Michael Greenberg
@mgrnbrg
Twitter Green---a bargain at twice the price.
For $8/month, I will offer a service called "Twitter Green" where I will email Mike any mentions of him and post replies on Mastodon. If you're a noteworthy public figure, I will also occasionally have dinner with him and post transcripts to your feed.
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An article written by Paul Krill (@pjkrill) just came out covering our latest work on semantic-driven static analysis for shell script correctness (infoworld.com/article/397780…). There will also be a presentation at HotOS on Thursday (sigops.org/s/conferences/…) for anyone who is there!
I’m a broken record on this, but almost all of the most ~thoughtful~ people I know (or have interviewed) have memorized a lot of dates, places, names, numbers etc. And not just memorized, but care about their ability to recall specifics. Seek truth from facts. It’s the only way.
Something I don’t think many people realize is that many — most? — jobs that involve professional writing are much closer to blue book exams than term papers
I would very much encourage every *everyone* to watch @mgrnbrg's very good (and very provocative) talk about how to give good talks. youtube.com/watch?v=I9kJgw…
pretty happy with my first cut at some simple lecture slides. so yeah, i'm thinking we're back
first time using figma for slides... might actually be a proper keynote replacement. we are so back
first time using figma for slides... might actually be a proper keynote replacement. we are so back
No spam, no bots, no worms, no crime, She’s haunted by traces she cannot define. Backdoors and obfuscation assault across log source, She pierces their UPX armor in potent force. In her mind, she’s still coding, still making the grade, Admins depend on the rules that she made.
omg the speech scroll actually says “garlic is my life” in german !!
Lots of people: "Medieval food was bland and boring!" Medieval chap: "Garlic is my life!"
Don't go to a conference where Curtis Yarvin is a keynote speaker. And definitely don't speak at it.
Do you know that a system paper might be worth 3 AI papers in computer science according to some dubious metric? I launched an interactive website to measure the relative effort spent on one top-tier paper in each computer science field. cspubs.org
new post on the SIGPLAN blog: "how to give a good talk", a summary of my PLMW talk at POPL 2025 blog.sigplan.org/2025/03/31/how…
There's still time to sign up for my class at the @Center4Fiction, designed to help you overcome inertia and start that novel you've been wanting to write. Starting next week at 12pm. Hope to see you there! centerforfiction.org/group-workshop…
"It is with a hard-earned understanding, and the most profound regret, that I can tell you that no artistic endeavour, no matter how sublime it may appear, is worth denying your family or sacrificing those in your care." --Nick Cave
just realized haskell wasn't installed on my laptop... and must not have been for the year and a half i've been using it! easily the longest i've gone without it. end of an era