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Dan Abramov

@dan_abramov

10 Apr

What are your favorite songs in 3/4? (Meaning waltz type beat: one-two-three, one-two-three...) Spotify or YouTube links pls.

Tom Waits — Widow’s Grove. No idea what it’s about but so pretty. I think the music itself sounds like a riff on some traditional folk melody but don’t know the lineage.

БГ — Елизавета. This one is in Russian. It gives me a similar feeling as Widow’s Grove that despite the lyrics being abstract and obscure, I feel exactly what it says.

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Dan Abramov

@dan_abramov

23 Mar

I’ve lived 80% of my life in Russia and 20% in the UK. Both countries have some strange or unpleasant aspects. (For example, one of them poisons its own citizens with a nerve agent.)

Neither of them has news reports every other week about some random person shooting up a store.

The most fascinating to me is that while there seems to be majority support for stricter laws, there’s also majority opposition to e.g. outright banning handguns. I’m perplexed as to what kind of experiences one needs to have to be convinced that weapons with bullets are needed.

I know some people say guns are their hobby. My thinking process is, like, maybe you could pick a different hobby? How about making bombs, is that a reasonable hobby too?

Though a designated park where people who like to shoot can hang out with each other seems like an OK idea.

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Dan Abramov

@dan_abramov

20 Mar

Every codebase eventually grows technical debt. Requirements change, things that used to make sense no longer don’t. People who came up with them aren’t around anymore.

When tech people say our world isn’t deeply messed up, I’m confused. It’s the biggest legacy system out there.

This piece is spot-on. So many harms of today trace back to stupid ideas from hundreds of years ago. Even if most people aren’t that violent, these ideas of “purity” and “modesty” and “shame” are ingrained in our societies. We get so used we don’t notice. religiondispatches.org/dont-discount-…

The same goes for “meritocracy” or capitalism. If you found a way to live within that system, and the system didn’t break you, it is tempting to think of it as a law of nature. Like gravity. But if you wouldn’t risk swapping places with someone else, are you sure that it works?

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Dan Abramov

@dan_abramov

11 Mar

https://twitter.com/fatpossum/status/1370045433737850881

My first time watching a remote live concert. Loving it.

https://twitter.com/fatpossum/status/1370045433737850881

This ending of Heart was next level smooth haha

Subdivisions is even better live wow

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Dan Abramov

@dan_abramov

5 Mar

I was asking about LED lamps a few days ago. A few people linked to “Kōnā Floor Lamp” by “Noxu Design”.

DO NOY BUY THOSE. Noxu Design is a scam company. I bought their shitty lamp and that’s what led me to asking in the first place!

Here’s a small thread about how they operate.

Noxu Design is one of those companies that come up if you search for “LED lamp” or “corner lamp”. If you visit their website and don’t look closely, it might even look legit. But there are red flags everywhere! Can you spot them?

Red flag number one: they claim to be “award-winning” but there’s no mention of what award they refer to.

“Noxu by Norita Xudia.”

Who the fuck is Norita Xudia? Perhaps, a designer? No, it’s a fake person with 10 google results. This lamp must be their life’s work!

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