Andy Bakun

Gentleman Hacker; Artifex; Raconteur; At Large; Coder laureate; Victim of Arbitrariness; people think I'm a Consummate Snowball Artist
RT @coda: @moonpolysoft That's how I invented the "Sink The Bismuth", which is room-temp pear vodka with a splash of Pepto-Bismol in it.
RT @sox117: Never have truer words been written haha http://t.co/W8xGNszjiO
frazelledazzell: I hope you can all imagine the immense joy I felt when I read "GNU/Butts to fork kernel" this morning - https://twitter.com/frazell...
systemd forking Linux (or making an independent distro) wasn't done years ago because then we would have ignored it like all fringe forks.
The floppy disk as the Save icon may be bad, but the iconic representation for in-home visual entertainment is still a CRT with an aerial.
tbquirk: I'm seeing "smug" used more frequently in contexts where it seems to mean "smarter than me and disagrees." - https://twitter.com/tbquirk...
Just like "troll" often means "someone who points out how full of shit I am" or "one who states facts I don't want to hear". "Condescending" now means "someone who uses words I'm too lazy to look up". - Anika
JohnDCook: It's hard to obey the law when after diligent research you still don't know what the law is and official sources contradict each other. - https://twitter.com/JohnDCo...
lusis: actually it's about determinism in init systems - https://twitter.com/lusis...
hirojin: how it is: a product manager comes up with features, and tells a technical project manager to implement then until a deadline. - https://twitter.com/hirojin...
hirojin: Rakefile: Taking 30+ years of lessons learned from Makefiles and ignoring all of them. — @rnelson0 - https://twitter.com/hirojin...
markimbriaco: If it's hard to install, think about how hard it's going to be to manage once it's actually in production. - https://twitter.com/markimb...
UncleDynamite: No one tells the boy poking a beached whale that he's about to initiate a stench event that can't be removed with a wire brush & gasoline. - https://twitter.com/UncleDy...
RT @lusis: "Automated our DevOps" what the fuck....
dongattack: Top 5 Mental Illnesses Missing From The DSM-V: 5.March Madness 4.Wrestlemania 3.Lawnbowling Agitation 2.Tennis Angst 1.Huge Fart Syndrome - https://twitter.com/dongatt...
moonpolysoft: Actually, it's Seinfeld's Monster. Seinfeld is the comedian. - https://twitter.com/moonpol...
b0rk: suddenly tempted to contribute to open source projects, and only ever improve terrible error messages - https://twitter.com/b0rk...
SamGrittner: L. Ron Hubbard's real name is Literally Ron Hubbard. - https://twitter.com/SamGrit...
RT @onestartupaday: Startup of the day mention goes to the most amazing API: @easypost, a simple API to send packages through USPS, FedEx, UPS and others. #API
• @jpetazzo That's some next level shit: taking two weeks to get systemd into a state that it comes in out of the box.
SwiftOnSecurity: Robots aren't people. Companies are people. Make a robot a company. Robots are now people. - https://twitter.com/SwiftOn...
RT @rhettford: "The temptation to violate privacy by the monitoring of all domestic communication may at some point be too great." http://nullhole.com/2015...
theitskeptic: “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” Bertrand Russell - https://twitter.com/theitsk...
patio11: @StartupLJackson @dhh Keep in mind that you're discussing unicorns with a horse that has a prominent horn in its forehead. - https://twitter.com/patio11...
• @rhoml @petecheslock /usr/bin/cookiesd. That's right, I'm old school.
I'm not sure that Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean", a song about a paternity dispute, is the ideal song for a wedding.
OH: (at a wedding) "I didn't know piñatas sweat."
shutupmikeginn: Gentle reminder that your belly is full of puke at all times. Have a great day - https://twitter.com/shutupm...
RT @slatevault: USDA/Forest Service's Cocktail Construction chart, 1974 http://buff.ly/1D9Y52g via @USNatArchives http://t.co/kngIzIwKEA
Fun_Beard: Actually, Frankenberry was the scientist. - https://twitter.com/Fun_Bea...
mokomull: Just watched BART police walk by with a biohazard container. Probably not the best of signs. - https://twitter.com/mokomul...
• @Roguelazer Fast. On time. Hastily done. Pick two.
RT @roguelazer: Oh, wait, that has nothing to do with the number of engineers you have. False alarm.