jmoiron plays the blues

Be wary of taxonomy masquerading as abstraction.

The most clever micro-optimizations feel great to write, but they have a limited shelf life, because they exploit fтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАж8P

600,000 Americans died of Covid-19 because too many strongly believe in shit like this and stopping the spread reliтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжTM

This is a general tactic, even used against challenges to recent conservative historical mythos; eg. people tryingтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжfa

One upside to my name is that I'm in with a shout here. twitter.com/TreyStoneAuthoтАж

Really sad to hear of the passing of Kentaro Miura. It's bittersweet to learn how many people in my timeline his arтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАж5D

Since Dershowitz trending, lets remember that time Norman Finklestein accused him (convincingly) of plagiarism in "тАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжTt

If you are not making space and opportunities for your teammates to grow into, you aren't doing your job. twitter.com/ksylor/status/тАж

If packaged Tea comes with brewing instructions, maybe your code isn't as self explanatory as you think it is and cтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжlX

looks like Leonardi Di Cabrio to me twitter.com/TheMERL/statusтАж

I have never lived by myself. Is that uncommon? twitter.com/chefjanelfieldтАж

Thinking today about the parody tumblr Friedisms from 10+ years ago: friedisms.tumblr.com/post/470550219тАж

I read "Philosophy of Software Design" recently, and wrote up some extended notes/reactions to it: jmoiron.net/blog/notes-on-тАж

"I have some experience" et. al are 100% my brand of laconic humour, and I'm guilty of doing almost exactly this soтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжP8

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Google v. Oracle ruling went the "right way" IMHO, but I'm having difficulty rationalizing why (other than the alteтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжsJ

Osterhout's POSD is very thought provoking. The framework it creates to dissect software design is excellent. NotтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжWg

10 years: LSP & modern o11y / ? 15 years: Go & AWS (lets avg s3 and ec2) / Smart Phones 20 years: Chrome & WebKit /тАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАж8F

It's just passed the assembly and is on Cuomo's desk. Scratching my head that Chuck Schumer seems to be more of aтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАж1t

The public perception of y2k being a big joke instead of a case where effective planning and collective action prevтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжXh

North Manhattan is so invisible. Google image search "manhattan map" and many images won't even show the northernтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжA5

MTTM, or mean time to metrics, measures how long it takes a hot new observability platform to add metrics to their platform.

Lots of talk about closed for contrib. Databases and DB tools are lightning rods for questions that are actually pтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжfg

"the fundamental approach used to scale distributed systems is avoiding co-ordination" - @MarcJBrookerтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжSn