Jeff Atwood / is on Nostr

co-founder stackoverflow.com, discourse.org, blogger. Let's be kind to each other.

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2024-06-10 18:21:09

Paint me like one of your French girls
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2024-02-05 05:07:34

When someone really loves you, they delete all that ridiculous querystring nonsense from the end of the hyperlink before sending it to you. 💘

2024-02-02 19:23:19

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@npub1utv…87lr I want to boost this but it just hits a little too close to home for me personally lol

2024-01-30 03:55:18

“Many times when I identified as Libertarian, people said to me, “It’s just rich white guys that don’t want to be told what to do,” and I had a zillion answers to that — and now that seems 100 percent accurate.” https://www.cracked.com/amp/article_40871_penn-jillette-wants-to-talk-it-all-out.html

2023-12-17 18:50:31

so funny story. You know that mars simulation they ran in hawaii or whatever where 4-8 people would be cooped up in a tiny space for like a year? One of the primary results: guess what specific personality trait everyone HAAAATED in their teammates more than any other? G'wan, guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HI-SEAS

2023-12-11 01:49:51

I said this before on the bird site but it really is true; I distinctly remember reading Ayn Rand as a teenager and thinking “this is some real bullshit she is trying to pull here”. As pulp it is fine, but this is not a serious philosophy for serious people.

2023-08-30 16:59:04

"If Apple was a country, its annual sales—nearly $400 billion last year—would make it roughly the 40th biggest economy in the world, ahead of Iran and on par with Denmark." the era of companies as nation-states has only just begun IMO

2023-08-30 14:42:02

I'm not a really big "governments should be systematically eliminating evil people from the world" proponent, because that is a risky path to take.. who decides what evil is, and how? I am very much against the death penalty in general. But this one was clear and necessary: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/04/30/osama-bin-laden-death-white-house-oral-history-484793

2023-08-17 03:09:24

"A recent study out of the University of Kansas found that it takes about 50 hours of socializing to go from acquaintance to casual friend, an additional 40 hours to become a “real” friend, and a total of 200 hours to become a close friend." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/how-to-make-friends/565742/

2023-08-16 21:11:00

"This is the most niche advanced comedy I know of. Honestly, this was such a gift of joy to receive today. Thank you more than you may ever know." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ

2023-08-12 18:11:02

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@npub1s2r…7gng donated! 🙇

2023-08-08 17:43:14

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2023-08-07 00:59:22

There were only ever two truly great sci-fi authors: Philip K. Dick and Stanislaw Lem. Don't @ me