Climbs, codes, eats biscuits. In case you wondered, I earned the nickname before the other bright orange muppet became famous.
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BrightOrangeMuppet retweeted
🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud.
⛔️These people are wrong⛔️
I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/
BrightOrangeMuppet retweeted
This doesn't mean that we all should go down to Assembler. As I said, that abstraction often makes us more productive.
But there are things where the efficiency and direct control of machine programming in assembly language are necessary.
BrightOrangeMuppet retweeted
Do you have a system of delivery or a Rube Goldberg machine?
System of delivery:
git commit && git push ⇒ runs tests, if they pass, deploys to pro
Everything signitifantly more complicated than that is possibly a Rube Goldberg machine.
#xp #ContinuousDelivery
BrightOrangeMuppet retweeted
Happy 23rd birthday Wayback Machine!
On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine.
The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.
#InternetHistory
ALT Internet Archive website in 2001
BrightOrangeMuppet retweeted
Someone actually said this in a discussion and believes it:
"You should be able to plan a sprint that you can complete in time. If you can plan a sprint that you can complete in a two week period, then it naturally follows you can plan 2 sprints, or a quarter, with the same results."
I am 99% sure they have never written a line of code for an enterprise before.
BrightOrangeMuppet retweeted
Cookie banners.
Just visited a US website, from the US, that ships a 457.11kB (minified!) JS bundle of a GDPR "banner SDK" from a "trust" provider. Over 3x the size of React. It ships its very own version of jQuery inside.
Going to the "trust" provider website yields a 5.3s LCP (i.e.: 5s+ to load the first screen completely). 53% of visitors experience a similarly terrible loading experience. They couldn't care less.
This is the stuff that's silently destroying the web.
• For most users, these providers have gamified beyond belief your ability to actually block cookies. The primary buttons are always "Accept All", even when you "customize your preferences". More often than not, they're cheating you into accepting everything.
• The amount of JS they ship, downloading from a 3rd party website, is destroying the web's performance
• The aesthetics and function of websites is massively compromised. In the spirit of "privacy and trust", they're eroding the open web in favor of proprietary platforms.
• They undermine the product engineering teams' efforts. I've met so many amazing design engineers who spend countless hours honing experiences, only to have them destroyed by cookie junk.
Cookie banner slop has to stop.
BrightOrangeMuppet retweeted
Instead of "when will this be done," ask "when can people start using this?"
They're not the same question. You can create a feature in one big-bang (waterfall-style) or you can create it in a number of "value drops" and collect feedback along the way.
BrightOrangeMuppet retweeted
Some engineer writes to me to object that my Go library is missing a key feature that it used to have.
Turns out that the library never had this feature, but ChatGPT thought so.
Actual email exchange:
BrightOrangeMuppet retweeted
telling all of my friends with small daughters that if they say "i wanna learn about dinosaurs and jump on a trampoline" this is in fact a perfectly fine career path
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BrightOrangeMuppet retweeted
How a book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than several books of today
[Full text: calculusmadeeasy.org]
BrightOrangeMuppet retweeted
While talking to an embedding systems engineer on C being an unsafe language, he mentioned that the way they avoid memory leaks is by simply not using malloc/alloc, which means their code to entirely deterministic at compile time. A reason why C cannot be replaced in embedded sys
BrightOrangeMuppet retweeted
Brilliant piece this on what has happened to taxes since 2010.
NEW: Almost all of our taxes are plagued by serious design problems.
This is as true in 2024 as it was in 2010 – big challenges remain unaddressed.
Read @HelenMiller_IFS, @StuartAdam_IFS and Bobbie Upton's #GeneralElection report on taxes since 2010: ifs.org.uk/publications/gove…
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We are continuing to experience service disruptions due to a recurrence of a ddos attack. We’ll post updates in this thread.
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1:1s don’t “descend into nitpicking” when you ask how scuba diving this weekend was or geek out together about a new coffee technique or mourn the loss of their dear pet with them.
Limiting 1:1s to work topics misses the most important part: building a genuine relationship.
BrightOrangeMuppet retweeted
While this is a victory for the players you've left a lasting stain on your brand as a publisher. Many people have very little reason to trust Sony going forward.
Moving the business before you understand the playerbase is never the right choice.
BrightOrangeMuppet retweeted
I love how simple Java makes building apps.
Want to call AI? Use Java.
Want a web UI? Use Java.
youtube.com/watch?v=cfm5wtgp…
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Elon Musk – Dead at 52 – Says There Is No Need for Misinformation Laws theshovel.com.au/2024/04/23/…
