General Kenobi, 212th Clone Battalion

The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

[General Kenobi, 212th Clone Battalion @old_ben]

Conclusión: Argentina es un país de esquizofrénicos gobernados por sociópatas hijos de puta.

[General Kenobi, 212th Clone Battalion @old_ben]

@francrubio no hay que ver los avances!! Estos tres episodios que quedan van a ser fuertes.

[Mr. G. @TodosGronchos]

No hay uno que pueda arreglar un termotanque?

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

A non-targeted baby that dies in an airstrike is a tragedy.

A baby that dies at the hands of his captors by being beaten to death is a violation of human decency.

Both babies died. Both are innocent. Both deaths are tragic. But there is zero moral equivalence between the two realities.

Those who understand this are members of the human family. Those who don't, not so much.

[General Kenobi, 212th Clone Battalion @old_ben]

@rauchg @weswinder I disagree. Working remotely has allowed me to coach and mentor (and be coached and mentored) engineers I otherwise wouldn't have access to.

[Faustino @Fausto95_]

it’s 2025 and we still don’t have stacked PRs on @github

[General Kenobi, 212th Clone Battalion @old_ben]

@sbassi es en "El Conflicto Evitable", de "Yo, Robot". Argentina, Chile y Uruguay forman parte del "Bloque Europeo" 😉

[Bugman @Mr_Bugman]

Cultura diferente es ponerle mayonesa a las papas fritas, no lapidar mujeres. Eso es barbarie.

[Ben Lesh @BenLesh]

Python developers congratulating themselves that the JavaScript community is split between TypeScript and JavaScript is the most data science facepalm I can think of.

[General Kenobi, 212th Clone Battalion @old_ben]

@francrubio habla con esta gente: https://t.co/AfdnKvhkPv
Pregunta por Ariel.

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

IBM, 1979.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

John Mulaney getting on stage and mercilessly mocking everyone at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

Why CDNs don’t really work:

> Site is dynamic
> Site uses SSR and a database
> Site needs global scale / speed
> Dev adds CDN in front
> Dev slaps `Cache-Control`
> Now site is static, yay?
> Data changes often
> Dev starts purging the CDN
> Purges are slow and unreliable
> Users time travel, data inconsistent
> Users can’t read their writes
> Dev can’t observe or debug cache
> Dev pays for “Enterprise CDN”
> Dev slaps `Vary` and surrogate keys
> Still too static
> High cardinality in cache, lots of MISS
> Can’t personalize or experiment
> Site needs more dynamism
> Dev ships client side JS to fix
> Over time it’s all client rendered
> Site is slow and full of layout shift
> Spinners and slow pages galore
> Web vitals tank, SEO to the toilet

In summary, `Cache-Control` makes you lose the ability to reason about the consistency of your data and shifts the burden of dynamism to the client.

Streaming and granular (rather than full page) caching fixes this.

[General Kenobi, 212th Clone Battalion @old_ben]

@francrubio opinion poco popular: cosas como el lavarropas o la una heladera deberian ser 100% analogicas. Es la colina en la que elijo morir.

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked

people will remember:
- <marquee>
- <blink>
- XMLHttpRequest
- Quirks mode
- <!--[if IE]>
- text-indent: -9999px
- ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")
- Array.prototype.smoosh

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

Me: 30 years writing software for money

Also Me: Googles how to hide a div with a querySelector

Hang in there #codenewbies

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

Oh no, who could have seen this coming except everyone.

https://t.co/A80xl4jtbN

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

Love this commercial is like, “Toys R Us started with the dream of a little boy who wanted to share his imagination with the world. And to show how, we fired our artists and dried Lake Superior using a server farm to generate what that would look like in Stephen King’s nightmares

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

This Australian data scientist has some thoughts about AI and the current state of his industry

https://t.co/9ryxFBHjiG

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Fun fact: If you are keeping civilian hostages in your home, you become a military target under international law and it’s entirely reasonable to kill you!

If this sounds unappealing, don’t hold hostages in your home!

[General Kenobi, 212th Clone Battalion @old_ben]

@rauchg I had forgotten about sIFR. It brings back memories of my brief, but intense time with ActionScript.