Creators pursue their craft because they have good taste. But when they start creating, their work isn’t very good. The successful creators push through, while the unsuccessful ones walk away in red-faced, round-shouldered frustration. Ira Glass called it “The Taste Gap.”

Thread on alternative views of iconic landmarks you (probably) haven’t seen before 🧵 1. The worn steps of the Tower of Pisa

If your company calls me unsolicited on my personal number after work hours. I’ll go out of my way to avoid using your products in the future.

To followers outside Finland, a brief recap of the Finnish elections. First: Sanna Marin's loss was expected. In Finland, the prime minister nearly always loses the elections. Consecutive governments happen only when the opposing coalition doesn't win enough.

I love that with nix-darwin I can use Touch ID every time I run darwin-rebuild: security.pam.enableSudoTouchIdAuth = true; Small but real quality of life upgrade.

Who wants to see some data on what separates amazing legal writing from the run-of-the-mill stuff? We compared 50 legal briefs from across the country with a random sample of 10 Justice Kagan opinions. Any differences? Oh, yea. Here's some of what we found. 1/x

At approx. 10:21am PST yesterday @loom went through a security incident. This situation sucks. We've let our users down. But we've root caused and remediated. This is a technical overview of what happened.

Being back on Twitter is pretty weird. Probably going offline again.

Announcing a collab with @impurepics 🎉 A series of @_yesbut_-inspired Haskell memes! Part #1: A deceptive one-liner

Note to self: Do this tomorrow

And finally a nice pointer for a web-based OAuth flow. Good escape hatch to keep in my back pocket

Exercism is a tried and true way to learn a language, probably not enough to bootstrap what I want to do this month though

Well regarded tutorial site #3

Well regarded tutorial site #2

The main site for the "100 days" link above, they have a nice book on programming against macOS APIs I'll buy and read if I go deep enough...

Official tutorial (spoiler: I've done this already) - it's good but doesn't teach you how to think about / self-solve problems, so going to pass on this.

A nice fucking cheatsheet

A "100 days of X" tutorial

Here are the useful iOS / macOS programming links I found that seem aimed at beginners. 🧵

Already got sidetracked by Nix and trying to install Ventura & XCode over mobile data ❌