{"id":136,"date":"2009-09-08T18:56:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T01:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2009-09-09T08:46:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T15:46:44","slug":"back-when-twitter-was-called-flashcoders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/back-when-twitter-was-called-flashcoders\/","title":{"rendered":"Back when Twitter was called FlashCoders"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Back when Twitter was called FlashCoders, there was a ragtag bunch of rebels who refused to bow to the Empire.<\/p>\n<p>The Rebel Alliance had mastered the ancient art of wielding the __proto__, an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. Its sharp underscores could slice through any object. So cleanly, in fact, that members could be attached to new objects and stay alive.<\/p>\n<p>The Empire loved to twist the Prototype in unnatural ways. But the Alliance refused to turn to the Dark Side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Jedi&#8217;s strength flows from the Prototype,&#8221; said Obiyang. He was the wise mentor of the Alliance, preserving the Old Ways in his quantum archives. Obiyang was the first to achieve MovieClip fusion by plunging his __proto__ deep into the Prototype.<\/p>\n<p>Count Moockoo was a double agent. He maintained a cozy relationship with the Empire whilst feeding information to the Rebels.<\/p>\n<p>Skypenner developed an unhealthy obsession with parenting issues. He challenged Jabba Grossman to a duel in the Beta quadrant, brandishing an ECMA-262 spec-tronator. But Grossman laughed at Skypenner and returned to eating frogs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(by Robert Penner on the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/grumpy-old-flashers\">Grumpy Old Flashers<\/a> mailinglist)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when Twitter was called FlashCoders, there was a ragtag bunch of rebels who refused to bow to the Empire. The Rebel Alliance had mastered the ancient art of wielding the __proto__, an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/back-when-twitter-was-called-flashcoders\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webdev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wahlers.com.br\/claus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}