Troy Caldwell

Code Wrangler

[Sophia J Caldwell @sophiajcaldwell]

After months of work my new botanical illustration collection, The Digital Florist, was released on Creative Market today. If you’d like details you’ll find them here: https://t.co/F52gavaPYp #botanicalillustration #vintagestyle #handdrawn

[Beth @bethcodes]

I co-sign all of this, but especially: “Don’t quit tech: quit your job.”

Keep showing up and you are part of a revolution. Revolution is never easy, but it is very seldom this profitable. https://t.co/xC4KhsK8zU

[Yann Schwartz @abolibibelot]

A friend's russian mom is staying with us
Her: so you're programming
Me (trying to sound humble): yes displaying ads on the internet
Her: oh that sounds complicated. I used to program space rockets in Fortran in the 70s
Me (quietly sobbing): ...

[Martin Fowler @martinfowler]

Truly brilliant. It has that quality of being an obvious way to represent the information once I've seen it, but I never thought of doing that way before. https://t.co/XfDOPXZFTQ

[Beth @bethcodes]

I'm hiring a backend developer at the LTSE! We are building:
1. A new stock exchange for companies that want to be able to focus on lasting value
2. An inclusive software engineering team
3. A bunch of useful, livable code


Want to join us?
https://t.co/oO02SIXwgX

[Randy Olson @randal_olson]

Gender gap in #STEM majors from 1970-today. #gendergap #education #dataviz

https://t.co/i6LXoxV6qm

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Philip K Dick was born today in 1928. In February 1974, whilst recovering from dental surgery, something profound and inexplicable happened that changed his life forever.

This is the story of Philip K Dick's exegesis...

[Enzyme @enzymefinance]

"Firms like Melonport are using blockchain to rethink asset management. I think we will see more of this, and that the fund industry will start to be significantly disrupted next year" - Oliver Bussmann's blockchain outlook 2018 @obussmann https://t.co/JElL2V3Pbq

[Tim Berners-Lee @timberners_lee]

#NetNeutrality allowed me to invent the web. If protections are scrapped, innovators will have to ask ISPs for permission to get their ideas out – a disaster for creativity. A disaster for the internet. Tell your Reps to stop the vote. https://t.co/WlTfbe9ZNg … @webfoundation

[John Allspaw @allspaw]

Organizations can learn *how to learn* by supporting and investing in post-incident debriefing and analysis skills. Building a bench of experienced facilitator-analysts should get the same attention and funding as product development.

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

Al Franken lost his senate seat.
Harvey Weinstein lost his company.
Anthony Weiner is in jail.

Roy Moore is STILL the Republican candidate for Senate.
Donald Trump is STILL the PRESIDENT.

Don't tell me there's no difference between the parties.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

One of the key things about Bitcoin is that it's next to impossible to short (at least not without taking on ridiculous amounts of risk). Assets that are hard to short are inherently more prone to mispricing and bubbles.

[Randy Olson @randal_olson]

Slowly but surely, more and more of the USA's wealth is being concentrated in the hands of the very few. #dataviz

https://t.co/BzKzcM6emu

[James Marshall @astrophd]

Here's a long, but interesting article from the BBC on "the compelling case for working a lot less". https://t.co/0UuuMsMYxM

[Hadley Beeman @hadleybeeman]

"Feral systems": Those Access databases or other hacked solutions (.xls'es w macros) that someone makes out of frustration when current systems don't meet a specific need.

Then we all become dependent on them and they're impossible to replace. Or interoperate with.

#NHSIdeasLab

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Public debate is slowly but inexorably being taken over by bots: https://t.co/ngheu7Q6Mu

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

TechShop shuts down all U.S. locations, declares bankruptcy https://t.co/SDWiyukdpg

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Howdy, Americans! Today's BV post is about how to save America's declining regions from economic obsolescence and decay.

The answer is: COLLEGES. https://t.co/0wgxw7SOv6

[Juan Banda @juanbandajara]

And here is an interesting real life story about why good technical practices can make the difference https://t.co/1z3VnoQvee

[Pete Skomoroch @peteskomoroch]

“How to Fool Americans on Twitter” by @jonathonmorgan https://t.co/uA912A858T