coates’s Twitter Archive

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1. Before you switch a developer from the thing they're working on to another thing, pretend that it's a 2h drive to the other job, + 2h back.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 1,753 Retweets ❤️ 926 Favorites 2014 Jul 29 Mood -1 🙁
2. Never trust a developer who tells you that any of the following are easy: Unicode, dates/times/time zones, threading, DNS, IPv6, debugging.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 289 Retweets ❤️ 116 Favorites 2013 Sep 18 Mood +2 🙂
3. I feel horrible for this kid. This could have been me. Or many of you. Who among us hasn't changed the ?id=149283 part of a URL to see what happens? The fault here lies with the developers, managers, and curators, not the curious. cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/freedom-of-information-request-privacy-breach-teen-speaks-out-1.4621970
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 282 Retweets ❤️ 363 Favorites 2018 Apr 17 Mood -2 🙁
4. Suez Canal Status Page, AWS edition: 🟢 water level 🟢 mooring north side 🟢 mooring south side 🟢 tolling/transactions 🟢 excavator availability 🔅 “Courtesy message: we are experiencing an issue with a single customer.” …meanwhile, QuinnyPig’s registering stop.lying.canal.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 196 Retweets ❤️ 799 Favorites 2021 Mar 25 Mood +4 🙂
5. For a pet project, I'm looking to list out some women who were active and influential in the web from 1995-2002, and not coming up with very many. Enlighten me, please?
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 142 Retweets ❤️ 228 Favorites 2018 Jan 9 Mood +6 🙂
6. “I don’t care if they spy on me—I’m not doing anything illegal.” was always broken logic, but it’s especially dangerous when “legal” suddenly becomes “illegal”, despite years of precedent. Protect your data and your communication.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 117 Retweets ❤️ 429 Favorites 2022 Jun 27 Mood -3 🙁
7. It baffles me that programmers haven't yet figured out that typing is cheap & understanding code is hard. Verbosity is a feature, not a bug.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 110 Retweets ❤️ 140 Favorites 2016 Aug 20 Mood -1 🙁
8. Every minute you save when your fancy framework does magical things to help you out costs future-you ten minutes of debugging. Not worth it.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 109 Retweets ❤️ 27 Favorites 2012 Nov 14 Mood +2 🙂
9. Google Exec #1: “Nobody uses RSS anymore.” Google Exec #2: “Yeah, of course they do!” GE1: “Prove it!” GE2: “OK. Watch this.” (kills Reader)
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 89 Retweets ❤️ 19 Favorites 2013 Mar 14 Mood -3 🙁
10. I wish there was more Firefly. I bet if NathanFillion personally set up a Kickstarter project, we could raise seed funding for Season two.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 79 Retweets ❤️ 7 Favorites 2012 May 26 Mood +1 🙂
11. I don’t care how “secure” you think it is, preventing users from pasting hard-to-type secure passwords into a password field is unforgivable
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 67 Retweets ❤️ 28 Favorites 2014 Nov 14 Mood 0
12. #Web languages if they were books: #PHP = Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #Python = 1984, #Java = Mein Kampf, #Ruby = Lord of the Flies.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 63 Retweets ❤️ 10 Favorites 2013 Mar 8 Mood 0
13. Today shall go down in history as the day that every #PHP developer wrote code with an incorrect needle/haystack order: php.net/
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 60 Retweets ❤️ 3 Favorites 2012 Jan 18 Mood 0
14. Today is 13-11-12 for those of us who care about unambiguous date formats.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 45 Retweets ❤️ 9 Favorites 2013 Nov 12 Mood +2 🙂
15. On being a *web developer*, not a PHP/Python/Ruby/JavaScript/Logo/Erlang/ColdFusion/Perl/Scala/Go/Fancylang developer: seancoates.com/blogs/web-developer
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 45 Retweets ❤️ 32 Favorites 2012 Oct 29 Mood 0
16. …in reply to @FalcoLambda
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    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 39 Retweets ❤️ 452 Favorites 2021 Sep 30 Mood 0
17. …in reply to @glitch
    glitch I once did rm -rf tmp / instead of rm -rf tmp/ …as root …on a Friday afternoon …before a Monday launch
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 25 Retweets ❤️ 139 Favorites 2017 Jun 13 Mood 0
18. …in reply to @safesolvent
    safesolvent reneritchie Montreal fromwhereidrone DJIGlobal weathernetwork FWIW, someone captured nice video of it, too: youtube.com/watch?v=1JsxvpwErFw
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 24 Retweets ❤️ 80 Favorites 2020 Aug 3 Mood +3 🙂
19. Colleague left computer unlocked? crontab -e */15 * * * * say curl -s catfacts-api.appspot.com/api/facts |python -mjson.tool|grep facts -a1|tail -n1
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 24 Retweets ❤️ 78 Favorites 2017 Mar 13 Mood 0
20. If you Google "2010-09-09”, you’ll likely hit the awscloud documentation for CloudFormation, whose templates are all versioned to this day, a full decade ago. Kudos to the AWSCloudFormer team for designing such a solid API. 10 years is eternity on the Internet. /cc jeffbarr
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 19 Retweets ❤️ 85 Favorites 2020 Sep 9 Mood +5 🙂
21. …in reply to @coates
    Since some of you didn’t get this, I’ll spell it out: People who know about bridges trust bridges. People who know about software don’t trust software.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 19 Retweets ❤️ 70 Favorites 2022 Aug 2 Mood +2 🙂
22. I've never heard a civil engineer say something as wide reaching as "I don't trust bridges", but… …ask your local software engineer how they feel about self-driving cars.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 18 Retweets ❤️ 71 Favorites 2022 Aug 2 Mood 0
23. …in reply to @jna_sh
    jna_sh Congratulations to you (and QuinnyPig’s influence, certainly). This just showed up:

    
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 1 Retweets ❤️ 64 Favorites 2021 Jun 30 Mood +2 🙂