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Reid Burke

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I am thrilled to begin my new role at Apple. I will help small businesses succeed by building Apple Business Essentials — a product which brings together device management, 24/7 Apple support, and iCloud storage into flexible subscription plans.

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Reid Burke

@reid

10 months

@thomashawk @Nextdoor 😞 So sad to hear about the attempted car jacking. And now this nonsensical response from @Nextdoor . Thanks for speaking truth to power. We need more of that.

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@reid

11 years

A postmortem: “It’s better to let the server handle HTML rendering and minimize the use of JavaScript on the client.” http://t.co/Z0HtDKCV

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18 years

Chilling. Just cleaned my room, finally.

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6 years

My house announces when laundry is done. Using @home_assistant , two TP-Link HS110 energy monitors, and the built-in Google TTS system. When done, the system commands all music in the house to pause and announces status from a single speaker. The future is cool

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@reid

12 years

What do you give Douglas Crockford on his last day? A semicolon! http://t.co/an8HkaVK

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@reid

6 years

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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@reid

11 months

My iBook G3 is on IPv6 Only took about 20 years to get this working, lol

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@reid

2 years

@IanColdwater @maddiestone Yahoo Mail is hiring for dozens of positions for web, mobile, and backend. My team is actively hiring several frontend engineers to work on our React app. Levels IC2 through IC5. One of many open roles:

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Reid Burke

@reid

10 years

npm loves you. We love @npmjs And coffee service. #jsconf http://t.co/8pfeNTCWS5

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@reid

1 year

@jimfarley98 @Ford The Ford Store Morgan Hill stands apart. Bought a FX4 Maverick from a nearby Ford dealer after haggling on markup. Placed an order for another hybrid Maverick with TFSMH and everything was amazing with zero surprises or markup. Gave my dad the FX4 and I daily the hybrid.

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Reid Burke

@reid

10 years

Hey guys check out my new followers http://t.co/SJVUdmcoC4

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@reid

5 years

Exploring NeXTSTEP 3.3 on a SAIC Galaxy 1100. Very rare portable PA-RISC workstation introduced in 1994 built for the military. had email from Steve Jobs! OmniWeb worked! Everything feels like OS X. LCD quality superior for its era. Thanks @vcfederation !

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@reid

11 years

Yeti is fully supported on the Tesla Model S. http://t.co/PptdNLc1yc

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@reid

5 years

I pulled up @PoolsideFM for maximum 90s nostalgia on the Yahoo Moo Mail kiosk. Long live PoolOS

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@reid

9 years

Slides and reactions from my #NodeSummit talk on Node.js and Yahoo http://t.co/aUdzatuoWw

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@reid

6 years

About to go full @davglass on this house

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@reid

7 years

My company-issued MacBook recently failed. Big thanks to @arqbackup for recovering my home directory from Google Drive! No data loss.

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@reid

14 years

Introducing Yeti: run JavaScript unit tests in multiple browsers and devices from the command line. More on YUIBlog: http://awe.sm/59iFQ

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@reid

5 years

Today it’s working again! Thanks to all the Yahoos who helped restore the internet bovine!

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@reid

11 years

How YUI runs 100K tests every commit while keeping our sanity: Slides from my #YUIConf talk “Testing YUI Everywhere” http://t.co/BxRaKJ6VVN

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@reid

11 years

So @clarler , @ziggyism , and I ran the YUI unit test suite on the Tesla Model S. It works! http://t.co/iuwjzOv8rq

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@reid

12 years

Slides from my #yuiconf talk, Write Code That Works: http://t.co/R9UC3Jwo

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@reid

4 years

Helped launch @AwakeningSV ’s first online-only gathering today. Big thanks to @COPlatform , @Vimeo , and our team. Amazing to see life-changing moments happen even when we can’t meet in person. I’m eager to share how we do high quality live video on a budget. More to come soon!

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@reid

11 years

New blog: Debugging Travis builds. How to install a local @travisci VM to debug failing builds for Node.js projects. http://t.co/spKcTSM3

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@reid

13 years

Slides from my YUI Loader Service introduction at #bayjax tonight: http://reid.github.com/decks/2011/bayjax/yls.html

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@reid

10 years

Node.js postmortem debugging for Linux http://t.co/OEsJlmejAW

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@reid

5 years

@eranhammer hapi: the best framework Node to man.

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@reid

2 years

Yahoo Mail is hiring. We build with React and have about a dozen job openings for web frontend software engineering. Levels IC2 through IC5. Come build with us. Learn more and apply:

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@reid

2 years

@IanColdwater @maddiestone Another open req for a principal frontend engineer: — all positions are 100% remote.

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@reid

11 years

I think I just submitted the most hilarious facilities request since joining Yahoo… “drone rescue requested, Bldg A, bring ladder”

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@reid

7 years

Finally updating my Palm Pre to the latest webOS

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8 years

This weekend @HackSI returns! Glad to see @davglass and others building a great tech community around my hometown.

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@reid

11 years

I’m 24. I’ve worked at Yahoo for 5 years. It has not been perfect, but I’ve grown tremendously. I’m becoming more than a full-time tinkerer.

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@reid

11 years

Within 15 minutes, I saw the same person tailgate into URL’s, get escorted out, then get past Lockheed’s security checkpoint on a bicycle.

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@reid

10 years

Briefly shifted the JS center of gravity today from Oakland to eastern Oakland because @davglass and I hacked together in Southern Illinois.

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Reid Burke

@reid

12 years

Yeti 0.2.14 works with Mocha and Jasmine test frameworks. Better QUnit support. Runs tests faster. Happy Thanksgiving! http://t.co/y3ZncAhY

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@reid

11 years

Since 15 August, over 21 million @yuilibrary tests were automated with Yeti. That’s 176,733 tests per day on average. http://t.co/ZUlNDLldyb

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@reid

5 years

Yup, I’m very happy to be sitting at a Xerox Star. I’ve seen Xerox Alto and Star demos before but actually used one. The GUI and networking concepts introduced by Xerox laid the groundwork for later computers. Thanks @LivingComputers for bringing it down from Seattle.

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Reid Burke

@reid

6 years

Join me in supporting the @Movember Foundation's mission to prevent men from dying too young. Sponsor the 2018 @gentlemansride , where I'll be joining hundreds of others in Sacramento, CA this Sunday to raise awareness for men's health.

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Reid Burke

@reid

5 years

Back in 2000: “Yahoo! Moo Mail consists of two interactive, Internet ‘cow-nected’ bovines that offer people the ability to browse the Web and check and send e-mail for free...” Yahoo still has one at HQ. But it was neglected and hasn’t worked in years.

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Reid Burke

@reid

4 years

After over a year of hand washing dishes, I installed a dishwasher back in January. I appreciated it back then, but now... it’s an essential service.

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Reid Burke

@reid

8 years

Node continues to find new uses at Yahoo. Excited to share recent experiences this Thursday @NodeSummit SF. It’ll be fun! Come say hello.

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@reid

4 years

Insurrection in our country’s capitol is evil. It is aided and abetted by evil persons reverberating lies about America’s election. I am heartbroken at the consequences of these lies and grieving with Americans everywhere. Lord help those working bravely to restore order.

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@reid

9 years

Much love for Yahoo's formatjs.io at #jsconf during i18n talk by @_benrondeau

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Reid Burke

@reid

13 years

Avoid top-level arrays in JSON: by overriding Array's constructor and using text/javascript, you can CSRF another site. http://t.co/R8A0npv

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@reid

11 years

It’s a bad day for @reid to be confused with @SenatorReid .

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Reid Burke

@reid

6 years

Hacked an old Quirky Nimbus from eBay into displaying current commute time with @home_assistant 0.79. Really cool! Turns out you can still activate these things in 2018. Big thanks to Wink for supporting a legacy device and to w1ll1am23 on GitHub for the integration code.

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@reid

8 years

Hello friends! Evil is defeated within relationships. Seek to understand, then speak. Words are powerful. Labels drag us into a common pit.

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@reid

2 years

Calm before the Pineapple Express this morning.

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@reid

10 months

@nodejs @YahooMail is hiring IC5 engineers for our Node.js and React web frontend. Come build with us. Roles are 100% remote but there are a few of us who (optionally) get together in our new Mountain View office. Apply:

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@reid

9 years

Right hack at it again! Custom badges, of course. If @davglass is here, he’s not messing around #HackSI

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@reid

9 months

California, forever.

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@reid

5 years

Finally getting around to setting up grandma’s computer

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@reid

12 years

Tonight’s #nodeconf party venue, @VoiceboxPDX , built their own karaoke bar backend with Node.js. API included: http://t.co/iRftgHiP

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@reid

8 years

@eranhammer Brace yourself, rogue agents have been singing the praises of @hapijs to an influential bunch of Node developers. :) #nodeconfeu

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Reid Burke

@reid

10 years

Hey Cincinnati! Thanks for attending #NodeRoad . Big thanks to @joyent and @OnModulus for hosting. My slides are here: http://t.co/dhhnaWiCO6

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@reid

8 years

Launched the website for @RGenProject Forum! Coming Oct. 22 to the SF Bay with Francis Chan:

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@reid

7 months

@AlmostMedia I get spammed with "your account is locked" notifications all the time. I believe folks try to login as me a lot. These repeated failed logins cause the account to lock. If I unlock the account, it becomes locked again later the same day.

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Reid Burke

@reid

9 years

Sunset at Yosemite #optoutside

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@reid

10 years

“Nest is not compatible.” I think they meant to say “relays not included” because it’s working now http://t.co/V1XZ7Uvrd4

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Reid Burke

@reid

11 years

Made my first Facebook ad. Hoping to show @luk to as many people in Oakland as possible…

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@reid

8 months

Matt Mahan is accelerating San Jose by holding city staff accountable, focusing on a common sense priorities, and streamlining bureaucracy. Matt is up for election in 2024 due to San Jose shifting mayoral elections to the presidential cycle. He deserves our continued support.

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8 months

This week’s newsletter highlights: ▪️Performance management dashboards will increase accountability at City Hall ▪️Using new tools to fight crime ▪️Expanding transportation options in downtown and beyond with e-bikes Read more here: Subscribe to stay

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@reid

6 years

It's 2018 and I still miss @Rdio . Compared to @Spotify , Rdio had "vastly better interaction, visual, and service design: it was bright, beautiful, and intuitive" and I believe that holds true even today. Thanks @wilsonminer for setting the bar high.

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Reid Burke

@reid

4 years

I’m Twitter user #2 ,187. I joined really early on July 17, 2006 which was 14 years ago today! Back then the site was called “twttr” and I found out about it via Odeo. #MyTwitterAnniversary

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@reid

10 months

@DeanPreston @mrsmolescroft @RealC0rnP0p We had eyewitnesses remain at the scene who saw the getaway car and got a photograph of it with a clear view of the license plate. Nearby cop said nothing could be done. Other victims called but gave up waiting on hold. Reporting this crime was especially hard in 2020!

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Reid Burke

@reid

12 years

Yeti 0.2.8 features an all-new feedback line that makes it easier to keep track of lots of browsers during testing. http://t.co/5zXDA0bq

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@reid

9 years

Chakra is being open sourced in January! @mikeal invited on stage to share the implications for Node #jsconf

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@reid

5 years

Turned on my solar panels. Feels good to be saving energy! Wait

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@reid

11 years

Every so often I’ll compulsively inspect the whois and DNS records of my friend’s websites. Like a normal person.

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@reid

7 years

Incredible. A live demo of the Xerox Alto’s Bravo word processor failed when the document being edited was accidentally erased. The demo was quickly saved by re-running the program in replay mode, stepping through every command until restored. All possible in 1979! #CHMLive

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@reid

12 years

How to Win at Node.js, slides from my talk at #openhackindia http://t.co/5lwVUNfm

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@reid

11 years

Now @YahooAdBuzz has offered to advertise http://t.co/nlsPXXeXnq to Yahoo users around Oakland on the house. /cc @ded http://t.co/PBPU0CrZ6T

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@reid

10 months

@slicknet Lately I’ve been using the full system backup to Synology C2. More expensive but it’s nice to have everything backed up including the NAS packages and databases.

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@reid

8 years

Published the RTMP live video infrastructure used by @AwakeningSV . Only costs us $1 per event. Launch in one step:

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@reid

12 years

New blog post: Write Code That Works. http://t.co/rBilFUMb (Why you should prioritize your APIs before you write tests for them.)

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@reid

4 years

Helping my church run live video today. In a socially distant time, we're meeting together online and supporting each other — folks are chatting, praying for people, and encouraging each other at . I'm so grateful!

Awakening

Awakening Church is a community that exists to awaken this generation to new life in Jesus Christ. Join the Movement. Experience Community. Live on Mission.

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@AwakeningSV

4 years

Eternity in a Transient Time

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@reid

8 months

@jimfarley98 @ConsumerReports @Ford Great work. Owned a hybrid for a year. My dad has an FX4 for off-roading and hauling his boat. We love these small trucks.

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@reid

3 years

Made my last visit to Fry’s today. Picked up a blue Pelican 1650 with Fry’s stenciled on top. Thanks to @Foone for the tip.

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@reid

14 years

Yo dawg, I heard you like package managers so I put npm in your yinst so you can node while you Yahoo.

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@reid

8 years

Meaningful work is a choice. Making it sustainable is slow, steady, incremental, thoughtful, calm. Decide instead of hoping to arrive.

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@reid

2 years

Excited to watch Jurassic Park with a live orchestra at @DaviesSymphHall tonight 🦕 🦕 🦕

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@reid

2 years

Recently purchased an iBook G3 Snow at @vcfederation West for $20. After some cleaning and a new battery, it works awesome as a dedicated machine for @OmniOutliner Pro.

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@reid

12 years

I sat next to @creationix and suddenly Yeti has its own binary parser, heavily borrowed from his RPC project. <3 #txjs

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@reid

6 years

@evangoer @davglass Well, I suppose I don’t have Splunk analyzing Home Assistant’s polling of my Jeep’s fuel and I don’t have a light show with synchronized music in my front yard Not to worry there

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@reid

10 years

Pointing this at the moon. http://t.co/BFhYGdcIzK

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@reid

10 years

Transcoding H.264/AAC from a hardware encoder to multiple bitrates for HLS on iOS. Maxed out 4 cores, so only 11fps. http://t.co/YwiBZfPazI

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@reid

10 years

About 1,595,617,420 hours and 11 minutes remaining http://t.co/e8CbE41PJO

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@reid

5 years

New gift in my backyard from @ATT . Tech says it’ll take 6 months to light, so I’m counting down the days.

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@reid

14 years

Interested in YUI? Try SimpleYUI: http://awe.sm/5A4Ct How do I... http://jsrosettastone.com/ Free CDN'd code: http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/

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@reid

11 years

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Love will last forever. 1 Corinthians 13.

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@reid

5 years

Installed a 4 kW solar system from @tesla today. Looking forward to sunshine! #solarenergy

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@reid

8 years

Migrated @AwakeningSV ’s live video system to @Azure . Now free with Microsoft’s $5,000/year credit for non-profits!

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@reid

8 years

The story of a couple living with adventure and impacting the world from right here in Silicon Valley.

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@reid

11 years

North Korea’s KCNA news agency has yui-skin-sam on their admin page. If only we used the JSON license… http://t.co/PV0lBjtdyV

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@reid

11 years

I really like @Cloudup . Instant screenshot uploads. Fast mobile photo uploads—not from a native app, but from a website! #doingitright

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@reid

9 years

Talks at #jsconf on incremental skills and creative borrowing reminds me of how I learned to program. Old thoughts:

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@reid

3 years

Made a nice e-ink ambient display with an old Kindle and @home_assistant . Keeps track of irrigation batteries, my beagle’s Fi collar step count and battery level, home energy usage, and my @Ford Maverick truck’s fuel level

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@reid

9 years

Because FBI files of famous people who lived in Carbondale, IL is pretty darn cool: Buckminster Fuller's FBI File http://t.co/mlGFIn3x16

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@reid

6 months

@thomashawk Nobody told us. The food alone is amazing. Eataly, Baekjeong, iChina, Din Tai Fung… And parking is paid after 2 hours, so that’s not an excuse

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@reid

2 years

Home Alone dedication: 100%

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