Anthony M. Cook

I want to reinvent a better world from the cockpit of a futuristic hovercraft laden with FPGAs and synthesizers.
(they/them)

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

Second release of blacklight up on github: https://t.co/cevH0E16BR and much progress towards a solid core has been made!

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

@arialdomartini That said, I do still think that type inference and similar technology is the path forward for most development.

But there will probably be another wave of dynamic typing in a generation or two which flips the other way again.

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

@arialdomartini Worse, most type inference languages have their own issues, like Haskell, regardless of type safety.

Gotta love a multi gigabyte standard library and heavy syntax with intentionally obscure terminology.

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

Looks like @joinoneapp has both a broken app and a broken website. What an utter disaster. I can't access anything right now.

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

@hotelscomhelp @ExpediaGroup Follow up on this. Apparently Twitter support is infinitely more able to handle things than email, phone, or website chat. So if you run into issues just DM them.

The refund hasn't hit my account yet, but it was issued. So if it comes through I'll post another update.

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

Yo @hotelscomhelp @ExpediaGroup why don't I have a place to sleep for the next week even though I paid y'all a bunch of money for a "guaranteed" booking?

Your CSR said you will try to get back to me about it in 1 week??

I can recover from this, but most people couldn't. Unreal.

[Brave New Films @bravenewfilms]

The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Let’s be real: there’s a WHOLE lot of men whose lives, careers, and families have benefited from an abortion (including several “pro-life” GOP Congressmen).

Men, we need you right now. You can get through in rooms others can’t. Your power matters. Speak up. This is about us all.

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

London has been lovely up until the last 24 hours or so.

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

@avdi Thanks Avdi, we'll get it figured out!

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

@avdi I've had IT trying to reach out to you to get an issue resolved with Tapas/Graceful for months and also used your contact form myself and haven't gotten a response.

What is the best way to reach your support? The contact form doesn't seem to be it.

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

@Ubiquiti Why don't you repair devices out of warranty for a fee?

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

@BBVA_USA your website is awful compared to Simple.

Whoever your higher ups are make me sad.

[Emmy | Pixi 🧚🏻‍♀️ @TheCodePixi]

I’ve always found both the Ruby and Rails communities to be kind and welcoming. And now I can truly confidently say it is not because of, but absolutely clearly despite, and in spite of, you.

[Jason Huggins 🛠️ @hugs]

I wonder when Basecamp customers will start to wonder if any of their other sensitive data is on an internal list made for laughs. Or if their Hey emails are being read... and on a list for laughs. The self-inflicted PR crisis is looking kinda fractal at this point.

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

@Foone That thing truly is cool looking. I need to find one.

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

Well that's ominous.

[Jason Lang @curi0usJack]

Github is revising its policies for offensive security related content. Time to make your voices heard!

https://t.co/YZpdEzL17T

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

@alexbunardzic @_m_b_j_ If the fix is obvious then it should be fixed.

If you're debugging code that needs to be refactored, then do that first. You may find the bug is solved as a matter of course.

If not, you'll waste far less time fixing the refactored result.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Have you ever been asked a brainteaser in a job interview? That’s a big ⚠️

Research at Google found that brainteasers were in no way predictive of job performance. Worse, this paper finds that "narcissism & sadism explained the likelihood of using brainteasers in an interview.”

[Anthony M. Cook @anthony_m_cook]

Of course.

A friend of mine was doing research on land use and found that he could predict where poc communities would be based on if the area was eg a floodplain.

[Dorothy Roberts @DorothyERoberts]

Once again, a new study finds Black people are exposed to more pollution from every type of source, yet there are researchers still looking for “African genes” that predispose us to more severe asthma, etc, instead of stopping the racism and pollution. https://t.co/sU36fW9h06