Twitter Bookmarks for May 2025

1. Stop building microservices, it just helped pad your resume 2. Look at IPC/shared memory systems that exist on all Unix systems. 3. Use domain sockets instead of tcp when services are on same server 4. Send pointer references via signed urls if using s3/equivalents 5. Use

— ashishlogmaster (@ashishlogmaster) June 1, 2025

Calling c the "speed of light" completely misses the point. Rather, c is the "spacetime exchange rate": how many units of space you can exchange for one unit of time. In actuality, everything travels at the "speed of light", just not necessarily through space alone... (1/4)

— getjonwithit (@getjonwithit) May 31, 2025

— nocontextmemes (@nocontextmemes) May 30, 2025

The development of western civilization was directly a result of the mating patterns of western Europe: 1) No sex before marriage 2) No cousin marriage 3) Regular execution of antisocial men (~1-2% / generation) 4) Comparatively late marriage and mating (early/mid twenties) 5)

— jeremykauffman (@jeremykauffman) May 27, 2025

There is a race of Asian people on an island outnumbered 1:60 who use hieroglyphics and are the only race of people on Earth who know how to use magick to enslave demons into etched metal which are being used in an arms-race to summon the antichrist and immanentize the eschaton.

— sailaunderscore (@sailaunderscore) May 24, 2025

It's the 1950s. COBOL promises an English-like syntax that will allow non-specialists to program software systems, 10x productivity and not needing to understand the underlying system. It's the 1970s. SQL promises natural language queries that managers can write themselves,

— AStratelates (@AStratelates) May 17, 2025

Drinking Around the World in Manhattan

— NickWatts (@NickWatts) May 11, 2025

Mandatory car safety seats prevented 140 births for every life they saved. Safetyism sucks the life from our culture, figuratively and literally.

— DrInsensitive (@DrInsensitive) May 11, 2025

This fake trailer for The Shining practically launched the early YouTube trend of creating wildly misleading trailers for well-known films—and in my opinion, none of the imitators ever quite matched it.

— Gibboanxious (@Gibboanxious) May 9, 2025

This is the best one-paragraph explanation for what's gone wrong with our institutions:

— AlecStapp (@AlecStapp) May 5, 2025

If you’re wondering how every horse in the Kentucky Derby was a direct descendant of Secretariat…this is the non photo shopped version of his win at the 1973 Belmont Stakes…31 lengths clear of the entire field

— wingoz (@wingoz) May 4, 2025

I wonder what it would look like for the left to gain power in a nation where there is zero decency left and everything is on the table? Perhaps they might weaponize the IRS, preferentially targeting conservatives. Perhaps they might redirect taxpayer funded federal aid https:// x.com/literaryeric/s /literaryeric/status/1918291043964903612 …

— Devon_Eriksen_ (@Devon_Eriksen_) May 4, 2025

For the record, our most qualified presidential candidate was George Washington. No box left unchecked, no parallel to his virtues. Combat vet, two wars. 17 years a state legislator. 8 years Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, which he alone defined & held together. Handled

— baseballcrank (@baseballcrank) May 2, 2025