Entropy Tamer / Docs& Knowledge Management / Staff tech writer @nylas / formerly @Segment @docker @PalantirTech / Tweets = my own / [email protected]
San Francisco, Ca
Joined February 2016
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Did my recent @goethena training, and now I have that Blind Melon song stuck in my head.
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I strongly suspect @KandjiMDM should listen to their UX people more.
Notifications seem to only fit into two categories:
1. Slack needs to update within 14 days but we need to interrupt you to say so
2. Forced restart in 5 minutes even though you're on a call
The recent Eye4Fraud breach inspired a code tutorial from my excellent colleague @Blag
nylas.com/blog/how-to-check-…
Turns out, if you've got programmatic access to your own mailbox, you can do a lot of cool stuff!
(Also continuing my tradition of recreational-tinfoil-hat wearing😅)
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At Assm housing committee, Sen. Wiener venting some serious spleen about enviro groups opposed to SB423:
"I have not heard of a single one of those environmental groups ever helping us pass environmentally sustainable infill housing legislation."
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A debris field was discovered within the search area by an ROV near the Titanic. Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information. 1/2
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This is really important for male followers of mine to read. "Jokingly" causing uncomfort is not a defense. And being on the defensive in social interactions is not where you want to be. Read this and consider carefully. Empathy is an ascendant mental superpower, not a weakness.
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This is a good time to remind people that a good enough air purifier can be DIY-ed for not a whole lot of money:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%…
Every once in awhile I have to venture back into this hellsite, and make the mistake of clicking a sidebar link and seeing the absolute cesspool of disinformation bots out there.
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Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the check mark's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
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I have eaten
the blue checks
that were on
the twitter
and which
you were probably
saving
for monetary gain
I'm not sorry
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Laura Rubin retweeted
look, it's the exact same user experience it's always been, except verified and paid accounts are identical, retweets don't say retweets anymore, there's a doge icon we can't get rid of, and the site administers a small but painful shock at random intervals
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You know what's not going to get disrupted by AI any time soon? Plumbing. Roofing. Carpentry.
We've underinvested in the trades, but they earn more than people realize, require less student debt, and literally build the foundation of our civilization. – at Redwood City, CA
That weird thing where you see a tweet from someone you don't remember, so you go clear out your "Following" list, and [ambivalent feels about using social media for career building redacted].
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Unbelievable satellite imagery of one of the most intense March cyclones on record for California with the eye of the storm making landfall near San Francisco.
Amazing.
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Trying to make my LinkedIn profile more interesting if a recruiter is using a large language model like GPT-4 to send me a message.
Looks like it works on the public version of my profile!
ALT prompt injection in the "About" section
ALT Sample generated message based on copying and pasting my profile
Spam weather report: it's been slowly ticking up to about 100/day. I suspect some major vuln announcement in the next week or so.
