Michael B

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@BylstraR Curious what people called you at school. Bra strap was a common one for me.

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@BylstraR There are thousands of bijlstra’s in holland. There being so few Bylstra’s I guess means only a handful had this dumb name change idea.

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@BylstraR Hey Scott! Sorry for 2 years late reply but I almost never check Twitter. Funny name, eh? I can tell you that my dads name was actually Bijlstra (but with a special ij character) and he changed it when he moved to Australia thinking it would be easier for people

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@DevTactix @elmlang Elm is exactly the same as ternary just different syntax: then instead of ? and else instead of :. Much more readable. The same great points about ternary still apply.

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@joshsharp They are hilariously annoying. I was listening to Dark Side of the Moon and a McDonalds ad came on mid album.

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@joshsharp I also really liked This is My Jam but they didn't really have a business model and half of them ended up at Spotify doing something not social at all (weekly autogenerated playlist)

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@joshsharp I do! You were onto a good thing. Building a social network is super hard - you did well to get as far as you did. I think leveraging Spotify is tough because they don't allow access to much personal data via their api. Facebook allowed everything (hence cambridge analytica!)

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@joshsharp https://t.co/BCkeHLVHNA was pretty special while it lasted, but it demanded 100% of your attention. Spotify have massively dropped the ball on social. It's so frustrating as they kind of have a monopoly on streaming.

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@Baertierchen @karlyeurl @IFSClimbing That would explain it! I was wondering if the athletes were going to get enough of a break after the semis.

[Michael B @mbylstra]

Check out Scoffton, the All You Can Eat Buffet board game! by Gavin Vance on @Kickstarter https://t.co/nCVSv94hZn

[Michael B @mbylstra]

I discovered a music blog scraper website I wrote ten years ago is still running. Biggest surprise: some of the blogs are still active and uploading mp3s! RSS is not quite dead yet.

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@Xavier_Ho Good catch! Hehe - I listened to your ElmTown podcast recently. Lots of great ideas.

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@Xavier_Ho I was so inspired by your talk that I can't sit still and have been sneakily hacking on a doodle.

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@ScottWlaschin @chriskrycho @elmlang @fsharporg @rustlang I only know Elm and I'm having no trouble reading the book - the types are very similar. I'm really enjoying it.

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@splodingsocks Thanks Murphy. This is good motivation for me to put some love into it!

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@deadbeef404 Yeah, great to chat! Hopefully catch you next time.

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@markdalgleish Still a long way off, but Sketch n Sketch is making inroads to bridging the gap: https://t.co/8uSVyDwv8u

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@sebasporto @jaffathecake @jamonholmgren @TheLarkInn @sarah_edo @cybel86 @elmlang This more than makes up for it though :) https://t.co/HOCn4s6j5V

[Michael B @mbylstra]

@sebasporto @jaffathecake @jamonholmgren @TheLarkInn @sarah_edo @cybel86 @elmlang Agreed. It's not something you get used to - it just continues to suck.