2020-06-24 (Wednesday)
Links
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Basecamp: Until the End of the Internet
Even if they didn’t make this specific commitment, having *any* public policy about how long you plan to run a site/service for, or the conditions under which you would close it, is refreshing. (via @simonw)
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The Gentle Author’s Coronavirus Diary | Spitalfields Life
This, and the linked piece, ‘On Recovering From The Coronavirus’, are lovely gentle writing. Also features Pepys.
Tweets
@ianbetteridge IAN "CRUNCHY" BETTERIDGE
His resolve guided the country
through its greatest crisis.
Let none who come after
suffer such smoothness.
@ianbetteridge A true hero. There should be a statue of you!
@ianbetteridge I'm so sorry.
@benbrown I've read that! Could have been 10x shorter.
@ianbetteridge It's spoiled me. I occasionally try others but, no, there is only one.
@tomskitomski They're having a tough time, might as well allow them some whooping. Besides, I'm not within earshot of any.
@schuyler We have stocks! Lockdown has added an extra level of jeopardy to the maintenance of these but so far our peanut butter resilience strategy has held up.
@cjlmiles Apparently there are smaller ones but I think of them as like those tiny sample pots of decorating paint.
I have just opened a new 1kg tub of Whole Earth crunchy peanut butter. Join me now in a round of applause of the appropriate length. Please don't "whoop" unless you are American.
@simonw Even if they didn't make this specific commitment, having *any* public policy about how long you plan to run a site/service for, or the conditions under which you would close it, is refreshing.
Liked tweets
I'd been fearing just this.
@mathowie i learned to code javascript rollovers by view-sourcing glassdog
ASMR for developers