The @ShortFormErnie Archive

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

We’ll do our best

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@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/

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/

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

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

udm14. That’s the tweet.

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 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/

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

In another universe, WPE and Matt would be signing an agreement to make this part of the core, a significant enough contribution that he'd give this whole situation a rest. https://x.com/photomatt/status/1842500184825090060

I wrote a quick blog post about why I find Clarendon to be such an awesome font—so awesome that it’s inspiring me to work on a redesign.

https://tedium.co/2024/10/05/clarendon-font-inspiration-redesign/

new @readtedium

This is a deep cut and I am here for it https://x.com/dieworkwear/status/1841931039603884487

The problem with the benevolent dictator for life model is that it only works if the dictator is benevolent.

Hence, the mess with #WordPress:

https://tedium.co/2024/10/03/wordpress-wp-engine-lawsuit-open-source-impact/

new @readtedium

The recent #MKBHD drama had me thinking: Is the blowback he got a result of the critic becoming the creator? (And has anyone been able to pull it off?)

https://tedium.co/2024/09/29/mkbhd-critics-turned-creators-history/

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