jmoiron plays the blues

Threw on Guitar Romantic this weekend, just sat and listened. Hard to believe it's been 20 years. There's a re-maā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦L1

Lesson: linear access has dominated the physical storage layer for ~50 years. Even when vendors improve random worā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦f9

The only reliable 10x multiplier in engineering is having solved the same problem before

No, it's not in an environment. It's been towed beyond the environment. twitter.com/kelseyhightoweā€¦

I remember seeing a demo of this a long time ago on some thread in the selectbutton forums. This was a really greaā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦pH

As people run more temporal workloads, this will only need to be learned (at tremendous cost) over and over. LIFOā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦wo

To this day I don't have a lobsters account because I have always felt weird asking for one. That said, I wouldn'tā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦W6

A task to make code "Cleaner" is a flag: it's almost always a no-impact medium-risk refactor with no measurable posā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦ZT

Bangalter's "Mythologies" feels like the soundtrack to a lost animated version of the original NES Legend of Zelda instruction booklet.

Twitter was a place where every public figure's personal thoughts were accessible for engagement, with verified, trā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦Zz

In the "YAML is k8s asm" analogy, asm is "an unwieldy layer you're not meant to use directly". But k8s YAML is notā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦Um

It's been really wild to see the "Sillicon Valley" brand completely collapse in my lifetime, from a symbol of inspiā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦pY

Video game boxes did not survive my childhood, but I do have a bunch of SFC games w/ box that I bought in the earlyā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦cq

Generics use seems to fall into two main camps: faster type-safe data structures, and things I don't like. twitter.com/kelseyhightoweā€¦

A lot of people are completely playing themselves paying tons of cloud premium for shit they absolutely do not need.

"Get faster access to BingGPT by setting Edge as your default browser and downloading the Bing app." Microsoft is still Microsoft I guess.

I watched this talk by Richard P Gabriel yesterday: infoq.com/presentations/ā€¦ The talk covers a lot of ground, but aā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦An

Horrific scenes in Turkey. A 7.8 in the middle of the night is terrifying. theguardian.com/world/live/202ā€¦

is knowledge of mdadm a blessing or a curse

Seeing loads of "don't make your job your identity" takes. Do we say this to Teachers? Artists? Athletes? Or do wā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦L7

Using trains Korea, Japan, & HK and thinking about the MTA: https://t.co/bFQWZrZnGv

People talk a lot about tech bros reinventing really basic shit like buses because of an utter lack of diversity anā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦L0

We shouldn't passive voice "tech became complex", it was made that way on purpose. Loads of X-faang + conference ciā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦R8

In this new starship troopers game, you play as the fascists? Is this a "spec ops:the line" situation?