Martin Bell

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#data, #mufc #crapjokes. In no particular order.
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I am once again going to beg diners everywhere: please stop stocking Tabasco as your only hot sauce.
People are claiming Elon Musk lied about those journalists revealing his location but to be fair they did all reveal that his head is up his ass

All of my recent zines come with a ★★ interactive website ★★ where you can play around with the concepts from the zine

For the upcoming debugging zine, it's https://mysteries.wizardzines.com/: a set of choose-your-adventure debugging mysteries.

these mysteries show you how to apply some of the tips in the zine to a specific kind of bug: computer networking issues! It also demos some of my favourite networking spy tools, with tips for interpreting their output!

erm, National *Geographic* Kid's magazine, I think we need to have a little chat...

SHITPOSTING

is an anagram of

TOP INSIGHTS

*shuts down laptop*
I think that's enough internet for today

*picks up phone*
Let's see what the pocket sized internet is doing

https://open.substack.com/pub/breakingpoint/p/you-have-too-many-metrics?r=125hnz&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Use fewer metrics 💯.

I've seen so much confusion from companies having tiny subvariants of the same metric. Confusion and delay.

You Have Too Many Metrics

The more metrics you track, the less you know.

The Breaking Point

The Gestapo Points to Guernica and Asks Picasso, "Did You Do This?;" Picasso Replies "No, You Did!"

https://www.openculture.com/2017/05/the-gestapo-points-to-guernica-and-asks-picasso-did-you-do-this.html

The Gestapo Points to Guernica and Asks Picasso, “Did You Do This?;” Picasso Replies “No, You Did!”

History remembers Pablo Picasso first as an innovative painter, and second as an uninhibited personality.

Open Culture

if you've ever messed up a dimension or a hole position on something you're building, don't be too hard on yourself.

at least you're not the Cisco design engineer who caused an entire product line recall by placing the mode button (which resets the switch if held) directly above an RJ45 port.