Alex Pounds

@acreature

Web developer & photographer. , 500px, & others. Loves making things, photography, music, birds, & the web. Tweets puns & programming jokes.

Toronto, CA
Joined February 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    30 Aug 2019

    If your crow boss fires you, you are terminated with caws.

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  2. Jan 20

    Gold plated microphone, gold plated cable. I bet Donald’s annoyed he never thought of that.

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  3. Jan 20

    I replaced some slow cross-language interop with a native external program instead, called via popen. It’s more than 10x faster. Rare to get such pleasing results.

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  4. Jan 14

    There’s a banner which reads “There’s a new way to scrobble from Spotify” but it’s PRETTY UNCLEAR that the old way is disabled. A notification would have been nice.

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  5. Jan 14

    If you scrobble from Spotify: check it’s still working! Mine stopped on Christmas Eve & I only found out yesterday. You need to log in to to fix it.

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  6. Jan 13

    Shanty Tiktok is surely just days away from discovering the Red Army Choir. The combination of bass-heavy harmony and intense communism will be unstoppable.

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  7. Jan 13

    You think you have a good grasp on the outlandish nature of the US, and then you stumble on a throwaway remark like this.

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  8. Jan 11

    You can get away with marketing some really poor-tasting food if you put “Buddha” in the brand name.

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  9. Jan 5

    I began with “I need a little templating in this Ruby project” and am now at “if the winter is mild, maybe I can coax this library onto a different JS runtime.”

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  10. Jan 5

    I have started the new year as I expect it to continue: with JavaScript inflicting misery out of nowhere.

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  11. Dec 31

    I kept a daily gratitude journal throughout 2020. Today I am most grateful that I don’t ever have to do that again.

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  12. 24 Dec 2020

    The whole point of parchment paper is it’s non-stick, so I shouldn’t have been surprised that sellotape didn’t adhere to it. But I was.

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  13. 21 Dec 2020

    I like to think of myself as a rational human being, but I do make sure to brush my teeth before phoning the dentist.

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  14. 3 Dec 2020

    Opened some frozen peas by cutting the top corner off. I put them away & discovered, via peas going fucking everywhere, I’d previously cut a different corner off.

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  15. 1 Dec 2020

    Chocolate bars subdivided into squares should have an even number of rows & columns, OR each square should be a sufficient portion.

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  16. 27 Nov 2020

    I can’t believe SimpleCov has the gall to look at my 74% test coverage and highlight it in red.

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  17. 21 Nov 2020

    While editing a photo, I just discovered that the old TTC streetcars have “Made in Canada” on the back of them, in the small print. ZOOM.

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  18. 31 Oct 2020

    A man is in hospital after eating an entire coffin. Doctors are describing his condition as grave.

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  19. 31 Oct 2020

    I’m wearing orange underwear today. The traditional Halloween bumkin.

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  20. 30 Oct 2020

    Some folk think dicing old onions makes you cry more, because time concentrates the irritating chemicals. Others think younger onions make you cry more, because they had so much more life ahead of them.

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  21. 26 Oct 2020

    I’m struggling to pull the elements of a joke together into a funny tweet. It’s Halloween-related & I need a ghost writer: the irony is not lost on me.

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