jmoiron plays the blues

for me not for you dave.cheney.net/2019/08/20/go-ā€¦

func name()() () { } is just too many ()'s in a row

If you're new to Go and using sql, vividcortex.com/resources/the-ā€¦ is an excellent dive into the nuances and behaviours ofā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦OS

"The language chosen was PL/I partly because of the richness of its constructs and partly because of the enthusiasmā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦ea

Go PL change discussions: "The Rolls Royce Phantom is great; quiet, comfortable... but it's a bit slow. Let's fixā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦iB

The LiNK paper finally hit "the morning paper" today; hot takes on twitter are (predictably) glib. Do y'all like,ā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦oe

There's more to learn in software development than programming languages.

We need a "slow food" software movement. twitter.com/carmatrocity/sā€¦

I've already been unable to find the room I'm looking for several times due to the new @SlackHQ drafts feature.

Go community generics counter-proposals are all so focused on syntax, which is less than half of the problem. Therā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦Wx

What a load of bollocks avc.com/2019/05/outschā€¦

Slack's thread viewing options: a sidebar too narrow to read snippets in that updates normally, and a "threads" viā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦HV

let's just make "questino" a word

The important takeaway is that all of the complexity removed was accidental and not intrinsic. twitter.com/kelseyhightoweā€¦

I've been thinking about using starlark as a way towards a composable future for k8s cluster config for some time,ā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦eK

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

This thread is really good but really is there anything less jazz than a platform platform built almost exclusivelyā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦bU

How does this blanket "devs should not get SSH access" shit persist in this new age of observability? How much tooā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦e5

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 cā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦aR

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 learā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦S0

"If the struct youā€™re defining the method on is very large, copying it would be far too expensive than using a valutwitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦WUTD

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

Kia kaha.