John Orford 💙

Humble student of humblebrag

[John Orford 💙 @mmport80]

Word

[David Neal 🥓🥑 @reverentgeek]

The software industry has lost one of its greatest champions. Rest In Peace, @joeerl.

#rememberingjoe #joearmstrong #erlang #programming #distributedcomputing

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The Golden Road of early east–west commerce, in other words, lay less overland, through a Persia often at war with Rome, and much more across the open oceans, via the choppy waters of the Red Sea and the Indian Oceans- as maps of finds of Roman coins clearly show...

[Huey Li @DrHueyLi]

Even if you don't have time for all the confusing arguments, this simple trick can help you tell whether a political activist is a scammer: Just ask them which countries' politics they like best.

[Domen Kožar @domenkozar]

If you're asking yourself why docker compose doesn't run the whole development environment in one container, it's because well, it doesn't compose.

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[John Orford 💙 @mmport80]

@chrislpenner @tritlo i use pure nix. basic functionality, but v clean

[Eric Fish @ericfish85]

Great way to handle the likes of Gao or state media firebrands or youtuber apologists. Ask what they think Xi specifically's worst ACTUAL mistake has been. All leaders make mistakes. If you're independent and can speak freely, surely you can name one. https://t.co/9BReXj1U1p

[Cindy Yu @CindyXiaodanYu]

I reviewed Edward Wong (@ewong)'s epic family memoir for @spectator – a portrait of China across 70 years.

It traces the troubles across Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, but also Wong's own family's journey – and his yearning to understand his roots 👇

https://t.co/HUQiazLnSw

[John Orford 💙 @mmport80]

@ruima USA is Terminator's T1000 of countries, ever-morphing, and that's its main strength and why it is a nice place

[John Orford 💙 @mmport80]

@angerman i can only really think of one: put-call parity is robust.. but then again, there could be rare circumstances when it may not........ @huntthesnark knows better than me tho : )

[Adam Gordon Bell 🤓 @adamgordonbell]

Today, the tables have turned, and @ronaknathani and Guang from the Software Misadventures podcast (@SWMisadventures ) interviewing me about podcasting, my history as a software developer, and, story telling.

[John Orford 💙 @mmport80]

@boleroo where?

[John Orford 💙 @mmport80]

@angerman well.. you just keep drawing curves until you have an appealing one. lotsa smart ppl paid lotsa money to do this stuff..

cargo-cultism at its finest : )

[John Orford 💙 @mmport80]

@angerman and the main pt: there is perhaps only 1 or 2 'laws' which are reliable in finance. everything else is not gauranteed

[John Orford 💙 @mmport80]

@angerman as an ex finance person, a lot of the industry is all about drawing appealing graphs and telling convincing stories.. basically expensive entertainment : )

[John Orford 💙 @mmport80]

Claude has a search-you-chats feature?? Wow..

[Stephen McDonell @StephenMcDonell]

It is unimaginably risky to put a protest banner like this on a bridge in #China. If you got caught, you'd be looking at prison time. In this case, the banner calling for Xi Jinping's removal, demanding freedom etc was apparently in #Hunan's Loudi, Xinhua County.

[John Orford 💙 @mmport80]

@vbhvsgr @tomjaguarpaw @josecalderon @avi_press @locallycompact Yep, my simple rust is basically just python. Low entry level. My Haskell is glorious of course ;) but takes years to learn

[John Orford 💙 @mmport80]

@huntthesnark That's the key to these platforms. Be your own editor

[John Orford 💙 @mmport80]

@huntthesnark he had a great presidency

[John Orford 💙 @mmport80]

@owickstrom i suspect you'll improve even their testing! : )