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12 Oct 2022
@jorendorf As a student of ECMAScript/HTML reading the CommonMark spec, I'm struck by how differently they've taken to specify the language. No algorithms, no grammar, just descriptions of the expected behavior.
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12 Oct 2022
I'm tempted to call it less rigorous, but it seems more likely an expression of a different philosophy. Is that right? (In case it wasn't clear: I don't even know what to type into DuckDuckGo at this stage.)
17 Aug 2022
Introducing "Friend Off", a free game I made for you and your friends mikepennisi.com/blog/2022/fr…
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27 May 2022
"GitHub is currently confident that the actor did not modify any published packages in the registry or publish any new versions to existing packages."
It's a special kind of confidence that needs to be qualified with "currently."
github.blog/2022-05-26-npm-s…
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1 Apr 2022
WE SUPPORT UKRAINE
We've released a compilation on @Bandcamp to support Ukraine. 100% of the album proceeds go to humanitarian aid by Doctors Without Borders - epitaph.ffm.to/wesupportukra…. We thank our artists for donating their music. STOP THE WAR. #Ukraine
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Mike Pennisi retweeted
1 Apr 2022
WE SUPPORT UKRAINE
@epitaphrecords & ANTI- each released a compilation on @bandcamp to support Ukraine. 100% of the album proceeds go to humanitarian aid by Doctors Without Borders. We thank our artists for donating their music. STOP THE WAR. #Ukraine
anti.ffm.to/wesupportukraine
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4 Mar 2022
Today only, a full 20% of the money you spend at @Powells will go to relief for Ukraine. powells.com/featured/stand-w…
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4 Mar 2022
For a triple whammy, my order includes a whole bunch of copies of "On Tyranny" by @TimothyDSnyder for my friends and family.
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21 Feb 2022
Partners In Health announced that its founder, Dr. Paul Farmer, unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda.
Dr. Farmer was 62 years old. He is survived by his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, and their three children.
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Mike Pennisi retweeted
11 Feb 2022
Huge:
CIA mass ("bulk") surveillance has been carried out “entirely outside the statutory framework, and without any judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight. The nature and full extent was withheld even from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence."
BREAKING: Newly declassified documents reveal that the CIA has been secretly conducting massive surveillance programs that capture Americans’ private information.
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5 Jan 2022
"It's not you. It's the docs." -- a blog post on contributing to free and open source project documentation mikepennisi.com/blog/2022/it…
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25 Jun 2021
"[Ring] tends to use terms like 'safety' rather than 'surveillance,' [...] safety relies on fear, or it relies on there being non-safety. So when you think about what exactly they're selling, it's kind of the commodification of fear, rather than safety itself." - @Laurenebridges
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25 Jun 2021
Heard that on @1a this morning, and it's stuck with me all day.
the1a.org/segments/amazon-ri…
Well put, Lauren!
10 Jun 2021
Thank you @fb55 for tirelessly pushing Cheerio to version 1.0. That library helps so many developers expand their horizons beyond the browser, and you've been making it possible for a decade! @changelog #MaintainerWeek
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12 May 2021
I wonder if dropping all pretense of caring about "browsers" as a category, rather than Chrome as a product, was a deliberate decision, or whether they genuinely didn't realize what they're saying here 🥴
ALT Headline of a Google blog post, saying "Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering: this may impact some Chrome extensions"
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