https://twitter.com/#!/BenjaminBrooks/status/164029312759111681
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
all is forgiven
Can understand why this guy hates Google so much if he keeps checking Analytics to find people like us laughing at him.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
tbf this is prob the first time anyone has bothered to lol @ him
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
Thought he was a leading member of the Point & Lol Network?
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
idk!
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
he has a small time vibe to him
2500 twitter followers ehhh
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
https://twitter.com/#!/DLin71/status/164040994055127041
― markers, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
https://twitter.com/#!/hrbrt/status/164029785444597761
ha!
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
im now referring to his orthodontix
― ≧^◡^≦ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
a blog, really? etc
― stet, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
i bet he has purple rubber bands to match his suspenders
― ≧^◡^≦ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
dear blogg bro wut is twtr ty in advance
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
i checked our analytics; someone said we had a "cobbled-together appearance".
win3.11 4lyfe, hater.
― stet, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
damn what an unchill criticism
― markers, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
the god gruber would never stoop to our level, this brooks guy needs to heed lessons
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
i don't even understand who or what this thread is about tbh
you win, mr brooks, whatever you are
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
^THATS how its done
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
hey ben brooks if 'Readability is of utmost importance' what the heck is going on here:
http://i.imgur.com/A6bLV.png
― ≧^◡^≦ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
this thread is about elegance
― stet, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
I only found his twitter post randomly on Stellar.io. Dude is stuck in 2011.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
would dearly love to read criticsm of ilx by internet tech bods tho
xps or elegance, w/e
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
― stet, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:52 PM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
5000%
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
how is this different from hoos' "thread of social media assholes"? bullet points plz
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
~yardsticks furiously~
― caek, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
― caek, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
* 1. - it's more focused on a particular subspecies of social media assholes
― ≧^◡^≦ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
These are social media assholes we read & trust.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
its abt the don 'daring fireball' gruber and his point n click posse
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
are you in stellar, JM? I had the idea to make sthing like that, so pretty glad Kottke did it and I can go back to not bothering
xp does Hoos's thread have Helvetica?
― stet, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://daringfireball.nethttp://readandtrust.com
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
its abt elegance basically
and helvetica, the most elegant of fonts
a yardstick
a beacon
* I have a serious question. Why spell it fanboi? Is that like fanboy but also gay?
― ≧^◡^≦ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
its abt a lot of things
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like gruber's fanboi post is too perfect, it has to be a troll
― ≧^◡^≦ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIy3n2b7V9k
― markers, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
is that like skater but also 8?
― ≧^◡^≦ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:38 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark
you could say... that google analytics... used in this way... is like ... a beacon
*bows head, ponders weightily*
― dayo, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
Stellar is great, yes. Really needs the ability to find your friends, though. I'm just following a bunch of randoms and it's worrying how often people favorite Gruber's stuff.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
well they prob just read and then trusted him
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
Can I hav an invite? Will pay in trinkets and gewgaws
― stet, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
jm, what are they favoriting? his tweets?
― markers, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
can you favorite a blog post? idk the internet is complicated
Can send an invite to the email on your user profile. Only got one left, though.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
Gruber's page is here: http://stellar.io/gruber/bestof
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link