UI, JS, XR. React Minneapolis Meetup organizer. Current: Director of Engineering @Target. Tweets my own, etc. He/him.
Minneapolis, MN
Joined November 2007
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Nathan Smith retweeted
I still can't get over this, one of the most important "natural experiments" to come from COVID:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
It's all right there in front of us, a free lunch pathway to reducing some of the most immense cruelty in our society.
Nathan Smith retweeted
Ah, a pivot to video. Brilliant.
Nathan Smith retweeted
Okay imagine all this, except you’re on Mars and there’s a limited amount of oxygen.
Nathan Smith retweeted
everyone is dunking on tennessee for this without realizing that they are only the fifth state to abolish slavery with no exceptions (CO, NE, UT, RI). it’s not an “ooh backward southern state” thing it’s that slavery is still legal for incarcerated people in most of the US.
Nathan Smith retweeted
this is a cascade, since in an exodus large organizations will want to get ahead of impersonations
The German Government has set up its own #Mastodon server so all its official accounts are easy to find.
Validation going the same way as email: if you're on the official domain, you work for us.
(HT @anthonyzach)
social.bund.de/explore
Nathan Smith retweeted
This is why I think Cohost, of all the options that are available, is probably the most likely to steal Twitter's userbase *IF* they can scale up their operation quickly enough. The UX is something of a Twitter/Tumblr mix and it's centralized.
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The thing about the midterms in 2022 is you can't even ignore like the Community College Board race because there are nazis running for everything.
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The labor shortage at the U of M has become so severe that they're flying in temporary cooks from out of state and putting them up in hotels... I downloaded an app and in about 20 minutes became a cook earning more than the union worker who trained me minnesotareformer.com/2022/1…
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IBM once had an official corporate campus in Second Life which thousands of employees used every day for meetings and planning.
And then 1500+ labor union protesters from IBM's Italy branch showed up. Including a sign-waving giant banana.
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If you have any negative condition that would cause you to align with fascists, then fascism will work to create those conditions.
The only acceptable posture toward fascism is absolute and total defiance and opposition.
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I don’t know how to explain to people that if you’re willing to support fascists when the economy is bad, it incentivize fascists to ruin the economy.
Nathan Smith retweeted
Yep. And, just so, it’s a developer superpower to be able to *quickly* build enough of a local mental model to be able to debug things in an unknown codebase. That kind of rapid mental scaffolding is something you can really only learn how to do by practicing it.
Nathan Smith retweeted
Introducing the Replit App.
We’ve been working on this for over a year inventing new UX paradigms to make coding on mobile manageable, and we think this is the most comprehensive mobile creation tool in the world — will onboard millions to the industry!
Nathan Smith retweeted
Kansas City police said reports of a possible serial killer targeting Black women in the area were “completely unfounded”
A month later, one escaped from torture and abuse in the man’s basement for a month & told investigators her friends “didn’t make it”
kansascitydefender.com/justi…
Nathan Smith retweeted
"They don't keep us safe - we keep us safe. Riots work. Thank you."
Wow lol! This is a must watch - ALL the way through! youtube.com/watch?v=drCCy2vN…
