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This is the best breakdown of character look-up for ASCII rendering I've seen in a very long time. Keep the fire burning! alexharri.com/blog/ascii-ren…

@fahdananta Amazing dude - I know exactly who you’re talking about. You’re rebuilding the dream team!

At Shopify I sat next to this iOS engineer, one of the best I’ve ever worked with. We became friends. I left my desk completely empty every day. One day he asked me why I don’t leave anything behind and I said, “I’m never sure if I’ll be back tomorrow. Every day I actively decide what to do.” Next day I see a note on the desk saying “Fahd sits here”. Anyway, he’s joining us at Opendoor in January and I’m excited to leave my desk empty every night again

Anyone else had their @Uber accounts hacked and @Uber One memberships taken away? I can’t get a basic answer from support (been a couple days). I assume they laid off all the support staff (assuming they even had a team) and haven’t had a chance to automate it. Dead end. ☠️

I had no idea Jonathan Gay wrote Dark Castle before creating Flash. What. #Config2024

This session really speaks to me. #Config2024

@hughqelliott Ya - you know me. What an arm. ⚾

Big launch! Congrats to the entire Boom team!

Any guidance from those that've successfully cleansed their information diet? I've reached my breaking point with this platform - it's impossible to know what's real anymore and the news environment is beyond polluted. What do you use for trusted news? NYT? Worth the sub? 🙏

Denis Villeneuve doing Nuclear War: A Scenario is simultaneously the best and worst news. The Day After changed the course of the Cold War, but Threads left an entire generation psychologically scarred (which I suppose was the entire point). Time to complete the trilogy.

@jmwind This is an insight that's explained very well in Cal Newport's new book "Slow Productivity" (recommended read). We've confused activity and productivity because the nature of knowledge work doesn't fit into the traditional industrial model. Instead - go slow to move fast.

Being slow is often the most creative thing you can do. 50% of my work I'll get done very quickly, but the other 50% I'll procrastinate a lot. Is that just me? Happy to just sit on it and let it simmer. Sometimes for a long time. It drives my team nuts. Everything is important. We have mountains of work. But there's some things that just don't feel right yet. You don't have the right information, the solution feels awkward, you need more research. The solution is boring. In these cases, I've learned time and time again that waiting is the most important thing you can do. Time gives you more context. Time gives you the creativity to try out different approaches. And more often than you think, time makes the problem sometimes go away! Be comfortable with simmering. Embrace it. The things that I always do very quickly is to get back to people who are blocked or need a hand. If there's an annoying bug I'll drop everything and fix now. My MTTR (mean time to respond) is either immediate or never. There's no in between. You should always be speeding up what's going to slowly and slow down what's going to fast. I just can't help you decide which is which. ted.com/talks/adam_gra…

@gregmwashington Preach!

The real tragedy when flash died is that real interactive innovation was forever lost. Does anyone remember how wild Uniqlo’s micro-sites used to be? The ones designed by Yugo P? Good lord. That level of design is so rare these days tha.jp/works

Anyone out there into Mead? I legit thought it was the stuff of legend that only Vikings and medieval peasants drank. Didn't realize it was still sold at shops. Considering a Mead deep dive.

Love a good BFCM tracker, but the Stripe one this year takes the cake (and my heart). Love it! bfcm.stripe.dev

@darrinhenein This year's is great! The team should be proud.

Well this is pretty 😍 bfcm.Shopify.com

LK-99 🤯 Renaissance incoming?

If WOPR was built with GPT-4, David would've avoided the whole damn mess.

@skanwar @Shopify Congrats! I'll be forever grateful to yourself and @darrinhenein for pulling me into the absolute best version of the company. What a time! Thank you! 💚

The end of this month marks my 10 year anniversary and last day at @Shopify. It’s impossible to express my gratitude for everything that is this place, people, & product, which has been my world for a decade...

We are heartbroken. dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las…

Is the fediverse basically FidoNet 2.0?

Spaceball always represented peak 90's hardware design for me. It just looks like an early CGI render brought into meat space. I had no clue it wasn't the size of a standard mouse until just discovering this adafruit vid: youtube.com/watch?v=0zzY8c…