| 1 | Sep 4, '20 | Internet: working as designed | 17.5× | 0 | 15k | 2.6k | 182 |
| 2 | Apr 9, '18 | Code comments | 11.4× | 0 | 6.5k | 3.3k | 41 |
| 3 | Apr 13, '17 | Make sure your kids see this graph | 9.9× | 0 | 4.9k | 3k | 16 |
| 4 | Nov 30, '23 | I Fight For The Users: a post in support of migrating away from Twitter and generating funds for The Trevor Project. Please bid as you see fit for a good cause! -- this will be my | 8.2× | 526k | 8.3k | 227 | 474 |
| 5 | May 21, '14 | Wolfenstein game graphics, 1992 vs 2014 | 7.8× | 0 | 1.8k | 3.6k | 4 |
| 6 | Aug 31, '14 | There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. | 7.4× | 0 | 3.7k | 2.1k | 107 |
| 7 | Jul 31, '18 | Queue is pronounced "Q" followed by four letters that are silently waiting their turn. | 6.9× | 0 | 5k | 1.5k | 17 |
| 8 | Jan 7, '25 | Stay Gold, America | 6.1× | 392k | 827 | 70 | 81 |
| 9 | Feb 25, '20 | "the older I get the more I am enjoying dumb verbose code, over fancy concise code" via @samsaffron | 5.5× | 0 | 4.1k | 879 | 116 |
| 10 | Apr 10, '19 | Of all the technical debt you can incur, the worst in my experience is bad names -- for database columns, variables, functions, etc. Fix those IMMEDIATELY before they metastasize a | 5.2× | 0 | 3.5k | 1.1k | 69 |
| 11 | Jun 27, '20 | View post on X | 5.0× | 0 | 3.8k | 887 | 35 |
| 12 | Feb 8, '18 | Adult principles, by John Perry Barlow | 4.6× | 0 | 2.8k | 1.1k | 16 |
| 13 | May 3, '20 | The web browser is the single greatest software application ever written. It's not even close. | 4.5× | 0 | 3.9k | 407 | 71 |
| 14 | Jan 29, '16 | In software, the first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time. | 4.4× | 0 | 1.7k | 1.7k | 4 |
| 15 | Apr 10, '19 | View post on X | 4.4× | 0 | 3.3k | 855 | 15 |
| 16 | Aug 31, '13 | A flowchart of what programmers do at work all day, by @secretGeek | 4.0× | 0 | 859 | 1.9k | 2 |
| 17 | Jan 22, '16 | Just a small bug in the code, no problem, should be easy to fix | 3.9× | 0 | 1.4k | 1.6k | 11 |
| 18 | May 8, '14 | Twitter (n): a collaborative game where you try to guess what just happened based on a stream of truly awful jokes about the event | 3.7× | 0 | 1.9k | 1.2k | 8 |
| 19 | Feb 19, '19 | If you want to start a company because it sounds like a nifty way to make money, you are wasting your time. Start a company because you have this idea that is just eating you alive | 3.6× | 0 | 2.6k | 588 | 66 |
| 20 | Feb 5, '16 | 10x developer | 3.4× | 0 | 1.7k | 1.1k | 11 |
| 21 | Jun 18, '13 | What the hell have you built. | 3.4× | 0 | 957 | 1.5k | 7 |
| 22 | Aug 11, '15 | If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost | 3.3× | 0 | 1.5k | 1k | 8 |
| 23 | Feb 4, '16 | People think programming is this pure kind of logical thinking, when it's mostly 99% banging your head against a wall until the wall gives | 3.3× | 0 | 1.5k | 1.1k | 14 |
| 24 | May 22, '19 | How it was before Stack Overflow | 3.2× | 0 | 2.4k | 570 | 36 |
| 25 | May 30, '14 | Got into computers because I enjoyed talking to machines instead of people. Now computers all about talking to people. This is some bullshit | 3.0× | 0 | 1.5k | 975 | 2 |
| 26 | Oct 28, '21 | The primary rule of user interface design is that users won't read a single god damn word you put on the page. | 2.9× | 0 | 2.5k | 292 | 104 |
| 27 | Jan 6, '23 | The cryptocurrency experience | 2.9× | 183k | 1.7k | 295 | 44 |
| 28 | Jun 30, '19 | homo sapiens: sucking at random for 315,000 years | 2.8× | 0 | 1.9k | 579 | 51 |
| 29 | Nov 20, '18 | Meanwhile, in France | 2.8× | 0 | 1.9k | 601 | 24 |
| 30 | Mar 13, '19 | If I have learned anything in my career as a software developer, it is to never trust software. | 2.6× | 0 | 2k | 473 | 10 |
| 31 | Mar 30, '17 | This is what state of the art performance looks like on Android for the rest of 2017 | 2.5× | 0 | 929 | 801 | 0 |
| 32 | Jun 29, '18 | Being "smart" isn't a reliable path to success. But you know what is? Becoming borderline obsessive about one thing and spending a ridiculous amount of time learning about and prac | 2.5× | 0 | 1.8k | 496 | 45 |
| 33 | Oct 25, '18 | Here's how I'd measure the health of any tech company: How long, as measured from the inception of idea to the modified software arriving in the user's hands, does it take to roll | 2.5× | 0 | 1.6k | 426 | 78 |
| 34 | Mar 7, '16 | Imagine the joy in your children's eyes when you unveil this on family board game night | 2.5× | 0 | 1.1k | 865 | 1 |
| 35 | Mar 31, '19 | Welcome to the world of PROGRAMMERS! 🤣 | 2.5× | 0 | 2k | 351 | 15 |
| 36 | Mar 14, '19 | Here's how to torture a programmer "Sorry' | 2.4× | 0 | 1.8k | 423 | 5 |
| 37 | Feb 5, '16 | Hell isn't other people's code. Hell is your own code from 3 years ago. | 2.4× | 0 | 1.2k | 743 | 5 |
| 38 | Apr 12, '19 | There's a ton of pedantry in programming. This may be confusing until you realize that programmers spend 8+ hours a day working with the world's most irritating pedant -- the compu | 2.4× | 0 | 1.7k | 421 | 50 |
| 39 | Jun 24, '18 | You are only making him more powerful | 2.4× | 0 | 1.5k | 594 | 5 |
| 40 | Feb 27, '21 | I got two of these to thank @pinboard for everything he did in the 2016 and 2020 election efforts. So, thank you, and this 10+ pound monstrosity (roughly keyboard sized) will be on | 2.3× | 0 | 2k | 272 | 95 |
| 41 | Nov 17, '14 | 1. Stop theorizing 2. Write lots of software 3. Learn from your mistakes | 2.3× | 0 | 1.1k | 755 | 12 |
| 42 | May 13, '16 | Teach yourself C++ in 21 days | 2.3× | 0 | 955 | 848 | 1 |
| 43 | May 21, '18 | I think everyone underestimates the agility bonus startups get from not having to deal with the amassed technical debt from decisions made 5, 10, 15 years ago.. | 2.2× | 0 | 1.5k | 441 | 6 |
| 44 | Sep 12, '17 | Looking at iPhone 8/X benchmarks. Android / Qualcomm left so far back in the dust now it's irrelevant. RIP Intel | 2.2× | 0 | 970 | 666 | 0 |
| 45 | Dec 31, '19 | how to be an instagram influencer | 2.1× | 0 | 1.6k | 362 | 52 |
| 46 | Sep 10, '16 | The CPU in the iPhone 7 is roughly similar perf wise to Intel's top of the line Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600 in 2011. | 2.1× | 0 | 840 | 717 | 0 |
| 47 | Oct 4, '16 | the punchline here is so beautiful | 2.0× | 0 | 840 | 676 | 2 |
| 48 | Apr 16, '18 | The future of programming, as indicated by Stack Overflow traffic from 2009 - 2018 | 2.0× | 0 | 1.1k | 535 | 7 |
| 49 | Jun 2, '21 | An exciting day! @spolsky called me and let me know. Today's sale of Stack Overflow, most importantly, lets Stack Overflow continue as an independent site -- and also mints 61 new | 1.9× | 0 | 1.6k | 154 | 50 |
| 50 | Jan 26, '19 | Yearly reminder that a Raspberry Pi is faster than the fastest Pentium 4 ever released. | 1.9× | 0 | 1.4k | 377 | 10 |
| 51 | Nov 5, '16 | Remember the glorious Pentium 4? A $35 Raspberry Pi 3 is twice as fast. | 1.9× | 0 | 841 | 611 | 6 |
| 52 | May 16, '19 | I wrote this in 2008. I only wish more people had read and acted on it. | 1.9× | 0 | 1.2k | 387 | 48 |
| 53 | Feb 19, '19 | After seeing users struggle with YAML and the “two spaces at end of a line for a linebreak” rule in Markdown, I can definitively say that any tool which hinges important semantics | 1.9× | 0 | 1.5k | 266 | 15 |
| 54 | Aug 8, '18 | "I don't quite know how to put this, but our entire field is bad at what we do, and if you rely on us, everyone will die." | 1.8× | 0 | 1.1k | 493 | 9 |
| 55 | Feb 8, '17 | Dare you enter my abstract factory? | 1.8× | 0 | 833 | 613 | 9 |
| 56 | Dec 24, '16 | Shut your face hole and read the greatest, most best article on web performance of all time. ALL TIME | 1.8× | 0 | 1.1k | 444 | 48 |
| 57 | May 17, '20 | "Facebook users, randomized to deactivate their accounts for 4 weeks in exchange for $102, freed up an average of 60 minutes a day, spent more time socializing offline, became less | 1.8× | 0 | 1k | 396 | 49 |
| 58 | Dec 21, '18 | Just a reminder that ten years ago Chrome had zero percent market share, and as of today it defeated Internet Explorer .. permanently. The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ag | 1.8× | 0 | 1.1k | 416 | 15 |
| 59 | Mar 2, '17 | I have super mixed feelings about this brave new world of "watch this 5 minute video to learn something you could have read in 15 seconds" | 1.8× | 0 | 967 | 453 | 0 |
| 60 | Jan 22, '18 | I am at the point in my career as a programmer where I take far more pleasure in a well written, informative, helpful error message than I do in code “elegance”. | 1.7× | 0 | 1.4k | 297 | 0 |
| 61 | Apr 13, '18 | Silence can mean: I agree. I strongly disagree. I am indifferent. I am out of town. I am having technical problems. I don’t know how to address this sensitive issue. I am busy with | 1.7× | 0 | 1.1k | 388 | 18 |
| 62 | Sep 7, '18 | I see users complaining all the time that something changed in their software. You know what's far worse than that, though? Software that never changes. The very best software is c | 1.7× | 0 | 1.1k | 320 | 7 |
| 63 | Jan 18, '21 | What if.. we re-built these two books, with the programs rewritten and rearchitected into well written examples of Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and versions of each game? And of cours | 1.7× | 0 | 1.2k | 143 | 128 |
| 64 | Apr 11, '18 | I've seen way too much Zuck in my feed lately but this one is (makes Italian chef kiss gesture) | 1.6× | 0 | 1.1k | 395 | 2 |
| 65 | Jul 17, '20 | not sure who to credit but this is fantastic | 1.6× | 0 | 1.1k | 347 | 10 |
| 66 | Dec 8, '15 | A group of programmers is called an "actually". | 1.6× | 0 | 892 | 468 | 5 |
| 67 | Dec 6, '20 | Computer, enhance! | 1.6× | 0 | 1.1k | 193 | 135 |
| 68 | Sep 20, '18 | "this UX was clearly designed by someone who hates users" "oh, you mean it was designed by a programmer" | 1.6× | 0 | 1.1k | 316 | 7 |
| 69 | Jun 9, '19 | @eliistender10 Stop, collaborate and listen | 1.6× | 0 | 1.6k | 92 | 4 |
| 70 | Aug 10, '17 | If you enjoy pedantry on a massive, systemic, brain-damaging scale, you should definitely consider a career in programming | 1.5× | 0 | 992 | 373 | 0 |
| 71 | Jan 9, '19 | Pay attention to the way @natfriedman is running GitHub. Over the past two months, he's announced multiple great new features and improvements to GitHub that people requested. That | 1.5× | 0 | 1.4k | 181 | 17 |
| 72 | Nov 10, '19 | my body is ready | 1.5× | 0 | 1.1k | 231 | 42 |
| 73 | Feb 19, '17 | Life should come with a warning sign and it should be this one | 1.5× | 0 | 873 | 447 | 0 |
| 74 | Dec 5, '22 | Some people will remember Steve Jobs as the visionary designer of the iPhone. I will always remember him as this f**king guy | 1.5× | 0 | 1.4k | 83 | 75 |
| 75 | May 18, '18 | The year is 2042. All communication is in Emoji. Everyone is paid in loot boxes. Electricity is strictly rationed because most of it is consumed by vast server farms calculating bl | 1.5× | 0 | 1k | 330 | 8 |
| 76 | Jun 2, '18 | Kids.. or all humans? 🤔 | 1.5× | 0 | 1k | 276 | 71 |
| 77 | Apr 16, '18 | I think sometimes programmers forget that their primary job is to help create a world where we need _less_ programmers, not more. | 1.5× | 0 | 957 | 312 | 4 |
| 78 | Feb 2, '21 | This is the calendar equivalent of going a bit too far with regular expressions in programming | 1.4× | 0 | 1k | 223 | 56 |
| 79 | Sep 1, '20 | View post on X | 1.4× | 0 | 1.2k | 177 | 13 |
| 80 | Jan 5, '18 | Can you lick the science? 👅 | 1.4× | 0 | 812 | 384 | 3 |
| 81 | Mar 31, '21 | I call this, "a good day" | 1.4× | 0 | 1.4k | 74 | 4 |
| 82 | Dec 15, '18 | naming is hard 🤔 | 1.4× | 0 | 962 | 279 | 9 |
| 83 | Feb 6, '17 | Dad, what was the internet like in 1999? It was a dark time, son. We typed HTML tags in upper case. | 1.4× | 0 | 828 | 353 | 0 |
| 84 | Apr 30, '18 | I wish more people understood that the goal of Stack Overflow is not "answer my question" but "let's collaboratively build an artifact that will benefit future coders". Perhaps SO | 1.3× | 0 | 992 | 212 | 2 |
| 85 | Jul 15, '20 | Gonna be fun to read the postmortem on this Twitter hack 🍿 | 1.3× | 0 | 1.2k | 136 | 13 |
| 86 | Dec 31, '19 | CFO: What happens if we invest in our staff and they leave? CEO: What happens if we don’t invest in them and they stay? | 1.3× | 0 | 945 | 224 | 24 |
| 87 | Jul 18, '19 | The problem with Facebook isn't that they are evil, it's that they are amoral and extremely technically competent | 1.2× | 0 | 955 | 186 | 16 |
| 88 | Mar 1, '18 | Turns out being a small cog in a very cool and complex machine is still kind of a bummer. | 1.2× | 0 | 797 | 248 | 21 |
| 89 | Feb 17, '20 | A Zen student asked how long it would take to gain enlightenment if he joined the temple. ‘Ten years,’ said the Zen master. ‘Well, how about if I work really hard and double my eff | 1.2× | 0 | 937 | 182 | 25 |
| 90 | Jun 6, '18 | GitHub's annual revenue was reportedly $300m. If correct then GitHub’s annual revenue is the same as Fortnite’s *monthly* revenue. 🤔 | 1.1× | 0 | 819 | 194 | 9 |
| 91 | Sep 29, '18 | Humans were not built to handle the continual 24/7 intake of social media misery. | 1.1× | 0 | 830 | 196 | 1 |
| 92 | Dec 4, '21 | I always wondered what I should get a tattoo of, now I don't have to wonder any more | 1.1× | 0 | 950 | 122 | 26 |
| 93 | Jun 16, '20 | After decades of searching, I finally figured out what to do with my life | 1.0× | 0 | 832 | 98 | 70 |
| 94 | May 11, '19 | This ridiculous dice rolling wizard tower thing is so very satisfying to use. I REGRET NOTHING | 1.0× | 0 | 901 | 110 | 14 |
| 95 | Apr 1, '19 | I have more respect for people who attempt to share their true, authentic selves on Twitter and occasionally get in trouble for it. At a certain audience size there is no longer an | 1.0× | 0 | 889 | 111 | 20 |
| 96 | Sep 3, '18 | Is it just me or is Edge of Tomorrow the best war sci-fi movie since Starship Troopers? | 1.0× | 0 | 911 | 56 | 8 |
| 97 | Sep 14, '19 | "why didn't you do a bunch of research before tweeting?" oh totally my bad, I forgot Twitter was designed as a platform for deeply researched, well-reasoned takes on the complex is | 1.0× | 0 | 867 | 81 | 7 |
| 98 | Sep 1, '17 | School event, 5th grade kid approached me, "are you from Stack Overflow?" That is a first! Gave kid a raspberry pi and some SO stickers. | 0.9× | 0 | 925 | 70 | 0 |
| 99 | Jul 17, '20 | Current political mood | 0.8× | 0 | 753 | 58 | 3 |
| 100 | May 5, '20 | Someone recently told me I make “nerdy ass” tweets well here is one for today 🤗 | 0.8× | 0 | 771 | 13 | 16 |
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