One nice thing about lame duck Twitter is that there’s no reason to judiciously mute anymore. Why just block bots, grifters, and hate speech? Block sealions! Block blue dudes! Block your boss! Block your family! Block anyone! Take off and block the site from orbit!

If Twitter is an important part of your project's DevRel strategy, now might be a good time to start thinking about alternatives.

Hi friends! I'm in the market for new employment! I've been doing rust/go and language design and database read path work for the last few years. I'm also heavy in python dev. Would be interested what's out there.

If you’re doing something more experimental than React on AWS and you want an intern/apprentice til EOY please let me know! I’ve been doing devrel recently but before that I coded for 20 years in damn near everything

Content moderation is the biggest challenge of any platform driven by user generated content.

I’m enthusiastic about seeing experiments with various models but it’s clear fighting abuse in a federated environment is significantly harder if you want to prevent collateral damage

Need to parse XML in Node.js or browsers? It happens to all of us sometimes.

👋 Say hello to parse-xml 4.0.0!

🚀 Now written in TypeScript, up to 2.5x as fast, and with an even smaller (3.9 kB min+gzip) browser build. Still zero dependencies. github.com/rgrove/parse-x…

Here is Ezno, the compiler thingy I have been working on: kaleidawave.github.io/posts/introduc…

The most ludicrous thing about time travel stories isn't that someone found a way around the laws of physics, it's that someone correctly implemented the incomprehensible time zone math necessary to arrive at precisely 8am on September 2, 1885 instead of like 8 hours too early.

WHAT is wrong with earwigs!? This creepy motherfucker just bit me with its butt?!?! What the hell

Yesterday we watched the Criterion Collection 4K remaster of BLOW OUT (1981). Already my fave De Palma film, on rewatch it staggered me: the colors, cheap and sweet as corner-store candy! The tight fast rush of the plot!

I think 5 day workweeks make people think tactically instead of strategically. We stay too close to the weeds. 4 day workweeks help us take a step back.