And I made a web/tech one that might be of interest.

I’m not sure how useful the lists actually are, but it felt like it was worth a shot if just to make sense of my own following list. Feel free to shout out interesting people I missed in the comments. Most of the people on the list are folks I follow, but I’d be happy to add new folks if they’re interesting- and I know there are plenty of people out that that are interesting that I don’t follow I’m especially interested in CSS/HTML/JavaScript/Web Performance types, but I’m down for any web technologies.

I upgraded to Tweetdeck 0.3.0 and I was almost immediately looking for an alternative. There are a few reasons for that (the disappearing columns bug, watching it auto-shorten an already short url) but the biggest issue was the change they made to the behavior of the close button. What did they do? Well, with almost every other application on my machine (and all of the trivial ones*), when I click that red X, the application closes. Exits. Stops doing what it’s doing. The ones that don’t (my antivirus software springs to mind) actually need to run all the time. I don’t need Tweetdeck running 24/7. I often need it to just go away (using Fiddler with Tweetdeck running is maddening.) But yet, in Tweetdeck, if you click close, it actually minimizes to the systray.
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