Edson Samuel Jr

A Software Developer — now on Mastodon (

[Robert G. Reeve @RobertGReeve]

I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that.

As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵

[Thomas Darimont @thomasdarimont]

TIL #java jshell can directly import all javase classes, which can save you some imports during experiments.

Try: jshell JAVASE

You can always find something new on https://t.co/Z3SUIgdTs3 🤓

[Carla Notarobot 🤖👩🏻‍💻 @CarlaNotarobot]

The plural of regex is regrets

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading." - Douglas Crockford

[Slashdot @slashdot]

Scott Hanselman's 2021 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows https://t.co/WXhfJWAKY1

[Motherboard @motherboard]

Humans and machines will clock the same work hours by 2025 (and other startling findings from the World Economic Forum's ‘Future of Jobs 2020' report). https://t.co/gSDQpYFUns

[Edson Samuel Jr @mstred]

This is how my year sounded on @Spotify. Get your 2020 Wrapped now #2020Wrapped https://t.co/GSeS65ek16

[Jimmy Grewal @jimmyg]

A photo of Apple’s personal computer CPU family tree…from left to right: 6502 (Apple II), 68k (Lisa), PowerPC (Power Macintosh), x86 (iMac), and now Apple silicon (MacBook). These are the first production computers from Apple using each of these instruction set architectures.

[Abbie Richards @abbieasr]

Shaming people who believe illogical things just pushes them further into their radicalization networks.
Disinformation is everywhere. We need to teach people how to spot it early.

This is my Conspiracy Chart. I think it helps.

[Edson Samuel Jr @mstred]

@mrcll_ O ideal seria algo semelhante a isso: https://t.co/WUzDVI392N

[DZone @DZoneInc]

"Programmers really jump to the core of philosophical questions" 😂

Via: https://t.co/byGjzF0vos

[Edson Samuel Jr @mstred]

@figueredo_ eu nem uso mais o ddg pelas buscas diretamente, mas por causa dos bangs... isso é muito massa.

https://t.co/wTod5udu0A

[Zach Holman @holman]

I’m old enough to remember when we used to build login screens with the email field right next to the password field on the same page.

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

Modern software development illustrated

[Taswi @HeyTaswi]

Doesn't matter what you do in life, learn Microsoft Excel!

[Jeff Atwood @codinghorror]

The web browser is the single greatest software application ever written. It's not even close.

[MachinePix @MachinePix]

A tensegrity structure demonstrating floating compression by reddit user g0gentle.

[Tom Anderson @tomwhoscontrary]

My local shop is limiting the amount of flour you can buy, but it's four billion bags per customer, which is actually pretty reasonable.

[Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar]

Vint Cerf, the co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol, and essentially one of the inventors of the Internet, and possibly the nicest person ever, has contracted COVID-19.

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest." — Isaac Asimov