Josh Dick @joshdick@mastodon.cloud

RT @Nahirk@twitter.activitypub.actor
Spoiler alert: I did not

RT @OvercastFM
Spotify’s ad tech will continue to expand, but it will only affect podcasts if you listen to them in Spotify.

Keep using independent podcast apps, and the surveillance abilities by large podcast publishers will remain extremely limited. https://twitter.com/NathanBLawrence/status/1214978492246265856

RT @jimmyg
1/ Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the introduction of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5 for Mac. This was both the most important release of Internet Explorer for the Mac, and the last release. Here are some anecdotes and thoughts from an insider’s perspective. [thread]

RT @toba
.@Twitter@twitter.com Did you figure out what you're going to do about dead people's Twitter accounts other than just deleting them, yet?

RT @ctbeiser
hot parenting tip: if your kid talks about wanting some big piece of professional software—Logic, After Effects, Photoshop—the returns on it are probably 100x what you’d get from piano lessons or whatever.

Hoping you’re having a groovy Christmas. https://youtu.be/_g2nHEPC1Fc

Hoping you’re having a groovy Christmas. https://youtu.be/_g2nHEPC1Fc

Monkey business. https://ift.tt/373GcTr

Software devs: Dealing with people’s names is difficult. Don’t accidentally attack your users this way.
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RT @_joshdick
@lyft Just got an e-mail from you asking me to update my display name by 12/21 because it doesn’t “doesn't align with our Community Guidelines”.

My display name is my actual name. I think you can see how it would have been automatically flagged.

What should I do?
https://twitter.com/_joshdick/status/1207684385341730818

RT @stuartathompson
Months ago, someone contacted us with an astounding dataset. It tracked the precise movements of more than 12 million Americans in several major cities including Washington, New York and San Francisco. Today we published our findings: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

RT @stuartathompson
Months ago, someone contacted us with an astounding dataset. It tracked the precise movements of more than 12 million Americans in several major cities including Washington, New York and San Francisco. Today we published our findings: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

RT @yeokm1
I built a Slack app for Windows 3.1. What for? Because it's fun lor.
http://yeokhengmeng.com/2019/12/building-a-new-win-3-1-app-in-2019-part-1-slack-client/

https://ift.tt/34yI1WQ

RT @abbygov
Little siblings don’t read this

Older siblings we must unionize and demand better conditions and equal treatment

RT @eiais
I was fired last week by Google for organizing. All I did was make a popup to share the labor notice Google has to share with its workers.

3 hours later mgmt came to my desk, took my phone/laptop, escorted me away. I never got to say goodbye.

My story: https://medium.com/@ksspiers/google-fires-another-worker-for-exercising-her-rights-and-protecting-coworkers-from-illegal-b86c41ef91b9

RT @DanaSchwartzzz
I feel like if you told a teenager that Netflix used to let you watch TV shows by sending you individual DVDs in the actual mail, they would think you were making it up as a joke

RT @appsforartists
For those keeping track at home:

Microsoft's browser now pretends to be Google's browser, which pretends to be Apple's browser, which pretends to be Mozilla's browser. Meanwhile, they all pretend to be a different version of Mozilla's browser, which hasn't existed in decades. https://twitter.com/_scottlow/status/1206810049588293632

RT @bunniestudios@twitter.activitypub.actor
A few years ago, I crowdfunded and published "The Essential Guide to Shenzhen". It's now out of stock, so I've decided to share the PDF.

Thank you to all my supporters who made this possible!

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5689

RT @ID_AA_Carmack
Building a project that hadn't been touched in a year. Updated NDK was causing a problem with the old gradle. Update that, and there were problems in the project gradle file, Fix that, and there were deprecations in VrApi. Build issues suck the joy out of programming for me.

RT @tomwarren
holy shit. Wham’s Last Christmas is now in 4K on YouTube and it looks amazing. It’s like watching people in ‘80s costumes https://youtu.be/bwNV7TAWN3M