Peter Drake HAS MOVED @peterdrake@qoto.org

Interdisciplinary Team Lands $500K for Earthquake Preparedness Research https://www.lclark.edu/live/news/41473

Your mileage may vary, but I did grab two anti-distraction tips: tell your browser to make new tabs blank and to never ask you if you want notifications.
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RT @Nick__Bentley@twitter.com
Marijuana transformed me...into a productivity ninja. An essay about one of the strangest, most joyous things that has ever happened to me. http://bit.ly/nicks-marijuana-story
https://twitter.com/Nick__Bentley/status/1148245500942008320

A Graphical Comparison of Earthquake Energy Release https://youtu.be/bom4Av4aq8I via @YouTube@twitter.com

This also works in PyCharm, and so presumably in other @jetbrains@twitter.com products, including IntelliJ (for Java) and Rider (for C#).
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RT @MBoffin@twitter.com
THIS. IS. AMAZING. I had no idea! I feel like so much o@jetbrains@twitter.comhas been a waste now. https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1148956662503497728
https://twitter.com/MBoffin/status/1149095045074604033

OH: "I'm just grown up enough to swear a lot."

How many of our technology frustrations come from capitalism's incentive to make new stuff instead of fixing the shoddy stuff they sold us last week?

C# lets you access string elements with s[i], which is nicer than Java's s.charAt(i). Of course, Python's slicing is even nicer.

I never know how much is my own impatience, unreasonably high standards, or failure to read directions and how much is terrible UIs. The point is that communication is hard, even if both parties are trying.

Is there a word for my bad habit of publicly venting my tech frustrations? Maybe something Icelandic for "screaming into the void"?

I realize that sometimes obscure features don't work, but this is obviously broken and reachable in a single click from the home screen. Seriously, how did they not notice this?

The fact that @Windows@twitter.com boots to a random image from your Pictures directory seems like a security hole.

When I click on the Windows search bar on my @surface@twitter.com, I get a wildly flickering (not rendering properly) request to "Get the Skill" to use Cortana. Oddly, the link takes me to an @amazon@twitter.com page to enable her. How do I make this ad go away?

... and after all that, @firefox@twitter.com STILL isn't listed in the sharing menu from Screen Sketch on the @surface@twitter.com (although the default Windows mail program is).