Michael Widner

Thinking about getting back into Twitter. What's new?

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

In 2018, 62% of Americans who didn’t vote later told @pewresearch they wished they had. Those people - millions of them - would have voted D by 19 pts if they had second chance. Don’t be that person. Don’t let your friends be these people. #vote Big H/T @jschavez

@ellisgl I do actually look at the code most of the time.. :)

Here I am, deploying late on a Friday night when I have plans for the weekend. Why? Because I trust my team, our process, and our automated tests.

This is the coolest crossover I ever seen. Was not expecting dude to take off with the vocals like that.

Anybody in my network know any young adult fiction publishers or literary agents? A friend has several promising books written already.

For years I've been trying to get any proctoring company to agree to a study where I try to cheat. None have agreed. I've had legal advice not to do such a study without permission from the vendors. I'm delighted to share that someone else has done one: ris.utwente.nl/ws/portalfiles…

Was going to decorate the page a bit more, but I got lazy. So I'm just shipping it. victorianaws.com — AWS services explained like it's the 1800s 🥂 hn: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=326438…

@RichHoleton Cool! I'll check it out!

@mwidner Pale Fire is (IMHO) a masterpiece. And hilarious. Glad you're enjoying! In your "free time" check out my sort of appreciation of PF: collection.eliterature.org/1/works/holeto…

So happy to have paced myself with Nabokov novels. I still have new works to read. Half way through Pale Fire and it is, as reported, a mavel.

The corollary being: I cannot read any new Nabokov for at least a year. Maybe I will reread Speak, Memory.

Don't binge read your favorites.

Startups are always tough. If you plan in advance for it to be balanced, it will still be tough. But if you *plan* for it to be a grind it will fail. Research has shown that you cannot work in crunch mode successfully for more than 4 weeks. ericdodds.com/research-and-t…

On the scribes of Beowulf smbc-comics.com/comic/scribe-a

Petition to rename Low, Medium, High, Critical security bug severities to Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Legendary

Just answered my first ever cold political poll phone call. The woman on the other end seemed amused by my radical lefty responses.

What is hwæt? by @hanavideen buff.ly/3uwZNtl #OldEnglish #Beowulf

Excited to publish our bio of Alix Strachey, written by Gesa Stedman! Read more about Alix Strachey-- a fascinating psychoanalyst and translator--including her interactions with Virginia Woolf and Sigmund Freud at modernistarchives.com/person/alix-st…