Aaron Parecki

oh, to be young and online

imagine buying twitter instead of building a 45 billion dollar library tower with gardens and water cascading down the side with one of every book ever written open to the public endowed for 10,000 years

Twitter sort of felt like having your head stuck in a beehive and so I understand that saying "I'm going to miss the bees" might cause some confusion but I am absolutely 100% going to miss the bees

The hardest part of being a developer isn't the code, it's learning that the entire internet is put together with peanut butter and goblins.

If only we had taxed the rich maybe none of this would have happened

Like: hey, what if we started dismantling a train while it was in motion? And then fired all the people who knew how to run it? It’ll keep coasting for a while, sure, but one pebble on the track and the whole thing is gonna crash.

Am hearing the number of Twitter resignations today is likely over 1,000, though unclear as not all are posting their decision.

Some teams, such as the engineering team that manages Twitter’s core system libraries, are completely gone now. https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23465274/hundreds-of-twitter-employees-resign-from-elon-musk-hardcore-deadline

Story to be updated soon with more: Am hearing that several “critical” infra engineering teams at Twitter have completely resigned. “You cannot run Twitter without this team,” one current engineer tells me of one such group. Also, Twitter has shut off badge access to its offices.

Offices will reopen on November 21st. In the meantime: "Please continue to comply with company policy by refraining from discussing confidential company information on social media, with the press or elsewhere."

NEW: Twitter just alerted employees that effective immediately, all office buildings are temporarily closed and badge access is suspended. No details given as to why.

On the downside, Twitter is probably going to die and there’s nothing that actually replaces it.

On the upside, everyone’s wit is RAZOR-SHARP right now. Everyone’s at their most savage and I love you.

Whatever the opposite of “hardcore” 10x rock star dev is, that’s what I want.

cosycore, moving slowly, making things right, petting the dog, naps, staring out of the window pondering problems and drinking tea.

When talking about employment law technically right is pretty important

Anyone skilled enough to get a new job in less than three months with no drama is financially rewarded for clicking “No.” Low performers with lacklustre résumés and poor professional prospects will click “Yes,” and they’re the ones who’ll build Twitter 2.0. Genius.

Twitter data suggests most of the people buying Twitter Blue are promoting three things: right wing politics, cryptocurrency, and porn. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/16/musk-twitter-email-ultimatum-termination/