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Software engineer at @nytimes

Minneapolis
Joined March 2009
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Best Snapple fact you will hear all day: squirrels are ticklish.
Verifying myself: I am brandonroot on Keybase.io. De_9vZ2PBFkYqd2mLoJ_83icJvg5Pt8tmg9m / keybase.io/brandonroot/sigs/…
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Can the Super Bowl tech bubble any harder? @willortel
That apartments.com commercial is the pets.com of our era.
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if people stopped releasing so many buggers, we wouldn't need debuggers
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Fascinating data visualization about how affordable real estate really is washingtonpost.com/blogs/won… shout out to @wcgortel
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#Ansible is like democracy, it's the worst form of server automation, except for all the others
Replying to @LSSA2320
@LSSA2320 Hi, I work in the same building...hey neighbors! I'm confused, isn't your employer a non-profit? Where do they get their funding?
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Replying to @sloaneortel
@wcgortel Incredible visualization of changing New York rent blog.zumper.com/2015/02/nyc-…
Using @reactjs, #flux and #immutable with #clojure on the backend. It may be the hipster stack now, but it's the ugg boots of tomorrow.
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Yuck. I'll say it, I hate material design. Why is this becoming a trend outside of google?
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I just typed "definitive" and my iphone just autocorrected to "dildo hotel". What kind of operation do you think I'm running here?
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Who moved new york to the arctic circle?
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Replying to @DegreeCast
@DegreeCast killed it with the keynote talk at edtech.connect. Congrats!
I'm at Isle Of Skye - @isleskyenyc (Brooklyn, NY) w/ 5 others 4sq.com/1eTguhV
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A hipster just pinned a note which reads "grandma party hotline" below a cryptic pyramid of numbers. #brooklyn #coffeeshop #sothathappened
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To what extent is planning in #startups even possible? All development i've ever done is two steps forward, one step back, amiright?