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A couple years, I started writing Twitter threads.
I am now approaching 200 threads but X is not great at displaying these.
I'm therefore making a "thread of threads" index to make it easier to jump to more recent threads.
Enjoy!
Alex Elliott
26K posts
Alex Elliott
@alexpotato
Dad | DevOps / SRE | FinTech | Management | Paintball | @rutgersu grad | I write lots of threads. | Work account is @aecatlabs
Joined June 2009
- Replying to @gak_pdx“It’s not the red hot metal that burns you. The burns come from the metal that you think has cooled off.” - Blacksmith at a renaissance fair
- The decline in drinking in young people is worrisome as there is less opportunity for “in vino veritas” moments like this.
- Replying to @ughfinewhateverYou know what banks call people who pay off their credit card bill in full every month: “Deadbeats”
- Replying to @cisgenderhaverNot autistic and I do this. Helps you understand where your money goes. Eg those sub $100 transactions don’t seem like that much until you realize that’s where $5K goes every year
- Replying to @isaiah_bbWhen he pointed out the difference between envy and jealousy. (And Lisa confirmed it)
- Replying to @Coll3enGWhen you find a car that is doing your preferred: - speed - distance keeping to car in front - lane changing It feels much like finding a great mutual in Twitter
- Replying to @goblinodds- be me - born with no sense of smell - staying at my moms house while she’s away - she comes home - she smells gas - calls gas company over - they ring doorbell - mom opens the front door - they sniff the air - “EVERYONE OUT OF THE HOUSE, RIGHT NOW!”
- GitHub has a talk from 2013 where the Ops guy says: "We don't have dashboards. If something goes wrong, the alerting system generates a chart showing the error, screenshots it and then drops it in the ops channel" I think about this quote every time I see a dashboard.
- Replying to @importancatpeteAnd if you ask your grandparents it would be considered stalking today. Eg “your grandpa would hang out by the school exit. He asked me out everyday for 2 weeks till I finally said ‘yes’ and now we’ve been married 54 years”
- Replying to @AustenAnd then, later, someone else said: “And for where you can’t drive? We’ll make a special backpack to carry a camera”
- Replying to @paulgEMTs are taught to “blow out the candle” which literally means: - stop - take a breath in - blow it out as if blowing out a candle Forced to you stop, breathe and then think.
- Replying to @omercheema“One day, your kids will buy a sheet of sticker cameras. They can put them anywhere and each will have its own IPv6 address. If you connect to that address from a browser, you’ll get a video feed.” - futurist from 20 years ago
