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Today's my birthday and I'd love to hear about things that have made you happy recently. No cynicism, no twitter-doom, just happy or kind things. I'll start: My spouse named our coffee machine the Breville Jonk Jonk after the sound it makes when steaming milk.

Tanya Reilly (@whereistanya)Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:22 GMT

Though it's a day to celebrate for me, I'd also like to pay tribute to my incredible great nan, who I dedicated my Thesis to. She sadly passed away last Thursday, but I know how proud she was of me, and how lucky I was to have such a wonderful person in my life for so long 💖

Dr. Tom Goodman 🏳️‍🌈 (@TauOmicronMu)Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:36 GMT

Damn...CAPTCHAs getting hard.

Jeff Maurer (@JeffMightBWrong)Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:23 GMT

https://twitter.com/Dragon_GameDev2/status/1482920297296769036

Cameron Berg (@fearjunkie)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 03:42 GMT

https://twitter.com/kahtonotkayto/status/1483829317498978308

Looks like self defense to me

🏴‍☠️Nasdorachi🏴‍☠️ (@Nasdorachi)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 21:43 GMT

https://twitter.com/kahtonotkayto/status/1483829317498978308

so pokemon is cool when you capture them and force them to fight each other. morally that does nothing for you. but shoot a pokemon and now you wanna protest outside your local courthouse. you got it 👍

Roman (@DqRoman1)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:23 GMT

Last month I started working on developing a Pokémon First Person Shooter. #IndieGameDev #pokemon

Dragon (@Dragon_GameDev2)Mon, 17 Jan 2022 03:38 GMT

Some of you have never made a <button> that submits form data to a server while the user is navigated to a new page defined by the form `action` attribute - all with no JS involved - and it shows.

Stephanie Eckles (@5t3ph)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 22:10 GMT

https://twitter.com/_axtone/status/1484043379558076421

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software engineering means oscillating between "I'm a fucking genius" and "fuck I'm so fucking stupid", often multiple times within a day

milf twink (@SamAllenX)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 23:42 GMT

Kate (@thingskatedid)Thu, 20 Jan 2022 06:52 GMT

Dear employer, Help! I just did some mindfulness meditation as per your recent email, but my workload is now even worse – none of the work went away and I have even less time to do it in. What did I do wrong? Best regards, Kirsty

Kirsty Sedgman (@KirstySedgman)Mon, 17 Jan 2022 15:55 GMT

VIM LITERALLY TELLS YOU HOW TO EXIT IF YOU PRESS CTRL-C

eevee (@eevee)Thu, 20 Jan 2022 06:57 GMT

https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1483530601244205056

Isn't this litteraly everything you are against

Luna - Whole (@n0tscal)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:08 GMT

https://twitter.com/PunishedLorelai/status/1483771395695775746

Honestly hate the implication that it’s progress by the iterative naming method when things are absolutely getting worse.

Possum that ate too much discounted candy. (@MintPossum)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:56 GMT

https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1483530601244205056

Web3 isn't decentralized. In the "real internet" we have now, things are decentralized and actors can simply talk to each other. Web3 introduces centralized bottlenecks ("blockchains") and forces you to buy access to the central resource in order to communicate

mcc (@mcclure111)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:41 GMT

Captain Picard Tea Order xkcd.com/2570

Randall Munroe (@xkcd)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 21:33 GMT

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1483896045604069382

Yeah here's the JavaScript library to interface our nuclear poop management systems so they don't draw power when the carrier's total domain awareness battle-net detects a sea skimming cruise drone

SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:20 GMT

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1483897071069503493

What happens when we get into a war with China and everybody involved is just sitting there BSoDing trying to get the missiles to work when there's more than 999 on the radar screen.

SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:24 GMT

Something I think a lot about is how it's possible that modern weapons tech is any good. It just strains credulity that these organizations can produce anything complex that functions, using an entirely secret development process on proprietary everything. I don't understand.

SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:16 GMT

jpeg is french for "i'm pegging"

Daisy Alioto (@daisandconfused)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:24 GMT

https://twitter.com/vmikeb/status/1483843075126579201

Yeah like you couldn’t have been on top of a mountain or in some cloud with unicorns everywhere. Literally anything besides sitting in an office having a meeting. Zero imagination for how imagination it took to create this technology

ross. (@rossedman)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:06 GMT

https://twitter.com/cairns/status/1483535018240606210

I can't get over the fact the avatar technology looks worse than 3d chat programs I used in 2002.

Drgn-Mom Pathia (@Pathia)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:19 GMT

https://twitter.com/dbsmasher/status/1483839265414942724

I really like how they captured the Webex of all of the people with VR headsets on. Very meta. Very 2022. Very redundantly useless.

Mike Burkhart (@vmikeb)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:45 GMT

https://twitter.com/cairns/status/1483535018240606210

SO instead of being in a nice warm environment or doing anything nice y'all pick the most boring looking office meeting room WHILE you still had zoom on so why not just use zoom???? This is so useless lmao

Disaster, Gay of Crisis (@DisasterFemboy)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:18 GMT

I don't understand this trait of programmers where they have to insult tools they don't use instead of just saying "I prefer to use this instead". You don't have to tear down other people's work or preferences while stating your own. Be kinder.

K 🦇 Love (@kennethlove)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:09 GMT

A new age begins September 2, 2022. Journey to Middle-earth with The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. #LOTRonPrime #LOTR #LOTRROP

The Lord of the Rings on Prime (@LOTRonPrime)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:00 GMT

Good reminder: Don't start chat conversations with a sole "Hello" or "Hi" and then nothing. If you feel the need (which you shouldn't) preface your entire message with it. "Hi, what time is the meeting?" Great website: nohello.net

Job (@Jobvo)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:20 GMT

https://twitter.com/DrJessTaylor/status/1483820767452221443

Really does annoy me how people with money conceptualise and try to recast themselves as struggling, poor or in poverty - when there are people out there who can’t afford food, or shoes, or school uniform, or to repay debts, or to pay for a TV licence. And they have no solution.

Dr. Jessica Taylor (@DrJessTaylor)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:18 GMT

Poverty is one of those things where you have absolutely no idea what it actually is until you have lived it, with no means of escape, with no one around you to help, no one to lend you anything, no one holding a door open for you, and no one interested in saving you from it.

Dr. Jessica Taylor (@DrJessTaylor)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:16 GMT

What no one tells you: coding a is baseline skill in software engineering. Other skills - writing, w with people, influencing others, moving the needle for the business - accelerate your career later on. A better tactic over being mad is to strengthen skills like writing. 👇

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I've worked with MANY better coders who were surprised and mad that my career progressed faster because I am a better writer :/ twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/s…

Joyce Park (@troutgirl)Tue, 18 Jan 2022 19:36 GMT

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Tue, 18 Jan 2022 19:51 GMT

Listening to a brown drag queen on a podcast describe the queer community as “very welcoming and inclusive as long as you’re hot and white” and that. is. the. TEA, girl.

Tim Banks stands 5 feet, 8 inches (@elchefe)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:21 GMT

Meet the new addition to the family, Ralph

Tom Withers (@tomtucka)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:26 GMT

“Takiwatanga” is the Maori word for autism and it means “In their own time and space”.

Warda Farah (@WFarahslt)Tue, 18 Jan 2022 07:30 GMT

I think about this sign almost every day.

Kit Yates (@Kit_Yates_Maths)Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:05 GMT

Shit. twitter.com/kit_yates_math…

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I think about this sign almost every day.

Kit Yates (@Kit_Yates_Maths)Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:05 GMT

Ashley Willis (@ashleymcnamara)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 02:27 GMT

Do you ever look at code you wrote a few months ago and come away impressed? It doesn't happen often, but sometimes past Laurie was really smart!

Laurie (@laurieontech)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:41 GMT

GCP supports the ability to export cloud resources created via the web UI using the bulk export command. We even support multiple formats including Terraform. cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/ref…

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https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1483820927402004484

Can you track what when and who deployed something directly in the console? I don't think that ClickOps should be tolerated to any sane person.

Krasimir Velichkov (@m0sh1x2)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:21 GMT

Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:40 GMT

I think it rules that there are like 6 companies total now

50 tweet thread about the PBS DragonTales PsyOp (@Boringstein)Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:46 GMT

circling back on this

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Rent is due today and countless Americans don’t know how they’re going to make ends meet this month. A one-time payment wasn’t nearly enough. We can’t wait any longer to pass my bill to provide $2,000 every month throughout this pandemic.

Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris)Wed, 01 Jul 2020 14:22 +0000

i bless the rains down in castamere (@Chinchillazllla)Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:51 GMT

Awwww yeah!

Marcus Noble (@Marcus_Noble_)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:19 GMT

https://twitter.com/UAPHueManity/status/1483510843677585416

Hiding our vices from our children only adds to the stigma as well as their curiosity to try. I believe in strict regulations on marketing but believe in having open discussions with your kids. My cannabis grows next to our tomatoes in our garden & I explain its use to them.

JessieBGrowing 🇨🇦🪴🍄 (@JessieTweeting)Tue, 18 Jan 2022 18:55 GMT

My first campaign ad, ‘37 Seconds.’ #JustLikeMe I hope this ad works to not only destigmatize the use of marijuana, but also forces a new conversation that creates the pathway to legalize this beneficial drug, and forgive those who were arrested due to outdated ideology.

Gary Chambers (@GaryChambersJr)Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:02 GMT

this is why girls take so long to get ready

violet valentine (@slutpilled)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 03:02 GMT

unmasked cop w what looks like a qanon mug watching kids do remote learning….. perfect country, no notes twitter.com/kocoabigail/st…

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Moore police officers step in as substitutes.

Abigail Ogle (@KOCOAbigail)Tue, 18 Jan 2022 21:04 GMT

historically specific 🐓 (@LeftOutWest)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 06:14 GMT

One of the most frightening things I've ever heard is when someone pointed out that the existence of the uncanny valley implies that at some point there was an evolutionary reason to be afraid of something that looked human but wasn't.

David Szymanski (@DUSKdev)Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:57 GMT

https://twitter.com/oleg_nenashev/status/1483705093153337346

... but pure altruism isn't scalable, it's difficult to build a big community just on that. There're many advantages of participating pro-bono: learning/mentorship, portfolio, addressing your own needs, exposure, etc. These reasons are totally valid, and they can be win-win

Oleg Nenashev (@oleg_nenashev)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 07:42 GMT

https://twitter.com/oleg_nenashev/status/1483691924452265988

For what it worth, there are many small projects being maintained by solo maintainers. Their time investment is way beyond direct and indirect benefits they get for it. This is where altruism takes place, and it should be appreciated. Kudos to these maintainers🙏

Oleg Nenashev (@oleg_nenashev)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 07:37 GMT

https://twitter.com/IAmJerdog/status/1483494934841901063

Pure altruism of maintainers

Oleg Nenashev (@oleg_nenashev)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 06:44 GMT