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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 13

A quick note to anyone following me here—this is an archive of my old tweets. My actual account is @ernie.tedium.co.

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 11

We’ll do our best

The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

The archive is now complete, covering 15 years of tweets over 60,000 posts. (A lot of replies, some threads, and some large images, were skipped.)

This was a fun project. Let’s never do it again.

The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Oct 23

Hello! This is an archive feed. All the posts here are from the @shortformernie Twitter account. The links may or may not work.

You should be able to safely follow this feed, however, because everything is backdated, meaning it does not compete with live content.

Bug @ernie.tedium.co with Q’s.

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Oct 23

Hello! This is an archive feed. All the posts here are from the @shortformernie Twitter account. The links may or may not work.

You should be able to safely follow this feed, however, because everything is backdated, meaning it does not compete with live content.

Bug @ernie.tedium.co with Q’s.

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

Look, if you use #WordPress, odds are the past month has left you feeling very frustrated with the current state of affairs. Should you move? Should you stick it out?

Some in-depth considerations in the latest issue of @readtedium:

https://t.co/qo5zzG66VP

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

Sick of having to care about posts like this one?

Read my post on @readtedium and learn about your potential #WordPress exit strategy:

https://tedium.co/2024/10/20/wordpress-cms-alternatives-content-strategy-advice/ https://x.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1848124036791906459/photo/1

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

Counterpoint: If malfeasance is happening and your leaking helps protect people, leak to the media.

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/protect-private-conversations/

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

This story just gets dumber and dumber.
https://www.404media.co/automattic-buyout-offer-wordpress-matt-mullenweg/

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

Anyway, find me there: https://bsky.app/profile/ernie.tedium.co

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

Elon, 2022: I run Twitter now
Crowd: *tries to flee, has nowhere to go*

Elon, 2023: This place is now called X
Crowd: *tries to flee, has nowhere to go*

Elon, 2024: Your stalkers can now easily read your tweets
Crowd: Oh cool, Bluesky is ready

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

The Trump campaign learns the hard way that your voter canvassing app shouldn’t consume more data than Stadia in 4K mode—*especially* if you’re targeting rural voters.

https://tedium.co/2024/10/16/trump-campaign-app-internet-consumption/

new @readtedium

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

Some “serious journalist” tried making me feel small over the weekend. Little does he know, I know that I've seen his type before. #gatekeeping

https://tedium.co/2024/10/15/journalism-gatekeeping-writing-criticism/

new @readtedium

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

Took a month, but Mullenweg finally blinked. He deleted a post after everyone sided with DHH. Brutal.

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

https://x.com/dhh/status/1845922634284126403 https://x.com/ShortFormErnie/status/1845925973553791070/photo/1

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

Everyone stop the BDFLs are fighting!

Think we could get Adrian Holovaty and Bram Cohen to do color commentary?

https://ma.tt/2024/10/on-dhh/

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

I can’t quite replace the Internet Archive, which has been down for many days due to a hack attack, but I can point out that the @readtedium archive is full of great posts on the history of tech.

Like this one, originally from 2019 and newly refreshed:

https://t.co/AX62V4pvUK

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

The takeaway from this is image is that unless you’re Rhett & Link, you can be internet famous but also impossible to find in a lineup.

Apparently Laufey and the kombucha girl are in this pic, but good luck finding them. https://x.com/THR/status/1844389635931402620

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

@readtedium “Algorithms should allow creators to fall out of hobbies and interests without punishing us. We are not seitan-making machines.”

https://tedium.co/2024/10/10/social-media-algorithms-fake-interests/

The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

A fake-meat creator who just announced he was done with fake meat got me thinking about the way algorithms force creators into narrow interests.

I call it the “interest analogue.”

https://tedium.co/2024/10/10/social-media-algorithms-fake-interests/

new @readtedium

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

Principles over money. DHH, for all his faults, hasn’t forgotten that.

The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

This is the argument that should win. That DHH is making it is likely to rub some folks the wrong way, but … this is the argument that should win. https://x.com/dhh/status/1843783918270722383

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The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

udm14. That’s the tweet.

The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

I think the part I appreciate about this the most is that he clearly used his teeth to hit the button that allowed him to take this picture https://x.com/hankgreen/status/1843360672555642914

The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

The guy who founded @GoDaddy, Bob Parsons, is a billionaire—but his path to success looks a lot different from the “tech bro” image you might be thinking of.

I wrote a profile of him for today’s @readtedium:

https://tedium.co/2024/10/06/bob-parsons-godaddy-founder-interview/

The @ShortFormErnie Archive @shortformernie.bsky.social · Nov 1

This is such a joke. The level of bad faith here is off the charts.

Next up he's gonna post on the Tumblr account how bad WP Engine is at memes. https://x.com/automattic/status/1842612123488473341