Hacker turned manager so other hackers don't have to. Author of The Art of Data Usability
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Winter was my favourite season as a kid. I wasn't forced to go outside and play. I could stay indoors and read a book or something.
Now spring is here, and as bad as social distancing and ban on public events is, it feels like an extension of my favourite season
Every year my unit decides how I should shave for one day in March. This year I'm a leopard, so I can run faster 🐆
Tryggvi Björgvinsson retweeted
You've got to be shitting me...
One of our office chairs turns off monitors... we couldn't believe it, but we have it on tape.
Surprisingly, there even is a known issue for it:
support.displaylink.com/know…
The most difficult part of a migration to a new system is people who used some weird ways to get around deficiencies in the old system and want to continue to work in the exact same way post-migration
TIL there is something called the GIF gene.
Unfortunately it was not what I expected: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intr…
To have fun with the kids, I put a drop of pink food color into horse-shaped ice cubes.
It wasn't fun. It was more like ponies bleeding into their water during dinner.
Disappointed. Went to the movies to see Glass.
Thought it was a Swedish documentary about ice cream.
Enid Blyton's works enter the public domain in 2019.
I guess I'll be re-experiencing my childhood next year.
I decided to set auto-night mode on in an app and have night mode hours set automatically based on my location.
Quickly decided against it. I'd just be depressed all the time.
Tryggvi Björgvinsson retweeted
ALDARAFMÆLI FULLVELDIS
Íslendingar fagna 100 ára afmæli fullveldis á morgun, laugardaginn 1. desember. Af því tilefni hefur Hagstofan gert myndband þar sem litið er um öxl og sumt af því rifjað upp sem hefur breyst á liðinni öld.
youtu.be/_l2MRrYzi4g
On this day, October 6 1987, Microsoft announced Excel for Windows.
Exactly 21 years later, on October 6 2008, the Icelandic economy collapsed.
Correlation or coincindence?
If you're interested in the #dataethics framework recently published by the UK government you'd also be interested in my book The Art of Data Usability.
And it happens to be the deal of the day today at Manning: manning.com/dotd
TFW you swap out your entire CMS system with a single command in a few milliseconds and people don't notice because it worked perfectly
