Wes Lord

Nothing ever happens in the life of mine
I'm hauling up the data on the Xerox line

[Wes Lord @weslord]

@potterypannel @HACKTPLANET_ It’s Update Day
https://t.co/0hewOyn2Ie

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@zachly Sure, but let’s keep things in perspective. Netflix is critical infrastructure for millions of businesses. GitHub is just entertainment.

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@talleyberrybaby How many other Grip Skylarks could there possibly be?

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@brian_bancroft Twice this month it’s delayed me deploying a fix to production that people were waiting on. And we’re only 1/3rd of the way thru a pretty short month.

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@TristinHopper Japan has what Patrick McKenzie calls “the will to have nice things”.
https://t.co/YHiHCi1KEU

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

In a very “A necessary and complete way to have nice things is to have the will to have nice things” anecdote from Tokyo:

I took the kids to a park today. It is dinosaur themed. There is construction happening next door of a 10 story building.

1/2

[Justin Duke @jmduke]

There have been 40 days in 2026. I've been impacted by GitHub incidents on 11 of them:

February 9
February 3
February 2
January 28
January 25
January 22
January 20
January 15
January 14
January 12
January 6

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

They should gamify education by giving regular challenges and tests of skill and assigning points based on how you do

[Wes Lord @weslord]

@ExistentialEnso “I’d bet dollars to doughnuts” has similarly gone from meaning long odds, to 50:50, to long odds again.

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@SamFuhrer William Gibson

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@TristinHopper I was walking past the Chateau Victoria hotel early one evening when I heard a large group of young men (sports team?) belting out “Northwest Passage” from one of the rooms above. Stopped to listen. They sang “Barrett’s Privateers” next. Filled me with patriotic pride.

[SLUG @generalslug]

michelin has the restaurant thing. goodyear has the blimp. unbelievable and pathetic that bridgestone is bringing absolutely nothing to the table

[Andrew Guttenberg @guttenbirder22]

This is something that the folks who already avoid saying “had had” do do, that that person should appreciate.

[tomie @tomieinlove]

AI progress means one thing for us primates:

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!

Unless you want to be part of the permanent underclass, you'll have to become a token predictor yourself. I’m getting a head start, being trained by the best:

[Wes Lord @weslord]

@howie_hua Obvious engagement bait, but still: Vector if it’s a boy, Mantissa if it’s a girl.

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@reidond69 @vaxryy bcrypt (the most common password hashing algorithm) truncates anything past 72 characters, so 128 is overkill (and some implementations in the past have had security bugs for overly-long passwords due to this)

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@deweyusagi @Pentadact

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@andrewmccalip First half of the Gran Turismo 5 opening cinematic puts the car making process into context.
https://t.co/Oog6hu1LSt

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@ck_gen @TristinHopper “in charge”

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@ZyMazza Golden Gate Claude is an interesting example of an AI that was pretty smart, but couldn’t figure out how to stop shoehorning the Golden Gate Bridge into everything.

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@TristinHopper Who can shotgun a beer the fastest?