Tweet Archive for March 2020
It’s out! Here ya go!
WordPress 5.4 “Adderley” https://t.co/i1aVrxIckk pic.twitter.com/528iWvQ1dk
— WordPress (@WordPress) March 31, 2020
Azure appears to be full – The cloud is just a bunch of servers, so when a Pandemic forces people to WFH, the infin…
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1243609441473355776
WordCampUS will happen one way or another. They’re dual-planning the event so they can move forward in-person, or v…
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1243208461393055746
After Netflix reduced its streaming quality for 30 days to conserve bandwidth, Youtube follows suit.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Looks like CloudFront has decreased their invalidation time from 20 minutes to 5 minutes. Anecdotally, for me most…
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1239911615463444483
Protip: Spawning threads isn’t always faster:
“creating a thread may cost thousands of CPU cycles. If you have a fu…
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1239558036005326849
What will you use this time for?
In 1665, the University of Cambridge temporarily closed due to the bubonic plague. Isaac Newton had to work from home, and he used this time to develop calculus and the theory of gravity. https://t.co/EA98WDihJA
— Martin Kleppmann 🇪🇺 (@martinkl) March 9, 2020
Here’s Gitlabs “Guide to All-Remote” work. How can you make it work for your company?
about.gitlab.com/company/cultur…
Beautiful picture, made entirely in CSS. Change a variable and change the colour of the sun!…
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1238095432657653760
Everything you wanted to know about extracting text from PDFs and why its so hard:
filingdb.com/pdf-text-extra…
The new EARN IT Act is incredibly dangerous to privacy and end-to-end encryption. “The real goal here is to make it…
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1237005214512709632
Google Cloud just announced four new datacenter regions, including one in Toronto. techcrunch.com/2020/03/04/goo…
Neat site uses AI training with tensorflow.js and your webcam to figure out if you are touching your face. If you…
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1235945846082088960
If you use Google Analytics Dashboard for WP, Yoast SEO or Rank Math to tie your WordPress site to Google Analytics…
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1235660173441724418
I always knew there’d be a good AI application to help with Coronavirus. Didn’t think it’d be this…
businessinsider.com/face-mask-brow…
Case study of how Bitbucket moved 80% of its database requests to replicas, freeing up the primary db for more scal…
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1235233288848953344
The Coronavirus effect has cleared up pollution in China faster than ever before.
Alert: If you use Certificates from Let’s Encrypt, there is a bug that is forcing them to revoke the certificate. Y…
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1234918894940381190
New hard drive stats report from @backblaze. Failure rates significantly increased in 2019.
“Over the past decade, technology start-ups grew so quickly that they couldn’t hire people fast enough. Now the lay…
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1234523360945590279