Tech veteran (Apple, Square, Tumblr, @bkcc), old school indie Mac/iOS developer, Eagle Scout. Mail: buzz at andersen.buzz
Los Angeles, CA
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Crazy thing: my friends who run a high traffic coffee shop just found this thing under their bar. It turns out to be a super cheap Chinese Bluetooth LE beacon.
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So being a public company is bad, but becoming the private domain of the richest man in the world, a notorious troll and market manipulator, as part of an acquisition fueled by margin debt he will need income to service and which is secured by equity in another company, is good.
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If you want to understand Trump, you have to understand narcissistic rage. medium.com/@Elamika/hell-hat…
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I was able to connect to it, and the URL that this particular one was broadcasting appears to have been some sort of student loan scam. So, basically this is an instance of physical, location-based spam.
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Star Wars Villain or Tech Investor?
- Boba Fett
- Gilad Pellaeon
- Hunter Walk
- Roelof Botha
- Hondo Ohnaka
- Alexis Ohanian
- Greedo
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Movie hacker trope:
*Stares at never-before-seen screen of someone else's code for 10 seconds*
"My God, this is brilliant!"
IRL:
"Uhhh."
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I’ve often struggled to precisely describe Hacker News’s particular brand of obnoxiousness, but this pretty much nails it. newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
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When even the foreign power manipulating you is shocked at your party's lack of principle. newsweek.com/donald-trump-vl…
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I think most programmers spend the first 5 years of their career mastering complexity, and the rest of their lives learning simplicity.
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So impressed with Heartbleed that I want to brand my own bugs. Say hello to Off-by-Wonder, Buffer Overdrive and The Amazing Race Condition.
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I’ve been thinking for years that someone needs to create a developer version of the Gartner Hype Cycle diagram, so I finally sat down and did one.
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So many questions. Did John Loew legally change his middle name to “Lower Taxes” to get on the ballot like this?
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One aspect of the Google "Manifesto" thing I keep thinking about is this cultural idea in tech cos that anyone can weigh in on anything.
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Every candidate who does the Obama “we just need to unite people through leadership” schtick should immediately be asked “OK, but what are you gonna do about Mitch McConnell?”
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Love how today’s tech companies will grill you for hours with contrived algorithm and data structures questions, then you get a look at their actual code and it’s like 75% third party libraries duct taped together.
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Update: looks like Google is discontinuing Android support for "nearby notifications." android-developers.googleblo… /ht @roessler
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I vaguely remember somebody saying somebody should be jailed over something like this?
Trump's sons have formed a new nonprofit that's peddling big-$$$ sponsorship packages giving access to the new prez: publicintegrity.org/2016/12/…
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My thought on the web3 discussion: there is absolutely something interesting with a lot of positive potential there, but if you buy into a bunch of Techno Utopian ideology that blinds you to the fact that power dynamics exist everywhere, you’re simply repeating past mistakes.
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One thing I often find in programming: if I can't come up with a concise, evocative name for something, it's probably a bad design.
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The creepiest thing about the pro-Trump media is the way they co-opt, exsanguinate, and redirect every bit of language used against Trump.
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Here's the model. $1-$15 on Alibaba, lasts up to 10 years on two AA batteries, can broadcast an advertising URL using the "Eddystone" standard. minew.en.alibaba.com/product…
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These people really are something else. I can't make up my mind whether they're incapable of conceptualizing rule of law or just don't care.
NYT: W.H. advisers have discussed using Time Warner's pending merger with AT&T as a point of leverage over CNN. nyti.ms/2sIynCJ
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The tech industry mythologizes programming as some sort of magical ability, but I honestly think that this is the most salient quality of good programmers. Anyone can do it if you’re willing to put up with enormous amounts of frustration and not give up. postlight.com/trackchanges/p…
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Throwback Thursday from 10 years ago, while I was at Apple: a hand-written kernel panic sent in by a diligent user.
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"Draft legislation A16Z is circulating would give the companies it has invested in a leg up by exempting related entities from certain tax reporting, consumer protection and anti-money-laundering requirements." nytimes.com/2021/10/29/us/po…
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Many of us who have been in startups have seen how this egalitarian ideal gets subverted by the loudest, most pedantic person in the room.
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Just looked at LinkedIn for the first time in a long time and it’s like a 2013 time warp over there. Everyone’s still hustling, crushing it, and sharing inspirational quotes like the past two years never happened.
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I think this is a pretty good crystallization of why a certain kind of software engineer gravitates to reactionary politics. bookshop.org/books/neoreacti…
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Just met the owner of a coffee shop I've patronized for almost a decade because she was moved by Obama's exhortation to talk to people.
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This is something I’ve been thinking about too. Literally a defining feature of Web 2.0, as originally conceived, was interoperability.
People seem to be redefining Web 2.0 as Facebook, etc, that own data, but Web 2.0 at the time was platforms like WordPress, Odeo, Six Apart, Flickr, Technorati, and del.icio.us that had open data and interoperated. flickr.com/photos/ross/49490…
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One thing about the tech industry is that no one has a memory longer than, say, 5 years, so you can have incredible insight just by virtue of actually remembering things.
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Attn: 80's kids: Unsolved Mysteries is on Amazon Video now and it's just as great as you remember it.
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If you truly think the point of the filibuster is to preserve the Senate’s sacred tradition of unlimited debate, you should at least support the idea of returning to a talking filibuster.
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Was looking through my photos for shots of my old neighborhood coffee place in Brooklyn and resurfaced this Metaverse gem.
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Almost too many infuriating details in “An Ugly Truth” to pick out a single quote, but this bit about Facebook trying to portray a “Muslims for Clinton” ad Russia ran in 2016 as “pro-Clinton” really says it all when it comes to the company’s evasion. fable.co/book/an-ugly-truth-…
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This Hitler Youth BS makes me ashamed to be an Eagle Scout. nitter.app/MrDanZak/status/889617…
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Thanks to @emerose and his security Slack pals for for helping me figure this out!
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What's weird about Twitter now is my network is people I mostly followed 7-10 years ago for different topics & now we all tweet about Trump.
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Oh, here’s a screenshot of the config info (including the spam link URL) in case anyone is curious.
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This year’s Thanksgiving tech observation: we have relatives staying with us and they keep asking Alexa questions and expecting an answer (we don’t have Alexa).
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The FBI is about to get a whole lot more marble, gold, and Swarovski crystal in their office environment.
Trump is fixated on replacing the FBI building, calling it "one of the ugliest buildings in the city." According to one source, Trump said he wants to oversee the project at an excruciating level of detail — costs per square foot, materials used, etc. axios.com/donald-trump-obses…
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Here's George Lakoff on likely the greatest challenge progressives face: properly framing problems that have systemic, not direct, causes.
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Brainstorming Twitter cocktails. Best so far: the Mansplain (Pour of Scotch + a lecture about Scotch being too good to waste on a cocktail).
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It may mean I have to skip that new iPhone, but I just donated to @jasoninthehouse's 2018 challenger. crowdpac.com/campaigns/18137…
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The importance placed on having a logo here is both hilarious and really says something about software development in 2018. medium.com/coding-with-flutt…
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One reason everyone should support increased tech diversity: it forces everyone to grow up. bloomberg.com/features/2016-…
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Feel like retro fashion is just about at the point where I could get mad bucks for this baby on Depop.
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I guess I might as well mention that this week we had to put down the dog we’ve had for twelve years. It was completely unexpected, and because of COVID we weren’t even allowed to be present. He was a beautiful soul, and I miss him enormously. The world feels cosmically dark.
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The listicle is named for the great Greek orator Listicles, who pioneered the form with "17 Reasons the Macedonian Threat Is Too Real."
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A lady just threw up her hands, said "Too precious for me!" and stormed out of the café while waiting for the barista to finish a pour over.
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"People who excel at software...become convinced that they have a unique ability to understand any kind of system" idlewords.com/talks/sase_pan…
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Update: I made a Coachella poster where all the band names are Unsolved Mysteries segment titles, and TBH I would very much like to see some of these acts.
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I do suspect a lot of these people who are like “I read 20 books a month!” have, shall we say, a very different standard of comprehension/retention.
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For those asking, the "Nuke the Valley" shirt is a recreation of the one Diane Lane is wearing in this Warhol photo.
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Was super excited about this new Chinese restaurant in my neighborhood until I realized it was a film set.
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I love Venice, but if I had to compare it to New York I’d say it’s maybe a bit like Murray Hill crossed with the East Village. The neighborhoods you mentioned are more like the Brooklyn of LA.
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It’s becoming a cliché that real life is turning into a @GreatDismal novel, but man, it really is.
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Kickstarter to buy the Gawker archives to piss Peter Thiel off. buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/peter-t…
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My parents being Trump supporters has absolutely put a major strain on our relationship. It's hard for me to even see them the same way now.
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I feel like everyone under 30 should be forced to watch the part of the Hillary documentary about how people on the 90s were burning her in effigy for trying to do universal health care.
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When I first realized (circa 2001) that the entire economy is based on the assumption of endless growth, I pretty nearly had a panic attack.
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Good news everybody—we still barely know anything about this virus, but VC Twitter declares it over.
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"His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up." washingtonpost.com/news/the-…
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Full "Vape or Pro Audio" quiz:
- Reaktor
- Fruity Loops
- Provari Radius
- Acid Pro
- Peakomizer
- Yokozuna Sub-Ohm
- Molekular
- Logic Pro
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Funny, it sure seemed to me at the time like she was practically the only one talking about it.
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Reminds me of this spot-on description of what professional programming is actually like, from Ellen Ullman’s “Close to the Machine.” bookshop.org/books/close-to-…
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Looking back, I think my favorite part of Christmas was always bringing dad out of hypersleep.
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I failed to get the correct answer because it didn’t occur to me that asking this person to give you back parts of the gold bar you had previously paid them was, like, actually something you could do.
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Most of the complaints I have gotten from managers over the course of my career haven’t had anything to do with the actual work. Instead, they usually come down to some form of petty, paternalistic dickering over “time spent in office.” theverge.com/2021/6/4/224916…
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Your call, Republicans. nitter.app/justinhendrix/status/8…
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