Aaron Parecki

Has your new CEO deleted all your unit tests for being "dead code we never use in production"? Is he getting his advice from randos on social media? Did he fire you for writing too much code and also not enough code? Would you rather be working at Apple? DM me—maybe I can help!

If you bought into Web3 one year ago, today it’s only worth Web0.87.

Elon Musk has been directing subordinates to comb through Twitter's Slack and make lists of people making fun of him or his plans for firing. They've also been monitoring employee's tweets. Latest w/ @kateconger and @MikeIsaac)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/technology/elon-musk-twitter-fired-criticism.html

The Australian experience of the internet is that you wake up and the internet happened overnight, and you quickly read it and then go on with your day.

I don’t know how the rest of you get anything done when the internet is on all day.

So just to recap, new boss fired most of my coworkers, drove away most advertisers, keeps changing his mind about “free speech” and “verification”, is publicly denigrating my current and ex coworkers, and now won’t let anyone make any changes to the code. Things are going great!

Here’s your homework for the day, in order of priority:
🤳Turn on multifactor authentication now. Use an app.
📴Disconnect 3rd party apps
📚Download your archive
🗃Share contact info with key connections
💡Create alternate channels for comms:
https://mastodon.social/@digiphile

there is strong chance twitter has a major outage in the next few days. get your backup comms channels situated if you haven’t already.

If you’re interested in the lunacy at Twitter, then @platformer is the only place to go. Today’s newsletter documents how Musk ignores his own staff, shaming and firing them in public, has frozen all deployment and how advertisers won’t reengage until he reverses his changes.

can’t believe my stupid ass has imposter syndrome while elon musk is confidently marching around twitter HQ and chewing on wires until something breaks

NEW: Days before the launch of paid verification, Twitter’s trust & safety team sent Elon Musk a 7-page list of risks and recommendations on how the feature could be abused. But Musk refused to adopt any change that would delay the launch. We got the docs: https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-only-trusts-elon

you did not just layoff almost all of infra and then make some sassy remark about how we do batching

like did you bother to even learn how graphql works

I’m at a loss for words at the depth & breadth of the pieces of shit that permeate crypto. So many fucking sociopaths were granted the opportunity to do so much damage. It’s hard for me to imagine the space bouncing back quickly from this ordeal. Too many got burned too hard.

It’s called the blockchain because it’s a list of crypto bros who you should block

“I mean it’s one thousand RCP calls, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?”

It was a useful way to provide visibility via attribution for third party clients, like Tweetie (which was acquired and became the Twitter iOS app) or Tweetdeck (RIP).

It was also a useful status indicator (e.g. whether the tweet was sent via desktop or mobile).

When you look inside your C: drive and see that System32 is taking up a lot of space

Just a reminder that "self-hosted" doesn't *necessarily* have to mean literally hosting on a computer in your house. It just means you're in control over it.

People sometimes describe startups as rocket ships and it's a great metaphor. They set fire to tons of fuel, big chunks of the structure that did most of the early work are discarded into the ocean, and only a handful of people right at the top make it to space.