Likes from 13 November 2022

As the former tech lead for timelines infrastructure at Twitter, I can confidently say this man has no idea wtf he's talking about twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…

Ben Leib (@bgleib)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 19:28 GMT

Once upon a time, I thought I wasn't good enough to be in rooms full of engineers. They seemed so confident, like they really knew what they were talking about. So I read all the docs, and learned a lot. And then I realized that many of them confidently sounded like this:

Ian Coldwater (@IanColdwater)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 19:08 GMT

https://twitter.com/TedMoondust/status/1591873462079213569

That has almost nothing to do with operating one of the biggest distributed systems in existence in 2022.

Rich Burroughs @ $8chan (@richburroughs)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:42 GMT

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What he is referring to as RPC is in fact, g+RPC, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GraphQL plus RPC—

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Absolutely amazing. Some Tesla engineer told him that.

Rich Burroughs @ $8chan (@richburroughs)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 18:10 GMT

@caseyho@mastodon.social (Official User Parody) (@CaseyHo)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 22:06 GMT

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1591842546216763399

One tweet wiped out $15 billion in market cap from a pharmaceutical company. Twitter is alive.

Fintwit (@fintwit_news)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:26 GMT

Twitter feels like the fall of Rome 🤷‍♂️ twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…

Sean M. Tracey (@seanmtracey)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:22 GMT

you did not just layoff almost all of infra and then make some sassy remark about how we do batching like did you bother to even learn how graphql works

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sach @ the hellsite (@sachee)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 18:14 GMT

https://twitter.com/edwnjos/status/1591876087541530625

Criticizing people’s design decisions without knowing how or why they are made is like the biggest red flag for someone not knowing what they’re talking about.

Rich Burroughs @ $8chan (@richburroughs)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 19:49 GMT

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1591853644944932865

Maybe you shouldn't be firing people in charge of maintaining the infrastructure?

Pé🌻🐀 (@4everNeverTrump)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 18:37 GMT

politely screaming at all the people i love to go to therapy bc i want them to be happy

mo ☆ (@drphiIth)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 19:19 GMT

I miss when this was the most chaotic thing to happen on Twitter.

David Hoang (@davidhoang)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:01 GMT

https://twitter.com/endingwithali/status/1591196328243376129

i cant believe this site isnt free

ali - LOOKING for mid level developer roles!! 🐀 (@endingwithali)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:29 GMT

So I got ✨laid off✨ With this I’m LOOKING TO TRANSITION my career back to engineering I’m looking for MID LEVEL ENGINEERING roles. Who is hiring? Can start ASAP. Well versed in python, but dedicated to learning whatever I need to get the job done. RT to help a qirl out ❤️

ali - LOOKING for mid level developer roles!! 🐀 (@endingwithali)Tue, 08 Nov 2022 19:35 GMT

OAuth 1.0 client package for Go. Contribute to gomodule/oauth1 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Joe Lycett's gradual shift into "chaotic good supervillain" is one of the greatest things this world has ever seen.

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benderslikebeckham.com 🌈

Joe Lycett (@joelycett)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 12:17 GMT

Himbotep the Mummy, PhD 🫐 (@Himbotep)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 12:26 GMT

This is a cautionary tale in workplace environments. I've worked under Luke, and this didn't come out of nowhere. My very first interaction with him, I could tell he was a jerk. The problem is people excuse jerky behavior from men if they're "successful".

Cassie (Parody) (@NowImCassie)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 01:23 GMT

I'm thinking of DM'ing people for their contact details so that I can stay in touch with them (in case they leave Twitter or Twitter leaves Twitter) -- maybe even post a personal newsletter to friends and people in my network (monthly?). Do you think this is a good idea? 👀

Anaïs Urlichs ☀️ (@urlichsanais)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 15:49 GMT

https://twitter.com/mxtchxll_/status/1591563037621862400

What’s she gonna do? Catch the plane?

Patrick (@_PatrickLopez_)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 22:47 GMT

https://twitter.com/jesseltaylor/status/1591210861716439040

God damnit

FrançoiseHardly 🏴🌹🇵🇸 (@HardlyTimes)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 14:38 GMT

The most fucked up thing about this week is realizing Twitter literally is the friends we made along the way

pranksgiving fan (@jesseltaylor)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 23:26 GMT

https://twitter.com/slutty_violet/status/1591785194276917249

isn't that just what wearing a collar is? 😌

maisie 💖 (@maisieccino)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 13:35 GMT

just like me fr

maisie 💖 (@maisieccino)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 11:47 GMT

Here's the most awkward custom search function I've ever created: everyone you follow, who's also paid Elon $8 for a dodgy tick The Search Of Shame twitter.com/search?q=filte…

Ketan Joshi (@KetanJ0)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:46 GMT

Leaving this one gets harder and harder every single time. I had no idea the capacity for love I actually have ❤️ @jh3yy And I love to share it.

Stephanie Stimac 🔮 Web Witch, DevTools PM (@seaotta)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 11:58 GMT

Watching Liz Truss at the cenotaph and it occurs she’s got like 50 years ahead of her attending state events as Former Prime Minister, a permanent reminder of the thing where she blew up her one shot at the top in 50 days flat. It’s like some kind of punishment from a Greek myth

Philip Sim (@BBCPhilipSim)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 10:59 GMT

https://twitter.com/BBCPhilipSim/status/1591747532581130241

A permanent reminder that former PMs still have duties, which is why there is government funding for the offices of former Prime Ministers.

British Alba (@BritishAlba)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 11:17 GMT

Submitting assignment at 11:59:59

Jasir Shahbaz (@LahoreMarquez)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 11:01 GMT

https://twitter.com/MarkSteele1982/status/1591784348868829185

Nobody is forcing them to change. But we can put pressure on people and organisations who are supposedly LGBT allies/supporters to end their association with said country. Hope this helps.

(Insert Name Here) (@davidaak1991)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 13:31 GMT

Today I finished the infrastructure migration for k8s.social Mastodon instance! 🎉 All infra (except the database) now hosted on @CivoCloud who have very kindly offered to cover the running costs! (Thanks Civo! 💙)

Marcus Noble (@Marcus_Noble_)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 12:23 GMT

Alex Muresianu (@ahardtospell)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:27 GMT

https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1589628437601615874

If you think that Twitter has moderation problems, just wait until large numbers of people are having conflict on Mastodon and they’re being adjudicated by a few volunteers who don’t have set guidelines or community to navigate differences with.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (@IBJIYONGI)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 14:40 GMT

https://twitter.com/type__error/status/1591697602189627395

beyond looking after the speakers who provide them with the content they’re selling, if speakers have to pay to speak in some capacity, it will limit the voices in the space to those who can afford to make themselves heard

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 13:24 GMT

Hello everyone, I have successfully made a Regex which accepts valid JSON and rejects invalid JSON

Aly (@Fish_CTO)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 04:03 GMT

https://twitter.com/JosiahHawthorne/status/1591466653388349443

The Croatan were a small Native American ethnic group living in the coastal areas of what is now North Carolina. Governor John White returned to Roanoke in 1590 to find the word "Croatoan" carved on a tree and all his people gone. (The Lost Colony) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatan

John Lounsbury (@jlounsbury59)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 04:33 GMT

https://twitter.com/ConnorGoodz/status/1591510383470481408

Your mommy and daddy give you a lemonade stand. And you buy lemons and sugar and sell lemonade. But next year (you’ll be 6) your table remains but no one has heard of or from you since last year and the only clue is the word Croatoan carved into the wood of your stand

Zach (@zach_ismyname)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:16 GMT

There’s animation, there’s great animation, and then there’s the bit in Disney’s Robin Hood where *a snake crosses his arms*.

thankvid bednar (@ykarps)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:57 GMT

Handed my dad my glass of whiskey for him to taste…he drank the whole thing in two swift gulps 😭🥃

Taylor Poindexter (@engineering_bae)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 01:11 GMT

https://twitter.com/Aprilhouse23/status/1591778348329586688

Pretty sure I can be pissed off at all those things at the same time.

Daniel Holland🎗🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ॐ (@DannyDutch)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 13:11 GMT

https://twitter.com/joelycett/status/1591767179707432960

you're my fave

Sophie Koonin (@type__error)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 12:21 GMT

benderslikebeckham.com 🌈

Joe Lycett (@joelycett)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 12:17 GMT

https://twitter.com/RobDenBleyker/status/1591482283156180992

Cryptobros are basically speedrunning humanity's economical history from the start and they keep rediscovering the reasons why regulation of finance and business exists.

Pjohhi (@pjohhi)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:30 GMT

just to confirm i'm understanding the FTX collapse: over a million people put $1 billion in assets into a crypto company, founded in the bahamas, by a 28 year old. am I understanding this right.

Rob DenBleyker (@RobDenBleyker)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:25 GMT

https://twitter.com/RobDenBleyker/status/1591482403603845125

Joe Bankman 😭 twitter.com/AutismCapital/…

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BREAKING: Insiders claim that SBF is still in Nassau. The FTX HQ has been taken over by Royal Bahamian police in civilian clothing. Liquidators, SBF, and SBF's father Joe Bankman have all been meeting.

Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:09 GMT

Rob DenBleyker (@RobDenBleyker)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 19:17 GMT

https://twitter.com/RobDenBleyker/status/1591482283156180992

and then, everyone became very surprised that it was a scam company. am i still following

Rob DenBleyker (@RobDenBleyker)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:25 GMT

RT @jenlooper The most impressive bon mot I heard this weekend was from a CS teacher giving a talk about playful learning via ScratchJr: "Coding should be a playground, not a playpen". This should be taken to ❤️ by every software engineer. You are working within a community, not in isolation.

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 11:06 GMT

An error was encountered. What would you like to do? Type your answer: 1) Go North 2) Investigate the error 3) Ignore the error 4) Turn the error into a warning. (Requires Magic Level 10 or higher)

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This is happening more and more. Kind of like how a restaurant starts to get shabby and the sign outside starts to fade.

Kevin (@kevinkleinpdx)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:16 GMT

tim. (@denvercoder)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 09:02 GMT

waking up after a solid 8 hours, after days of drinks and bad sleep

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 08:24 GMT

I am sooooooo tirrrrreeddd of rubes thinking they're being cynical by intoning "If it's free, you are the product." If you pay $8, you're still the product, but you're now paying $8.

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Let's remember that @elonmusk charging $8 for premium Twitter experience means Twitter becomes the product again, instead of you. And if $8 is too much, you're free to remain as the product.

Erik Voorhees (@ErikVoorhees)Tue, 01 Nov 2022 21:58 GMT

Kate Griffin (@griffinkate)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:05 GMT

Thanks to Harvard University, you can now virtually enter the Great Pyramid of Giza in 3D and 360º

Tansu YEĞEN (@TansuYegen)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:08 GMT

feature's absolutely getting nuked by monday

Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 04:50 GMT

lmao Eli Lilly absolutely threatened to sue the shit out of Elon and he panic-simped for their insulin price gouging. Then his own site betrayed him.

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feature's absolutely getting nuked by monday

Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 04:50 GMT

Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) (@IwriteOK)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 05:46 GMT

𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 🐱 (@lookabee83)Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:19 +0000

https://twitter.com/IanColdwater/status/1591251170651443201

people have this idea that being a niche internet microcelebrity means that we must think we're actually famous when in fact this has almost no affect on our real lives and mostly just makes some IRL interactions awkward

Kat Cosgrove (Rat Arc) 🐀 (@Dixie3Flatline)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 02:08 GMT

https://twitter.com/cherthedev/status/1591257437033877505

One of my sons’ friends found me on twitter and he likes to mock me for being “twitter famous” pretty much every time he comes over the play with the boys. No matter how much I tell him I’m not. He insists on referring to me as “Matt Stratton of Twitter” constantly.

Matty Stratton 🐀 (@mattstratton)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 04:17 GMT

People are starting to say Elon Musk isn't actually a real engineer. But he definitely said "I don't know why people think Twitter is so complicated. I could fix it in like a weekend." And then proceeded to fuck everything up. That's exactly like an engineer.

Marco Rogers (@polotek)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:54 GMT

https://twitter.com/AnnatarTheMaia/status/1591286199129296896

Ah, that old gatekeeping chestnut that's also wholly irrelevant.

eximius (@eximius)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 04:53 GMT

https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1591233043075067907

For those who don't know, that's my inside tech joke. Naive developers love to talk about how they could build Twitter in a weekend. It has become a meme. If this whole thing wasn't horrific, it would actually be hilarious in tech circles.

Marco Rogers (@polotek)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:58 GMT

https://twitter.com/justquitnow/status/1591596168961736707

Elon stans who haven’t paid for his ridiculous checkmark cannot be trusted.

fakelawn (@fakelawn)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 02:12 GMT

https://twitter.com/justquitnow/status/1591596168961736707

Mike Rhone (@mikerhoneTM)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 02:40 GMT

https://twitter.com/justquitnow/status/1591596168961736707

Multiple people who have tracked this data as a job have said this isn’t true

KING OF NEW ENGLAND (@calkins_colin)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 01:15 GMT

"The entire $16 billion fortune of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has now been wiped out, one of history’s greatest-ever destructions of wealth." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Judd Legum (@JuddLegum)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:16 GMT

😂 yes, I suppose I am interested in my own #golang course.

Johnny Boursiquot (@jboursiquot)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:41 GMT

get fuckin owned

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"The entire $16 billion fortune of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has now been wiped out, one of history’s greatest-ever destructions of wealth." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Judd Legum (@JuddLegum)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:16 GMT

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:47 GMT

https://twitter.com/ReinH/status/1591669014430126081

also didn't elon just lose like a hundred billion dollars

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:49 GMT

“Terms of Service; Didn't Read” (short: ToS;DR) is a project started in June 2012 to help fix the “biggest lie on the web”: almost no one really reads the terms of service we agree to all the time.

I’m just saying, if I were a recently eliminated twitter engineer with untransferred knowledge, my consulting fee would start at $50k/hour for me to come back to work

@deniseyu@ruby.social (@deniseyu21)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 06:01 GMT

Sandra Bullock buying movie tickets on the net for the first time… for her movie THE NET

SPENCE, TODD (@Todd_Spence)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:23 GMT

therapist? oh you mean my gossip doctor?

monika woods (@booksijustread)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 01:12 GMT

I need to look at the org chart again because a few of them have been there a while because they're big ol' nerds.

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RT @rwidome@mastodon.social Here’s the good news: I think we have at least 6 months before your boss finds this place. mastodon.social/@rwidome/10933…

Jesse (@obra)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:30 GMT

brian wisti (@brianwisti)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:36 GMT

You know this was back in the day because they had that credit card right up in the camera 😂 twitter.com/todd_spence/st…

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Sandra Bullock buying movie tickets on the net for the first time… for her movie THE NET

SPENCE, TODD (@Todd_Spence)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:23 GMT

Genie Lauren (@MoreAndAgain)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:52 GMT

I don’t even know how to quantify this but one of the weirder moments gotta be when dude live tweeted the osama bin laden raid without knowing it

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Enough talk about the good times on this website, let’s talk about the dumbest moments on this website. I’ll start: that time people thought there were two drils and the second one was much less funny

AK Lingus (@aklingus)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:06 GMT

ZuluHeavy (Parody) (@ZuluHeavy)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:23 GMT

https://twitter.com/aubrionna/status/1591678779545767937

not feeling miserable anymore rules nature is healing

aubri (@aubrionna)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 06:27 GMT

sometimes i'm like "what is wrong with millennial women" and then i remember how in the early 2000s special k tried to wipe us all out by telling us to replace breakfast and lunch with a cup of cereal and a splash of skim milk

emma lord (@dilemmalord)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 01:54 GMT

tens of billions of dollars wiped out by a single polycule

Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:16 GMT

One of the benefits of the #Fediverse is I can use the system I prefer to post and you can follow and interact with any #ActivityPub system you prefer. Your choice of, say, a photo sharing platform doesn't dictate that I have to sign up too. It's like RSS you can reply to.

Simon Phipps (@webmink)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 07:13 GMT

https://twitter.com/explodikid/status/1591585123623137281

This but not evil.

Matthew Brown (@JustXillow)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:17 GMT

i gave a presentation

explodikid @ jess lackey's house (@explodikid)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:13 GMT

https://twitter.com/type__error/status/1591492424651919360

To clarify: no not all confs pay but they should at the very least cover travel & accommodation for speakers, and look after them. Seems like some don’t even do that. If a conf isn’t offering you any kind of compensation for the literal money you spend to get there, don’t do it.

Sophie Koonin (@type__error)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 07:40 GMT

https://twitter.com/type__error/status/1591697602189627395

There’s also a world of difference between a community conference and a big corporate one.

Sophie Koonin (@type__error)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 07:42 GMT

Implementing (some of) the ActivityPub standard with Netlify functions, a post by Lewis Dale

Facebook Meta - like many other tech titans - has institutional Shiny Object Syndrome. It goes something like this:Launch a product to great fanfareSpend a few years hyping it as ✨the future✨Stop …

Decide exactly what you want to read and escape the social media algorithms. How an old protocol called RSS can give you back the autonomy about what you read.

Wow someone really did this

Lisa Lucas (@likaluca)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:33 GMT

This site now supports sending and receiving webmentions and surfacing structured data using microformats2.

RT @quentquarantino An anonymous tweeter pretending to be Eli Lilly & Co spent $8 to put out a fake tweet that insulin is now free. Eli Lilly lost $30 billion dollars in market cap today. This may very well be the best use of $8 in human history

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 13:29 GMT

RT @jzux (me, still acting really weird) sorry i acted so weird the other day

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:10 GMT

RT @TheSamethyst I can't explain the energy on Twitter these days with words but it's this.

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:51 GMT

https://twitter.com/coopercooperco/status/1591250467618959361

POV: you are an orphan who's just stepped out of a shipping container in Epstein island

Matthew Schroeder (@JoblessMatthew)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 12:53 GMT

Remember when people thought this was incredible or something

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Enough talk about the good times on this website, let’s talk about the dumbest moments on this website. I’ll start: that time people thought there were two drils and the second one was much less funny

AK Lingus (@aklingus)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:06 GMT

🏜🔋, fka ☕️ (@coopercooperco)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 02:04 GMT

I love it when 400 private jets fly to Egypt for the UN Climate Conference to tell the peasants to ride bikes and live in tents.

Catturd ™ (@catturd2)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 15:32 GMT

https://twitter.com/phocks/status/1591549286999023616

Lol

Mitch Wright is still writing (@MitchWrites)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 22:36 GMT

The cognitive dissonance it must take to look at everything going on at Twitter and still feel confident that your Tesla is a quality product that isn’t made in a similar environment is astounding.

Tim Banks: Principal VibeOps Engineer (@elchefe)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 08:15 GMT

If you're at Twitter and you've been invited back after they fired you in error, here's a chat with one of the managers there, the Senior Director of Engineering at Twitter, aka @LukeEvansSimon

Joshua Byrd (@phocks)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:51 GMT

https://twitter.com/phocks/status/1591549286999023616

Lol, account locked

Dump Ump (@DumpOnTheUmp)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 22:28 GMT