.com — we're looking for an Engineering Manager on our Americas team! wrkbl.ink/4gUMj3B If you want to work with and lead an absolutely world-class WordPress delivery team (or just if "telling me what to do" sounds fun), please consider applying!

Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University

An article that - if you work in technology tmand roll your eyes with every mention of AI - will nourish your soul.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For reasons I can't explain, #WCUS inspired me to draw a shark with a chainsaw

Seems obvious it isn't the priority, but is there any chance there'll be a new Round in the future? That'd be an insta-buy, I hope so! Good luck with the square ones until then

absolutely nails it. the work of language in the age of mechanical reproduction I guess

You want your sales lead to be like a shark. An ancient, inexorable predator who can smell a deal from miles away. An individual who is unfairly maligned and feared due to media stereotypes; who has been hunted to the brink of extinction by over-fishing & catastrophic damage to their native habitat.

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

I'm gutted to miss #WCMontclair today — have a blast, everyone, and I hope to be back to present my cancelled talk on Debugging in a future year.

(Tl;dr talk: write every step and assumption down, be methodical, work together, question assumptions, are you *sure* it's not caching)

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York

Lmk if I can help!! (Though your repair skills easily outstrip mine)! Nice find

Games in New York Games set, published and designed in New York

We're on Steam today (feat. me making a fool of myself) with the GAMES IN NEW YORK sale: a whole lot of games made or set in New York! Have you played Despelote yet? Crush House? Immortality? Getting Over it with BFOD? Beglitched? Ape Out? Norwood Suite?
store.steampowered.com/sale/GamesinNY

GO!! Fight!!! 18F has only sought to better the world, ever. Shutting it down was criminal

Substack Cofounder Defends Commercial Relationships with Nazis | TechPolicy.Press Helping Nazis grow subscription newsletter businesses is ultimately best for the world, reasons Hamish McKenzie.

I see soooooooo many great writers putting so much of their time, effort, skill and money squarely in the lap of a really evil and untrustworthy company.

Morality questions aside: is it worth planting seeds in THIS soil, in this moment? Does it seem likely to pay off? So many alternatives!

Are the three things the camera, film and developer, or two tall boys and a cat? I'd be believe either

And Vitor / lightningspirit for the gist, of course! 🙇

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Huge shout-out to @mikelittle.com for sharing gist.github.com/lightningspi... with me — a snippet to suppress _load_textdomain_just_in_time deprecation notices in third-party plugins. Incredibly useful for cutting down on log noise in WP sites since 6.7

Clearly need to play this game 🤣

Trump is doing exactly what the voters elected him to do: give everyone measles, crash all the airplanes, and destroy the economy.

Tech scale: Reduce human dependencies.

Government scale: Work within them.

The real skill isn’t just "moving fast" It's moving deliberately when you *can’t* bypass accountability.

That kind of care requires interest in people beyond your own experience & actually listening to them.

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

I get really irked when I see people post “indies will save us” or “the laid off devs should go indie” THERE IS NO MONEY publishers are cancelling contracts, angel investors/venture capital don’t want small returns. I think they mean hobbyists with a day job working doubletime & that is a rough ask

Real techies don’t worry about forced eugenics. I learned this from a real techie in the cafeteria of a software company. The project team is having lunch and discussing how long it would take to wipe out a disease inherited recessively on the X chromosome. First come calculations of inheritance probabilities. Given a population of a given size, one of the engineers arrives at a wipe-out date. Immediately another suggests that the date could be moved forward by various manipulations of the inheritance patterns. For example, he says, there could be an education campaign. The six team members then fall over one another with further suggestions. They start with rewards to discourage carriers from breeding. Immediately they move to fines for those who reproduce the disease. Then they go for what they call “more effective” measures: Jail for breeding. Induced abortion. Forced sterilization.

Now they’re hot. The calculations are flying. Years and years fall from the final doom-date of the disease. Finally, they get to the ultimate solution. “It’s straightforward,” someone says. “Just kill every carrier.” Everyone responds to this last suggestion with great enthusiasm. One generation and—bang—the disease is gone. Quietly, I say, “You know, that’s what the Nazis did.” They all look at me in disgust. It’s the look boys give a girl who has interrupted a burping contest. One says, “This is something my wife would say. When he says “wife,” there is no love, warmth, or goodness in it. In this engineer’s mouth, “wife” means wet diapers and dirty dishes. It means someone angry with you for losing track of time and missing dinner. Someone sentimental. In his mind (for the moment), “wife” signifies all programming-party-pooping, illogical things in the universe. Still, I persist. “It started as just an idea for the Nazis, too, you know.” The engineer makes a reply that sounds like a retch. “This is how I know you’re not a real techie,” he says.

the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”