Some enlightening posts on the Freenode thing, as viewed from my RSS reader: the end of freenode, Goodbye Freenode, Leaving Freenode, Goodbye Freenode, Final Chapter.

I could say that Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and Google helped ruin the internet, but really it was that everyone started using it. The internet used to be a haven for nerds, geeks, artists, and bohemian misfits until the cool kids crashed it. Now the internet is dull and stale and overly commercialized. — I miss the old internet

So true.

This blog serves as my way to give back to all of the people who taught me something over my career. It all started in 2007 when I needed a way to keep track of all the information I learned during my daily work as a systems administrator. — https://major.io/

So what does it mean to always be quitting? It means “making yourself replaceable”; “deprecating yourself”; “automating yourself out of your job”. — Always be quitting

Causal Inference for The Brave and True. #python

The Book of Statistical Proofs.

Modern Statistics for Modern Biology.

Vim, Unicode, and Digraphs. #vim

On IRC, features like embedded images, a nice UX for messages longer than a few lines (e.g. pasted code), threaded messages, etc; are absent. Some sort of “graceful degradation” to support mixed channels with clients which support these features and clients which don’t may be possible, but it still degrades the experience for many people. By instead making everyone work within the limitations of IRC, we establish a shared baseline, and expressing yourself within these limitations is not only possible but makes a better experience for everyone. — Absence of certain features in IRC considered a feature

  Marianne Faithfull, Give my Love to London.