Matt Brown
@mattbrown.dev
I make stuff at @slack.engineering London-born, Brooklyn now https://mattbrown.dev
austinlparker.github.io/badideas/ what if you just ran wordpress core in the browser, in a php interpreter running in wasm, talking to embedded mysql which is also running in wasm in the browser
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Matt Brown@mattbrown.dev · 3w agoFYI that would distinguish the effort from the current WP playground: wordpress.github.io/wordpress-pl...
New paper in Nature where researchers measured impact of different Bluesky algorithms before & after the November 2024 election.
William J. Brady@williambrady.bsky.social · 2mo ago✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇
Have you seen this on the @theguardian.com website? I only ask because as a subscriber I cannot trigger it to see it on the page. It is an ad that I made for them that appears to non-subscribers so I can never make it appear.
My dentist can do it all, from a simple cleaning to identifying my charred remains
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2y agoThe problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
Ok funny story: there's a very old divine being — name is under NDA, but you have definitely heard of Him — who’s one of our biggest customers, and he wanted to have his actual birthday on there.
Sophie@localghost.dev · 12mo agoJust discovered that the Slack "start date" feature does very little validation
TIL: Bernstein repurposed a scrapped West Side Story opening number — "Make a mess of them" — an anthem composed for Chichester Cathedral www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/news/creatio...
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra@royalphilorchestra.bsky.social · last yr.In fact, Psalm 2 contains musical material that had been cut from West Side Story.
New: Kristi Noem secretly took a cut of political donations. A dark money group routed the funds to Noem's Delaware LLC, tax records show. The original source of the money remains unknown. www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
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Toronto is an extremely violent city. I just witnessed this guy beat up three guys and nobody around him did ANYTHING. People seemed numb to it. And then he did it AGAIN.
That twist towards the end where you go from “oh no” to “oh no no no no no no god oh no”
DEEP_DAB@dirtyclinch.bsky.social · last yr.OH IT IS HAPPENING!!!! We are at the end lol
For the absolute last time: I *never* said I thought E.T. dressed in the wig and the dress was sexy, I said *I could see why people would think that*
Gentle reminder to choose your words carefully when discussing the end of a bromance between two increasingly erratic billionaires.
Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode)@probgobl.in · last yr.I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty. My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.
Some of you have never seen all the angry panda commercials (actually a brilliant campaign for Egypt's Panda Cheese) and honestly especially these days there's no downside in getting you better educated on this particular matter
Top 7 Panda Cheese Commercials
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The only meaningful problem with 23andMe going into bankruptcy is that they are the only way for people to obtain information about certain SNPs there *is no commercially available alternate test for* and your doctor cannot order and the specific genetic variant you carry can have treatment effects
