Got access to DALL-E - here, have a medieval painting of the wifi not working

Poor Bobby Tables… publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill…

Just submitted my tenure portfolio! Luckily, my university processes these pretty quickly, so I'll know by... April... or so....

This week, the Nobel Committee set a terrible precedent by awarding a Nobel Prize to someone with a relatively low h-index. What kind of message does it send to young researchers?!

In tech, we need a "Dependency removal engineer" role.

So “learning styles” joined the flock of well-intentioned concepts that a) sound plausible, b) are nonsense if you measure the outcomes (knowledge acquired/grades), & c) end up being a net-negative b/c they create limiting beliefs (“I can’t learn this b/c I’m an X learner”). [1]

In 2016 Luis Alberto Quiroga Cairo produced the Datasaurus Dozen to make this point even more dramatically. It’s absolutely wild that 50 years later we still need to communicate this to folks who have recently awarded STEM degrees. Dataviz needs to be a fundamental part of data education

#Github needs a new category. There are pull requests and pull demands. The latter is for when you're right, others are wrong, and the world won't be in harmony until your PD is applied 😉

When I started programming in the early 90s, people thought it was stupid and that I should become a doctor or a lawyer, not a weird nerd. Years later, they told me it was clear that somebody from India or the Philippines would take my job for $2/hour. When that didn't happen,

I will never understand Docker 's decision to report container CREATED times in vague terms, like "about an hour ago". In what universe is that more helpful than saying "53 mins ago"?

Java is death by boilerplate.

Reviewing an article and couldn't help criticizing the choice to use bar plots instead of box plots or violin plots. Suddenly remembered the #barbarplots campaign that @_roryturnbull was part of. I hope that video is still getting views on Youtube.... youtu.be/LFDbqw2xPbQ?si…

Been working on adapting a perl script, and since perl syntax is a hot topic these days, I thought I would add my two cents: it is not good.

I formally submit my application for the role of CEO of HTMX htmx.org / CEO of Java Pants (same thing) Turk

Here's the truth about TDD (Test Driven Development). It's a broken practice. It's always been broken. It's broken by the definition of it. Its biggest merit is the encouragement of testing but that's about where it ends. TDD implies writing tests before writing the code. So,

Here’s your periodic reminder that `usr` in /usr/bin stands for “universal system resources” not “user”, and `/dev` in `/dev/vdisk0` stands for “device” not “development” 🙌

terminal tip: whenever you need to type a simple command like "ls", just hit the up arrow like 40 times instead

I feel seen. (h/t to Forrest Brazeal)

If you want to create completely free software for other people to use, the absolute best delivery mechanism right now is static HTML and JavaScript served from a free web host with an established reputation.

I want to be in the timeline where js has native zip functions. That's not the sort of thing I want to trust a 3rd party dependency for.