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🐘 You could follow me on Mastodon if you're into that sort of thing: pie.gd/@yaypie
I recently saw Peter Hyams' BUSTING (1974) for the first time and realized that the iconic foot chase in Quentin Tarantino's RESERVOIR DOGS (1992) seems to be paying homage to it. Fantastic debut films from two brilliant filmmakers.
Grocery store long take at 4x speed. Can you spot the clever trick they used to get the (pre-Steadicam!) camera down the stairs?
Ryan Grove retweeted
One nice thing about lame duck Twitter is that there’s no reason to judiciously mute anymore. Why just block bots, grifters, and hate speech? Block sealions! Block blue dudes! Block your boss! Block your family! Block anyone! Take off and block the site from orbit!
It shows incredible foresight that Elon built a rocket capable of launching a payload into the sun at a crowdfundable price point right before he became the most hated person on the Internet.
ALT Screenshot of a Google search for "spacex starship launch cost". The first result says that a Starship launch costs an estimated $10 million, compared to $4.1 billion for NASA's SLS rocket, and quotes Elon Musk saying that the Starship rocket is "highly likely" to fly in November.
If Twitter is an important part of your project's DevRel strategy, now might be a good time to start thinking about alternatives.
Ryan Grove retweeted
Hi friends! I'm in the market for new employment! I've been doing rust/go and language design and database read path work for the last few years. I'm also heavy in python dev. Would be interested what's out there.
Ryan Grove retweeted
If you’re doing something more experimental than React on AWS and you want an intern/apprentice til EOY please let me know! I’ve been doing devrel recently but before that I coded for 20 years in damn near everything
Need to parse XML in Node.js or browsers? It happens to all of us sometimes.
👋 Say hello to parse-xml 4.0.0!
🚀 Now written in TypeScript, up to 2.5x as fast, and with an even smaller (3.9 kB min+gzip) browser build. Still zero dependencies. github.com/rgrove/parse-xml
ALT Screenshot of benchmark results showing how parse-xml compares to libxmljs2 (a native library) and xmldoc (a comparable JS library). parse-xml is significantly faster than both at small documents, twice as fast as xmldoc at medium documents, and over twice as fast as xmldoc at large documents. See the link for full results.
Ryan Grove retweeted
Here is Ezno, the compiler thingy I have been working on: kaleidawave.github.io/posts/…
The most ludicrous thing about time travel stories isn't that someone found a way around the laws of physics, it's that someone correctly implemented the incomprehensible time zone math necessary to arrive at precisely 8am on September 2, 1885 instead of like 8 hours too early.
Ryan Grove retweeted
WHAT is wrong with earwigs!? This creepy motherfucker just bit me with its butt?!?! What the hell
Ryan Grove retweeted
I think 5 day workweeks make people think tactically instead of strategically. We stay too close to the weeds. 4 day workweeks help us take a step back.
A trap developers often fall into is thinking deadlines are non-negotiable. If someone gives you a deadline and the only way to meet it is to incur unreasonable tech debt, it's your job to push back. The Marketing team (or whoever) isn't going to pay for that debt later. You are.
Do you work on @bing or know someone who does? Bingbot often converts URLs to lowercase before fetching them, even though many URLs on the web are case sensitive. We'd love to understand why it does this. Is it testing canonicalization? Just broken? Something else?
