Can anyone help explain this:

I found my feed full with Blue accounts affiliates of “Warp” posting what feels like “engagement bait”

I now just mute every account from this company I see as it’s tiring and pointless.

What is this? A new attempt on cheap “viral marketing?”

Source: x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1830136119188467774

bout to HIT ALL KINDS OF METRICS THAT MY BOSS WANTS ME TO HIT

Source: x.com/yacineMTB/status/1830364385354649894

bout to go WAGIE mode on these mfs

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In 1923 Edwin Hubble resolved a Cepheid Variable star in the Andromeda nebula. By using Leavitt's Period/Magnitude relationship he calculated the distance to be several million light years. This put the Andromeda nebula well outside the bounds of our own galaxy and proved that it was a separate system of stars, a galaxy of it's own, very far away from us.

Over the years Hubble observed many other galaxies and was able to calculate their distances either using Leavitt's formula or though other, less direct means. He was able to construct a crude three dimensional model of the galaxies in our local group.

But he also measured their spectra, and he found that the farther a galaxy was from us, the more its spectra was doppler shifted towards the red. A red doppler shift implies that the galaxy is moving away from us. The relationship was strictly linear. Twice the red shift meant twice the distance. And this relationship held for every galaxy he observed except for those that were very "close" to us.

This observation has mostly held true ever since. The farther away a galaxy is from us, the more it is red shifted, implying the faster it is receding from us. The velocity of recession is proportional to distance.

Only one behavior allows velocity to be proportional to distance. Expansion. The universe is apparently expanding.

Einstein's theory of General Relativity had predicted this over a decade earlier; but Einstein was so troubled by the idea that he fudged his equations so that the expansion was erased. He later called this is greatest error.

The idea an expanding universe was troubling to others as well. What is it expanding into? Worse, what did it look like during earlier epochs? It must have been smaller. How small could it have been?

Our answer to that question came in the subsequent decades. In the '40s Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow showed that the observed relative abundances of isotopes Hydrogen, Helium, and Lithium in the universe were consistent with the entire universe rapidly expanding through a period where the density and temperature were equivalent to the core of a star burning Hydrogen into Helium.

Then, in the late 40s, Alpher, Herman, and Gamow showed that the universe should have cooled, between then, and now, to a temperature of about 5°K.

Finally, in 1964, Penzias and Wilson accidentally discovered the black-body microwave radiation produced by that ~5°K temperature -- the Cosmic Microwave Background.

Given these three lines of evidence it is reasonable to conclude that long ago...

The whole universe was in a hot dense state...

Source: x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1830293918967083385

52 years ago I got into my brand new silver Opel GT, got on the highway, tuned the radio to WLS, and listened to their special broadcast of Jesus Christ Superstar in its entirety with only one commercial break. I must have driven 100 miles.

Today I got on my recumbent bike, put in my AirPods, pedaled out onto the Wisconsin rural roads, and told my phone to play Jesus Christ Superstar from beginning to end. I rode 21 miles while singing aloud. I sang Gethsemene at the top of my lungs, tears streaming down my face.

It’s been a good day.

Source: x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1830336489949192530

Design Patterns is a wonderful book. Yes, I know, it's thirty years old. Yes, I know it uses older languages. But it's still great.

Some folks have said that the concept of Design Patterns is out of date -- that those patterns were just workarounds for the bad languages of the day.

What a load of Dingoes Kidneys! The Patterns described in the book are timeless and well worth the effort to learn. They are crystalized applications of old and well worn principles.

You _will_ use them, one way or another, because they are common solutions to common problems. If you don't know them already, you'll work them out for yourself.

The benefit of learning the patterns from the book is that it gives those common solutions canonical names, and canonical forms. When others who know those names and forms see them in your code, they'll know exactly what to expect.

Source: x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1830340222393143553

If people actually understood the technicals of how ML works, it would save a lot of headaches.

Source: x.com/Valuable/status/1830241519728496904

FreeCodeCamp has a new certification program:

"English for Developers"

At the moment Level A2 is available. And they'll soon introduce Levels B1, B2, and C1 as well.

Source: x.com/denicmarko/status/1829890970999275771

It’s hard to accept someone you love the most will never come back.

“Bou”, wherever you are now, I’ll miss you at every moment for the rest of my life. Please keep guiding me and listen me when I call you.

Om Shanti

Source: x.com/swapnakpanda/status/1828999685186392147

The notion of hiding bad results indicates a seriously broken culture. There is no such thing as a "bad result" because it's a positive learning opportunity. If you haven't released in a few days, however, that's a metric management will observe (and pay attention to). There are no reports involved—nothing to hide, however. Teams don't "hide" anything. They just don't waste time creating reports that contain nothing actionable by management. (Actionable by the team ≠ actionable by management.)

Source: x.com/allenholub/status/1829930742014755295

Made some dip attachment handles for my rack out of a 1” spinlock barbell, very happy with these and it was only $30!

Source: x.com/wesbos/status/1829688611060543674

Whenever a Linux user has to work with another OS.

Source: x.com/TheJackForge/status/1829918124487163927

What the hell is going on in Brazil?

Source: x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1829851538438922596

Hilary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Pete Buttigieg show off their dance moves as they take part in a TikTok dance trend to promote their appearance on The Late Show.

Source: x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1829855782328025366

I think @elonmusk should adopt this as his theme song.

Source: x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1829860828008648861

(Bookmark this tweet)

Source: x.com/Valuable/status/1829853945688441056

My friend has the best remote work schedule ever.

2 meetings a week and everything else is async.

As long as you finish your tasks, they don’t care what hours you work to get it done.

Source: x.com/TheJackForge/status/1829236144200134956

Tech is crazy.

One of the few industries where you can make $150k+ with just a MacBook.

Build a SaaS that hundreds of businesses depend on.

Start a web development agency with a platform like @WixStudio or Webflow

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Source: x.com/TheJackForge/status/1829194784118079560

For all those UX ppl out there, I'm looking for two emoji that I can use to symbolize "workshop" and "session" (full day vs 1 hour). I can go to icons in a pinch (if they're emoji sized), but I'm not sure what to use there, either. What do you suggest? (@joenatoli ?)

Source: x.com/allenholub/status/1828865499066962151