Claudio Ortolina@cloud8421

CTO at @pspdfkit. I believe in welfare and retweet a lot of political tweets - opinions my own. Header photo by Ewa Fournier le Ray on Unsplash.

 London
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Joined February 2008
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Reached a point where I'm happy to open-source Tune, my Spotify client application written in LiveView: - Try it at tune.fullyforged.com - Commented source available at github.com/fully-forged/tune #myelixirstatus
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Getting a bit tired of what’s going on with this platform - I’ll step away for a while. If anyone needs to contact me, you can easily find me at claudio-ortolina.org.

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Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz
30 Oct 2022
For anyone trying to make sense of Musk having Twitter engineers print out their code and show it to Tesla engineers… my view is we don’t need to look far to see what is happening. Elon doesn’t like to pay severance. From my coverage in Tesla’s secret layoffs in @Pragmatic_Eng:
Tesla is terminating ~10% of its workforce and making it look like these are performance-related layoffs. But it’s actually a mass layoff happening in one go. I talked with three software engineers who all exited on Wednesday, 14 June. The setup was the same in all cases: The manager of the employee read from a script when terminating the employment, saying they were terminating based on performance. These meetings were done in secret, in the sense only the affected employee and their manager knew of the layoff. Employees had five business days to accept the severance package, which is one week only. Compare this with both Klarna and Coinbase’s offerings of at least 14 weeks-worth of severance. Managers were not allowed to say the layoffs were en masse; to do so risked their own position. Tesla is trying to bypass the WARN act in California in order to avoid paying severance. This act requires the employer to

ALT Tesla is terminating ~10% of its workforce and making it look like these are performance-related layoffs. But it’s actually a mass layoff happening in one go. I talked with three software engineers who all exited on Wednesday, 14 June. The setup was the same in all cases: The manager of the employee read from a script when terminating the employment, saying they were terminating based on performance. These meetings were done in secret, in the sense only the affected employee and their manager knew of the layoff. Employees had five business days to accept the severance package, which is one week only. Compare this with both Klarna and Coinbase’s offerings of at least 14 weeks-worth of severance. Managers were not allowed to say the layoffs were en masse; to do so risked their own position. Tesla is trying to bypass the WARN act in California in order to avoid paying severance. This act requires the employer to

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The Onion
@TheOnion
24 Oct 2022
Elon Musk To Cut Twitter Staff To Single Devoted Hunchback Who Laughs Hysterically At All Of Boss’s Genius Tweets bit.ly/3sn7AZl
Elon Musk with a hunch backed man in the bottom right corner.

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Clint Smith
@ClintSmithIII
14 Oct 2022
I was recently on a flight to Charlotte, and when the flight landed two women, one Black one white, got into an argument after bumping into one another in the aisle. When they got off the plane, the white woman turned to the Black woman, red with anger, and called her the n-word.
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Brendan May
@bmay
12 Oct 2022
One of the most sensible takes on ‘cancel culture’ I’ve seen. Sensible, honest, smart. I’m posting the video directly as Times Radio tweeted it with a clickbait and somewhat misleading headline that unintentionally confirmed his point. More of this please.
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For the last couple of weeks I’ve been using Apple Music instead of Spotify (in the process of reducing the number of subscriptions I have) and it‘s going really well. I’m not a fan of the stock music app, so I’m using @marvis_music instead.
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Insider Gaming
@InsiderGamingIG
23 Sep 2022
MEGATHREAD on all of the developers who have shown their early builds to support Rockstar Games following GTA 6 graphics criticism:
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philipbrown
@philipbrown
24 Sep 2022
Replying to @cloud8421
I feel like there’s a lot of bigger company things you don’t really appreciate until you see it done really effectively!
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Give this a RT if you think scrapping taxes on the super rich and bankers bonuses whilst cutting benefits for the poorest is NOT the type of Britain you want to live in.
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Femi
@Femi_sorry
23 Sep 2022
OH MY F***ING GOD! @SophyRidgeSky: But these tax cuts will mainly benefit millionaires. Mark Littlewood: "You're not going to like this package if you care more about the poor." @MarkJLittlewood = director of the pro-Brexit IEA think-tank. (funding?)
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Having an effective HR team is a massive multiplier management-wise - something that I kinda knew but that I can now see and feel on an everyday basis.
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If you run iPadOS 16 on M1 WITHOUT Stage Manager, is the external monitor experience the same as before? i.e. screen cropped, mirror by default unless the app supports multiple screens?
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This thread is a devastating takedown of the New York Times' editorial about the Ukraine war.
Tymofiy Mylovanov
@Mylovanov
13 Sep 2022
Remember this now infamous NYTimes editorial? That Ukraine must give up and that a Ukrainian victory is not realistic. This is what happens if you write based on stereotypes, not evidence.
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Ritesh Kumar@ritz078
11 Sep 2022
Does anyone have a spare dall-e invite that I can use?
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Guille Scura@voluntadpear
11 Sep 2022
At work we post a summary of our day on Slack so that everyone gets some context on what we did. I wrote a small Deno script to automate generating one from a Notion board github.com/voluntadpear/oft-…
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@zei_squirrel
9 Sep 2022
Robert Smith of The Cure succinctly explains why everyone should despise the monarchy and the queen
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Zito@_Zeets
8 Sep 2022
This is one of those fascinating times when you see the difference between people who think of monarchs and colonialism are part of some fantasy world, like Disney stories, and those who know the evil of it and whose parents can talk vividly about the cruelty and lasting impact.
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