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Tracebacks are not error messages and they do not belong in error messages. Do not show tracebacks to your users,тАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАжlE

every unhappy on-call rotation is unhappy in its own way

the nice thing about eventual consistency is that it can be implemented on top of any datastore

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Think about code coverage tools like you would infrastructure observability tools. They provide very specific infoтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАж4F

809b3737 to dotfiles i like materialtheme and i dont like material so this messes up tab completion for no benefit

new years resolution: fail any change request in code review that features a new type starting with the word "Abstract"

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Given an engineer is already capable of solving a problem, how best to teach them to solve it _better_? I often seтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАж8V

Great advice: "Don't be afraid to try; just think a bit first and be willing to experiment." Also, the target shoтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАжiC

I've never seen code that can adequately express "Every comment you write is a failure to express yourself well inтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАжXF

Alan Donovan's casual aside at @gothamgo about turing incompleteness being a feature for Skylark really resonates.тАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАж04

Remember, in distributed computing, the only thing easy to distribute is failure.

"MonzoтАЩs backend is written as several hundred microservices..." It's a testament to k8s et al. that this works intwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАжYnjG

It's easy to believe an opinion you disagree with needs data, but one you agree with is data.

simple rule of thumb on variable naming: length should be proportional to the distance between first and last use

JavaScript is not a good model for query languages.

"In case you missed it, here are the 6 tweets you've just read, presented in a different order." - twitter

OSX High Sierra 10.13.1 (currently recommended by @Apple and shipping to everyone) ships a new FS has a known and cтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАж1S

Loads of really great talks coming out of @CppCon and @Devoxx; even if you are not a C++ or Java dev they are worth checking out.

"Expect(t, false).To(Not(BeTrue()))" is the programming version of a regression to rhetorical algebra.