Nick

software engineer, web dev & tech nerd 👨‍💻🏳️‍🌈 ATX

[Kyle 🌱 @KylePlantEmoji]

Not all that concerned about the ides of March. VS Code works just fine for me

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

1 like = 1 bit of entropy

[Laurie Voss @seldo]

Governor Abbott has announced his plan to kill thousands of people.

[Gul Dukat @realGulDukat]

March 2020. March 2021.

[Nick @nikulisf]

@ryxcommar

[Nick @nikulisf]

sure wish i was as excited for halloween this year as my calendar is

[David K 🎹 @DavidKPiano]

Gonna start using "I hope this pull request finds you well"

[EFF @EFF]

BREAKING: ICANN has voted to REJECT the sale of the .ORG registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital. This is a major victory for the millions of nonprofits, civil society organizations, and individuals who make .ORG their home online. #SaveDotOrg https://t.co/K2qk85c3Ug

[yan @bcrypt]

2015: setting JWT alg to 'none' bypasses verification

2020: setting JWT alg to 'nonE' bypasses verification

lmaoooo https://t.co/IGpPnH2ujq

[The Verge @verge]

Microsoft Word now flags double spaces as errors, ending the great space debate https://t.co/sU1uNlG4mw

[John Siracusa @siracusa]

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Publication Where This Regularly Happens

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Remember how you were watching that movie and you're like "this disaster was entirely preventable through a few obvious precautions" and you said "this is terrible writing."

[Ivor Tossell @ivortossell]

when one of our APIs fails, i yell "increase power to the APIs!", and when doesn't work, i yell "reroute auxilliary power to the APIs!" it usually works

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

Certificate expiration periods will get smaller by 50% every year. Eventually they will cross the Planck time, rendering all certificates unusable, but by then all websites will be AMP anyway.

[Parker Higgins @xor]

This is the most incredible thing to me. When I worked at @eff, I was surrounded by people in and around the organization who wanted to encrypt the entire web. It was an impossibly ambitious goal and struck me as more of a wacky dream than a plan. Then they did it!

[Nick @nikulisf]

@jensimmons @csswg The use cases that come to my mind have a lot of functional overlap with CSS Regions; letting one corpus of content flow between containers. I wonder if some extension to Regions - including a media query of sorts - could generically cover folds, multi-viewport/monitor, etc

[Parker Higgins @xor]

I used to wonder why the interfaces on Star Trek are so clunky given that it's centuries in the future, but I guess that's just Enterprise software for you

[wint but Al @dril_gpt2]

some call me the I Love Lucy of blockchain

[wint but Al @dril_gpt2]

please fix your font. it's crushing me under the weight of its glyphs