Notices by Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe), page 5

RT @heydonworks@twitter.com
More powerful coding tools don't necessarily help you write better code. Many help you write more powerfully bad code.

For those of you who haven't been following Icelandic politics, something unusual has happened.

For the first time our government is a coalition of a right-wing party, a centre party, and a proper environmentalist left-wing party who intend to operate along the lines of Nordic-style consensus politics.

The last time something even remotely like this happened was in 1959 when a right-wing/left-wing coalition appointed Iceland's first healthcare minister and built the healthcare system.

“A Pinterest Progressive Web App Performance Case Study”
https://medium.com/@addyosmani/a-pinterest-progressive-web-app-performance-case-study-3bd6ed2e6154

RT @HannahTempler@twitter.com
One of the most valuable things i was ever taught - the vital components of apologizing:

1. Expressing regret
2. Explaining your error
3. Taking responsibility
4. Expressing intention to change
5. Offering reparations
6. Requesting forgiveness
7. Actually saying “im sorry”

RT @codepo8@twitter.com
"OMG terrible company $x says it only works on Chrome!", yell the people who exclusively use Chrome to surf the web and wonder why stats are so skewed.

RT @AcademiaObscura@twitter.com
Still the best wikipedia page ever.

RT @ID_AA_Carmack@twitter.com
If the $35 smartphones for the developing world were programmed like old game consoles, they could have 60 fps, super responsive interfaces.

You have a problem

"Let's apply machine learning!"

No more problem. You can't find it. It's now classified as a video on legalising weed on Mars, hashtag-elonmusk

Behind you, a video plays of a bear biting the head of a corgi. It's classified as Kid's TV, hashtag-awesomecorgis

RT @MarijnJH@twitter.com
If you started writing on http://medium.com because 'why not' and 'it's a slick process', consider the fact that the company has started pestering readers to sign up with pop-overs.

VC funded companies are not public works. Their investors will want that $134 million back.

RT @AaronToponce@twitter.com
Bitcoin mining is now consuming more electricity than 159 countries. I never thought that the end of the world would come because of Internet play money.

https://powercompare.co.uk/bitcoin/

RT @jesslynnrose@twitter.com
Dear everyone working in tech: Literally nobody wants autoplaying videos.

Also, stop emailing so much. We also hate this.

You're welcome.

RT @seandsouza@twitter.com
Information overwhelm is a myth. The library always had more books than you could consume. What you're dealing with, is distraction overwhelm. Reduce the distractions and you automatically reduce the overwhelm.

RT @CodeWisdom@twitter.com
"A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." - Doug Linder

I don't complain about the stuff I actively dislike (e.g. JSX or TypeScript) because I tried them; don't like them; don't use them.

So, for ex, when I pick ActivityPub apart it isn't because I think it's rubbish but because it's really interesting.

But people see the complaints and get the wrong signal, think that the gripes are because a tech is worse than the competition.

When in actual fact a lot of the time it's more because it's _better_ than the competition and thus worthy of attention.