keybits retweeted
A fleet of Japanese Long liners are lying in wait off the coast of Ireland for tuna who have been safe in British waters. With 000’s of hooks on lines that go on for kilometres, they’ll decimate the population of tuna. 💔
This represents an industrial scale, opportunistic plundering of a glorious and precious species that is on the brink of a comeback from near oblivion. Oceanic animals know no barriers, something we as global citizens must surely try to understand if there’s to be any hope @mcsuk
keybits retweeted
Everything on this blog is rendered live from the database.
Feels like static, thanks to SQLite.
postowldemo.fly.dev
keybits retweeted
New release with simplified installation for fly.io and other improvements: github.com/PostOwl/postowl/r…
keybits retweeted
Will the #AMOC collapse by 2025? Here’s what we know from direct observations (since 2004).
Image from Srokosz & Bryden (2015) shorturl.at/ryB34
A 🧵
keybits retweeted
As parliament debate #AccessToNature today, a personal essay.
Deep in my valley is a tree so old it makes my bones ache. There are only a handful like it in the country, and its boughs harbour some of our oldest stories.
Yet almost no-one has ever seen it. 🧵
keybits retweeted
Thank you for ten years of listening and smiling with me. Most of my accounts are now suspended. This account is ending intentionally so you can still scroll back and see the old tweets.
Picard continues offering advice at botsin.space/@PicardTips
Goodbye Twitter. It was fun.
keybits retweeted
Interviewing and hiring managers is really hard.
It’s hard for all the reasons that interviewing and hiring engineers is hard, times 10. It’s easy to give answers that sound decent; it’s harder to evaluate their judgment or dexterity in applying an answer to a situation.
keybits retweeted
GitLab 13.0 released with Gitaly Clusters, Epic Hierarchy on Roadmaps, and Auto Deploy to ECS! Let's celebrate together! 🥳
about.gitlab.com/releases/20…
keybits retweeted
"Don't let anybody else tell you what you can be."
about.gitlab.com/2018/10/08/…
keybits retweeted
Announcing $100 million in Series D round funding led by ICONiQ Capital 🎉 bit.ly/2pnK4uF
keybits retweeted
Time to bring out an old favourite: to scurryfunge is to rush about and manically try to tidy up before visitors arrive. Morning.
keybits retweeted
I fell down a bit of a ruins research rabbithole today, thought I'd share some of my weird journey.
It started with this incredible 1858 photo of the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens.
keybits retweeted
Tickets are selling like mad. Make sure you get yours before they are all sold out!! (we WILL sell out) #Python pyconie17.python.ie/
keybits retweeted
Retweet this for a chance to win 1 of 2 free tickets for PyConIE 2017 (closing date : Sat 14th Oct Noon) #Python xitter.cf/PythonIreland/status/9…
Tickets are selling like mad. Make sure you get yours before they are all sold out!! (we WILL sell out) #Python pyconie17.python.ie/
keybits retweeted
Super glad to work at a place (@circleci) where my managers read, share,&promote studies like this; &fill our interview pipeline accordingly xitter.cf/HendersGame/status/908…
Odds of hiring a woman are 79.14 times greater if there are two women in a pool of finalists, instead of just one hbr.org/2016/04/if-theres-on…
keybits retweeted
Picard management tip: Be comfortable with approximations. Best guesses in advance are more useful than complete certainty after the fact.
keybits retweeted
Picard management tip: Expecting people to work long hours is short-sighted, counter-productive, and potentially dangerous.