Aaron Parecki

I read Rasmus Lerdorf’s perspectives on programming when I was a kid and it made me feel so much less alone and incompetent. lmao

For some people, writing code is horrible and unpleasant and just what you need to do in order to do the thing you actually wanna do and that’s okay.

The guy who created PHP (Rasmus Lerdorf) appears to have reached some higher level of coder enlightenment

Yeah the bridge is nice… but how ‘bout this decommissioned freeway? 🤩😲

I can't believe I had to type my password into that site. It's like they want to get hacked or something.

NFTs made me realize just how many people are underpaid for creative work

there’s no mouse on an apple push notification… what boomer made this

Sarcasm doesn't really translate well through tweets.

I just read a comment that said "cryptocurrency is astrology for men" and-

where is the lie?

Listen, if you’re a brand working with a creator, give the creator some flexibility.

If you’re paying a creator to produce content or art for you, you’re choosing them specifically for a reason. Trust in them, give them at least some freedom.

Otherwise, what’s the point???

"It's just a photo, Number One... Data, can't we just copy the image?"
"We can, sir, but what the Ferengi are attempting to trade is the ownership of the original artwork"
"... but we have the image already, right?"

That was my actually my favorite episode of DS9 when Quark was endangering everyone by cutting power from life support systems to run his secret Quarkcoin mining operation.

NFTs sound like something the Ferengi would make up on Star Trek and it would be the plot of an episode to get them to cut that shit out

Starting today, we're experimenting on Chrome stable with a Following feature. You can choose websites to follow, and their RSS updates will appear on Chrome's new tab page. We've been working on this for a while & I'm super excited to hear what people think 👇