Adam Jensen

Systems, data viz, making (and keeping) things fast

Fediverse: @[email protected]

[Adam Jensen @acjensen]

@gordie_smith Yep! Good content and storytelling

[Adam Jensen @acjensen]

@MattRexChastain @wistia Sorry for the trouble! You can see status updates here: https://t.co/ZeIuimg2j4

[Adam Jensen @acjensen]

@jordanmunson Yes, please :)

[Adam Jensen @acjensen]

@semanticart Avoiding interesting but low-value distractions, both at a personal and team level

[Adam Jensen @acjensen]

@robbyrussell @rails https://t.co/HDaD0DqbHx

[Adam Jensen @acjensen]

@nateberkopec Yes, and: make sure you’re requesting a diverse set of instance types. Otherwise, AWS might suddenly reclaim your spot instances without giving replacements, leaving your workload underprovisioned or even unavailable

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

I already knew this story, and there’s nothing sad about it, but listening to it nonetheless nearly brought me to tears. There is an ineffable ethos I believe in as an engineer, and this is the closest I have come to seeing it expressed. cc: @corecursive

https://t.co/9aHX9v2WDm

[Hensley Lab @SCOTTeHENSLEY]

We developed a new multivalent mRNA vaccine against all known influenza virus subtypes. Our study describing the vaccine was just published in @ScienceMagazine. 1/n
https://t.co/HxTKm47EC3

[Matt Greensmith @mgreensmith]

I’m joining the chorus of layoff announcements to report that my team and I were just let go as part of a larger downsizing. ’Tis the season of cost-cutting measures, unfortunately.

In the interest of helping my team find new roles, I'd love to tell you a bit about them. 🧵

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

@chrischirp @OmicronData This would be important enough, especially with older higher-risk VA cohort. Plus, those who get repeatedly infected and/or detected are obviously more frail than the undetected because milder/asymptomatic case.

8.3% of third infections are immunocompromised vs. 1.1% of first.

[Adam Jensen @acjensen]

I'm going to keep lurking on here, but my tribe (mostly tech/maker folks) is making Mastodon a compelling place to hang out. If you're over there too, I'm @[email protected] 👋

[Tim Bray @timbray]

(Among other things, changes that are “lightweight”, “no-brainer”, “quick-fix” are the ones where I’m most likely to make some dumb-ass goof.)

[Tim Bray @timbray]

Very occasionally we get a front-row seat to the part of science where an educated observer looks at the data and says “That’s weird, and I’m dubious the conventional explanation works.” Everything starts from there.

[Russ Cox @_rsc]

why do unix assembly files
use a .s extension?

someone asked me today,
and i didn’t know,
so i asked ken.

the .s is for source,
just like .o is for object.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Data visualization inspiration thanks to DALL-E: how Rothko, Basquiat, Picasso, and Monet would create an academic chart.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

A map of the entire universe to (log) scale, by @budassiuniverse. Spacecraft, planets, large-scale galactic structures - they are all there if you zoom in. https://t.co/lfDqDLNfcx

[apenwarr @apenwarr]

One of the most important engineering principles my dad taught me is you never, ever, put the complicated part of a toilet in the drain section.

[Adam Jensen @acjensen]

Aha, apparently @99piorg was wondering about this too. ❤️

https://t.co/aVGTaKK6bb

[Adam Jensen @acjensen]

Are there any good books about “natural experiments”?

For ex, in the Before Times we couldn’t tell how much city noise was coming from construction v. restaurants v. passenger vehicles. As things slowly spin back up after quarantine, we can kinda tell. How to find more examples?

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

"Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again"

September 1, 1939 https://t.co/mqXMaLzO5c