jmoiron plays the blues

The variety of packages and amount of config to run a reasonable email server these days is ridiculous.

In languages, DSL stands for "inflexible set of opaque garbage with no tools tailored specifically to someone elses usecase"

"some periodic cassandra job is waking me up for no good reason" #opslife

eev.ee/blog/2016/12/0ā€¦ must have taken a hell of a long time to put together, few small mistakes but really worth a look for language buffs

That stray semi-colon took hours to find.

"Simplicity is key to Krakenā€™s success ā€“ the stability of simple sytems is needed to debug complex issublog.acolyer.org/2016/11/28/kraā€¦a9kX

"module that makes inconstant constants, except actually not" hmm packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/perl/liā€¦

Clinton's popular vote lead now more than the population all but 4 US Cities and larger than the population of 14 US states.

Premature optimisation being bad doesn't mean obviously slow code isn't also bad.

"This program works if you have these other 20000 files on your computer" is a deal breaker for me now

Signs a New MacBook Pro review is nonsense: non ironic use of the meaningless marketing phrase "responsive keyboard"

.@github "Projects" feature requests: columns based on searches, tags, and/or milestones, auto-remove toggle for closed issues

Confirmation of what "real america" means when they say "values"

f9350a96 to dotfiles udpate go version & pctilde osx build for sierra

Agree entirely with this, but while C/Vala is a big problem for GNOME, it's not the biggest problem. siliconislandblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/thoā€¦

63b82242 to goquery pull from upstream

tip.golang.org/pkg/database/sā€¦ got 30-40% bigger to accommodate context, and most users were already taking one peek and going for an ORM

similarly, I like net/context a lot, but sprinkling it all over the stdlib is going to be painful and I don't think it helps most users

#golang alias proposal doesn't seem to solve enough problems to warrant the confusion it will introduce github.com/golang/proposaā€¦

autocomplete is a dumb feature for "pros" but look at github and tell me we won't use better access to emoji

Using a butterfly keyboard is the typing equivalent of thinking you've got one more stair when you haven't

Every rumored change to the macbook/pro line makes them worse: touchscreen instead of fn buttons, no magsafe, no sd slot

abstraction is like optimisation, it's always premature, and by the time it isn't, everyone knows

I've never thought about it from this angle, but `foo.Stuff()` operating on a copy of `foo` is definitely not intuiā€twitter.com/i/web/status/7ā€¦08

Wow this post debate wrap is literally being done by something called "The Circus"