@tymwol @vaurora I was asked the emacs-or-vi religious question during the interview for my current gig.

@tracketpacer “No, my country sucks even worse than yours!”

@fanf I thought they stuck the fork into it and called it done?

@warthog9 I miss the good old days before pervasive virtuals, when a server’s attention span was no longer than its power cord.

@fanf Still believe that baseline and Vaseline SHOULD rhyme.

Attendee at a recent talk: "You're the reason I got into security."

Me: "I'm really sorry."

@pndc Doesn’t going straight up from there take it towards the middle of the planet?

@chu The original NSDAP started off as a socialist worker’s party before going off on that infamous authoritarian binge. Take care that your progressive party today doesn’t go down that path.

This is a couple of days past, but I couldn't get my spoons together enough to write this till now.

Many of you know James Lopeman, mostly by the name of Meflin. He's a @ThePSF Fellow, been an Admin and Mentor for #GSoC , and been around the open source world, quietly in the background as is his way, for many many a year.

Meflin passed somewhat suddenly on Wednesday the 16th.

It was natural causes nothing too crazy there.

He was the absolute pinnacle of why, we in the open source world, need to care more about the folks who don't code. Those that deal with infrastructure, or people, or anything else that isn't just the code. We are fundamentally better off with them in our communities.

So in his honor, go drink some tea, be a giant grump, and remind folks that "No. is a complete sentence".

In the words of Terry Pratchett:

GNU James "Meflin" Lopeman

Share around, because I think this is bigger than just him, but I think everyone needs to hear what he at least meant to me.

@fanf They need a circular parking lot on the Salisbury plain where they can be Bus Henge.

@fanf I drove from Uxbridge to Cambridge and back last evening, a moderate journey on the King’s Highway 401.

@SwiftOnSecurity Thank you.

@tracketpacer I may or may not have put some post vibe test articles into production several years ago. Still happily passing packets!

London should have a backup airport with north-south runways so they could call it Heathcolumn.

@simontatham @RogerBW But then what shall we call the largest mutually-understood subset of the language?

@DreadShips Looks more like it evolved then crawled ashore.

h/t OBJ/mutability

It’s that day in a Canadian winter when one goes from wondering if tire chains for a snow blower are a thing that exists to having a set inbound.

Sometimes it’s better to claim not to understand something, when explaining it would require too much profanity.

@gsuberland You know you’ve been hacking too long when you immediately recall which XKCD someone finally implemented!