jmoiron plays the blues

Audible "What? Oh no.." reading this. One of the great thinkers and, by all accounts, great people in computing. twitter.com/FrancescoC/staтАж

This thread is really good but really is there anything less jazz than a platform platform built almost exclusivelyтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжbU

How does this blanket "devs should not get SSH access" shit persist in this new age of observability? How much tooтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжe5

even though they are fake internet points, it still feels like some kind of validation that sqlx has passed 6000 stars on github

Cloud tech is accelerating away from the kinds of infrastructure both suitable for and relatable to hobbyists. I cтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжaR

Beware the runbook tarpit where everything is documented but nothing is automated.

Jess has put together a great list. I personally love asking people teach me what they have been learning. I learтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжS0

"If the struct youтАЩre defining the method on is very large, copying it would be far too expensive than using a valutwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжWUTD

I've heard the same of java, grid computing, cloud computing, emr, serverless... It's a risky business. twitter.com/malsamisa/statтАж

Kia kaha.

"Many of us are also engaged in тАЬstartup communityтАЭ activities that frankly boil down to little more than drinkitwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжNtT46x

The response to @peterbourgon's 100% valid comment on Mastadon installation reqs (lobste.rs/s/hyoser/you_sтАж) exposesтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАж4J

They forgot the Dunder Mifflin letterhead on this Idera TravisCI email.

I think hierarchical OOP type systems train people to build software components by focusing on modeling the problemтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжgn

Seconded. #travisAlums twitter.com/0x71/status/10тАж

If NYC, in its position, cannot oppose this type of extortion, how can ordinary cities do it?

2.5 years later and I'm not sure we know any better jmoiron.net/blog/dependencтАж twitter.com/_rsc/status/10тАж

Finally, hexidecimal floating point github.com/golang/proposaтАж I was starting to worry that I'd always be able to readтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжzu

SQL has been continuously extended since its creation, but this is a pretty common sentiment. I'm still in the "anтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжAh

If the documentation for your interface is not easy to write, the interface is probably not easy to use.

I used to second guess myself with `ln` but someone once told me that it behaves exactly the same as `cp` wrt arguтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжja

Fixing trust problems in npm involves overcoming network effects on huge networks (see: metcalf's law); They are iтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжsc

tsbs (github.com/timescale/tsbs) is at least a common platform to build off of, but it doesn't resemble normal infrasтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжtT

Surely we've all learned this already from gofmt. An authoritative tool improves consistency, and consistency is aтАtwitter.com/i/web/status/1тАжgx

I've been using lftp (via sftp/ssh) for ~15 years and I just learned that "mirror" does what I have always wished "mget -d" did.