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I can't believe I'm complaining about anything right now. There are a lot of people going through some real shit and all this energy should be directed towards supporting them.

Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 04:52 GMT

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what would YOU build using over a thousand RCP calls

laura 💩 (@freezydorito)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:52 GMT

Richard is on Mastodon @penllawen@infosec.exchange (@PenLlawen)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:57 GMT

The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy

Pinboard (@Pinboard)Fri, 05 Aug 2016 20:15 +0000

All the tech people I know are just waiting for this thing to just stop working

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 (@pati_gallardo)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:30 GMT

As a Twitter engineer working on a number of those microservices, I'm predicting a massive outage in the next few days if 80% are turned down twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…

Sheon Han (@sheonhan)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:33 GMT

The Treasury creates a Discord server (2022)

insane moments in british politics (@PoliticsMoments)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:28 GMT

So if you’ve just purchased a company that uses microservices and want to understand what the hell they are, and whether or not turning them off randomly will cause issues, this might be helpful: samnewman.io/books/building…

Sam Newman (@samnewman)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:23 GMT

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592177471654604800

James Felton (@JimMFelton)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:29 GMT

Mario Fusco 🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@mariofusco)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:23 GMT

“Meritocracy is a given” ah yes, notably a thing that exists especially in the tech industry 🤣🤣🤣

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https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1592427163097014272

At better tech companies, meritocracy is a given, including pointing out incorrect arguments your boss made *with facts*. And yes, I’ve seen this happen in public enough settings (eg all hands). A leader wanting to have a culture of meritocracy would handle this different.

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:13 GMT

danielle 🏳️‍🌈 (@endocrimes)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:49 GMT

https://twitter.com/podperson/status/1591870451785293824

Just because academia does it a certain way doesn't mean it's right.

jina @ #clarity2022 (@jina)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:12 GMT

https://twitter.com/piccalilli_/status/1591795575296589824

Which conference has spurred this? I have a seen a few tweets along these lines

Lily Dart (@lily_dart)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:18 GMT

at an absolute *minimum* a conference should cover speaker’s travel and accommodation I can’t believe this has to be said still

Andy Bell (@piccalilli_)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 14:10 GMT

https://twitter.com/sachee/status/1592310225125920768

just because some dipshit doesn't understand what we built doesn't make it (or us) any less awesome

sachee@macaw.social (@sachee)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:19 GMT

lol just got fired for shitposting i said it before and i'll say it again kiss my ass elon 💋

sachee@macaw.social (@sachee)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:07 GMT

Looks like I just got fired for shitposting too✌️ twitter.com/jessefeinman/s…

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Same, the best way to go! twitter.com/sachee/status/…

Jesse's boring account (@JesseFeinman)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 05:46 GMT

nickrw (@nickrw)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:54 GMT

this is the kind of top tier content you can’t get anywhere else but this website

b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:17 GMT

https://twitter.com/kevinmarks/status/1592280607941603328

Yes you could remote ssh in to all the boxes as root with the password of the company name and year it was founded: odeo2005. Code changes could be made that way until the switch from subversion to git.

rabble (@rabble)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:15 GMT

https://twitter.com/blaine/status/1592265431309778944

According to @rabble all of prod had the same PW and he was adding code 2 years after he left

Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks (@kevinmarks)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:17 GMT

(I have chronic pain) I'll be talking to someone and they'll say something like "Big deal, my back hurts all the time and sometimes I can't get out of bed because of it" and I'll have to be like oh honey, that's not the norm for human bodies. You have chronic pain, too.

Heron Greenesmith, Esq. 🐀 (@herong)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:39 GMT

apparently they didnt turn off 2-factor authentication but they DID turn off the service that sends you the 2-factor authentication code. so if you log out and try to log in with an authentication code you simply wont receive one. lol. lmao twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…

zach silberberg (@zachsilberberg)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:48 GMT

the “why am i the only one with sense” to “girl am i autistic?” pipeline

leo thee afro-arakki (@arakkisuperstar)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:41 GMT

One thing that struck me while I was searching for friends to follow is that I hadn’t realised how many people I hadn’t heard from for ages, because The Bird Algorithm decided what it was going to …

Elon Musk tweeting like “did you know twitter hq only needs about 10% of the copper wire in its walls to function? Today I will be liquidating this costly bloat.”

Pseudonym Jones (@pseudonymjones)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:22 GMT

https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1592322715540918274

One detail that could prove important: Twitter has no automated means to remove verification badges for people who don’t pay for Blue. So Elon either has to build that tech, or have folks do it manually. Except he just fired 80% of his contractors. platformer.news/p/elon-only-tr…

Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:09 GMT

NEW: On Nov. 1, Twitter’s trust and safety team prepared a 7-page document warning Musk and his team about exactly how the rollout of the new “verified” badge would go wrong. They were ignored. And then their fears came true With @ZoeSchiffer platformer.news/p/elon-only-tr…

Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:04 GMT

I was skeptical before, but after seeing his management skills in action I think letting Elon Musk oversee the migration of Earth's wealthiest people to Mars is a great idea.

Jesse von Doom (@jessevondoom)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:04 GMT

https://twitter.com/kyleshevlin/status/1592404075840438273

Jokes on me, what microservices?!

Kyle Shevlin (@kyleshevlin)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:31 GMT

shout out to paleolithic people for petting those wolves, you really did us a solid

Amy-Leigh Gemstone (lolennui@mas.to) (@lolennui)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 02:42 GMT

Joan Cornellà (@sirjoancornella)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:08 GMT

People who brag about not being politically correct tend also not to be factually, morally, or grammatically correct.

God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:06 GMT

https://twitter.com/kyleshevlin/status/1592401815815221249

Them: How would you design the microservice architecture of this feature?? Me: I’ve got no clue. I’ve written like 2 SQL queries in my whole life without an ORM. But I can center a div in every conceivable way! Plus, I’m like super good at React, yo. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Kyle Shevlin (@kyleshevlin)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:28 GMT

Ya know, if I wasn’t so bad at systems design interviews (it’s always these that ruin me), I might have gotten an offer from Twitter at the start of the year, and right now would have been a VERY different experience. Sometimes you have to be thankful for what you failed at.

Kyle Shevlin (@kyleshevlin)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:19 GMT

It’s really something to see these all laid out in one thread. I missed seeing some of these tweets, despite being extremely online.

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i spent 2 hours curating a twitter blue screenshot storyline for my parents so here u go, for your own offline friends that want to have fun: DAY 1 – ARRIVAL

worms cited (@christapeterso)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:44 GMT

Rich Burroughs @ $8chan (@richburroughs)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:40 GMT

i spent 2 hours curating a twitter blue screenshot storyline for my parents so here u go, for your own offline friends that want to have fun: DAY 1 – ARRIVAL

worms cited (@christapeterso)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:44 GMT

https://twitter.com/MiaRSato/status/1592233411888181248

Certainly could be that more than 4 million new users are people just joining in to watch the show unfold🍿

Eliot Lu (@eliotlu95)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:52 GMT

A bold move, to fire key developers who understand Twitter’s codebase and speak truth to your power. Elon is the most incompetent and toxic manager of any software-intensive system than I have ever seen (and in my many years of experience I have seen quite a few).

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Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:36 GMT

Actual science would like a word.

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Biological sex is real, immutable, and binary.

Colin Wright (@SwipeWright)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 22:53 GMT

Sean Carroll (@seanmcarroll)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:50 GMT

Was I a good website? mastodon.social/@Shatter242/10…

insecurity princess @saraislet@infosec.exchange (@saraislet)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:53 GMT

Welp sextpanther is dead in the water. Due to the service provider they use for SMS messaging deciding sexual messages are no longer allowed. They are switching to website only. No more SMS which was a huge client converter. The war on sex work continues.

Lacey Royce (@MissLollipopMFC)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:13 GMT

https://twitter.com/CarolSaysThings/status/1592418933075693569

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:27 GMT

The Stanford Prison Experiment as a management philosophy Lord of the Flies as a business model

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I want to dig in for a bit on this set of Slack replies from a Twitter manager talking about undoing some of the layoffs.

William Pietri (@williampietri)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:44 GMT

Ray Granger (@rgranger21)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:33 GMT

In the backchannels I have with software engineers, the act of firing a respected engineer after he publicly responded to Elon criticising Twitter’s engineering team - and explaining choices - broke the straw with many. It’s a chilling message. Contradict Elon and you’re fired.

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How to be the ultimate professional and still utterly destroy someone, a masterclass by @EricFrohnhoefer

Dan Kim (@dankim)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:45 GMT

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:41 GMT

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1592286605024415744

My question on “who would work at Twitter, given options” now includes that of working there you should expect to receive criticism in public, and firing on the spot for responding in public. The pool of experience sw engineers who would choose Twitter just shrank some more.

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Serious question: outside of outsized, unvested stock on the line or high compensation, why would any software engineer with options consider working at Twitter, going forward? Policies changing overnight and an owner acting visibly hostile towards staff who built Twitter.

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Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:01 GMT

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:45 GMT

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1592287508729303041

Three senior software engineers fired in one day for criticising Elon’s statement on how Twitter’s backend works. The other two firings were now communicated on Twitter but also happened yesterday. I haven’t heard of an engineer being fired promptly over a tweet, much less 3.

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:35 GMT

My lungs haven’t functioned normally since the second time I had COVID and it really is killing my vibe for living

Cher Scarlett (@cherthedev)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:42 GMT

12 years ago, Twitter’s office used a Mac Mini to tunnel into the servers. One day, an IT guy found it in the closet. “Anyone know who owns this?” “Unplug it. Someone will show up.” Everyone lost access to servers. Huge crisis. It became known as the “Load Bearing Mac Mini.”

Ben Sandofsky (@sandofsky)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:32 GMT

FRIENDS. LATIF AND I ARE ABOUT TO INTERVIEW THE SCIENTIST WHO SHOWED THAT EVOLUTION KEEPS MAKING CRABS. From separate, unrelated species, the crab shape KEEPS evolving, almost like an ideal form. Evolution wants a crab. Got any Qs? Big or Small?

Lulu Miller (@lmillernpr)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:30 GMT