James Gifford

@jrgifford

Software team lead. tinkers with: , , and just enough agile to hold it all together.

Seattle, WA
armyofminions.com/now/
Joined June 2009
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    41 minutes ago

    When you believe that all code and learning resources ought to cost nothing, your community will be controlled by whichever moneyed interests fund all the labor you imagine to be free.

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  2. Aug 27

    Clarification, because people (correctly) didn't believe he's that old: He's not old enough to get his license yet, but he's getting his temps in a week AND he's owned the car for almost 6 months (it didn't start when he bought it)

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  3. Aug 27

    My brother is snap chatting me photos of his new typewriter. Send help he’s turned into a Volvo driving Linux using typewriter hipster.

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    Aug 27
    Replying to

    The Universal Church of UTC

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  5. Aug 27

    Or maybe it’s more of a religion?

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  6. Aug 27

    I’m changing my political party on Facebook to “time zone hater”

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  7. Aug 27

    Road trip, day 16: still true.

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  8. Aug 26

    The only constants while traveling is pike place and it being a shock when gas station rest rooms are clean.

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    Aug 25

    You don’t have to broadcast an opinion. You don’t have to parrot a news feed. You don’t have an obligation to comment. The great trick a text box plays is the impression you must fill it.

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    Aug 25

    Personally like the Wimbledon all-white rule and the lengths they go to protect it. This re Serena Williams at the French Open, however, is preposterous -

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    Aug 25

    Nike’s message to the French Open, who banned Serena Williams from wearing her medically designed catsuit to help prevent blood clots...all because the tournament chief didn’t like it.

    You can take the superhero out of her costume, but you can never take away her superpowers.
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    Aug 24

    You can take the superhero out of her costume, but you can never take away her superpowers.

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  13. Aug 25

    Yo, folks. I’m going to be there by Tuesday (well, Monday night probably) and I’ll be around for a few weeks. We should grab coffee or something!

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    Aug 24

    Eliminating "you guys" and "hey guys" from your daily vocabulary is important — particularly for managers, marketers and considerate humans.

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    Aug 25

    Tickets have been available for ~24 hours and already only 9 seats remaining for my 10/29 Ruby performance workshop in SF. I will open up other dates if it looks like it will sell out, but if you can only attend on Monday, buy now!

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    Aug 24

    The folks at run radio stations WWV, WWVH and your 'atomic' clock's favorite station, WWVB. Unless we act fast, they may lose funding to keep these stations on the air. How can you help?

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  17. Aug 24

    Sidekiq Pro batches took us from having to do certain things once a day to being able to do it whenever (and how often) the heck we want.

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    Aug 24

    Announcing that I will be running 1-day intensive public workshops in NYC and SF this October. Class sizes capped at 15, extremely hands-on. Learn to make your Ruby/Rails app faster:

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    Aug 23

    Friendly reminder as a fellow parent: never ever ever ever install spyware on your kid's phone. Seriously, do some "offline parenting" and talk to your kids about online risks, *never* resort to deliberately weakening their personal security

    I’m a parent with young kids now coming online. I’m also a guy who sees a lot of data breaches and no-way no-how will I ever resort to installing this sort of product on either of my kids’ devices.
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    May 23

    I’m a parent with young kids now coming online. I’m also a guy who sees a lot of data breaches and no-way no-how will I ever resort to installing this sort of product on either of my kids’ devices.

    Parents: Stop Fucking Spying On Your Fucking Children.
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