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Rob Cannon

@robpc

Dance photographer who also posts about his day job (web development) and video games. | Former @washingtonpost

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Joined May 2009
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jeff bezos coined democracy dies in darkness but I coined this logo for our new @LauncherWP shirts
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eevee 💨@eevee12 Sep 2022
condolences to all the blockchain people who thought they were building the future but were actually just building a different starbucks loyalty program. what an indictment
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Preemptively posting this.
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Crypto "market cap" and dollar-denominated "values" have become ubiquitous in media, and are almost always presented at face value. This serves to legitimize cryptocurrency and encourages more people to buy in. blog.mollywhite.net/cryptocu…

Cryptocurrency 'market caps' and notional value

A naive equation works well when estimating the value of small quantities of popular crypto tokens, but it's also being used to estimate values of illiquid tokens and the market capitalization of all...

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Andy Day@kiell20 Mar 2022
This was a big one to write. ‘NFTs Are Terrible: 6 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Them’ fstoppers.com/fine-art/nfts-…

NFTs Are Terrible: 6 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Them | Fstoppers

Given the number of big name photographers and huge brands jumping on board the NFT bandwagon, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the plethora of problems surrounding the NFT market had evaporated....

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Rob Zacny@RobZacny18 Jan 2022
"We're examining every aspect of our relationship with Activision" seems a lot more shit-eating in retrospect.
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Ben Kehoe@ben11kehoe21 Dec 2021
Talk to your manager, agree on a *minimum* number of vacation days per quarter and per year, and have them hold you to it.
Rob Koch (@robcube) profile pictureRob Koch@robcube21 Dec 2021
Now that my company have “unlimited” vacation days, how do I as an employee leverage this best way I can?
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🧵🗓💬 With 2021 drawing to a close, we've taken a look back over what we've shared with you this year. Here are the highlights, one tweet from each month:
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anakin skywalker would have hated dune
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Friends! Are you a PM who is interested in multimedia publishing? My @WapoEngineering team needs a product manager for our video, audio and photo CMSes. Bonus: You get to work for the incomparable @eschow and alongside @SimonGlennGregg! washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.c…
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As a... – website visitor I want to... – be blocked from entering the website So that... – I can enjoy a better experience with the native app
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I should be sleeping but I'm still thinking about the tweet that said Mars is the planet with the highest percentage of linux devices with working audio
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aw man I miss live musical theater so much
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@NPR16 Jan 2021
President-elect Biden's dog, Major, will soon be the first shelter pup to make it to the White House. That shelter, the Delaware Humane Association, is planning a virtual "indoguration" ceremony for Major on Sunday. trib.al/Dt4jvjN
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Lex@_LexusNicole7 Jan 2021
This looks like when Scar took over Pride Rock
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@mppmsnow6 Jan 2021
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"If you're ever worried about losing some data, just put it after a todo comment in a codebase. Those things never get removed." – Ólafur Waage
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The Broadway stars behind a virtual performance of the animated film "Ratatouille" were inspired by quirky videos on TikTok, where they found a crowdsourced jumble of songs, dances and other material. nyti.ms/38VJ2ME
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Seen anything good on TV lately?
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“His name was King Friday XIII. We just thought that was fun because so many people are so superstitious about Friday the 13th that we thought, let’s start children out thinking that Friday the 13th was a fun day. And every Friday the 13th would be his birthday.”
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Dan Rather
@DanRather12 Nov 2020
COVID is sadness. Profound sadness. It is suffering, and sacrifice. It is perhaps the greatest abdication of presidential responsibility in American history. I have seen a lot of death and tragedy in my lifetime. But this shakes me to the core, completely and irrevocably.
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