A bit overwhelmed by the world at the moment. Time for a break. My outrage will return in the future.
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Nov 2019
I should be doing things but my bed is so comfortable: an autobiography
@jaymelynilao happy birthday!
It’s time for #MYTHICCHAMPIONSHIPVI edition 10000 gems giveaway! Right after I come back from MC VI, I’ll pick one random person who re-tweeted this tweet and follows me. The winner will receive a code for 10k gems on @MTG_Arena! Let’s celebrate this great magic weekend together!
Repost from LimitedRunGames:
We’re giving away a Vita and you could be the winner!
To enter: follow us & RT this tweet. We’ll draw a winner on 11/30.
In addition, for every 1,000 retweets this gets, we will add a Limited Run Vita game to the grand prize. We’ve got over 100 of them, so keep the RT’s coming!
GIVEAWAY TIME! To celebrate my #EternalWeekend 3-peat I’m giving away 3 incredible eternal playmats!
To enter: Retweet w/#BoshNRoll Sub my Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BoshNRoll Follow me Live in the US or help cover shipping
The 3 winners will be pulled Sunday 11/10/19. LET’S DO IT!
Repost from MTGOsalseo:
To celebrate the Joy of being alive in a world where the infamous grifter Jeremy Dezany tried to dq his opponent for having a Rick and Morty playmat, we are going yo give away one between all the people who retweets and follow us.
I watched Justice League vs the Fatal Five on the bus home last night and now I want to read more Jessica Cruz Green Lantern
300! #duolingo
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Oct 2019
@waxpancake thanks! the original announcement page that they were shutting down had told me to get an archive from their “privacy dashboard”, but that only gave me a summary of my data. Looks like the page had been updated to point to this link you just gave instead. I’ll try it out!
@waxpancake Did the archive include group messages, files and photos?
@jaymelynilao Hug mo lang randomly mga officemates
The most disappointing thing about this episode was learning how “Erdogan“ was pronounced and realizing it no longer works with the Etrigan chants
Quoted LastWeekTonight’s tweet:
Here’s our story from last night about the alarming decision to pull U.S. troops away from the border between Turkey and Syria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u_pZ-SgACk
By age 35 you should have:
It doesn’t matter It literally doesn’t Comparison is the thief of joy May you always have enough If you don’t, may you have great support Because rising tides lift all ships Unless you’re the worst, then I hope the tide takes you far away
I’m not sure whether charging blindly into fixing an unfamiliar system in an unfamiliar language/framework is a core skill for (senior) developers, or madness, or maybe a little bit of both
@SeresaTagAraw famous for being insatiable! lol
Brawl is the most fun I’ve had playing #mtg arena since it started. I play it even when I’m out of rewards for the day because it’s so fun, even against the Oko decks (I won this one!)
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Repost from LimitedRunGames:
We’re celebrating our 4th anniversary with a giveaway!
Two winners will receive a Switch Lite, and one grand prize winner will receive a Switch Lite bundled with an LRG game for every thousand retweets this gets.
To enter: follow us & RT this tweet. We’ll draw winners on 10/31!
Casual fridays imply the existence of ranked competitive fridays
@jaymelynilao just generally a much bigger hassle compared to web. no option to do something simple without using a big framework and a million dependencies. dependency management is a pain. and the debug/build/deploy cycle is a lot slower #dev
Every time I try building a mobile app, I’m reminded why I hate mobile app development
I don’t understand why the Arrowverse producers want to make a Mia Smoak spinoff when the flashforwards are the most boring parts of arrow seasons 7 and 8
Why would you go big if you could just go home?
@jaymelynilao daily standup?
Reply to patio11's tweet:
@patio11 what’s wrong with “blogging”?
@Westraid wasnt in time for the poll, but i would say just post what you like and as much as you like and let other people adjust if needed. After all, they chose to follow you :)
Updated to the new firefox, and now I’m thinking about finally getting a Firefox account to work with Lockwise and Breach Alerts. Is a Firefox account worth it?
Enterprise software can be so finicky with so many hidden options - a consequence of trying to be configurable for a wide audience
@MaoiArroyo Yes, sayo ko nakita lol
@wrongwaygoback paladin
Social Democracy? I guess that’s about right. https://8values.github.io/
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Feeling nostalgic: what are some articles, essays, blogposts etc that would go into a compilation called “the people’s oral history of the internet”?
Reply to JWonggg's tweet:
@JWonggg FIGHTING GAMES FOREVER
Going to do another cool giveaway from the things I got from Japan!!
To enter do the following
- Follow @JWonggg
- RT and LIKE this tweet
- Reply with “FIGHTING GAMES FOREVER”
Contest ends 10/22 so GOOD LUCK!!
“The price for being the best is always having to be the best” - nanny ogg, lords and ladies
Quoted dhh’s tweet:
Remember when “working real hard” had a goal? Like getting out of a shitty situation, so you could stop wearing yourself thin. Now the prize for “working real hard” and making it big is that you get to “work real hard” forever. Hustle culture sucks.
@jaymelynilao @ohhhace Is it you? Lol
Reply to ohhhace's tweet:
@ohhhace may ganyan kaming joke dati about HK SAs lol
When you find yourself tempted to spend money on frivulous things just remind yourself that unfettered capitalism and commercialism are bringing about climate catastrophe
Yet another example of Yahoo sucking. At least I get a chance to back things up this time (still bitter over Messenger) https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwe9p/yahoo-groups-is-winding-down-and-all-content-will-be-permanently-removed
Please watch this excellent closing statement by @chrislhayes
To stand up this way against his bosses at NBC News is remarkable
I should note what makes this even more remarkable is Andy Lack (NBC News Chairman) isn’t a big fan of Chris/his show
Chris is stepping out here
Great talk about what we know and what we dont know in software engineering
Quoted _joetdc’s tweet:
Probably the most important talk you’ll ever watch about software engineering, by @hillelogram https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2183&v=WELBnE33dpY (and blog post here https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/what-we-know-we-dont-know/)
Missing today’s Inktober because I’m tired. Hopefully can double up tomorrow
2nd ELD draft. This archetype is great (maybe until the bots find out about it), but I only went 6-3 due to a misplay #mtg
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Time to do something scary
Today (Oct 12, 2019) is the 80th anniversary of Quezon City
Pretty sweet #mtg arena pulls
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After watching Joker and Scorsese recently commenting on Marvel movies, I thought I’d watch one of his films, so I saw Goodfellas today. It’s not bad.
This makes me glad I didn’t follow my first instinct of upgrading to Catalina immediately https://tyler.io/broken/
We grew up way too fast And now there’s nothing to believe And reruns all become our history
@jmcpatino an additional 1% moves us into the top third of that graph
Roy Tang is a:
- programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart
- Frustrated writer and sketch artist
- Magic player on weekends
- Software developer since 2003. If you’d like to work with me, take a look at my resume.
roytang.net is a personal site, an E/N site, and kind of a commonplace book; I post about a random assortment of topics that interest me including software development, Magic the Gathering, pop culture, gaming, and tech life. This site is perpetually under renovation.