@rhario I’ve often wondered how those things start. Are they the products of typical Facebook-overearnestness, or someone just joking around?

@benwerd oooh thanks for the recommendation, that’s this years London xmas stopover activity!

@senff @laurakalbag the Heroku toolbelt uses the same obscure terminology. Personal theory for “destroy” is to increase amount of effort required to do irreversible tasks by forcing you to specifically remember or look up the command.

@anomalily sounds like an amazing trip! Want to meet up when you’re in Reykjavík?

@benwerd love that game.

@brucel another handy trick is to view source in Firefox. Malformed HTML is red and bold, easy to see.

@tungufoss excellent, thanks — I shall use “gott” for everything now and pull the “I REJECT THE GENDER BINARY” card if anyone tries to correct me :)

@tungufoss oh cool! I’ve not heard it used for bassoons before, but have seen it referring to organ stops named after the bassoon. Þetta er góður blásturshlóðfæri :)

@aaronpk true! I’ve noticed this also with other things, especially food. My (totally failed) attempts to make Skyr have made me appreciate eating it much more.

@loulouk in my experience, yes it’s possible (although I don’t know what your context is), and that regular training i.e. some feedback loop is vital. We choose the lens through which we see the world, but need to re-choose it every day if it’s not already entrenched.

@john_nye custom PHP+minimal javascript column-based UI called Shrewdness https://github.com/barnabywalters/shrewdness

@john_nye in my experience: good things! (I am replying to this tweet through my elasticsearch+superfeedr-powered feed reader)

@jkphl tagboard does an okay job of this, for multiple silos e.g. https://tagboard.com/bono14/search

@halldoramog I’m sure you’d be extremely welcome there — programmers aren’t going to make the world a better place by ourselves :)

@aaronpk nicely done! Interesting UI choice to show the URL which vouched replies — presumably you’re also archiving the vouch pages? Also, are you planning on applying something like domain-based webmention approval also to silo replies? e.g. treating twitter.com/username as a “domain”

@bretolius it’s a mac app called “Eazydraw”. Horrible name, but my absolute favourite app for 2D CAD. Designed my hurdy gurdy in it! E.g. https://waterpigs.co.uk/img/plans.pdf

@kyle_wm interesting, hadn’t heard of Serial Position Effect! And I like your dad’s terms. But what I was getting at (and inevitably didn’t communicate well) was not exactly that the items at the ends of a series are given greater mental weight, but that the relative orders of items at the ends is more emphasised than relative weights in the middle.

E.G. in the example on that wikipedia page, of “smart, diligent, critical, impulsive, and jealous”, I suspect that the differences rank differences of (smart and diligent), and (implusive and jealous) are seen as more significant than of (diligent, critical) or (critical, implusive). Not sure if science backs this up (how would that even be measured?), but it’s something I’ve noticed.

@femfreq as a Brit it astonishes me that anyone wouldn’t ban guns in schools (or indeed in any other public place). Keep up the good work :)

@kyle_wm hmmm interesting, I’ve never heard that before! I just used tap water, maybe the idea with fruit juice is that it includes sugar which would feed the yeasts?

Did you try using rye flour? AFAIK it has more variety of natural yeasts in than other flours, so you might have a better chance with that.