Eric Fredricksen

I’m efred on Bluesky now. Thinking I might try to get in the habit of flogging my random projects there.

I think up to now my only complaints about twitter have been than there’s too many letters in the name (many of which aren’t very masculine), and there wasn’t always a way for musk to take a cut whenever I buy things

@joestaten I would like to switch to your spam provider. Can you give me instructions?

Update: When I didn’t respond to their fruit juice gambit, they pulled HARD in another direction.

I hate text spam. But also, I do love fruit juice. 🤔

What innovator would you most want on your side in the post-apocalypse? I would choose @elonmusk because he could just continue burning his money up and keep the cave nice and toasty.

I know, #talkischeap and #iamverybadass, but I sorta wish I worked at twitter so I could tell @elonmusk to shove his pledge up his ass

@iocat @benjedwards I just wish it had a MUL instruction though, for some reason

@benjedwards 6502 and it isn't close; first dirt cheap good CPU totally disrupted the market. All the others are excellent too though.

Which one of these classic CPU chips had the most impact? (6502, Z80, 8088, 68000)

With all the existential threats we’re subject to these days, getting worse all the time, what if setting Britney free is what brings it all crashing down?

@livcomp @nelson It never occured to me how similar Conway's Game of Life and Progress Quest are. A progess bar is kind of a 1-D game of life with simpler rules.

Here's a fine Vice article for which I was interviewed. It's like two months old so I'm thinking about shaking up my lousy PR team. vice.com/en/article/n7b…

My ridiculous PR team didn't even think to add the #progressquest hashtag to that

just setting up my twttr

@codinghorror Obscure connection: When I was writing Progress Quest in very late 2000, my day job was coding the Google Toolbar, which I was told @spolsky had initially implemented before I inherited it (and evolved into a toolbar from a sidebar)

"If you are sick of tediously clicking for hundreds of hours, you may find this amusing." progressquest.com

Someone recently told me I make “nerdy ass” tweets well here is one for today 🤗

To think I was concerned about Trump claiming victory when/if he lost. I’m taking such pleasure in it. So long, loser!

@realDonaldTrump Lol, pack your shit, loser!

71,000,000 Legal Votes. The most EVER for a sitting President!

This this thick haze in the air is wildfire smoke, not teargas or COVID aerosols, right? Apocalypses are confusing

@iocat Zut alors! I think

My wife and I just had our entire dinner conversation in French. Very simple French. Very simple bad French.

I named my Toyota Land Cruiser “Big Blue” in a simpler, happier time (2011). I’ve now renamed it “Apocalypse One”

@PFERD_NA I know there's more important things to worry about right now, but where can I get a Pferd logo t-shirt? You see, my nickname is "Ferd" for some people, and your logo is pretty deece, the blue is nice, so you can see why this would make sense to me.

Okay here I am on Twitter again. Did I miss anything? Are we at war?

Don't worry guys. That's probably the last mass shooting.