Notices by Jeff Atwood (codinghorror@infosec.exchange)

nooo we lost Sly! Please watch Sly Lives (Hulu, 2025)! It's one of the best music documentaries I've ever seen.. https://www.hulu.com/movie/sly-lives-98d14eec-caa7-4974-ba2e-ad34a17d6f8f

@gruber @pluralistic @kudra @bugwhisperer @siracusa and the next best thing to a woman CEO is a gay male CEO, in my personal opinion. Even then, do they know struggle? Were they born into it? Did they live it? Again, there is a LOT of privilege out there, and I know I'm part of it too, believe me. I know it quite well, because I've been holding this mirror up to myself since 2004 when I started my blog, and eventually, I listen.

@gruber @pluralistic @kudra @bugwhisperer @siracusa Cook is absolutely key to victory here. Apple is a de-facto nation state (run the numbers if you don't believe me), run by an incredibly empathetic person who knows struggle from the earliest days. This is very difficult to say of any other big tech CEOs. So much privilege. So little struggle. How can they possibly understand other people's struggle when they never had very much (or any) in their lives?

@gruber @pluralistic @kudra @bugwhisperer @siracusa Like I said, pick your poison. I know Cook's heart is true. One hundred percent. But he is a business person with a deep logistics history. Just look at Cook's wikipedia entry and compare Jobs. Do it and see what I saw. Hell, compare any other tech CEO's wikipedia entry while we are at it.

@kudra @bugwhisperer @pluralistic @gruber @siracusa this is really a "pick your preferred brand of corporate poison" kind of situation, but I would absolutely put Apple at the top of the corporate-side list, far above all others.

@kudra @bugwhisperer @pluralistic Yeah. The company run by a gay man who grew up in the American South knows a WHOLE LOT about the value of privacy as a human right. I also grew up poor in the American South, so.. I know the area, and its history, well. cc @gruber and @siracusa

@jessamyn @anildash elimination of repetition is a good thing, not a bad thing. Also, people have quirks. Wikipedia would not exist if its editing/talk/meta UI was not completely inscrutable to 99.999% of the people on this planet.

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this is also AMAZING https://web.archive.org/web/20100227182819/http://samizdat.cc/cyoa/

I've been seeding local Little Free Libraries with vintage Choose Your Own Adventure titles I bought from eBay. Did we make good choices today? How do we know? https://blog.codinghorror.com/choosing-your-own-adventure/

Beanie Babies were the hottest Cryptocurrency of 1998. Still a good investment! GET IN WHILE YOU CAN PEOPLE, HODL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDsyj5eLmo

@Daojoan ask them HOW we achieve unity, kindness, and love, with SPECIFICS

I can’t wait for the next revolutionary battery stored energy density breakthrough. Stored energy is almost everything.

Looks like X / twitter is the new 4chan

I don't need a new book to tell me Facebook has always been an amoral company. That was obvious to me the moment they transitioned from "fancypants colleges only" to "everyone" in September 2006. It's also why I have zero "meta" accounts and never will.

If you are in or near Oakland, CA please join us in donating to the Urban Compassion Project. They are doing incredible work 💛 https://urbancompassionproject.org/donate

@Daojoan I got you

Who could have possibly seen this coming? The lord truly does work in mysterious ways!

If you have ever considered leaving Facebook, I urge you to consider again. (Courtesy Ryan Broderick’s excellent Garbage Day analytics report)

A completely unprecedented level of Rubber Duck Problem Solving 🦆 https://blog.codinghorror.com/rubber-duck-problem-solving/