April King
@april.social
Staff Security Engineer at some random tech company, previously Mozilla, Dropbox, and (pre-Elon) Twitter. Has read @kateconger.bsky.social’s autobiography.
web @ grayduck.mn // also github.com/april
web @ grayduck.mn // also github.com/april
One of my favorite things about the Twin Cities is that every single stadium -- NFL, MLB, AAA MLB, NBA, CFB, NHL, MLS -- are in the middle of the cities, all serviced by a single rail line.
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
One of my favorite things about the Twin Cities is that every single stadium -- NFL, MLB, AAA MLB, NBA, CFB, NHL, MLS -- are in the middle of the cities, all serviced by a single rail line.
and since they’re already living there, maybe we should pay them in special company dollars that they can use to spend at the company stores?
February 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
and since they’re already living there, maybe we should pay them in special company dollars that they can use to spend at the company stores?
this is still agonizingly painful to me, Twitter had the _best_ culture of any place I've ever worked at.
there were definitely some outliers (cough cough former Periscope team) but I've never seen a tech employer with a culture like that, either before or after.
there were definitely some outliers (cough cough former Periscope team) but I've never seen a tech employer with a culture like that, either before or after.
January 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
this is still agonizingly painful to me, Twitter had the _best_ culture of any place I've ever worked at.
there were definitely some outliers (cough cough former Periscope team) but I've never seen a tech employer with a culture like that, either before or after.
there were definitely some outliers (cough cough former Periscope team) but I've never seen a tech employer with a culture like that, either before or after.
I live next to a freeway, I-94 in particular, because that location is one of the very few where I can walk to most anything without driving. It’s genuinely diabolical to design a city this way.
(I have multiple air purifiers running into my house as a result.)
(I have multiple air purifiers running into my house as a result.)
January 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I live next to a freeway, I-94 in particular, because that location is one of the very few where I can walk to most anything without driving. It’s genuinely diabolical to design a city this way.
(I have multiple air purifiers running into my house as a result.)
(I have multiple air purifiers running into my house as a result.)
yes there are common feeds that are based on things that your followers like. but you can have systems where the algorithm knows who liked a thing but anyone but the person who posted it does not.
December 20, 2024 at 10:02 PM
yes there are common feeds that are based on things that your followers like. but you can have systems where the algorithm knows who liked a thing but anyone but the person who posted it does not.
(also there’s a button directly next to it, the retweet button, that is expressly designed for publicly supporting a thing)
December 20, 2024 at 7:23 PM
(also there’s a button directly next to it, the retweet button, that is expressly designed for publicly supporting a thing)
mostly that it has ruined countless numbers of lives of people who don’t realize
December 20, 2024 at 7:21 PM
mostly that it has ruined countless numbers of lives of people who don’t realize
humans will do literally anything besides bring back hypercard
December 1, 2024 at 2:44 AM
humans will do literally anything besides bring back hypercard
there's a pretty solid trans / non-binary / GNC discord, if they fall under that.
November 28, 2024 at 6:08 PM
there's a pretty solid trans / non-binary / GNC discord, if they fall under that.
from my report? if so, I'm very sorry about that. 😅
November 28, 2024 at 6:07 PM
from my report? if so, I'm very sorry about that. 😅
I made it while I was working at Mozilla!! *flails her arms widely*
November 28, 2024 at 6:06 PM
I made it while I was working at Mozilla!! *flails her arms widely*
i have an electrolysis tank! i can fix it!
November 26, 2024 at 6:31 PM
i have an electrolysis tank! i can fix it!
blame the way that money works on the internet, sadly there isn’t any of it to be found in short technical blog posts.
November 26, 2024 at 2:54 PM
blame the way that money works on the internet, sadly there isn’t any of it to be found in short technical blog posts.
thanks for the kind words! i love any article where i get a chance to hand-draw doodles.
this one was a question a developer at my company asked me and my answer was long enough to turn into a blog post. :)
this one was a question a developer at my company asked me and my answer was long enough to turn into a blog post. :)
November 25, 2024 at 2:26 PM
thanks for the kind words! i love any article where i get a chance to hand-draw doodles.
this one was a question a developer at my company asked me and my answer was long enough to turn into a blog post. :)
this one was a question a developer at my company asked me and my answer was long enough to turn into a blog post. :)
thanks for all your hard work and for implementing the feature request that i’m about to make on github. 😂
November 24, 2024 at 7:31 PM
thanks for all your hard work and for implementing the feature request that i’m about to make on github. 😂
if the President of Nintendo of America can be named “Doug Bowser,” then truly anything is possible.
November 23, 2024 at 11:48 AM
if the President of Nintendo of America can be named “Doug Bowser,” then truly anything is possible.
hah, no kidding. this was all handwritten, like a love letter from the 1920's.
and thanks for letting me know, the typos have been fixed now. :)
and thanks for letting me know, the typos have been fixed now. :)
November 22, 2024 at 8:13 PM
hah, no kidding. this was all handwritten, like a love letter from the 1920's.
and thanks for letting me know, the typos have been fixed now. :)
and thanks for letting me know, the typos have been fixed now. :)
Your article is SO GOOD, I can't believe I hadn't seen it before.
It's very fun to see how some things (e.g. cookie overwriting) have been solved, but despite all that time so much behavior has continued to be left undefined.
Compared to modern web specs, it is downright embarrassing.
It's very fun to see how some things (e.g. cookie overwriting) have been solved, but despite all that time so much behavior has continued to be left undefined.
Compared to modern web specs, it is downright embarrassing.
November 21, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Your article is SO GOOD, I can't believe I hadn't seen it before.
It's very fun to see how some things (e.g. cookie overwriting) have been solved, but despite all that time so much behavior has continued to be left undefined.
Compared to modern web specs, it is downright embarrassing.
It's very fun to see how some things (e.g. cookie overwriting) have been solved, but despite all that time so much behavior has continued to be left undefined.
Compared to modern web specs, it is downright embarrassing.