jmoiron plays the blues

I learned 2 langs growing up; my English was native but poor until Uni. I started blogging to improve it: brandeis.edu/now/2017/may/c…

I used to really miss falsiness but a lot of the bugs I encounter in our Python code are `if not foo:` paths matching valid, falsy values.

I can't add anything meaningful, but you can't be neutral on a moving train. I stand in support of inclusiveness & against the Google memo.

#Golang's 'fallthrough' keyword is rarely understood by non-C users; I've started to just fail PRs that use it play.golang.org/p/vz7N85Qds6

I wonder how pmem.io is going to change this picture medium.com/thought-framew…

Trying to install a #python package that uses Numba (and therefore conda) is a really great advertisement for #Golang.

If a service isn't simple, it won't be predictable; if it's not predictable, it won't be reliable; if it's not reliable, it will be replaced

#Golang's strength: core refuses to sacrifice implementation ergonomics for lang ergonomics. Community Generics rfcs ignore this balance.

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The answer is _always_ "An ORM was doing something unexpected without my knowledge." schneems.com/2017/07/18/how…

A thing you know and a notification you will always approve without reading.

speedshop.co/2017/07/11/is-… The #Golang version, "Is Go too slow for webscale?", fits in a tweet: No.

software thought leader howto: downplay programming as much as possible, elevate soft skills, throw shade on people who code for fun

py3's concurrent.futures still uses multiprocessing, which means it still uses pickle, which means it's still an outage in wait

k8s feels like javascript frameworks for architecture, everyone wants to use it, esp those who don't need it. does�twitter.com/i/web/status/8…bv

There is no compelling reason to use "serial" over "bigserial" for an id column.

#golang stdlib is so impressive; complex things are impeccably documented, clearly written; eg. its allocator: golang.org/src/runtime/ma…

The #GRPC docs still do not mention its small, arbitrary max message size github.com/grpc/grpc/issu… grpc.io/docs/guides/co…

we can overlay all manner of digital adverts in sport (complete with realistic shadows!) but we can't normalize exposure for stadium shade?

Worth a read: peter.bourgon.org/blog/2017/06/0… It is thoughtful, but I disagree strongly with it.

It's not worth sacrificing API cohesion to make the app easier to write. Put the app out of your mind and write a lib that makes sense.

assertion libs are decidedly better than lack of testing and if that's what it takes for my collaborators to write good tests I'm on board