Benjamin Congdon

@BenRCongdon

CS@Illinois, 2019. Code, data enthusiast. I have a ❤️ / □ relationship with unicode. My opinions = ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Currently .

Seattle, WA
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Joined June 2011
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    21 Aug 2016

    sudo !!

    12 retweets 24 likes
  2. 18 minutes ago

    I really dislike those planes that drag big ads behind them. It's like putting a banner ad on the sky... 😒

  3. 16 hours ago
    Replying to

    Bit of a shame that this seems to only work on a select number of shows... 😕

  4. Jun 10

    Current status:

  5. Jun 10

    about the 'autofocus' attribute. Super useful...

  6. Jun 9

    I wonder how many people actually send money through FB messenger and Snapchat... 🤔

  7. Retweeted
    Jun 9

    json needs trailing commas, don't @ me

    10 replies 6 retweets 79 likes
  8. Jun 9
    Replying to

    I'm guessing this is 's doing... 😉😄

    1 reply
  9. Jun 9

    Heroku doing the good work of encouraging Python3 adoption. 🙌🐍

    1 reply 2 likes
  10. Jun 9

    I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but Twitter should have Slack-style emoji reacts

    1 reply 4 likes
  11. Jun 9

  12. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    Wow. I was able drag four *different* stacks of objects with four fingers (!) on my left hand. Very, very impressive. cc

    27 replies 853 retweets 1,425 likes
  13. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    Other results (seriously) —Lord Buckethead: 249 votes —The Official Raving Monster Loony Party: 119 —Bobby "Elmo" Smith: 3

    57 replies 990 retweets 1,717 likes
  14. Jun 8
    Replying to

    That being said, I'm still in a bit of Python withdrawal... ☕😢🐍

    1 like
  15. Jun 8
    Replying to

    Feels a lot less verbose when you have your imports automatically handled and can use 1 decorator to create all setters/getters. 👍

    2 replies
  16. Jun 8

    Working in and using Lombok () makes working in Java lot more comfortable.

    1 reply
  17. Jun 8

    Just spent ~4 hours trying to get Spring to load config from my environment. 🙄 (Yes, it was my fault. Error message weren't helpful 😞)

    1 reply 2 likes
  18. Jun 8

    Making a simple HTTP request in Java is hilariously verbose. 20+ lines vs. the 1 line Python requires

    2 likes
  19. Jun 7

    I'd prefer the headline "The Day the JavaScript Interpreter Stood Still"

    2 likes
  20. Jun 6

    Started reading SICP and learning Scheme. Exciting stuff! Fun to wrap my head around a non-C-like language... 👨🏻‍💻

    1 like
  21. Retweeted
    Jun 6

    Apple wants you to know that they're really focused on machine learning

    The Machines, They're Learning
    7 replies 64 retweets 79 likes

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