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17 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I like Twitter as a publishing tool. Far less keen on it as a debate forum.
It’s great that we now have some tooling to reclaim our attention when publishing (by limiting direct replies), but as long as quote tweeting links back to your words, it’s still fucked. Plenty of topics I don’t want to post on and have randos bootstrap their shit off.
I’d much prefer to use Twitter primarily as a way to follow people I’ve chosen to follow. No algorithmic suggestions or prodding. No rabbit holes of “debate” within them. Like a mailing list! Or maybe that’s indeed why mailing lists are taking off...
Sure, anyone can always screenshot and post. And that’s great! Let them. They won’t be able to use your audience to bootstrap their shit.

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18 Jan
20 years ago, I created the Danish gaming site Daily Rush with @mwittrock – inside a startup accelerator called Prey4, complete with fantastical projections of world domination 😂 – but now it's the end, after the proprietor of many years died in 2018. dailyrush.dk/dailyrush/dail…
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This was how I got into web development, project management, organizing, writing, publishing, and how I met lifelong friends. What a wonderful time. But most good things come to an end. We should all be so lucky to see something we help set in the sea brave the waves for 20 yrs!
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16 Jan
There's a sociology phd study in the replies on this thread. The freakout spectrum spans "why? it's just a word!" to "I traced this back to latin, and actually..." to "the MILLIONS spent on this could feed poor kids". Logic pretzels abound.
The reason I enjoy programming is the ability to sweat the words. Literally delivered a whole keynote centered on the idea that programming is writing. Master just wasn't a good one, so we replaced it with a better one! 🌈✨
Funny thing is that this change didn't even require any sweating. Total, uncontroversial no-brainer that was signed off in about 10 seconds by the Rails core team.
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Tailwind CSS for Rails allows you to use Tailwind without setting up the entire JavaScript build pipeline, but still take advantage of purging for production. github.com/rails/tailwind…
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Also, shoutout to @adamwathan for creating such a lovely css framework! It's been a long time since I've really had fun playing with CSS. I'm spoiled with incredible designers at Basecamp. But if I had to build something myself? I'd most likely use Tailwind! ✌️❤️
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13 Jan
New Arendt biography made me think of Heller's account in "Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times" re: the reaction Arendt faced after reporting on Eichmann in Jerusalem. How she was rendered a pariah for questioning the notion of inherent, irredeemable evil. Deeply relevant today.
Once you've convinced yourself of the other sides inherent, irredeemable evil, you've given yourself license to stop thinking critically, and you end up justifying anything and everything to counter that evil. It's indeed a path for dark times.
Highly recommend Heller's biography. Arendt is not only a spectacular writer and thinker, she's also a deeply fascinating human. Impossible to easily box into a certain ideology.
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Atlasssian: “Except as otherwise expressly permitted in these Terms, you will not.. publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Cloud Products.. or encourage or assist any 3rd party to do any of the foregoing” 😂 #BadPerfIsClassified atlassian.com/legal/cloud-te…
This is both insane and hilarious but why stop with classifying poor performance of your app? What about shitty service, is that also a trade secret? 😂
This so warrants an investigative report into what must be truly awful performance. Come on @verge or @motherboard or @wired or whoever 🙏. Please do some deep throat silhouette with distorted voice interviews that goes “it was awful.. so slow.. but we couldn’t say!”
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