Michael Glenn

Family man. Programming, cycling, cooking, DJing. Entrepreneur, RoR, Apple aficionado. Owner - Gray Olive, CTO WhereiPark.

[Michael Glenn @mglenn]

Whoever invented the phrase “sleep like a baby” did not have kids.

[Michael Glenn @mglenn]

@311Toronto any plans to start a Mastodon account?

[Michael Glenn @mglenn]

@311Toronto lots of sand in the bike lane on Yonge south of Merton. Very hazardous as bikes easily slide out in sand. Thanks!

[Michael Glenn @mglenn]

@dane Social is overloaded I think. I suspect we’ll see more self hosting options soon. Followed you on LinkedIn as well in case this goes away or I stop logging in.

[The Transcript @TheTranscript_]

LinkedIn CEO @ryros: "Pre-pandemic, ~1% of all jobs posted on LinkedIn were remote. As of today, that number is ~14%...but that's not the fascinating part. What's fascinating is north of 50% of all job applications on a daily basis on LinkedIn go to that 14% of remote jobs" $MSFT

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Shimabara, Japan the street's gutters are so clean to be home to hundreds of swimming koi fish

The unusual habitat is a product of the 1792 Unzen tsunami that created fresh water springs

[read more: https://t.co/s4Ua5e9ybt]
[📹https://t.co/PGlzdjqoYK]
https://t.co/9LuvhELMcC

[Jeff Atwood @codinghorror]

Journalists need to stop framing GPT as "behold, we are on the very precipice of artificial intelligence magicks" and start explaining it as what it actually is: "Google autocomplete for everything else"

[Rob Hope @robhope]

Stunning team member section over on the Fora site:

→ https://t.co/cwOvEp2ovM

[Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec]

Letting Midjourney do the visuals for my @Rubyconfth keynote. It's pretty good for this purpose: slightly trippy, guaranteed to be visually interesting, no copyright issues, and can give it some funny prompts

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A particularly beautiful murmuration of starlings captured in Piazza della Repubblica, Rome, in January 2022

[📹 ekapugach: https://t.co/VV2u98MxMb]

[digiguru @thedigiguru]

“Star Wars” (1990) directed by Wes Anderson

[digiguru @thedigiguru]

The Avengers (1980) directed by Wes Anderson

#aiart #midjourneyV4

[Michael Glenn @mglenn]

@rhh Also it’s likely a made up story since baristas never ever ask this question. It’s usually “regular milk?” if anything.

Building an audience through fictitious whining.

[The Rundown @therundowntvo]

"If there's one tenet that defines democracy... it's called majority government. And somehow the idea that you can get rid of it and say, 'trust me,' is bizarre." — former Toronto mayor @david_crombie tonight at 8/11pm | Producers: @spaikin & @Mariasarrouh #topoli #onpoli

[Daniel Rutter @dansdata]

"Oh, look, a combinatorial-explosion problem that's about as easy as hunting tigers with a bow and arrow! Let's go!"

https://t.co/qQFKt1AWxt

[Karim Sadjadpour @ksadjadpour]

USA’s Antonee Robinson consoles Iran’s Ramin Rezaian after America’s victory. Iran’s regime has tried hard to brainwash its people against the US, but most Americans who’ve been to Iran will tell you it’s among the friendliest places they’ve ever visited.

[Michael Glenn @mglenn]

Want to help get This Christmas by Donny Hathaway to number one?

https://t.co/mPr0WNHfZW

[Guy Parsons @GuyP]

OK so @OpenAI's new #ChatGPT can basically just generate #AIart prompts. I asked a one-line question, and typed the answers verbatim straight into MidJourney and boom. Times are getting weird...🤯

[Michael Glenn @mglenn]

@dpjanes 😳 👏🏻

Did a walking challenge with co-workers in November. 16k / day average is fanstastic.

[S Robot F @StephenFoskett]

The Backblaze Nautilus Data Center is kind of incredible - it's on a barge in the river and uses water cooling to reduce carbon footprint. Read more https://t.co/v2mbnKxsrJ

[Michael Glenn @mglenn]

@danbenjamin Decades ago. My grocery store plays House music now. THAT makes me feel old.