Jeremiah Orr

Programmer, coder, hacker, developer, software engineer, whatever ⌨️ (he/him)

On Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Jeremiah Orr @JerryOnJava]

Cuddled up and reading the last chapter of A Boy Called Bat #CVODOB23

[Jeremiah Orr @JerryOnJava]

For anyone on Mastodon, I’m over there at https://t.co/BzzQXdqrx0

That’s mostly where I’ll be doing my social media-ing for the foreseeable future. Not enjoying this place anymore. Vibe on the instance I’m using (https://t.co/Wd169KG7C0) is a lot better

[Jeremiah Orr @JerryOnJava]

@DevinCow @AdamParkhomenko

[Jeremiah Orr @JerryOnJava]

Time for Dr Oz to head home and get back to selling scam diet pills!

[Jeremiah Orr @JerryOnJava]

@PackingSmacky @jennuhfuremm @j_zimms Good point, though I know at least two people (different docs) who were tested for the flu that weren’t admitted to the hospital. They were in pretty rough shape, though, so it certainly isn’t something done routinely

[Jeremiah Orr @JerryOnJava]

@jennuhfuremm @j_zimms Absolutely, at least for the flu. If you go to the doctor with flu-like-symptoms, they can test for the flu and prescribe antivirals like Tamiflu. Not aware of tests for the common cold, though

[Jeremiah Orr @JerryOnJava]

@nickselman @amandanat

[Amanda Natividad @amandanat]

My least favorite ice breaker is sharing “fun facts.”

It inadvertently becomes a contest. Worse, it highlights privilege.

I prefer sharing boring facts. People are delighted by the simplicity and it’s much easier to establish rapport.

So… what’s a boring fact about you?

[Jeremiah Orr @JerryOnJava]

@amandanat When playing cards, I arrange them low-to-high, left-to-right. I was shocked to find out at least some people (my wife’s family) go right-to-left. That hurts my brain.

(and no, they don’t speak a right-to-left lang, which is the only reason I can think of for doing such a thing)

[Jeremiah Orr @JerryOnJava]

@Judith_IP @BookCurious “The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton and “Mr Brown Can Moo, Can You?”, particularly the shorter board book version. I bet I can still recite those from memory all these years later.

[Jeremiah Orr @JerryOnJava]

@brgooley2 @kenklippenstein Robot: My “Will not overpower humans” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A Brief History of Men Today Are Too Feminine and Women Too Masculine

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[Jeremiah Orr @JerryOnJava]

@j_zimms @ambernoelle This was my go-to meal after getting my braces tightened

[Jeremiah Orr @JerryOnJava]

Life changing 🧵

[Jack Raines @Jack_Raines]

You've been speaking English your entire life

but did you know that the words you speak are all created from 26 individual letters?

Here are the 26 letters that you MUST know:

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

We are living in the Digital Dark Age.

99.9% of the world's information is stored digitally, and one day it might either be lost or inaccessible...

[Jeremiah Orr @JerryOnJava]

@harrywinner @americanvenus @AstraStarr @majohmo @jamielynnlano @MrMyyx @lee_hedgepeth About 2% of people have red hair; can we agree that for the most part red hair doesn’t exist?

Roughly 385,000 babies are born every day, meaning about 7,700 are born with intersex traits, according to your stat. A small % of a big number is a big number

https://t.co/oNweqU4eIV

[Jason Lengstorf @jlengstorf]

Let’s share tech stack horror stories: what’s the worst workflow or most absurd limitation you’ve hit with a codebase?

I'll start: while working as a subcontractor, I wasn’t able to submit code directly for review. I had to attach the updated files to an email. 🥲

What's yours?

[Jeremiah Orr @JerryOnJava]

TODO: make a keyboard shortcut that inserts TODO comments in my code

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

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