jmoiron plays the blues

"Before starting to work on a problem, it can be helpful to already know more or less how to solve that problem." twitter.com/mitchellh/statтАж

Returning early[1] aka Guard Clauses[2] is a very common code review comment of mine. Putting error and edge casesтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАжYJ

No level of observability will keep your kafkaesque web of microservices from doing the wrong thing.

in app notifications https://t.co/4cO3RFvipp

The two most important execution contexts for your program are the brains of the people maintaining it and the compтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАжwC

"The youth of America [..] started protesting all the things that they saw wrong with America: racism, environmentaтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАжAu

CI support for #golang has come a long way since Jan 2013; from zero to @travisci + @CoverallsApp via @mattn_jp's gтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАжpc

great group run by people who do great work, well worth it twitter.com/MaartjeME/statтАж

minimum version selection has the potential to be Go's 2nd biggest gift to the wider programming community (after gтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАжzk

config format reqs: no parser ambiguities, obvious structure, clear base datatypes (at least json types + integers)тАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАжVt

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

Imagine a world where it is 2017 but this type of replication didn't already exist. Who would be arguing for it toтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАжxa

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"

This quote is about water: тАЬIt has a vaguely mild sweetness, a nice smooth mouth feel, nothing that overwhelms thetwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАжknS5

The less context you need to be able to read source code, the easier it is to understand. The more understandableтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/9тАжg5

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.