Tweet Archive for October 2019

The moving story of Zach, a 12Tb hard drive. Great story, but someone has way too much time on their hands…
j0e.co/2qf

1:54pm Oct 31 2019 —

Truth.

1:33pm Oct 30 2019 —

Some of this is second nature, but when you step back and look at it… woah…

1:31pm Oct 29 2019 —

Here’s a rundown of the 36 most consequential pieces of code. List includes everything from JPEG to tracking pixels…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188822727886376960

2:20pm Oct 28 2019 —

Sobey’s is testing out a “Smart” Grocery cart. It’ll scan and weigh products as you put them in, and let you pay t…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187752089558147073

3:25pm Oct 25 2019 —

@TimHortons @TimHortons Can’t access my account balance. My rewards are gone. Your email verification thing doesn’…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187355607373889536

in reply to joetek — 1:10pm Oct 24 2019 —

@TimHortons Your app #loginpocalypse is brutal. Fine, make people not use third party logins (even though they’re b…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187351390768762885

12:53pm Oct 24 2019 —

Looks like @macleans Magazine has set a new bar for the election night results map. There’s something very soothing…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1186711615514824707

6:31pm Oct 22 2019 —

I like the new @TheTorqueMag website. The layout is much cleaner. Nicely done!

j0e.co/2q9

1:51pm Oct 22 2019 —

Moore’s Law of batteries: “Historically, battery energy density improves 5%-8% per year.” That adds up fast!
j0e.co/2q7

1:52pm Oct 17 2019 —

I remember dealing with a few hundred megabytes of logs per day was a pain. Facebook generates “several petabytes…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1184466020511223808

1:48pm Oct 16 2019 —

“Tesla’s sales successes are wreaking havoc on the pre-owned luxury car market. Once-strong demand for European lux…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1184106400810582017

1:59pm Oct 15 2019 —

Time for the annual tradition… the annual WKRP Turkey Drop! Happy Thanksgiving!
youtube.com/watch?v=BGFtV6…

7:45pm Oct 11 2019 —

Here’s a pretty detailed look at how @Tesla is using AI data from its 600k cars on the road to train its neural net…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1182665800106287104

2:34pm Oct 11 2019 —

US, UK and Australian officials are about to ask Facebook to not implement Encryption in its apps so that governmen…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1179835937083277312

7:09pm Oct 3 2019 —

@seanwalberg @markjaquith Doesn’t surprise me. The quality of those things are awful.

in reply to seanwalberg — 4:08pm Oct 3 2019 —

@markjaquith Yup. There’s not a lot of other ad revenue options out there, and they all suck.

in reply to markjaquith — 3:24pm Oct 3 2019 —

Big news in the online ad marketplace – Outbrain and Taboola are merging. Wonder what this will do to the quality a…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1179778150118694917

3:20pm Oct 3 2019 —

Re: Banking passwords –

“Do you really think the only thing the bank does to log people on is to check the usernam…

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1179764289499885568

2:25pm Oct 3 2019 —

Shifting your fundamental assumptions.. How Slack built Shared Channels j0e.co/2pv

1:17pm Oct 2 2019 —