Matt Novinger

[Ben Vinegar @bentlegen]

A short story about deferring tech choices to thought leaders:

Early days at Disqus (~2010-2012), we made several frontend choices based largely on what thought leaders were promoting at the time.

One example: there was a big movement toward "micro-frameworks." Instead of larger, well-tested libraries like jQuery, you'd stitch together tiny interoperable micro libraries (Ender.js was one). Disqus was an embeddable JavaScript app, so file size mattered. It fit our use case, so we went with it.

Then it went live, and we were serving millions of users. The reality of those choices became clear. Micro libraries meant that instead of one good semi-bloated library, you ran 6-7 smaller, less-tested, crappier ones. We burned a ton of cycles fixing bugs and covering corner cases when we could've been shipping product.

We made a few choices like this.

At conferences, I'd track down those same thought leaders and ask for advice. "I'm hitting problem X, Y, Z. How did you solve this?"

That's when I learned my lesson: they rarely had answers, because they'd never reached our scale. Their energy went into promoting new stuff, not running it.

You should know this has never stopped. It's happening right now with AI. It'll happen again with whatever comes next.

Do your own homework. Test a lot. Don't just go with what somebody tells you.

[Scottacular @Scottcrates]

You may not know you needed to hear Hillbilly-Asian Fusion music, but you do.

Wait for the Asian to fuse, baby…

[Chris @iamchriscorooo]

I don't know who needs to hear this but in 39 days the sun will set at 7pm

[Mary Coleman @Mary_reports]

I love this!
Thanks to Patrick Irish for sharing this video with us.
He caught this Tucson coyote that decided to hop on a car and start howling!😍

[TG ☕️ @TG22110]

Don’t know who did this, but it’s so well done I just had to share. 💃

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Fun fact

Alaska is so large and deserted that, if Manhattan had the same population density as the Last Frontier state, only 16 people would be living on the island.

And yes, it is bigger than Texas.

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

THREAD: A short story and a question. When my grandmother passed away, I found this old chest in her attic. She grew up with very little and saved *everything* for the rest of her life. That has left me with clues but still a small mystery.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Daft Punk and the art of sampling

How One More Time main riff used the song More Spell On You by Eddie Johns

[📹 NehhLmao, https://t.co/MjxAj8RWdY]
https://t.co/yLmrEqXktV

[Matt Novinger @mnovinger]

@JonahDispatch what kind of cigars do you enjoy?

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Why were the post-war occupations of Germany and Japan so much more successful than our more recent occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan?

[Mike Kvackay @mkvackay]

Fall inside Rocky Mountain National Park looks pretty damn nice doesn’t it!

[Yo-Yo Ma @YoYo_Ma]

This version of Bach’s first cello suite was recorded live in the Great Smoky Mountains. I’ve always thought of Suite No. 1 as “Nature at Play,” so it was a dream to play it with the birds, the trees, and the rushing brook. ▶️ https://t.co/AQn2pIuZQM

[Steve Staeger @SteveStaeger]

Hear me out….

Public transit option to Red Rocks.

[Matt Novinger @mnovinger]

@Noahpinion Honestly it sounded like it was not included on a platform/device intended for kids.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Trigger warnings are not effective.

24 studies, 7k people: alerts about upsetting content don't prevent distress or promote learning. All they do is raise anxiety.

The best way to shield mental health isn't to sound an alarm beforehand. It's to make support available afterward.

[kerryco @KerryDonovanCO]

I forgot my stiletto heels, apparently, when I went for a ride.

@laurenboebert isn’t a public servant. She’s just a photo shoot and a tweet.

[Weird Foothill Guy @WFG_DEN]

Hello Colorado transportation twitter.

Make that section of 470 free.

Try it for 3 months.

Then discuss Pena Blvd. It might be fine.

Thank you for coming to my talk.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

As a friend just remarked to me, one of the odd things about right-wing masculinity discourse is that hard-core MAGA thinks: 1) liberals are beta sissies; and 2) these alleged beta sissies RUN EVERYTHING. They're both weak and the Leviathan at the same time. Bizarre.

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

🔥 WOW!! Italy's new Prime Minister @GiorgiaMeloni addressed the Kremlin assets in the Italian Parliament who want her to withdraw support for Ukraine because, according to them, it's "better to live in a dictatorship than to die."

[Mitchell Byars @mitchellbyars]

KITTEHS! Unfortunately, these baby bobcats lost their mom when she was hit by a car in Louisville. But #Boulder County deputies were able to get all four to @greenwood_co (pics via @BldrCOSheriff)