Will Gorman

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[Will Gorman @willgorman]

@pedrothelion I was not prepared for all the feelings from hearing these two records again but wow that was a great show!

[Will Gorman @willgorman]

I think sometime the #8 team in an NFL conference should just show up at the stadium of the #1 team during the wild card playoff round, challenge them and declare victory by default if they don't show up. Would it work? Almost certainly not but you'd have to admire the moxie

[Elliott Downing @elliott_downing]

I think the new richest person should be required to buy Twitter now and this cycle should continue until none of them are rich anymore

[Will Gorman @willgorman]

“Good news” isn’t my first reaction when hearing about a What If? scenario in real life. Glad it was this one and not the light speed baseball.

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video.

Well, I have good news.

[Will Gorman @willgorman]

@benhemphill @ChrisHager Just going to set this over here https://t.co/NAgLkNvm0R

[apenwarr @apenwarr]

Turns out it’s still harder to debunk incorrect information than to write it in the first place. Naturally we automated the easy part first, and Stack Overflow is hurting from it.

[Jakub Kozłowski @kubukoz]

I'm pleased to announce that git conflict markers are parsed as valid Scala.

[Will Gorman @willgorman]

@benhemphill What server are you on? I’m @[email protected] but I haven’t quite figured out if I want to stay on a general purpose instance like that or find something with a specific focus where the local timeline might be more relevant

[Will Gorman @willgorman]

@csfinn Welp.

[Will Gorman @willgorman]

@jessitron This is especially hard because the difference between a misconfiguration and a failing dependency can be unclear. If you can’t send traces do you have the wrong config for the collector or is the collector down?

[Will Gorman @willgorman]

@dswersky You wouldn’t let this guy near your mouth with sharp tools? Ok that’s probably fair.

[Will Gorman @willgorman]

Nothing like realizing two of your favorite things work great together

[Tailscale @Tailscale]

Use @NextDNS with Tailscale to configure DNS exactly how you want it, including blocking ads and trackers, or setting up kids' profiles. Use NextDNS for all the devices in your tailnet, including mobile devices.
https://t.co/vfAtND8ieH
(Can't get a Pi these days? Us neither.)

[Will Gorman @willgorman]

@wpreul Terrible call

[Will Gorman @willgorman]

I think that running a 10K is a good thing and getting a Covid booster is also a good thing but in hindsight doing them both on the same day was not a good thing.

[Marc Brooker @MarcJBrooker]

Histograms are rightfully a popular tool for visualizing and thinking about latency. But I believe that empirical distribution functions (eCDFs) are almost always a better choice. Let's look at an example to understand why. This highly bimodal distribution:

[Will Gorman @willgorman]

@nvcexploder Oh that reminds me, Colonel Mustard asked if you could bring those to the library. Didn’t say why.

[Will Gorman @willgorman]

The new updates to @shortcatapp are so good! I can't think of a better example of how accessibility features can improve usability for everyone.

[Neal Agarwal @nealagarwal]

I made a page that gives you increasingly absurd trolley problems :)

https://t.co/MwfoNTv4Tm

[Will Gorman @willgorman]

Not a bad evening to sit out on the deck listening to Gillian Welch and watching fireflies if you ask me.

[Will Gorman @willgorman]

@nvcexploder I liked this because I cannot lie.