jmoiron plays the blues

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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 seā€twitter.com/i/web/status/9ā€¦8V

Great advice: "Don't be afraid to try; just think a bit first and be willing to experiment." Also, the target shoā€twitter.com/i/web/status/9ā€¦iC

I've never seen code that can adequately express "Every comment you write is a failure to express yourself well inā€twitter.com/i/web/status/9ā€¦XF

Alan Donovan's casual aside at @gothamgo about turing incompleteness being a feature for Skylark really resonates.ā€twitter.com/i/web/status/9ā€¦04

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

"Monzoā€™s backend is written as several hundred microservices..." It's a testament to k8s et al. that this works intwitter.com/i/web/status/9ā€¦YnjG

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 cā€twitter.com/i/web/status/9ā€¦1S

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.

The problem is that we are attempting to build systems that are beyond our ability to intellectually manage. - Nancy Leveson

A little copying is better than a lot of pointers.

"If anybody wants to build highly scalable systems, I recommend you study logging systems and then do completely the opposite." - @mjpt777

Oh, you can't write multiple sentences in this book, but multi-sentence support isn't an issue, just build a shelf and buy multiple books.

Observability is over. It's just too... last month. What we need in this post-observability world is the "transparent cloud."

Even after years of going to Go conventions I still met new people that I really admire and loved talking to at #GothamGo; thank you all!

seastar looks so cool seastar-project.org; the first gen of dbs to fully exploit pmem, dpdk, and dio will blow peoples minds

This is literally a garbage fire https://t.co/hnOOYROEiJ

The difficulty with Generics isn't how you can use them but how you will use them. #gothamgo