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28 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
My friend Steve, I was spozed to be the pro from dover, told me this thing, and for, idunno, 17 years or so(?), I've been holding on to it. He said it boils down to two things. Don't waste time. Accept the whole person.
NB: It doesn't mean "accept everyone". It means, if you accept my geek chops, or you accept my sex appeal, or you accept my brilliant theorizing, you gotta accept my (considerable) doofusness.
You can't take my good days and not accept my bad ones. And if you can't handle my awful, why are you prepared to cash in on my valuable?
It's okay to decide my "other" attributes rule me out. You don't gotta accept everyone. But if I'm out, I'm out. If I'm in, I'm in.
You can't look the other way, pro or con.

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28 Mar
Once armed with the idea of a shipping app and a making app, a whole range of possibilities open up. Among the most powerful: give your making app a UI just for making.
It's Sunday, which is geek comfort food day for me. Remember, tho, to think and feel and work outside the monitor. Please help me in opposing the multiple ongoing efforts to suppress the votes of millions of American citizens.

Black Lives Matter.
A "making app" is when we take the same sourcecode from the program we're shipping, and use it for another program at the same time. That program is one we develop and tailor expressly to enable us to work more effectively on the shipping app.
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21 Mar
In a data-rich environment, we can use the Builder concept to make DSL's for our Making application. This often makes testing the hard business core of our code both faster and easier.
Folks, I love sharing my geekery with you. For me, it brings much comfort. I hope, tho, you'll join me in working for change that isn't just about code, but about the larger world.

Black Lives Matter.
We've spoken in the past about using our codebase to do more than one thing. We always use it to create our shipping app. But we can and do use it for an app that improves our *making* process. We call that the making app.
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19 Mar
Honestly, y'all should read WCW more seriously before you gimme the parody.

Not hating. Just saying.

This dude rang the bell a dozen times in his career.

Imagine that.
My favorite WCW, my top-five poem of forever, is this one.

poetryfoundation.org/poems/46483/da…
So. Love you, do love you, for real. But your fridge plum thing is old and tired and disrespectful of a poet who shakes the world.
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19 Mar
Here my Stevie, rescuing me as he does surprisingly often. "Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away".

My heroes show up, randomly, just in time.
This was the song that helped me grasp the difference between anger and hate.
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19 Mar
Aight, double-play. Here's Melanie twice.

First, "Brand New Key".

At some point a person reaches an age. And at that age, it's not in years, it's in living. And at that some point, one understands what a lovely song this is.
Then, caught up by her charm and her voice, one encounters "Lay Down".

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7 Mar
Approaches in software development -- or anything else -- that don't take ordinray human failings as their starting point are prone to dramatic failure. "The Impossible Human" is, well, noticeably uncommon. Let's dig in on that.
More geek joy comfort food from me today, but please think & work outside the monitor by enabling and encouraging change in our wider world.

Black Lives Matter.
Some years back, I made content for a CMS that had a whole lot of overlapping parts, each with its own special language. I found it very difficult to express myself quickly & cleanly, and, it being me, I complained about it a lot.
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