jmoiron plays the blues

ca16f25e to dmc use -n to control parallelism

nice article on GC but it omits* the fact that most Go objects that die young are stack allocated medium.com/@octskyward/mo…

Just once I'd like to read this without the chiding of people who occasionally program because it's fun linkedin.com/pulse/i-have-s…

New York County (Manhattan, everyone uses the Subway) has the lowest rate of transport injury mortality in the US healthdata.org/sites/default/…

research.swtch.com/version-sat all the more reason to minimize your moiron score! (and why I should quite being lazy and follow @sdboyer's advice)

wild @datadoghq charts appeared! discord.engineering/how-discord-ha… (also, 17k requests/sec)

The variety of packages and amount of config to run a reasonable email server these days is ridiculous.

In languages, DSL stands for "inflexible set of opaque garbage with no tools tailored specifically to someone elses usecase"

"some periodic cassandra job is waking me up for no good reason" #opslife

eev.ee/blog/2016/12/0… must have taken a hell of a long time to put together, few small mistakes but really worth a look for language buffs

That stray semi-colon took hours to find.

"Simplicity is key to Kraken’s success – the stability of simple sytems is needed to debug complex issublog.acolyer.org/2016/11/28/kra…a9kX

"module that makes inconstant constants, except actually not" hmm packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/perl/li…

Clinton's popular vote lead now more than the population all but 4 US Cities and larger than the population of 14 US states.

Premature optimisation being bad doesn't mean obviously slow code isn't also bad.

"This program works if you have these other 20000 files on your computer" is a deal breaker for me now

Signs a New MacBook Pro review is nonsense: non ironic use of the meaningless marketing phrase "responsive keyboard"

.@github "Projects" feature requests: columns based on searches, tags, and/or milestones, auto-remove toggle for closed issues

Confirmation of what "real america" means when they say "values"

f9350a96 to dotfiles udpate go version & pctilde osx build for sierra

Agree entirely with this, but while C/Vala is a big problem for GNOME, it's not the biggest problem. siliconislandblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/tho…

63b82242 to goquery pull from upstream

tip.golang.org/pkg/database/s… got 30-40% bigger to accommodate context, and most users were already taking one peek and going for an ORM

similarly, I like net/context a lot, but sprinkling it all over the stdlib is going to be painful and I don't think it helps most users

#golang alias proposal doesn't seem to solve enough problems to warrant the confusion it will introduce github.com/golang/proposa…