Andrew Brandon

I don't really use Twitter anymore.

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

Folks, if you live in a U.S. city with bad or no transit, it’s because a bunch of your NIMBY neighbors attend transportation committee hearings to make sure your tax money goes to parking lots and road widening.

It’s not a nefarious oil industry plot.

[Ryan Peterman @ryanlpeterman]

Ask an engineer to review a 15 lines of code and they’ll find plenty of issues.

Ask them to review 1000 lines and they’ll say it looks good.

[Andrew Brandon @drbr153]

@guincodes Ouch.

[Sarah Hollowell 🦝 @sarahhollowell]

Laying in bed every night thinking "Wow, it would be so nice to read before bed." The book is right next to me. I have chosen the book. I have prepared the book. Why can I not pick up the book. Why can I not open the book and read the book. Why is there only Scrolling.

[Andrew Brandon @drbr153]

@thecaseygould Print statements are great when I want to run a big function and have a high view of what's what when, which helps me figure out where I should use the debugger to really figure out what's going on.

[Andrew Brandon @drbr153]

@thecaseygould Just today in my professional software development life, I used print statements AND the debugger!

[Helen Robinson (she/her) @HelenATSLT]

I’ve been to an awards ceremony at my son’s school today. Kids were awarded for 100% attendance, and specifically for coming into school when ill and “pushing through.” A teacher was awarded for working every evening &always being available.
This needs to stop. It’s just wrong.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

WTF Twitter.

I started to see little to no DMs: and I keep my DMs open at all times, on purpose.

Twitter SILENTLY changed my (maybe everyone’s?) settings to only allow messages from only people I follow + verified users.

Go to Settings -> Privacy and safety -> DMs to change it

[Andrew Brandon @drbr153]

Interesting distinction between "habit" and "routine" 🤔

[KC Davis @KCDavisSays]

Just saw this thread by @NomeDaBarbarian posted on tiktok and CAN A NEUROTYPICAL PERSON CONFIRM BC WHAT?!? You mean you do things w/o actively making a new choice to do it every time you do it and you dont have to exert the same energy to make yourself do it every time?

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

When I think back to the very best software architect I had the opportunity to observe: it wasn’t one person.

It was two people: a highly theoretical engineer and a very down-to-earth and practical engineer pairing - and continuously challenging one another.

[Andrew Brandon @drbr153]

I knew about the "gen z doesn't understand file systems" thing, but if these commenters are to be believed, it's worse.

[emily may @emilykmay]

My hot take is that millennials are actually better at technology than Gen Z because we had access to technology when it was BAD and unintuitive and everything gave you a virus and we HTML coded our MySpace pages.

[GrimReaper Barbie @kukla_reaper]

@diannaeanderson i thought peer pressure would be about a dude coming up to convince me ~specifically~ to try meth, but it mostly turned out to be the general public trying to get me to take my mask off

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

Sometimes it feels like America’s basic political action-reaction cycle has shorted out and we never get to the reaction stage; instead, no matter what happens we just reset to pretending the country works the way that older Americans want desperately to believe it does

[elle is trying so hard @scretladyspider]

Question for aces who like being in romantic relationships for a thing I’m working on: have you ever tried online dating? If so, how was it? Have you ever met a long term partner via a dating app? Do you feel online dating is inclusive of asexuality? (pls RT)

[Ian Griffiths @icgee]

Then they all depart 😍.

Switzerland’s entire infrastructure is designed around this principle - stations, tracks, line extensions.

Imagine - a network designed *for transfers* instead of transfers being treated as some uncommon occurrence.

[Andrew Brandon @drbr153]

@d_feldman When I'm in a new city and I want to see their bus map, I'd much rather load a giant PDF into my phone and use my browser's native pan/zoom features than some shitty web-based map viewer.

[Matthew Land @MatthewLLand]

After running up/downstairs to get a book for a customer and presenting her with it she said ‘oh actually I’ll just get it on Amazon’, then took a photo of it and handed it back to me.

If you want bookshops to exist stop being this lady.

[Andrew Brandon @drbr153]

@Komaniecki_R It's very convenient in hetero circles as it becomes much more common for couples to live together for many years before/without being married.