ndw’s Twitter Archive

Popular Tweets

A list of popular tweets by retweets and favorites.

1. Who started the anti-pattern that you can't paste into a password field? I have a few angry words to share ...
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 166 Retweets ❤️ 255 Favorites 2017 Jan 2 Mood -2 🙁
2. Six stages of debugging: plasmasturm.org/log/6debug/
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 109 Retweets ❤️ 19 Favorites 2012 Mar 26 Mood 0
3. ROTFL! ismytwitterpasswordsecure.com/
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 69 Retweets ❤️ 10 Favorites 2013 Apr 23 Mood +4 🙂
4. Every. Single. One. Of. These. troyhunt.com/2016/01/its-2016-already-how-are-websites-still.html
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 48 Retweets ❤️ 20 Favorites 2016 Jan 4 Mood 0
5. I don’t recall who said this was the best thing ever, but they might be right: devopsreactions.tumblr.com/
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 36 Retweets ❤️ 21 Favorites 2013 Jan 4 Mood +3 🙂
6. Years ago, any proposal that required another HTTP round-trip was effectively DOA. Today, every fscking link goes through eight shorteners.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 34 Retweets ❤️ 5 Favorites 2011 Dec 22 Mood +2 🙂
7. That thing where your employer forces you to use Exchange and you wonder if it would be easier to find a different employer.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 32 Retweets ❤️ 36 Favorites 2014 Aug 15 Mood 0
8. Proposition: God took Scalia during Obama's term; must want O to appoint next Justice. GOP faithful should therefore ratify immediately, no?
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 30 Retweets ❤️ 41 Favorites 2016 Feb 14 Mood +6 🙂
9. Oh, come on! Stop $#@%*-ing with "copy and paste" on your web pages. Don't be "disabling" it. Don't be adding sh*t to the copied text. FFS.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 28 Retweets ❤️ 60 Favorites 2017 Feb 23 Mood -2 🙁
10. The hardest thing about making coffee in the morning is that you have to do it before you've had any coffee.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 26 Retweets ❤️ 15 Favorites 2015 May 22 Mood 0
11. Whee! Namespaces in JSON! Let the reinvention of XML begin! mnot.net/blog/2011/10/12/thinking_about_namespaces_in_json
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 24 Retweets ❤️ 3 Favorites 2011 Oct 12 Mood 0
12. The clock is ticking! Get yourself registered for xmlsummerschool (9-14 Sep, Oxford, UK) if you want hands on XSLT, XQuery, and web publishing experience, information about XML, linked data, publishing, etc. and a chance to talk to lots of experts about all things markup!
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 24 Retweets ❤️ 19 Favorites 2018 Aug 20 Mood +3 🙂
13. Non Standard, being a few reflections on twenty years in markup standards. norman.walsh.name/2016/05/28/non-standard
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 23 Retweets ❤️ 21 Favorites 2016 Jun 16 Mood 0
14. "It was different with my wife. You see, I love her. I don’t even know your wife’s name." http://tinyurl.com/3qf8mjy
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 20 Retweets ❤️ 3 Favorites 2011 Jun 15 Mood +3 🙂
15. Thinking about HTML and XML: http://norman.walsh.name/2011/02/08/html-xml
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 18 Retweets ❤️ 8 Favorites 2011 Feb 8 Mood 0
16. I’m tremendously pleased to announce that I’ll be starting work at saxonica next month. It’s been a great decade at MarkLogic, but it’s time to move on to new challenges, and I’m delighted to be doing that with the Saxonica family!
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 17 Retweets ❤️ 158 Favorites 2020 Aug 14 Mood +9 🙂
17. XML people are best. That is all.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 16 Retweets ❤️ 73 Favorites 2020 Feb 12 Mood +3 🙂
18. XSLT Explorer. Better understanding through static analysis. Not deep, serious static analysis, but a bit of XSLT on XSLT static analysis. so.nwalsh.com/2020/06/02-xsltexplorer
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 16 Retweets ❤️ 39 Favorites 2020 Jun 3 Mood +2 🙂
19. Documentation improves code. It is an underappreciated fact that writing documentation improves your code. so.nwalsh.com/2020/06/20-docs
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 13 Retweets ❤️ 41 Favorites 2020 Jun 20 Mood +4 🙂
20. I hope 2020 is remembered as the decade we saved the planet and drove the fascists back under their rocks (for the last time).
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 12 Retweets ❤️ 40 Favorites 2020 Jan 1 Mood +2 🙂
21. Cory doctorow's description of multinational corporations as "these sprawling, global immortal transhuman colony-organisms" is...*chef's kiss*
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 9 Retweets ❤️ 74 Favorites 2022 Aug 15 Mood +4 🙂
22. DocBook XSL: The Next Generation. Insert your own Star Trek reference. A complete reimplementation of stylesheets for DocBook in XSLT 3.0. xsltng.docbook.org/
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 9 Retweets ❤️ 40 Favorites 2020 Jul 24 Mood 0
23. …in reply to @norootcause
    LHochstein Only happens with debugging disabled.
    Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 56 Favorites 2019 May 2 Mood 0
24. Fab. LinguaCelta said “yes”.
    Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 45 Favorites 2019 Sep 8 Mood 0
25. Programming is an odd occupation. I've spent maybe 6-8 hours trying to reproduce a bug (if you can't reproduce it, you can rarely fix it). Long enough, anyway, for the spectre of doubt: what if *I* can't find it? And then the cathartic elation of having found the little bastard.
    Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 41 Favorites 2019 Mar 7 Mood -5 🙁
26. There’s something more than a little dystopian about a “mass vaccination center” in a medical building in a run-down warehouse district out in the sticks, but I got my first!
    Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 39 Favorites 2021 Mar 30 Mood 0