Programming Sucks
Well-written, true lies about programming »
App Links - Link to what you want, wherever you are.
#f8 @ilyasu: got to and mark your website up to say what your app URLs are, and we crawl them »
The Great Works of Software — The Message — Medium
Here is my first piece for THE MESSAGE, a group pub at Medium, about the quality of greatness in software »
blog.maxistentialism.com/post/84273846968/pwnmeal-extreme-gaming-oatmeal-pwnmeal-extreme
☞ The inside story of our extreme oatmeal prank with @krisstraub, @mikeyface, and @jeffgerstmann »
The Great Works of Software — Medium
“The Great Works of Software,” by @ftrain »
5by5 WWDC 2014 Meetup Tickets, San Francisco - Eventbrite
I’ll be at the 5by5 WWDC event: Will there be Vlcnr stickers? Your guess is — truly — as good as mine. »
Does Andy McMillan Want a Sandwich?
@danieleagee @andymcmillan Bookmark in case of emergency »
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City’s new “don’t drive into the crosswalk” program deemed a success. »
Sketch Meetup at WWDC Tickets, San Francisco - Eventbrite
This will be fun “@pieteromvlee: We’re organising a small informal meetup for @sketchapp users during #wwdc. http://t.c… »
How Fox News Shoved Shepard Smith Back Into The Closet
Amazing, sad. “Ailes informed Smith the network’s famously conservative audience wouldn't tolerate a gay news anchor” »
When Excellence isn’t Enough — TheLi.st @ Medium — Medium
People have been asking why I write about gender & if it hurts/prevents other women in tech. I used to think so »
MIT Bitcoin Expo
Interesting Bitcoin event for this Saturday put together by @hackMIT, @MITBitcoinClub and others »
Google AdSense Leak - Pastebin.com
This probably isn't true at all. »
Where are the stolen girls of Nigeria? And why don't we care more? - Boing Boing
Where are the stolen girls of Nigeria? And why don't we care more? #chibok #BringBackOurGirls http:/… »
Ariel Waldman - The Hacker's Guide to the Galaxy - YouTube
My talk, The Hacker's Guide to the Galaxy, from @IdeaFestival is now live (complete w/ Q&A at the end)! Yay, ... »
Tiny Hamsters Eating Tiny Burritos - Episode 1 - YouTube
Enough with the bullshit. Here is a little tiny hamster eating a little tiny burrito. »
Following People on Medium — Medium
You can now follow people on Medium! Stay up to date on what they're writing and recommending with a single click. https://t.co… »
Facebook’s f8 Developer Conference 2014 | Fast Company
From "Move fast and break things" to "Move fast with stable infra..." #f8 »
The Welcome - United Nations Free & Equal - YouTube
UN Humanrights’ Bollywood-inspired gay equality campaign video (via @tlrd) Just dance, silly! »
Thinking of England — A Year of Wednesdays — Medium
For Wednesday #18 I give you memories of a family trip to England a long time ago. »
The absurdity of LinkedIn
The absurdity of LinkedIn »
Embrace the awkward — Medium
My reflections on a crash course in entrepreneurship: @tessruss @FashionistaLab »
Scientific American Editor: Fox Told Me I Couldn't Talk About Climate Change
"Scientific American Editor: Fox Told Me I Couldn't Talk About Climate Change" »
Penny Red | Some very exciting news
Giant congratulations to @PennyRed, who will be joining next years class of @NiemanLab fellows at Harvard »
‘JIF’ Is the Format. ‘GIF’ Is the Culture — The Message — Medium
"‘JIF’ Is the Format. ‘GIF’ Is the Culture" - lovely little piece on Internet history by @waxpancake »
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More than 100 sickened with suspected food poisoning at Food Safety Summit »
Instagram
Best birthday present ever, from @mollycrabapple »
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This an artist’s rendering of what we attempt to do at PIE »
Week of Sportsfriends! | Die Gute Fabrik
HEY NYC - Come to our official Sportsfriends launch party/tournament, Friday May 9, 7pm at NYU »
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Donald Sterling’s Racism and the NBA - TIME
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (@kaj33) on Sterling's real offenses & our voyeurism: "Welcome to the Finger-Wagging Olympics" »
BAMAN PIDERMAN: MAKE DA SHOW! by Lindsay and Alex Small-Butera — Kickstarter
My VERY FAVORITE webshow of all time, Baman Piderman, is doing a Kickstarter w/ @breadpig to finish out their show »
Electric Objects Wants To Display The Most Beautiful Parts Of The Internet On Your Wall | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
Wonderful piece by @rzgreenfield on what we're up to @ElectricObjects, with cameos from @arainert + @alexismadrigal http://t… »
Electric Objects - Blog - Making Electric Objects
"We’re building a screen that will put the Internet on your wall" <– been testing this and it's AWESOME, @jrlev... »
Tiny Hamsters Eating Tiny Burritos - Episode 1 - YouTube
The internet never fails to deliver: Tiny Hamsters Eating Tiny Burritos - Episode 1 »
The Dangers of Faith In Data
"data driven" is a mistruth - Data is not alive and can't drive anything. People drive & they choose what data to use htt... »
Outbox vs. USPS: How the Post Office Killed Digital Mail | InsideSources
This makes me sad--the USPS apparently killed Outbox »
Does This Secret Drug Cocktail Work To Execute People? Oklahoma Will Find Out Tonight. | Mother Jones
Holy shit. The state of US execution drug supply chains is a completely ramshackle mess. via @Clar… »
Abolitionist and retentionist countries | Amnesty International
More than ⅔ of the world's countries have abolished the death penalty. The US is not in good company. »
Christopher Black | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
@xeni I worked on this case. Terrible, awful crime. Two wrongs, don’t make a right. »
TAILS: Snowden's favorite anonymous, secure OS goes 1.0 - Boing Boing
TAILS, Edward Snowden's favorite anonymous, highly secure operating system, goes 1.0. @doctorow at @boingboing »
A Man Asks Mike Rowe For Life Advice. He Destroys His "Dream" In The Best Way Possible.
@austinkleon see this letter from Mike Rowe? Seems to go with the whole "do what you love" is BS. »
Lies our bubbles taught us — Wordyard
"We will always put our users first." And other lies that tech bubbles tell. New post from me. »
Harsh Reality Break: 234 Girls Kidnapped from Physics Test
234 girls were abducted last week from a physics test in Nigeria »
Explore – Integrity: Some-Animals-Are-More-Equal-Than-Others Edition
Pretty sure scanning and posting someone's copyrighted work negates your right to be huffy when another site uses it. htt… »
Fuseproject creates mobile-friendly brand identity for PayPal | Dezeen
Tell me about the woman who tucks her unbuttoned chambray shirt into her skirt. »
The Nomad VC: a16z’s Newest Board Partner Boris Wertz | Andreessen Horowitz
Congrats to one of my favorite VCs and @tindie investor @bwertz (and @ATKingyens) on joining @a16z! »
f8: Introducing Anonymous Login and an Updated Facebook Login | Facebook Newsroom
Facebook introduces anonymous login, and now lets you choose which permissions you want to apps to receive »
The Internet Archive Declares Spacewar! | Internet Archive Blogs
Play Spacewar! one of the earliest digital computer games invented in 1962 by #MIT students Thanks… »
PWNMEAL: Cards Against Humanity's epic Pax East prank - Boing Boing
PWNMEAL: Cards Against Humanity's epic Pax East prank »
The Onion to launch Clickhole.com to satirize viral sites BuzzFeed and Upworthy - New York Business Journal
Clickhole: "putting content and sponsored posts side by side, with barely any distinction between them" »
animal farm steadman | eBay
no one told ebay that the steadman edition of animal farm was obscure and hard to find. yours for $0.99. »
A Eulogy for Twitter - Adrienne LaFrance and Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic
"A Eulogy for Twitter” (The Atlantic) | I don’t know about you, but “Twitter is dying” articles seem so 2010. »
Barack Obama will take a backseat to no one when it comes to (promising) Network Neutrality - Boing Boing
Barack Obama will take a backseat to no one when it comes to (promising) Network Neutrality »
Warriors Had the Blueprint For a Dramatic Boycott Ready to Go – Marcus Thompson II
"once the ball was in the air, they were just going to walk off. All 15 of them." »
The Fantasy and Abuse of the Manipulable User, by Betsy Haibel | Model View Culture
The violation of consent is so normalized in tech culture that we've allowed it to invade how we interact with users. http:… »
Jeffrey Toobin: The Grotesque Search for a Lethal-Injection Drug : The New Yorker
It's from December, but @JeffreyToobin on the grotesque search for a lethal-injection drug holds up. »
B.C. to boost skills training programs in public education - The Globe and Mail
Oh, I didn't realize public & educational policy is made based on "concerns of potential investors". #bcpoli #bcpse h... »
PHOTOS: Nigerian Women March Demanding Their Government Find Kidnapped School Girls | ThinkProgress
PHOTOS: Nigerian Women March Demanding Their Government #BringBackOurGirls »
News from The Associated Press
Here's the AP's first take at the botched Oklahoma execution, though @baileyelise's timeline has more details: http://t.co… »
Developer User Research Survey
Are you a developer familiar with Node.js or Java? Want to participate in a usability study on May 5th? Details - »
Clem does the Creston Annex Head Start Bike-A-Thon! | Other - YouCaring.com
Whoa — you guys got Clem up over $500 fundraising for her little Head Start school. THANK YOU! »
Language is a Map | LinkedIn
Language is a Map. Another gem from @timoreilly »
Spaceteam Admiral's Club by Henry Smith — Kickstarter
Under 60 hours left on @hengineer's post-Spaceteam Kickstarter: Still hoping...! Might increase my pledge again. »
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NYC, please come to @ThrillingAdv May 10 at Town Hall. You will not regret it. Cast of STARS! (plus me) »
Work at Kickstarter — Kickstarter
You're kind of nerdy. Or maybe you like code all day. Or maybe you're into data. That's cool. Kickstarter is hiring »
Twitter Analytics
Also: @twitter you gotta roll out emoji support to »
Twitter Analytics
Dear @twitter analytics, you meant "complement", not "compliment". »
Tell the FCC: Restore Net Neutrality
★ NET NEUTRALITY EMERGENCY. We need at least 100,000 more signatures *today*. Please sign and share! »
My zig-zag path to a techcentric career — Medium
Kate is awesome. RT @smc90: lovely read from @GOK8 on her "zig-zag" path to a tech career »