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@Microsoft offers its unconscious bias training free online. mslearning.microsoft.com/cou… I did it, it's excellent. TO EVERYONE: please share this with your companies!
At the farm today. The one I grew upon. Perhaps for the last time. Despite my wishes and the magical silver cup.
OG GAN Moby Dick ends spectacularly and ominously:
"small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago."
Hope we fare better.
Feeling pretty romantic, I'm thinking of designing a custom scent for my sweetheart for Valentine's Day. 🤓♥️🌸
fragrantica.com/notes/
mefragrance.com/
(don't worry, she doesn't read Twitter)
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Photos of Brianna Noble, 25, riding atop her gelding, Dapper Dan, with her fist held high, capture a defining moment of hope during the Oakland protests for #GeorgeFloyd.
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Paging all former Performance Calendar contributors: now is the time to start writing and/or solicit contributions from the peeps around you. calendar.perfplanet.com/cont…
I'm so happy and excited! I start my new job tomorrow. I don't know what it's going to be like yet, but it's exactly the job I wanted: Frontend engineer at Khan Academy. 😍💃💃💃💃
I was sick in bed yesterday, and I congratulated myself for not drinking any coffee. But then I realized I ate almost a whole pint of Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch ice cream. So I had better not congratulate myself too much.
Gzipping files that have native compression (such as images) is not useful and can actually make the resources slightly bigger. discuss.httparchive.org/t/si…
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A seemingly small but valuable detail for web dev productivity: use different favicons for staging and prod.
Wish I had sfzinefest.org/ when I was a young, queer zinester trying to express myself and connect with people. So much good stuff.
When looking for a new job we must personally rank the leadership of the companies we consider, in addition to evaluating the product. If you don't like the CEO, don't work there
Since psychopaths are drawn to careers in the church theweek.com/articles/457731/…, and we have functional neuroimaging to detect if someone lacks a conscience sciencedirect.com/science/ar…, why not screen priests?
I thought it was a pretty innocent search : "cucumber stock photos" Is that what Google thinks of me?! 😬 (Don't do it.)
My favorite podcasts lately have been Freakonomics (always), TAL (archives), American Fiasco, and I Only Listen to The Mountain Goats. #americanfiasco #themountaingoats
I showed my 13-year-old daughter a web app I am working on, and OMG she schooled me. Her feedback was sharp. Talk about fresh eyes.