• Esperanto! 😎
• what would the photo for this tweet be?
• minor point: measuring by pure volume of code, MS had enormous power to shape how code was made for most of the history of mainstream computing. their OSes and development tools were monopolies. the last 10-15y have been an exception in that sense, not the norm.
• “Have you ever heard of hard socks?” “Wow, no. Are they like shoes?” “No no no. Ok let me explain. They’re flappy but they don’t flap. You wear them when you ride a bicycle but only at night.” “Whoa. Have you ever worn hard socks?” “Of course not. But I really want to someday!”
• yes! for work, and also – less obviously – for life. snarfed.org/2016-06-27_col…
• agree 100%. worse is better. 😭
• so close to an SEC backronym!
• the short answer is microformats, which let the recipient interpret the mention as a reply, like, repost, event rsvp, etc, instead of just a generic page. aaronparecki.com/2018/06/30/11/…
• https://t.co/ayKoMrAvgW
• No.
• oh right, thinkup! ❤️😢
• heh. @kellan may be alluding to the downloadable HTML + JS archive from twitter.com/settings/accou…. it can be served by a web server directly, as is. works great, renders your complete tweet history, nothing else needed.
• of course. plan ahead, anticipate likely problems, and prevent them. eg premortems are great! however. resources are finite, possible problems are infinite, and we’re not great at predicting the future. too much time is wasted on unlikely, rare, or unimportant imagined problems.
• EddieHinkle.com
• ah sure, at least if you’re using the Twitter API. probably worth phrasing that as eg “display restrictions” instead of ownership, but yes, understood.
• curious why you think twitter claims ownership of tweet contents? that seems wrong. from twitter.com/en/tos : “You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services… [Y]ou grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license…”
• eve is so great. consistently one of the most interesting, underappreciated phenomenons in gaming. also arguably one of the only games to realize the true promise and potential of MMOs.
• also, interestingly, anyone can send a webmention! if you get a native webmention, you can check that the source post links to you, but you don’t actually know whether its author or someone else sent the webmention.
• oops, ascraeus.org/micro/15255562…
• an actual, working GDPR lawyer disagreed and expects backfeed is perfectly ok: ascraeus.org/micrao/1525556… . the OP (not a lawyer) replied that the article’s main point was ethics, not law.

Recent retweets:

• A digital billboard in Odessa malfunctioned, in the fog. Convincing unknown numbers of motorists not only were they living in the Matrix, but it was being run on Windows 98.
• A couple of months ago, we launched data.color.com, a public database containing aggregated genetic and clinical information. Curious about how we built and designed it? Read on: blog.color.com/building-a-pub…
• Kelly’s Law: Old technology fails frequently, but in a reliable way: new technology fails less often, but when it fails, it fails in an unexpectedly new way we are not prepared for.
• Challenged by ETL? @schnarfed, Engineer at Color, shares an innovative idea for machine learning-based ETL. blog.color.com/stop-paying-th…
• Tomorrow I’m giving an informal talk about Bridgy and the IndieWeb at the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre: Thanks to @schnarfed for talking with me about Bridgy’s development Bridgy is an IndieWeb tool for syndicating content between a personal… jackjamieson.net/?p=3262
• Here’s the top marginal rate versus the 10-year growth rate in per capita GDP (right axis) since WWII (using 10-year to smooth out business cycle). No relationship, or if anything positive 3/
• Near the Golden Gate is this Talkative Tunnel.
• Urbanization over the past 500 years ourworldindata.org/urbanization
• Software Prevention Engineer
• New data shows there is no general trend to higher #inequality. Over the last 25 years, inequality has gone up in many countries and has fallen in many others. Thus, rising inequality is not ubiquitous, nor inevitable in the face of #globalisation. ourworldindata.org/income-inequal…
• Wonderful parody of brand manifestos by Kim Mok In Read Me
• Are you sick of @realDonaldTrump treating the world like his locker room? Buy now and convict Trump and his cronies: bit.ly/Conviction2020 @getconviction is 20.20% TODAY! #Conviction2020 #BlueWave
• Just published my latest post to say three things about the world today: The world is much better The world is awful The world can be much betterAll three statements are true at the same time and I think we need to have all perspectives at once. ourworldindata.org/much-better-aw…
• We’re excited to announce Helm: a new way to control your online identity – starting with email. For too long, our personal data has been sitting on someone else’s server. Today, within minutes, you’ll be able to own it for the first time. It all starts with the device below.
• “Color … is a model for how to provide low-cost information to consumers that both usable is easily digestible.” via @EricTopol. We are thrilled to share one of @color’s largest product updates since our first launch! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
• Tom Wolfe ate the world and vomited lava. Dickens dined at a different table every hour of his life. Molière, tasting society, turned to pick up his scalpel, as did Pope and Shaw. Everywhere you look in the literary cosmos, the great ones are busy loving and hating. -@RayBradbury
• “ONLY PUBLISHING POSITIVE RESULTS DOES NOT ADVANCE SCIENCE – IT HOLDS IT BACK.” Worth shouting.
• 7/ Those 5 words capture exactly what’s wrong with news. It’s all about the highly visible, extremely unusual, depressingly terrible, bizarrely short term, and simply momentous. Which means: it leaves out the slow, the structural, the hopeful, the long term, and the developing.
• Warner Bros. Partners with Michael B. Jordan to Become First Major Hollywood Studio to Adopt ‘Inclusion Rider’ bit.ly/2PBbvfs
• Small may or may not be beautiful. Ditto big.