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Don MacKinnon

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Co-Founder/CTO at @Searchcraft_ . My opinions are my own. Come see me on Bsky instead http://donmackinnon.dev

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Over at @searchcraft_ we're looking for pilots to join us on our mission to re-imagine what application search looks like. Signup for our alpha which will be coming soon for special pricing. searchcraft.io


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1/ I’m sorry to keep hammering on this story about @ElonMusk, but there are so many things to criticize. This is not up to @nytimes quality. First of all, there is issue that they take Musk’s statements at face value. This is journalistic malpractice. nytimes.com/2023/07/01/bus…


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I still believe in the aspirations of DevOps, but I think it's time we admit that the way we've implemented it has let us down. Too many of us are stuck. It's time to start building again. We need a second wave of devops tools: systeminit.com/blog-second-wa…


Imagine just ditching a $180 million/year business. That's what Google did with Google Domains. More than that they continue to tarnish their reputation for shutting down services which could give companies a legitimate reason to hesitate to use a Google solution in the future.


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I’m kind of upset @vercel didn’t name their cli tooling vershell


Our small team just launched Kaura, an app for meditation practice. If you have thought about meditation and haven't tried it yet or just would like an app to help you practice consistently, give Kaura a try apps.apple.com/us/app/kaura/i… #meditation #mindfulness #anxiety #iPhone


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I’ve been on this platform 15+ years. Giving it my creativity and engagement. Curating links for my audience. For free. I don’t think I need to be paying this service to have my fans see my stuff. In fact, for my labor and good work building an audience, they should be paying me.


Happy 25th birthday cURL! This is a tool I still use everyday which is pretty impressive that it’s still so popular arstechnica.com/information-te…


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Hey @elonmusk, how is that getting rid of the bots thing going? This is just today.

BriannaWu's tweet image. Hey @elonmusk, how is that getting rid of the bots thing going? This is just today.
BriannaWu's tweet image. Hey @elonmusk, how is that getting rid of the bots thing going? This is just today.

Don MacKinnon reposted

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. trib.al/sU5fNgo


Here's your long-form tweet in case you want to see one (Thanks Jane). Post.news did it first.

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular…



Sad to see Ardern step down, I respected her leadership and think the world benefit from more like her.


Sad to see. Early days Twitter was pretty special theverge.com/23551060/elon-…


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Shout out to all the workers at Twitter. You all built a vital place for connection and deserved so much better. Millions of people appreciate the space you built and the hard work that went into it. Thank you 💙


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I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices. Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.


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