@aboodman
Before the Chrome launch, rather than dinners at the office, I remember leisurely walking as a team to Cafe 150 for lunch most days. Sometimes we talked about work stuff, but people also talked about their families and whatever else was going on in their lives. It was good times.
@slightlylate
"Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful." - jwz
54 years ago, we represented Mildred and Richard Loving in the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia. We won the case and overturned unconstitutional bans against interracial marriage.
#LovingDay
@bradfitz
I wrote a JSON parser in C++ in Chrome (a simple LL parser). I was so relieved when someone who knew what they were doing replaced it. I kept expecting there to be a security exploit in my code, but it never happened.
Thank you to everyone who came to my birthday party on Twitch! I had a lot of fun playing games and chatting. I love you all. ❤
We raised $420 for the
@sfspca
, which I matched. I also completed the remaining goals to become a Twitch Affiliate.
Tomorrow, I'm flying to visit my parents. It will be the first time in over a year that I won't sleep in my bed and for wearing pants most of the day (I've been wearing PJ pants for the past year even when working from home).
See You Space Cowboy. Meet Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) in Cowboy Bebop, premiering November 19, only on Netflix.
@bebopnetflix
@netflix
@netflixgeeked
#COWBOYBEBOP
Not as exciting as last year's SF Mayor's race, but here are the results so far of the SF District Attorney race. This is based on preliminary report 8 on this page:
#RankedChoiceVoting
I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2019!
#AdventOfCode
My solutions at . Didn't make it into the top 100 any day, but found the problems easier overall than last year. Thanks for running it
@ericwastl
!
I have missed flying on plane.
Planes, buses, and biking to work/school all make me feel more connected to the people and society around me. Primarily driving for the past year has added to the social isolation.
"Yet in one corner of the White House, a team of idealistic tech workers established by Obama is helping the Dept of Homeland Security offer asylum seekers better customer service." (I helped with this!)
Obama's US Digital Service Survives Trump–Quietly
@bradfitz
Other tips: make sure to max your 401k and HSA. Do the full charitable gift match for the year (12k?). Leave early in the month because health insirance covers until the end of the month. COBRA is expensive, just get something on the exchange.
Both teams were working on browsers, but in different decades. Chrome benefitted from employees wanting work/life balance, a company that had many moon shot projects, and former webdevs who made incremental releases of desktop software possible. This removed a lot of pressure.
Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all. The team came in at 9 and left at 5 (figuratively, people actually kept their own ~8h schedules) every workday for a couple years like clockwork. No drama. No broken marriages, no broken families.
I went into a Trader Joe's for the first time in about a year. I saw SF characters that I hadn't realized I'd been missing: women with rainbow colored hair, woman with large Chrome messenger bag, and man carrying small dog with a shirt on. ♥️ Stay awesome SF. 🌉
Skinning a bell pepper may sound daunting (and cruel), but I had experience doing it before!
Once
@fakeneildrumm
forced me to roast a bell pepper on a gas stove and remove the skin. I now get to reapply that skill in preparing food for the baby.
@evmar
Ah, the SF Chrome office. I have fond memories of you (working on the Linux port),
@aboodman
(designing the extension system),
@agl__
(keeping the internet encrypted and typing on his kinesis keyboard with squeaky foot pedal) and myself in the cramped, hot interior office.
It's an unexpected surprise how Chrome has become the platform that desktop apps are built in. Chromium embedded framework is in almost anything I use. Games, text editors, chat clients, they all use Chrome.
📣Wanted to shout out the joe text editor and ion window manager! I used joe up until I switched to VSCode. In the early days of Chrome on Linux, I made sure that dragging out a tab worked with ion.
Both are mentioned by
@apenwarr
on the
@tailscale
blog.
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Surprisingly
@BayAreaClipper
understands me pretty well. Yes, I would like a commemorative TransLink themed card sleeve! 💳😍
I waited on hold with customer service for 90min so I could get the card sleeve and transfer my balance.
I suspect the poor review had more to do with being an inexperienced intern host. The first time I was an intern host (2009?), I was a terrible host too, resulting in my intern failing to accomplish much. There should be intern host training, like manager training.
@superamit
The problem is that it will disproportionately hurt low income groups more. Students and families without home access to laptops or wifi or childcare will miss out on education and job opportunities.
I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2020!
Thanks
@ericwastl
for another year of fun puzzles! Competition was much more fierce this year, but I'm also getting rusty. Made it in the top 1000 most days & my best day was 157 place.
#AdventOfCode
I'm back to wearing a mask pretty much all the time outside my home, even when running. I like wearing a mask because:
• it provides warmth (it's been windy and cool outside) 🥶
• it reduces the spread of covid 🦠
• it normalizes wearing a mask 😷
My interpretation: the risk of getting Covid is related to your vax status, whether you're taking steps to lower risk (masking, etc), & whether you’re exposed to the virus. Even in highly vaccinated SF, the odds of being exposed have gone up ~ 20-fold since June 1. (12/20)
Yugo Puzzle is now available.
Move jellies left and right and join them with the same color.
It looks easy, but it is actually a challenging puzzle game.
Enjoy the variety of unique puzzles.
Steam:
:
Post-vaccination checklist:
✅routine physical 👩⚕️
✅indoor gym and pool 🏊🏻♂️
✅boardgame night with vaccinated friends 🎲
🔳haircut 💇🏻♂️
🔳fly on a plane ✈
🔳visit vaccinated family 👨👩👧👦
Fun fact: flexbox behaves in reverse for RTL languages and also works for vertical text flows (e.g. Japanese flowing from top to bottom).
Ojan and I spent a lot of time writing test cases to make sure it worked.
It's been 10 years since
@superamit
was diagnosed with Leukemia. Thankful that he's still with us today.
If you're in the US and haven't registered with
@BeTheMatch
, now is a good time to sign up and possibly save a life. 💪
I filed taxes yesterday. We had an effective federal tax rate of 1.57% and a CA tax rate of 3.04%. That's way too low for an income of about $120k. Long term capital gains tax is a tax break for the rich.
#TaxTheRich
Next to the
@SFPublicLibrary
main branch are the Mayor Ed Lee memorial tree, Pioneer Monument and the Asian Art Museum. Across Civic Center Plaza is City Hall.
I also swung by Outta Sight Pizza, the best NYC style pizza in San Francisco.
San Francisco @ 12 new cases/day, in city of ~900K. 79% of folks > age 12 have received at least one shot, 68% fully vaxxed. Upshot: we may well be the first US city to reach herd immunity, as described
@guardian
.
@PCH_SF
& George Rutherford
@UCSF
quoted.
Today was an overcast morning in San Francisco.
The Republic watches over the DMV across the street. 🗽
Grove St is an appropriately named street with it's large trees. 🌳🌲🌳
#BikeToWorkDay
is this Thursday! 🚴 I'm going to be working at the 7th & Folsom energizer station from ~8:30a-10:30a. Swing by to get a free tote bag and say hi! 👋
It's so refreshing to read an interview where the interviewee has thought about the questions, admits to past mistakes, and clearly describes the steps that have been taken and are continuing to fix things.
Politicians and the media should take note.
My first time going to Mountain Lake Park and playground located on the southern edge of the Presidio.
A Portal fan left a message on the playground's chalkboard.
This movie is amazing and the most unique film I've seen in years. There are so many unexpected turns and the humor, satire, and social commentary is great.
Thousands of people walk, bike, roll, and play on Great Highway each day and
@D4GordonMar
is taking that away in a matter of days instead of waiting for the outreach plan to decide the future of this park.
#carfreeGH
In all the data and health metrics, it's easy to lose sight of the individuals who have been largely isolated in order to prevent an outbreak there.
For people like Bernadette Yee and Jasper Harris, this is the beginning of the end of this pandemic after months of sacrifice.
Wordle is a game of consonants, not vowels.
I play a lot of wordle with
@katherine
and this is my main takeaway. It's better to have guesses with one vowel and 4 consonants because not knowing the consonants is how you lose.
I learned about this during my time in DC last summer. The real victims are the clients who were only doing what their lawyer told them to. Some of them end up getting deported after being in the US for years.
I was vaccinated at Moscone North and it was a similarly smooth experience. Everyone was social distancing and the space was wide open. The volunteers and staff made me feel safe. They were also very helpful to a visually impaired woman getting vaccinated.
I wrote about my experience today at the Moscone South vaccination site, mostly to reassure anyone (like me) who was wary of going into a big space full of people. It was fine, and quick.
@aboodman
I worked for ~7 months fully remote last year. I thought I would hate it, but I came to prefer it.
I think if I were a salary employee and given the option to stay remote, I would take it. For me, it's less about pants, and more about having a good WFH setup and team comms.
@hoverbird
One game that my niece (5yrs old) likes to play is having everyone take turns and say something they are going to do, followed by "just kidding" or "not kidding." For example, "I'm going to pour this water on my head! Just kidding!" She forces everyone to play during meals.