obra’s Twitter Archive

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1. Well, this will be a nice little litmus test....assuming we still need a litmus test next month.

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   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 620 Retweets ❤️ 4,466 Favorites 2022 Nov 11 Mood +3 🙂
2. 6 hours later, I have replaced my 15 line perl script with a 500 meg Docker image and a few hundred lines of python. It works almost as well as what I had before, too!
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 546 Retweets ❤️ 2,417 Favorites 2019 Apr 10 Mood 0
3. Holy shit. Yahoo is discontinuing Yahoo. yahoo.tumblr.com/post/98474044364/progress-report-continued-product-focus HT @nygren
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 398 Retweets ❤️ 117 Favorites 2014 Sep 26 Mood -4 🙁
4. I really liked the period between "AOL Keyword ___" and facebook.com/___
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 342 Retweets ❤️ 116 Favorites 2012 Jan 28 Mood +2 🙂
5. From someone at lunch: 10 years ago, would you have believed that the major phone operating system battle would be Linux vs BSD?
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 342 Retweets ❤️ 44 Favorites 2011 Dec 13 Mood -1 🙁
6. Oh. My. God. imgur.com/gallery/TmNFU Absolutely amazing hidden messages (urls) in Archer Season 6.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 332 Retweets ❤️ 238 Favorites 2015 Mar 19 Mood +5 🙂
7. Feeling very old today.

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   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 286 Retweets ❤️ 1,327 Favorites 2019 Jul 21 Mood +1 🙂
8. Do not buy a Nokia phone. They're MITMing their customers' HTTPS traffic and don't think they're fucking up. gigaom.com/2013/01/10/nokia-yes-we-decrypt-your-https-data-but-dont-worry-about-it/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=gigaom
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 213 Retweets ❤️ 30 Favorites 2013 Jan 10 Mood -4 🙁
9. On the left is a smart watch that takes a SIM card. On the right is my breakfast. Each cost me $9.74 The future is a strange place.

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   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 177 Retweets ❤️ 206 Favorites 2016 Sep 28 Mood 0
10. Google has removed @k9mail_app from the Play Store for a “policy violation” again. They say they need to be given “app credentials” before they’ll republish it. It’s…an open source email client.

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    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 163 Retweets ❤️ 405 Favorites 2022 Mar 23 Mood 0
11. Dear Apple, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SMOKING?

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    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 157 Retweets ❤️ 97 Favorites 2014 Jan 8 Mood -2 🙁
12. While we were all watching the Marathon Bomber drama, the House of Representatives passed CISPA. This is really bad. eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/us-house-representatives-shamefully-passes-cispa-internet-freedom-advocates
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 145 Retweets ❤️ 9 Favorites 2013 Apr 20 Mood -3 🙁
13. Welcome to the brave new world of floppy circuit boards.

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    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 144 Retweets ❤️ 697 Favorites 2019 Dec 22 Mood +4 🙂
14. This is the best thing ever. It singlehandedly justifies the IoT @Ouren/794579518870659072
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 143 Retweets ❤️ 134 Favorites 2016 Nov 4 Mood +3 🙂
15. Do we know which senior government officials HAVE sworn personal oaths to Trump?
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 136 Retweets ❤️ 248 Favorites 2017 May 12 Mood 0
16. I can’t think of a more appropriate tweet from which to discover that Oracle makes a Twitter client.

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    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 122 Retweets ❤️ 1,032 Favorites 2021 Jul 29 Mood +2 🙂
17. This absolutely one-ups the distilleries who switched to making hand sanitizer in early 2020. @travisakers/1497754605865684992
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 102 Retweets ❤️ 672 Favorites 2022 Feb 27 Mood 0
18. I see something. Who am I supposed to say something to again?

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    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 83 Retweets ❤️ 300 Favorites 2017 Jun 11 Mood 0
19. I mean, it sounds like they are still being compared to Theranos.

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    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 44 Retweets ❤️ 249 Favorites 2021 Mar 21 Mood +2 🙂
20. …in reply to @djbaskin
    @djbaskin The way Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies used to do this was to sharpie “FUCK” on their foreheads.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 40 Retweets ❤️ 609 Favorites 2020 Jun 14 Mood 0
21. …in reply to @realDonaldTrump
    @realDonaldTrump This is why we have a system of checks and balances. This is what makes America great.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 20 Retweets ❤️ 282 Favorites 2017 Jun 13 Mood +3 🙂
22. Too goddamn soon, Hulu

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    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 20 Retweets ❤️ 260 Favorites 2021 Apr 17 Mood -3 🙁
23. …in reply to @obra
    @SwiftOnSecurity Not skipping a beat, my wife replied.

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    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 16 Retweets ❤️ 297 Favorites 2018 May 5 Mood 0
24. I want to read the 6 pager about this design decision.

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    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 12 Retweets ❤️ 302 Favorites 2022 Jul 14 Mood +1 🙂
25. …in reply to @rstevens
    @rstevens @realDonaldTrump And you'd have better ratings.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 7 Retweets ❤️ 279 Favorites 2017 Jul 18 Mood +2 🙂