Nick Quinlan

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Hey! I'm Nick.

I live in Seattle, WA, where I go birding, eat great food, work as COO @ Major League Hacking and serve on the board of Northwest Education Access.

pronouns: he/him

Websitehttps://nicholasquinlan.com
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/YayNickQ
Wandering Earth 2 is available on Prime! Treat yourself and watch it. It was so good I watched it twice the week it came out. https://watch.amazon.com/watch?gti=amzn1.dv.gti.edd20676-b6ae-4c44-8504-f4e07fbf921b&time=auto&ref_=atv_cf_strg_ap
Prime Video

One of the more powerful radio pieces I’ve ever heard: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/809/the-call
The Call - This American Life

One call to a very unusual hotline, and everything that followed.

This American Life
I always say podcasts should come with a disclaimer, “don’t listen to on your commute,” this is one of them but it’s beautiful and poignant. https://www.rumblestripvermont.com/episodes/422
Finn and the Bell — Rumble Strip

Finn Rooney killed himself in Walden, Vermont. This is a story about who he was and what he left.

Rumble Strip

I just got an email from Forvo saying I received a vote for my pronunciation of "wheat flour". Intrigued, I went to see that, in fact, there was a recording of my voice for that and several other word pairs that I had no recollection of making.

What I'm saying is the early days of the pandemic were weird.

https://forvo.com/user/nquinlan/

Pronounced words by nquinlan in Forvo.

List of pronunciations recorded in Forvo by nquinlan

Forvo.com
Danny 💙🌙✨ on Twitter

“Seeing a lot of misinfo that the X logo was taken from a Unicode character; not true sadly. I hate to say it but it’s actually quite well designed, let me break down why 🧵 (1/X)”

Twitter
Summer is sending a calendar invite to a group and getting five "I'll be OOO" autoresponders and three "I am presently OOO".
This is rediculously fun: https://neal.fun/password-game/
The Password Game

Please choose a password

Happy Friday!

I've got a new #opensource #python project out: The Universal Test Runner!

Its goal is to be able to run unit tests in any project repo, regardless of language. Just run `t` and your test suite is run.

It's got fairly wide language support ( #rust #clojure #golang #javascript #typescript #python Makefiles #elixir ) and I'm planning on adding more as I go (or feel free to open an issue!)

It's also great for Exercism's #12in23, if folks are doing that.

https://github.com/xavdid/universal-test-runner

GitHub - xavdid/universal-test-runner: A language-agnostic, zero-configuration test invoker

A language-agnostic, zero-configuration test invoker - xavdid/universal-test-runner

GitHub
Turns out I can.
@xavdid reccomended AirPod Pros for flights, I wasn’t sure but I thought I’d try them. I cannot overemphasize what a difference they make.