Paul Hammond
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Working out what's next. Previously at @slackhq , @typekit , @flickr , @bbc and some other stuff. He/Him.
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The question isn't “what are we going to do?” The question is “what aren’t we going to do?”
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@ThePracticalDev
I disagree. Me and my ten year old had fun decoding it over dinner last night
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If you build it, they will nod approvingly and say “yeah, that looks kind of interesting” before going back to what they were doing.
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Just finished the SF second half marathon in 1:34:37, 10 full minutes faster than I was hoping for. I am so fucking happy right now 😇🏁🏃🎉
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I have a real job again. Today is my first day working at
@SlackHQ
:
http://t.co/oeB5szyiNK
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Breaking my usual twitter silence to state unequivocally that Black Lives Matter and the tech industry is complicit in the systemic racism in our society. I stand behind my Black friends and colleagues in supporting and suggest you do too.
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Wait, the phrase “Slack Sock Options” in my contract wasn’t a typo?
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Today is my last day at Typekit. It’s time for me to start working for myself:
http://t.co/UiBLskbN2r
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One reason I don’t use “my mom” as shorthand for someone confused by tech: she’s a DBA and knows more about how computers work than you do.
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About to do a live demo of Slack, using a public channel anyone can join, to a room full of comedians at
#comedyhackday
. This may end badly.
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I started learning CoffeeScript a week ago and now I'm the co-maintainer of two npm packages. Please send help.
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Etsy Ops took my joke from last year’s Ignite Velocity, ran with it, and did something genuinely interesting:
http://t.co/0ufAHBYzcp
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I just talked at
@velocityconf
in London about job queues. The slides are at
http://t.co/Qz75Xvi2.
Yay!
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Like Settlers of Catan, but the “resource” cards are “Designers”, “Developers”, “PMs”, “Sales” and “Customer Care”.
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Sssh, don't tell anyone this but when I give a talk every third line of my speaker notes is the phrase “SLOW DOWN”. It helps me slow down.
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How hard would it be to create a device that converts excess body fat into iPhone battery charge?
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Make it work. Make it work right. Make it work fast. In that order.
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Four weeks ago…
Me: can you be my postal proxy voter for the referendum?
Dad: only if you want me to vote “Remain”
Me: Yep
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“You could probably raise a million in seed funding for a private members-only San Francisco tree house”
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Hey
@comcastcares
I found a bug: if you respond "Highly Dissatisfied" to every question in your CSAT survey then it shows an error message.
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Like Top Chef or Masterchef but you have to cook using old condiments, blunt knives, and random utensils from a cheap vacation rental house.
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Logtime is a small thing I made to turn timestamps from logfiles into something human readable:
http://t.co/nuD6NceUhM
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Hey I had my wisdom teeth out this morning and I'm on all the meds and Snapchat suddenly makes sense to me
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Everything is terrible but if you like puns Mark and I made a thing that might cheer you up for a few minutes:
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Economies of scale don’t exist when building social websites. Everything gets harder and more expensive as you grow, not cheaper and easier.
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A wise ops manager once told me that the first rule of running a farm is “don’t name the animals”.
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Slides from my talk yesterday on infrastructure for startups at
@velocityconf
are now up at
http://t.co/7j1KeKzh
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"the problem with ruby coders is they're better at css than they are at code" -- kellan
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Thanks everyone for the congratulations on the acquisition. We celebrated with a $5 mission taco, now I'm going to fix our staging servers.
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I was in the
@fastly
server room earlier today; I don't think I was supposed to see this:
http://t.co/1fxT3A5CEE
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Slides from my
#velocityconf
talk on version control are up at
http://phmmnd.me/vcs
- looking forward to next year already
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This was a fun distraction from everything, I made some snow:
The most minimalist creative coding environment is alive:
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Control the size and color of a 16x16 dot matrix with a single JavaScript function. The input is limited to 32 characters – but no limits to your creativity!
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The lack of antialiasing on Underworld's typography is really distracting me from the music
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“Daddy! Daddy! I want that! Can I get that? Daddy! I want it! … Daddy, what is it?”
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Have I ever mentioned how much I hate it when the word “resource” is used to describe people?
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Update: I’ve just been told the noun for things on Medium is “Think Piece”
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I think you can judge how good a year is by how many pairs of sunglasses you’ve lost. I’m at three so far, but we’re only halfway through…
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On Wednesday we decided there was no possible way to get this project done before the end of January. We launched it this afternoon.
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It was amazing watching the International Space Station fly over SF last night while
@AstroMarshburn
was taking this:
http://t.co/TzoFBoZS
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Achievement unlocked: My First CVE
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It's 5am. I just ran 4 miles in the dark through Sonoma. I haven't slept since yesterday morning. It's cold. AMA.
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"Trust in The Process and everything will work out." "What is The Process?" "We'll make it up as we go along."
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Can someone make a
@lanyrd
/
@overheardatmoo
integration to remind me to order new cards more than 3 days before a conference?
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Rewatching the Opening Ceremony, this time on the BBC. The bits NBC cut are making me proper full-on homesick for the first time in ages.
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Can't quite believe I managed a year and a half without ever calling it “Potatoshop”.
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I just released a new version of webkit2png, a small command line tool for making screenshots of webpages:
http://t.co/XTlUHZXwHq
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I kinda hoped to be in Wired one day, I didn't expect it would be in an article about early morning workouts:
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“This is a very very very light flight. If you’d like an entire row to yourself please come to the desk and we’ll change your seat”
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We’re having a Halloween party. If you know how to contact me privately to ask for the details then you are invited. It’s going to be epic.
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If your about page doesn’t have any people on it then I don’t trust your service.
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“I would hashtag three things in that sentence:
#I
,
#love
, and
#hashtags
, then I'd add
#ilovehashtags
too just in case.”
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Huge congrats to the whole
@typekit
team for shipping dynamic subsetting, and to
@GregorKaplan
for never giving up…
Big news today! After years of perfecting the backend technology, we're now supporting East Asian fonts on the web.
http://t.co/bloIdoNaGN
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“They’re gonna be sad when they finally work out how computers work”
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I just released a Heroku buildpack to download tarballs from private S3 buckets: (is this tweet even in English?)
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