When it came time to reckon with social media’s failings, nobody ran to the “web3” platforms. Nobody asked “can I get paid per message”? Nobody asked about the blockchain. The community of people …

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1589051044369420288

This perpetuates a fundamentally bad idea: that you need to sacrifice health and friends etc to succeed in sv tech. Of course that’s not true and it sets young people on the wrong path.

Rasmus Andersson (@rsms)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:16 GMT

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1589051044369420288

Nat, no. 1) this feature is no “great new thing. Let’s not pretend it is 2) there’s a huge difference between working hard because you’re personally motivated by the mission vs a culture of fear 3) you know how many people do their best work when they’re burnt out? None.

Sarah Drasner (@sarah_edo)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:54 GMT

What's the point of building 10 features that are destined to fail and waste your company's money?

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 06:15 GMT

https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/1589501860389728257

An engineer stopping a $10M mistake is doing more work than an engineer grinding for years. How do you award that?

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 06:18 GMT

Memo to the media: Please don't say inflation is at a 40-year high without also mentioning that corporate profits are at a 70-year high. Give the people the full picture.

Robert Reich (@RBReich)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:26 GMT

[reading the bible but getting impressed by the wrong parts] woah this guy had 12 friends in his 30’s

soul nate (@MNateShyamalan)Tue, 18 Oct 2022 21:22 +0000

When you're trying to enter the bios menu after booting

José M Sánchez 🤔 (@Josemas)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 10:26 GMT

https://twitter.com/callmekitto/status/1589407148462964736

also the iceberg got its start with apartheid emerald money and its wife left it

🌻✨️Lauren Dombrowski🏴‍☠️🍊 (@callmekitto)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:01 GMT

being on Twitter right now is like playing the violin on the titanic except we are also making fun of the iceberg and the iceberg is getting genuinely mad

🌻✨️Lauren Dombrowski🏴‍☠️🍊 (@callmekitto)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 23:59 GMT

how it started vs how it’s going

taha (@KhanStopMe)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 23:14 GMT

https://twitter.com/Appyg99/status/1588917038881595392

In my experience most valuable engineers with in-out knowledge of complex domains & large codebases are too valuable to write code. Instead they act as leverage doing design, code reviews & PoCs. If they grew in the same company, their past LoC will be v high but not recent LoC.

Nitish (नितिश) (@nitish)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 15:51 GMT

https://twitter.com/Appyg99/status/1588917038881595392

At lots of Big Tech, during promotions, a frequent reason to deny promotions to senior and the next level (eg staff) is not frequent enough coding. They might not tell you this upfront btw. There’s the expectation that up to staff+ levels, you lead by example w coding output.

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 09:40 GMT

Literally stupid. If I write a function, and EVERYONE uses that function over & over & over because it’s so incredibly useful, do I get LOC credit for every where it’s used? I swear, I’m gonna die whilst yelling “Goodhart’s law! They didn’t listen to Goodhart’s law!”

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Here is a big co secret (esp engineers whose main job is to code) — People will look at lines of code written to decide if you’re in or out. You can cry all about how it’s gameable, it’s not efficient etc. But that’s a metric all big cos use to assess poor performers.

Apoorva Govind (@Appyg99)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 15:31 GMT

Kyle Shevlin (@kyleshevlin)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 06:53 GMT

https://twitter.com/Appyg99/status/1588917038881595392

It’s actually not a metric the big companies use at all. Nor does it indicate poor performance. People working on the hardest problems write less code, because the work isn’t in the coding, it’s in solving the problem. This shows you don’t understand software development.

Kelly Ellis (@justkelly_ok)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 20:48 GMT

Naren is looking for next project (@DudeWhoCode)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 06:56 GMT

The dichotomy of a girl in sweat pants truly comfy boarding this plane and then also with a face full of makeup … truly wild to me.

reba t (@rebajesse)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:59 GMT

Who among us has not both fucked around and found out?

Hank Green is Changing his Name While He Can (@hankgreen)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 23:20 GMT

Forbidden frankfurters

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Hi there, to round out your weekend, you've officially been notified that there's endemic Mexican maize that has aerial roots that use bacterial colonies to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. It looks like this. You needed to know that.

Planthropology Podcast🌵 (@Planthropology_)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 22:39 GMT

genecluck (@genehack)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 07:23 GMT

In my early 20s, I thought sleeping only for four hours a day and working 80+ hours a week was fine. I have two chronic diseases and I rely on meds now. Don’t compromise your sleep and health for a job even if you’re the founder.

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 07:39 GMT

anyway my favorite part of all this is watching musk try to follow the age-old internet advice of Post Thru It, but he is terminally incapable of Posting so it's just a bunch of weirdly unfunny stale memes. he wants so badly to be a poster but even in times of crisis, he is not

Kat Cosgrove (Rat Arc) 🐀 (@Dixie3Flatline)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 21:36 GMT

This wouldn’t be a problem if I could pay for a blue tick

Troy Hunt (@troyhunt)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 21:17 GMT

Advice for any tech worker who's been laid off: if your former employer comes running back to you asking for you to save their bacon, you can and should quote your "fuck off" consulting rates. Also, if it won't buy a house those rates are almost certainly not high enough.

Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ (@pikhq)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 02:19 GMT

https://twitter.com/pikhq/status/1589080024808062981

In the case of Twitter, y'all are negotiating with the richest man on the planet who just yesterday was claiming you were dead weight, and has spent the past week abusing you and your coworkers. _Think big_.

Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️ (@pikhq)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 02:22 GMT

I can’t shake the feeling that some folks are licking their lips at the market downturn, hoping that the boundaries workers have set up to not be exploited are gone. They aren’t.

Sarah Drasner (@sarah_edo)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 20:39 GMT

https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1589356737228079107

It feels like some CEOs want to ignore what we've learned about burnout culture. Folks are free to grind if that's their choice (often isn't, but should be). You can otherwise still get your best work done within business hours - healthy orgs don't leave you drained.

Addy Osmani (@addyosmani)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 20:49 GMT

https://twitter.com/jna_sh/status/1589251708613337089

Still can’t stop laughing about the man who doubled the size of a company overnight by importing his department from his previous company acting like he was set up to fail by overstaffing

Joe (@jna_sh)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 13:43 GMT

Seeing all your favourite twitter famous tech ICs turn startup founders trot out to agree with Muskrat and DHH has been…a lot

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if i have a contentious software opinion, it's that you can build a great product on time without resorting to human sacrifice which doesn't sound that contentious, but wait until you tell a founder slash ceo that you're not a fan of sleep deprivation and unpaid overtime

tef (tired) (@tef_ebooks)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 01:33 GMT

Joe (@jna_sh)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 13:41 GMT

https://twitter.com/ascriven01/status/1589230897169305601

Because Old Twitter did things in phases: 1. Plan it 2. Build it 3. Test internally (I understand it was here) 4. Test with cohorts, take feedback to make it better 5. Roll out globally

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https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1588991941940695040

Doing it “right” would have meant shipping mobile changes to prod while building backend, then doing small cohort tests, then getting feedback + fixing outstanding issues, roll to a bigger group. It would have covered most edge cases from day one. BUT it would have taken long.

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 20:31 GMT

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:21 GMT

are you ready to jingle your bells

marina 🌿 🇨🇦11/18-12/2 (@marinaxdove)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 13:58 GMT

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1589229849998426113

“So if they built it, why didn’t they ship it?” Old Twitter did things more careful & slow - both to get early feedback, and to not release half-baked features. This will clearly change. For the better in speed of release, and perhaps for worse for of quality, bugs, confusion.

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https://twitter.com/ascriven01/status/1589230897169305601

Because Old Twitter did things in phases: 1. Plan it 2. Build it 3. Test internally (I understand it was here) 4. Test with cohorts, take feedback to make it better 5. Roll out globally

twitter.com/gergelyorosz/s…

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:21 GMT

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 13:55 GMT

out of context the thick of it (@OOCThickOfIt)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 14:01 GMT

What would @elonmusk do? Do the opposite.

🇺🇦 AngryTechFeminist (@TheCrazyDogLady)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 14:02 GMT

Camden must’ve missed the past week on LinkedIn, the turnover of Roe v Wade, this year’s layoffs, the political conversations… LinkedIn is a special kind of hell because you have those who are fake with toxic positivity and those who don’t give a shit that they’re assholes. twitter.com/camdenhutchiso…

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Linkedin, the preferred social media platform for business professionals, is 100% positive and supportive interactions. Twitter, the preferred social media platform for academics and other "intellectuals," is a toxic hellscape. What does this tell you?

Camden Hutchison (@CamdenHutchison)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 16:03 GMT

Kelly Vaughn 🍝 (@kvlly)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 14:12 GMT

https://twitter.com/kvlly/status/1589259474216587264

In summary… all of social media is a shitscape and there are harmful people no matter where you go.

Kelly Vaughn 🍝 (@kvlly)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 14:13 GMT

i love the contemplative photo with the shallow depth of field, that's just good visual storytelling

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This is almost my favorite kind of NYT article

Alex Sayf Cummings🌹 (@akbarjenkins)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 16:45 GMT

Cara (@caraesten)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 14:16 GMT

This is almost my favorite kind of NYT article

Alex Sayf Cummings🌹 (@akbarjenkins)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 16:45 GMT

Ernie (our dog) just asked to go for a walk, let Naomi get him all dressed in raincoat and harness, and then gave the biggest “fuck that, are you mad?” to the weather the minute the door was opened

Joe (@jna_sh)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 14:19 GMT

so nazis are ok but people pretending to be elon musk isn't

Florence Schechter (@floschechter)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 10:37 GMT

I was not laid off yesterday, but I don’t know how to move forward. Reminders of my friends and teammates are everywhere -- we’re taking over code they drafted, deploying changes they landed on Thursday, and pinging in team channels just to see if anyone is left 💔

Kelly (@kng)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 18:16 GMT

The greatest irony of the pandemic for me is that many of the protective measures instituted against covid were successful enough that people became convinced they weren't necessary in the first place.

Kit Yates (@Kit_Yates_Maths)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 08:38 GMT

Employers that don't want to hire neurodivergents like ADHDers, autistics etc: you likely already have. You just don't know.

Päivi Butcher ADHD/Autism Advocate (@Finnattentive)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 19:33 GMT