INBOX: NPR voluntarily recognizes @WeBuildNPR
My friend and very smart person @eweirdguy is releasing his new book on May 6th. Take a look if you're a Creative looking to take the next step in your career. creativeslead.com
OK, as a Ruby programmer/computer geek the last few days have been extremely sucky, to say the least. But here are some basic truths: * Ruby is the shizz. 😁 * Lots of cool tech peeps *on the margins* to admire. 🤩👍 * More reason to push Ruby Web Dev away from a monoculture. 🌲
What's worse than premature optimization? Premature standardization!
Fired Amazon worker @Shut_downAmazon is organizing workers at 4 different NYC-area facilities. They're unionizing with the Amazon Labor Union, an independent group that grew out of The Congress of Essential Workers, which Smalls founded:
A fired Amazon worker is trying to unionize four NYC-area facilities theverge.com/2021/4/28/2240…
to those who said they went full Coinbase: you were unequivocally correct.
uh wow now the tweet from Ken Glueck has been taken down for violating Twitter's terms of service original tweet
TIL that you can add a discrete GPU to a PC via an M.2 slot. Wild. Too bad I can’t buy a GPU right now without giving up a kidney.
This mix is so good! Put it on immediately!
A joyful selection of old-school kwaito, South African hip-hop and house tracks from London-based DJ, artist, A&R and curator @shannensp__. factmag.com/2021/04/26/sha…
This is great: dropbox.tech/infrastructure… - it's this sort of collaboration that we need more of. DBX could have tried to kludge something together on their side, or MSFT could have refused to listen, but instead things get improved for everyone on Windows.
Totally normal behavior from an Oracle executive:
Oracle VP @KenGlueck would like to hear from you all oracle.com/news/announcem…

Second shot and feeling vaxxed!!

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The Basecamp saga continues. There are only two reasons why *I* don't have a "funny sounding" name: 1. My mom took Dad's last name, White. 2. Her maiden name was Fielding—HOWEVER, her dad had legally changed HIS name. It was originally Finkelstein. Imagine: Jared Finkelstein
This is today, in just a couple hours!
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Tomorrow! Please join @internetarchive @library_futures @tinysubversions & me for a discussion on ways that community and library values can thrive online in the age of c...

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Not Dead, for the 40th Time

Post: Not Dead, for the 40th Time nadreck.me/2021/04/not-de…

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Hey @BadLegalTakes is communication between a college president and a Shakespeare studies professor covered by attorney-client privilege? twitter.com/casmudde/statu…
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Deeply disturbing story about a professor being fired for, what seems to be, whistle-blowing. The inevitable court case will bring up the truth, but @LinfieldUniv looks v...