Anthony Ferrara

Banning political advertising is a great way for Twitter to absolve itself of accountability for political content on its platform. Now, they can just throw their hands up and say, "We can't be responsible for what people choose to share and amplify, so it's not our problem."

The Law of Leaky Abstractions by @spolsky In order to work effectively at one level of abstraction you need to understand the level below. Because abstractions leak.

On PHP: Past and Future: https://blog.krakjoe.ninja/2019/10/php-past-and-future.html … #php #oss #webdev #iot #php4 #php8

Being full stack doesn’t mean you know every single thing about every technology you could possibly use to create software for the web. It means you can create and deploy a web application by yourself. Rails + jQuery + Heroku is “full stack” by my definition.

Do you want to attend @FullstackEU and it is from an underrepresented group? Hit me up, I have 2 tickets. DMs are open. /cc @PHPWomen @CallbackWomen

If your taxes go up by $400, but your health insurance bill goes from $2,400 annually to zero, how much “more” money did you spend that year on healthcare? They’re counting on you to vote against your own interest, so the insurance industry can keep taking your money.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1185224058050416640 …

#unkonf "Software Projects rarely fail because of bad code alone" from @mirjam_diala's Keynote. So true. It's missing communication and undefined requirements.

why are we not alking about this?..A black woman is the fastest person in the world! and she became it right after having a baby.. WHAT CANT WE DO?!https://twitter.com/blkgirlculture/status/1179431492847620096 …

Bullying is telling women of color Congresswomen to “go back.” Bullying is calling those same Congresswomen “savages” and “pro-terrorist.” What bullying is *not*: carrying out our constitutional duty to hold this administration accountable.https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1179045081468276742 …

This is why microservices can make sense for large companies with many, separate, and isolated teams. And why it just about never makes any sense for small companies where teams can grasp the entire application.https://twitter.com/CodeWisdom/status/1177925174533984257 …

Agile is not a way to go fast. It is a way to know where you are going. Agile is does not increase productivity. Agile increases manageability. Agile does not guarantee you’ll get there on time. Agile destroys the hope that you might, when you won’t.

Calling a Black POTUS married 25 yrs to 1 wife with 2 children, no mistresses, affairs or scandals, ‘the antichrist’ but a white POTUS married thrice, 5 kids by 3 women, mistresses, affairs & scandals, ‘God‘s anointed,’ proves your religion is white supremacy.

Developing software is more about developing knowledge then it is about writing code. You need to build up knowledge about the domain, the technology, the existing product, the infrastructure, ...