100 tweets on what I learned this year about making friends on the internet.
My submission to this year's @threadapalooza
Before 2021 I had a couple beliefs that kept me from coming out here and talking to people.
Mar 21, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Favorite books thread 📚
(Not in any particular order)
Dune, by Frank Herbert
"Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And...
Mar 7, 2021 • 99 tweets • 22 min read
Emacs Megathread:
I've been wanting to write down everything I love about emacs. Over the past five years I've picked up a lot of neat tricks. Individually each one is cool, but together they're even cooler, and I want to write them all down in the same place.
It would take a book to really do justice to what I have in mind. And I think I'll write that book eventually. This isn't that book, but it is my first attempt at dumping these ideas out on paper with a minimal amount of organization.
Without further ado...
Dec 12, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I have a feeling that Anathem is really good, it just takes a couple hundred pages to get there. That’s why, more than ten years after first reading Cryptonomicon, it’s the only Stephenson book I haven’t read. I’m 120 pages in and determined to finish it this time, however.
For the record, Anathem starts to get interesting on exactly page 166, when Erasmus realizes starhenge is completely closed off and something weird must be going on.
