Bobby Norton

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[Bobby Norton @bobbynorton]

@chadfowler @paolino @yukihiro_matz @pragdave Principles. The metaprogramming I learned in my Ruby days 20 years ago changed my perspective of prog. language as a building material, and eventually brought me to Clojure. The Principle of Least Surprise impacted many APIs I designed for the better in any language I’ve used.

[gabriel shapiro @lex_node]

@gphummer

[Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo) @__paleologo]

As in: regulating *something* may or may not justified; it's complex; it takes time. If, as a prominent policy maker or member of the executive branch, you choose to make a public pronouncement on the need to do it NOW, based on something that a random guy with no special qualifications says, that says more about your partisan loyalties and political expediency than anything else.

You are not serious people.

https://t.co/20KmrVVY1Q

[Savakzadeh @Savakzadeh]

@dwnews "Islamic Republic's last Shah?" A what-what-what now? 😂

Guys, you REALLY need to get your act together. Jesus Christ 😃

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

.@antonioguterres Two thousand protesters are reported to have been massacred in Iran and you haven't tweeted one word on Iran in over six months. History will remember.

[Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری 🇮🇷 @gghamari]

Rudy Giuliani is working overtime for the Marxist-Islamist terrorist cult.

The MEK/NCRI want to overthrow the Islamic Regime so they can turn Iran into a Jihadi North Korea.

They murdered Americans in the 1970s.

Why is Rudy promoting an anti-American communist Jihadi cult?

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

They’re still going strong. Black outs, no internet, shot at and killed. The people, seemingly indefatigable and unstoppable, are totally clear about what they want. They have one sole aim - with or without foreign intervention - of ending this regime for good.

Some outside the country, sitting comfortably at home, are telling us online what they think the people of Iran want and need. And I can tell you it is totally at odds with the wishes of the people.

As an Iranian, I am intensely invested in this unfolding story of incredible heroism. For 12 days straight I’m seeing the same thing on the streets. They’re not calling for the Communists. They’re not calling for the MEK. They’re not even calling to be saved. They’re chanting “Pahlavi bar migardeh” (Pahlavi will return). It’s not controversial. It’s undeniable.

When they say “listen to the people”, this is it. #IranianRevolution2026

[Musk’s Thoughts @musksthought]

This sequence of quotes from the Ayatollah Khomeini , published after the 1979 revolution- will explain what the oppressed Iranian people are fighting against:

▪️"We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry 'There is no god but Allah' resounds over the whole world"...

▪️"The Quran commands: "War! War until victory!" A religion without war is a crippled religion".

▪️"To kill the infidels is one of the noblest missions Allah has reserved for mankind".

▪️"Establishing the Islamic state world-wide belongs to the great goals of the revolution".

▪️"We have set as our goal the world-wide spread of the influence of Islam and the suppression of the rule of the world conquerors".

▪️"We wish to cause the corrupt roots of Zionism, capitalism and Communism to wither throughout the world. We wish, as does God almighty, to destroy the systems which are based on these three foundations, and to promote the Islamic order of the Prophet ... in the world of arrogance".

▪️"Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled and incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world."

▪️"Those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world."

▪️"People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for Holy Warriors!"

None of this is coded language.
None of this is metaphor.

They are telling us exactly who they are. Maybe it's time we listen.

#ReleaseIranFromIslam

[Shabnam @DavarkiaS]

The silence isn’t accidental. If the Ayatollahs fall, the funding for Hamas, Hezbollah, and the rest dries up and some activists know it. That’s why Iran doesn’t get banners, marches, or hashtags. Supporting “liberation” abroad while ignoring a brutal theocracy at home exposes what this activism really protects.
#FreeIran
#IranRevolution2026
#DigitalBlackoutIran

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

This is a mental illness.

[dan linnaeus @DanLinnaeus]

Revolutions, or in Iran’s case counter-revolutions, are large-scale stochastic cascades that are notoriously difficult to call ex ante. It’s impossible to say for certain whether the regime will fall, and much more elusive still, when. But what is clear is that the empowerment of the Iranian people being witnessed inside Iran is a sea change. Even if it survives, the regime will quite likely never be the same. Tehran is more answerable to its people by public fiat. The Ayatollah can no longer sell the illusory legitimacy of his “Supreme” authority to Iranians or the region. The mask has fallen. Already, that alone is an extraordinary boon for the Iranian people and the Middle East. The change the world has been waiting for, in effect, is already here.

[Bobby Norton @bobbynorton]

@RenerGracie I see The Depletion Principle here, as well: Let the guy blow off steam until the tank is empty. I'm loving the book, @RenerGracie. As a two-stripe GB white belt, the principles are helping me immensely.

[Bobby Norton @bobbynorton]

When a tolerant society tolerates the intolerant, the tolerant are dominated by the intolerant once they gain power. Popper was right. #MahsaAmini https://t.co/ZrgQSPoLmH

[Robert J Frey @financequant]

@LughSpear Violence is always a measure of our incompetence in being unable to achieve what is necessary by other means. We, however, are not perfect and therefore cannot entirely eschew violence as an option. This is deeply saddening but true. I wish it were otherwise.

[Bobby Norton @bobbynorton]

Dictators know that access to open information is their undoing, which is why they value censorship so highly. Expose the lies and flawed metaphors and they have violence as their only tool.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@SecBlinken Activating Starlink …

[Bobby Norton @bobbynorton]

Can attest to the scars...pero los queremos.
cc/ @HiredThought @kevinbehr @cyetain

[Bobby Norton @bobbynorton]

Ballad of the Full StackOverflow Developer
h/t @codepo8

[Tim Ottinger @tottinge]

This is a typical programmer’s keyboard:

[Bobby Norton @bobbynorton]

I've just subscribed to @culturaltutor's Areopagus. Software and data architecture also suffer from the "silent creed of ugliness".

As Feynman said, "If you can't explain something in simple terms, you don't understand it." Sheehan does.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The problem with modern architecture.

(It isn't what you think)

A short thread...

[Bobby Norton @bobbynorton]

@techleadhd Tell that to the mother of my two kids who can code circles around a poseur like you who needs "24/7" to get anything done. If coding's so "brutal" and you can't manage to do it with a family, stop trying to be an influencer, shut up, and learn to do better.