George Crawford

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Principal Engineer at the Financial Times.

Polyglot musician and classical violinist.

Living in Bristol, UK.

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#Norway is about to open the world's longest purpose-built bicycle and pedestrian tunnel in Bergen.

It's 2.8 km (1.7 miles) long, and filled with art...

Found a new font called Schrodinger Condensed.

(Typographic art designed by Yash Mathur https://theinspirationgrid.com/clever-antonym-typography-by-yash-mathur/)

Clever Antonym Typography by Yash Mathur | Inspiration Grid

Indian designer Yash Mathur plays with opposites in this clever typographic series.

I like Firefox. A lot actually. But really @mozilla what * are you doing?

First it was crypto donations and now it's AI on MDN?

Stop this before you lose any more credibility. Please!

I bet than MDN AI has w3schools in its corpus

Your tweets can no longer be viewed by people who are not logged in. If you tweet something today, youโ€™re not sharing it publicly.

This basically prevents me from tweeting original content anymore. I cannot have my tweets be behind a login wall. Thatโ€™s unacceptable.

I cannot even share links to tweets anymore because some of my readers may not be able to easily access that content.

Twitter has made bad moves recently, but this is the worst by far.

"JavaScript Gom Jabbar" by Alex Kotliarskyi https://frantic.im/javascript-gom-jabbar/

This one hits a little too close to home.

JavaScript Gom Jabbar

What's inside that package.json? Pain.

@sarahjwells Great to see you today, and thanks for a thought-provoking talk. Thanks also for hearing me out on cognitive load, team topologies, etc. It was great to have a bit of a sense-check!

"I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people." -- https://cohost.org/hystericempress/post/1731218-reflecting-on-it-th @hystericempress

Posted because I kept seeing this quote posted with the names filed off, so I did a quick google search to find the original so I could share it with full attribution.

I'm getting super-spammed with retoots and faves, so I don't need any more.

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Reflecting on it, the reason I think the OceanGate situation has become such a flashpoint for anger is because it's such a perfect microcosm of the problem with everything right now. Decisions are not made based on safety, reasonable caution, or concern for human life. Every decision is instead made from a default assumption of 'what if the bad thing just DIDN'T happen?' We are given pie-in-the-sky promises and sizzle reels and an endless PR hype-cycle for every new innovation and inevitably it fails to work, harms people, and then is maybe barely apologized for before the next bad idea comes down the pike. OceanGate's underengineered, undercooked, doomed submarine isn't merely a metaphor for the hubris of the wealthy, it is a scale model of the way the wealthy dictate our reality. All consequences can be ignored, all blowback can be forestalled, let the end-user eat the cost. I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people.

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A bar was walked into by the passive voice.