Likes from 29 February 2020

americans will freak out about coronavirus but not vaccinate their children, won't demand paid sick days, and oppose accessible healthcare. ok

Katerina Borodina (@ctrlshifti)Sat, 29 Feb 2020 23:24 GMT

There has to be a more humane way to make towels

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ODDLY SATISFYING: Team of vets pull AN ENTIRE BEACH TOWEL out of a python in Australia – with their bare hands.

CBS News (@CBSNews)Thu, 27 Feb 2020 22:00 GMT

jon rosenberg: comics boy🐍🥦 (@jonrosenberg)Fri, 28 Feb 2020 02:25 GMT

https://twitter.com/sfctoby/status/1233436945319170051

campinho Ʊ (@campinho_)Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:33 GMT

Mind your own fucking business

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why is there a literal cube of snow downtown

guero (@fargoguero)Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:17 GMT

literal cube of snow in downtown (@sfctoby)Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:00 GMT

Work from home really means pet the cat while trying to type things 🙇‍♀️

Emma Bostian 🐞 (@EmmaBostian)Sat, 29 Feb 2020 13:19 GMT

This just in: My business cards put all others to shame (Thanks for laying them out @wordwill!)

Trin @ PAX East (@TrinAndTonic)Fri, 28 Feb 2020 20:53 GMT

In honor of today's Leap Day, @office365 will be taking 24 hours of downtime to avoid having to change their name.

Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig)Sat, 29 Feb 2020 16:18 GMT

why write tests when you can just write perfect code instead and it takes less effort

laura bananas (@freezydorito)Sat, 29 Feb 2020 15:22 GMT

Hi, I’m a senior engineer. You might know me from my greatest hits “but *why* is it null?” “There is greater honor in deleting code than in writing more” And the chart-topping “let’s just walk over to them and ask”

Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ (@heyjulesfern)Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:35 GMT

Static site generator is all but done. Gonna take another day for an early version I can use for my own site. That took..a week's worth of the scraps of time I have for code? Proves I can produce from scratch when I have a clear goal. Why I can't I make the other ideas clearer?

Steven Pears (@StevenPears)Sat, 29 Feb 2020 14:28 GMT

At @gitlab we quickly discovered that the week after a summit, everyone would get sick. Fist bumps to replace handshakes and telling people to wash their hands were the first things we implemented. It’s hard to change automatic behavior. Many fist-handshakes were given 🤜 🤝

Job (@Jobvo)Sat, 29 Feb 2020 09:21 GMT

I definitely live in the “avoid disaster” half, and sprinkle generously with “this could be simpler/more readable” 😅

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Boiled this out of some observations of code reviews across multiple orgs and teams. Lower right is my home quadrant but I can flex into enabler/mathematician depending on my stress level

Jules Glegg 🏳️‍⚧️ (@heyjulesfern)Thu, 27 Feb 2020 23:42 GMT

Carol 🥱 (@CarolSaysThings)Sat, 29 Feb 2020 09:32 GMT

How is my blog still getting hits from... Google+?!?

Terence Eden (@edent)Sat, 29 Feb 2020 09:34 GMT

Most tech companies struggle with gender diversity, especially at senior leadership levels. Sadly, so do we. 😵 (Ftr I would LOVE to hire more dudes, but it's just...so...hard to find qualified candidates)

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The product leadership team of @honeycombio — fucking solid

Megan Gleason (@fishmegs)Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:55 GMT

Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy)Sat, 29 Feb 2020 07:52 GMT

February 29th. Only happens once every 4 years. I think it’s a good day to test yearly subscriptions on services and see if they only renew every 4yr as well. 😈

Mattias Geniar (@mattiasgeniar)Sat, 29 Feb 2020 07:48 GMT

https://twitter.com/krisnova/status/1233572757268357120

I’m not trans and don’t have an opinion. I just wanted to say I’m grateful you post things like this publicly, so that allies like me can learn. Even if Twitter sometimes is full of garbage people.

Todd Radel (@tradel)Sat, 29 Feb 2020 02:02 GMT

I’ve been having a minor panic attack over how little I know compared to my peers in my role at Amazon.... yesterday I dove pretty deep into one of our most complicated and vital distributed systems and realized most of this stuff is just fancy words for really simple concepts.

Jonathan M Henson (@JonathanMHenson)Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:37 GMT