OH: "If you only have two ducks, they are always in a row."

Wise and funny talk by Dan North on being a 'Simplicity Architect': http://ow.ly/6gFst Must-see for software developers of all sorts.

Did the @nra just call for the creation of a police state to protect us from the guns that protect us from police states?

Seriously, touch this yak I just shaved--it feels like a baby's butt.

Snark is weaponized cynicism.

Look on the bright side: our industry's bikeshedding and narcissism delays the rise of the sentient software that will destroy us all.

@glennf Always thought of Twitter as the cocktail party (can listen in, move on). Facebook is the extended family reunion you can't leave.

Folks, it's a *distributed* source control system. Use it accordingly. #githubpocolypse

"A software architect is there to make it easier for developers to develop." http://t.co/n6Seldfm

self-inflicted denial of service attack as a service

@georgereese "XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you're not using enough of it." --Unknown

Suffering from Impostor Syndrome? Take comfort in the fact that it means you're probably not exhibiting the Dunning-Kruger effect.

@sassycrass Isn't the essence of privilege the assumption that your own point of view is the universal baseline?

@paleofuture The Finnish word for grammar police, pilkunnussija, translates literally to "comma fucker". (h/t @skychasing)

If you think you know how CMSs work, you're wrong. CMSs don't work.

The contrast between Congress' endless fiscal cliff handwringing & the same-day re-upping of FISA's warrantless wiretapping is... stark.

Very caremad about sexism in tech culture this morning. Takes a lot of courage for women to speak out against it. I'm ashamed they have to.

They told me these jimmies were coated with the latest anti-rustling technology, but now look at this shit. Worthless.

@avdi @hcatlin @skilldrick Yaks, once shaven, just reveal an additional, slightly smaller yak. #yakinception #adinfinitum

"WSDL" is actually onomatopoetic. It's the sound of being stabbed in the belly by angle brackets.