kirk israel

ui developer and tuba player (he/him)

[kirk israel @kirkjerk]

I do dig twitter, once I started controlling the firehose with lists
(https://t.co/esmoM3Wm7R …)
I post more regularly on
my daily blog https://t.co/X2FCq2eyuR
a portfolio site https://t.co/kU6DNnjtRY
and my ui blog https://t.co/bpIJvZ3Paz

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Gen-X Humor be like - ok, first of all 10,000 is way too many spoons. And have you tried using the side of a spoon to cut maybe?

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@antirez Makes me wonder about those indifferent chess players who would purposefully play radically weird moves to undo their opponent's knowledge advantage from "the book". (Also of how carefully tuned adversaries found huge vulnerabilities in AlphaGo Zero)

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@OSM_Tech Hiya - I am web builder for a number of "Porchfest" sites - spiky traffic! I know Somerville MA's used ~1.4mil tiles - other events are probably more like 1/4 to 1/3 that, but is that still too much for your tile servers?

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@EarnMayo Your last name is Mayo?

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@KatieLangerman @hobdaydesign (this might be a bit more philosophical than design needs to take on, but good zoomed-in, reductionist UI and good zoomed-out holistic UX have an amazing bidirectional relationship.)

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@KatieLangerman @hobdaydesign What was @hobdaydesign bit on "Quality" you mentioned? That concept/term is what drove Pirsig to a breakdown and writing "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - very Taoish how quality itself - and how we judge quality - are *emergent* properties.

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@hobdaydesign @KatieLangerman Glad you liked it. Just lightly edited it, forgot to mention "giant German words problem" as another detail-confounding issue... Great design has flexibility, but tools aren't always great at notating invariants.

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@elonmusk This doesn't work when people are more primed to believe misinformation tho

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@b0rk Love your no-build principles; I've been renting a VPS for 10-20 years (mostly PHP for JSON-wrangling backend) but don't know much re: virtualization or even apache - any hosting/learning suggestions?

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@hypnoksa didnt your side get screaming angry at the gender of m+ms? lol.

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@elonmusk He says, sitting next to Robert Murdoch...guess he would know.

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@TreelikeLaw1 @slneufeld @StartsWithABang what about leap years? but yeah love the knuckle mnemonic

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@meno_andrea Not to be that guy but google says Mega Man Soccer was 1994 (on SNES, which puts it at 16 bits). True on the not faithful bit , but a bit better than Atari 2600 Pele's Soccer :-D

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@slneufeld @StartsWithABang I do love alternate ways of visualizing time, even if its more vibe-based - like hooptime https://t.co/NxSSkuq4Rc

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@slneufeld @StartsWithABang Why do you both leave 4 rows for the Month Name stacks? It can only be 3, right? (Also I admit not seeing which months have 30 vs 31 is a loss.)

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@StorySlug @thereaderapp unroll plz

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@uBarApp Dig the app. On Ventura, just on my laptop screen (3 monitor setup) it seems like uBar jumps in and resizes windows to half height? (I made sure my other window helpers were disabled)

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@RealGusTheNet @zynga Looking at https://t.co/KUl4GPFUmg - it looks like "with Friends" is a realtime live game, ala Jackbox or some of the Gartic Phone variants? I guess there is no "take turns offline" mode?

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@zynga What happened to "Draw Sometihng"? Where is "Draw Something with Friends" for the USA?? What the heck...

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@RealGusTheNet @zynga Oh, the USA Android wasn't there the other day. I'm worried there's some wacky monetization scheme or privacy thing they can't get into the US App store.

Would love to play again. I payed for the Pro version and it was just a nice daily rituatl.