Avi Flax
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See You Yesterday is a wonderful film. Moving, fun, intriguing, and exciting. Highly recommended!
Just published my highlights from the wonderful Write the Docs Portland 2019 conference — I’m super grateful that this conference exists and I was able to attend!
#writethedocs
I’m trying out Vale to lint my prose, and I’m feeling super called out here… 😱
Just gave a fun little talk at the #writethedocs PDX 2019 unconference: Storytelling with Git.
I’d love some suggestions of other events or contexts that might be a good place for this talk!
BTW #writethedocs PDX 2019 is fantastic!
Anyone know of a way to use @github’s “team discussions” feature to host fully public discussions in a public repo? So far my impression is it that it’s oriented around internal discussions within an org. I’d love to use @discourse but my project isn’t big enough 😞 — yet! 😅
New/recent albums I’ve been enjoying:
💿 Young Enough by Charly Bliss 💿 Morbid Stuff by PUP 💿 Father of the Bride by Vampire Weekend 💿 This Land by Gary Clark Jr. 💿 There Will Be No Intermission by Amanda Palmer 💿 Tides of a Teardrop by Mandolin Orange
What about you?
This article by @linclark is a wonderful exemplar of lucid, accessible, compelling technical writing:
Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web
/via @solomonstre
#wasm
I just got a replacement debit card from my bank; apparently they’re proactively upgrading everyone in my area to contactless cards for use with public transit. Cool, but in addition to the contactless feature and the chip, my new card also has old school raised numbers! 🧐😂😭😎
Would everyone please just stop force-pushing squashed changes to GitHub Pull Requests that are under review! 🤦♂️
I’ve been making software professionally for over 20 years, and I’m still baffled by how many of my peers dislike written communication.
We have dozens of information systems at our fingertips, but sure, let’s make decisions verbally and neglect to write down their rationales.
How many plug-in cars do you see in this shot? London has been making great progress!
#plugincar #plugincars #electriccar #electriccars
