I cannot agree more, so much more stuff to learn!

Still life with cat Pierre Bonnard Oil on Canvas, 1924 🤔

So true, so so so true.

The receipt for my first web programming book from Borders Books, Music & Cafe in 1998. Back when onMouseOver=“swapImage()” was the peak of cross-browser UX and document.layers held the promise of an exciting future to come!

Senior Workaround Engineer

Amen!

A 🇬🇧 story in two parts

Any novel complex system needs to be designed more than once. A large bundle of unvalidated assumptions never survives its first contact with objective reality. Plan for the redesign.

A good friend of mine had a person on their team drop the production database this week. They are back up, but it was a scary 24 hours for them. Please quote tweet or reply to this thread with YOUR tales of #DroppingProduction so they know they aren't alone!

s/people in your field/myself in meetings/

Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?

I prefer to look at as a technical “mortgage” rather than just “debt”, because you *can* leverage the equity you’ve already put in to buy more time, but if you’re not careful you’ll find yourself underwater.

“How have you created a masterpiece like this sculpture of David from a crude slab of marble?” Michelangelo was asked. "It was easy," he replied "All I did was denoise everything that didn’t look like hyperrealistic sculpture of David, big hands, detailed anatomy, masterpiece"

Hello, I’d like to report a kill -9 🪦

Actually there are lasers all around us. Just none of them go “pew pew”

Moose are fast, even in the deep snow.. 🤯 x.com/buitengebieden…

Let's be clear: I hate cryptocurrency but I especially hate Cryptocurrency Grifters. My cat, Sockington, has an account (The Eternal Spirit of Sockington) with a million plus followers. A group of these fucksticks have decided to make a "currency" around him. These folks can go to hell.