Welp, the Musk takeover resulted in the firing of Manu, the Goomics artist. 😭 As if I needed any more proof he doesn't know what he's doing. If you think you don't know Manu, you probably do. If you're in tech I'm almost sure you've seen this one: bonkersworld.net/organizational…

A long fascinating thread about the decline of Something Awful. Likely relevant to Twitter's near future? "Now that the critics had been given their wish and were allowed to post freely, it was time for them to deliver on their end and bring the funny. But they didn't."

Anyone have a Twitter alternate they recommend? I'm just looking for a corner of the net to post short, silly project updates where there's a geeky audience. I was finding my groove here, but if I can find a reasonable substitute, it might be time to move on.

If folks are interested in positions working with Kotlin, make sure you join the #hiring channel on kotlinlang.slack.com. Offers are posted quite frequently.

I think someone should give LinkedIn the memo...

We hit 500 users yesterday. Just got a larger server (should handle 2k users) and went through and let hundreds of folks on that signed up. If you didn't get on this round hold tight. Should be good in a few days. Thank you @[email protected] for lovely hosting and (1/2)

Looks like "Move Fast and Break Things" is now Twitter's mantra.

Musk fans one month ago: Twitter is censorship garbage and its overbearing rules are coming down!!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Musk fans today: Well if you check page 307, section 4b, article 7 of the TOS, you'll see the limitations of parody accounts have actually been strictly defined for years.

Can Elon Musk claim that destroying Twitter is essentially charity and therefore take its $44 billion cost as a future tax write off? 🤔

I will give Elon Musk credit for bringing comedy to Twitter. When you see two fake accounts both pretending to be the same official brand apologizing for the fake messages put out by the other, it's already a great joke but even crazier that $16 was spent for us to enjoy it.

Larry was right youtu.be/BH5-rSxilxo

This is what micromanaging from the top looks like, when the CEO *thinks* they can tell the source of the problem and how to fix it, just by looking at it. It’s incredibly frustrating when it happens to you. It’s rare to see it this public. Good luck to engineers in the weeds.

Contradicting your CEO in public (even if they do it to others) is a standard way to get fired. However, I bet Eric now has the pick of many job offers, managing to stand out even in these market conditions. So if you still work at Twitter but want to leave... take notes!

I see Musk fans gloating "You all said the site would crash but it didn't!" Actually yeah, I've been really impressed! But this isn't a defense of Musk -- more of Twitter, which is built more resiliently than I thought. And Musk fired most of the engineers who accomplished it.

If you're not a programmer, you may not realize that Elon is ensuring a significant percent of very talented developers will never work at any Musk-run business. Now, if you are a developer who loves Musk after all this, congrats! Probably opportunities to apply to Twitter soon.

I am excited to see Twitter 2.0 (as Musk is calling it). At this point, it will be staffed entirely by Musk devotees who, after observing them the last few weeks, I imagine are the sort of people that only learn that stoves are hot by touching them.

I wonder if Larry Page has changed his mind about this... businessinsider.com/larry-page-elo…

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

I have no idea how many people are here who followed me back when I talked regularly about my projects (mainly #Kobweb and #Kotter). If you're interested, I'm starting up again on Bluesky. You can find me there at bsky.app/profile/bitspi…