A bunch of notable tweets for your reading pleasure.
Remember when Grace Hopper started her HOPL keynote with "I'm appalled at you"? pic.twitter.com/MAEScjxCXy
— Bret Victor (@worrydream) June 19, 2015
"To access the mobile site you must first sign up for a free account." THIS IS WHY THE WEB IS BREAKING. Caution, morons at work.
— Matt Hill (@matthillco) June 20, 2015
In complex adaptive systems, how can we ever ascribe particular outputs (eg success) to particular inputs (eg method)?
— Bob Marshall (@flowchainsensei) June 21, 2015
It's kind of pathetic that developers look to musicians as a guide for how to run a sustainable business.
— Eli Schiff (@eli_schiff) June 21, 2015
Every dev you've heard of is a statistical anomaly.
— Mike Bithell (@mikeBithell) June 21, 2015
It can be fun watching young people spend 20 minutes trying to do something with a web app that was solved on Windows/Mac 20 years ago
— Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) June 22, 2015
"Can you be healthy in a toxic, sick environment?
I can’t.”
– I, Too, Left the Tech Industry https://t.co/PBwJJRkoH0 pic.twitter.com/vxqvXU2xZb— Ninja Panda (@lrnrd) June 23, 2015
Windows 2000: usable via only a keyboard. The web: not. Netflix, for example, is literally unusable: you can't get to "my list". Progress.
— Gary Bernhardt (@garybernhardt) June 23, 2015
People of digital publishing: what changes would you like to see in CSS? What do you need to make better books?
— Dave! Cramer (@dauwhe) June 23, 2015
Consider: if simple lies travel faster than complex truths, why do we think more efficient tools for communication is progress?
— Scott Berkun (@berkun) June 23, 2015
Start thinking about a de-optimisation strategy to prepare for Http2. Sprinting and concatenation will be things of the past @mnot #wdcode
— Hady Osman (@hadynz) June 25, 2015
Page-ness isn’t important. “When I get a new book, I don’t say ‘look, it has these awesome pages!’” —@eaton pic.twitter.com/4NaWC1bC7c
— Karen McGrane (@karenmcgrane) June 26, 2015
All software evolves until it's the most efficient possible ad delivery system, the interesting bits are gone, and its JS fails hourly.
— Gary Bernhardt (@garybernhardt) June 25, 2015
If ES6 seems exciting and new, consider learning more languages. The world is much more interesting than ES6 and this stuff is not new.
— Gary Bernhardt (@garybernhardt) June 26, 2015
Most interesting, "new" language features from the last 40 years existed in Lisp, ML, or both. You don't have to wait for the mainstream.
— Gary Bernhardt (@garybernhardt) June 26, 2015
Our parents had global type inference and algebraic data types. We're excited that we finally have hashmaps and modules. COMPUTERS YEEAAaHhh
— Gary Bernhardt (@garybernhardt) June 26, 2015
Oh so you thought "context" was about mobile or desktop, huh? @karenmcgrane at #DrupalNorth pic.twitter.com/rZx0nOK9ck
— Jeff Eaton (@eaton) June 27, 2015
Repeating something I say a fair bit: Facebook+Google have a fundamentally broken ontology of names. Their using it perpetuates violence.
— Krinn DNZ (@krinndnz) June 27, 2015
Best cross-platform way to access
windowfrom within an ES6 module(?)
const GLOBAL_OBJECT = new Function('return this')();— Axel Rauschmayer (@rauschma) June 27, 2015