jmoiron plays the blues

Poor commenting has been costing me more time than poor testing. The act of writing about an interface will lead you to improve it.

How you know a recipe is for real: "vegetable oil will have to do if you don’t have a freezer full of solidified lamb fat"

required reading on logs, metrics and measurement from @copyconstruct medium.com/@cindysridhara…

The biggest drain on my productivity is the added cognitive load of not being able/allowed to finish things.

an important point: "I believe this code is more proportional to the complexity of the work that it’s doing.medium.com/@shazow/code-b…fI

any @Etsy people who want to stay in NYC and are interested in learning about work at @datadoghq feel free to reach out

"We shape our tools, then our tools shape us." Civilization is a history of continued refinement of our tools. #JustTools

Who isn't profoundly impacted by the tools they use? twitter.com/search?q=langu…

The "pass by reference" discussion in a nutshell: "There is the definition everyone uses, and then there is the correct one."

My friend's teenage daughter told me _exactly_ this last weekend @stevekrouse stevekrouse.com/scratch-has-a-…

It's the year 20117 and JavaScript still doesn't have integers github.com/nodejs/node/is…

b9976f54 to dmc enable -C for transparent ssh compression

418821df to dmc add quiet mode

those that don't use @datadoghq are doomed to repeat it, but fantastic post and req reading for people into tsdb: fabxc.org/blog/2017-04-1…

If Python solves your problems I feel good for you son, I got 64 cores and I need every one.

mpv supports playing youtube streams, so you can listen to one w/o rendering video: `mpv -vo none youtube.com/some-stream`

f4b56607 to dotfiles merge sanji

6e86aac9 to dotfiles Merge branch 'master' of github.com:jmoiron/dotfiles

57a3c192 to dotfiles updates from dev

Took a look at @_rsc's github.com/rsc/corpus and learned about vendoring and how widely gofmt is used: jmoiron.net/blog/fmty-dmpty #golang

"Choose SQL" was just "TRUST ME", so I started writing some thoughts but then I got a little lazy so it's a mess: jmoiron.net/blog/choose-wi…

John Wick 2 is a back door Matrix reboot where virtual NYC is rearranged, so the WTC Path station is in Lincoln Center and goes to Canal st

> functional programming is particularly difficult in Go Working as designed, wontfix.

So there is a "$300 free trial" that costs $0, and an "Always Free" tier that expires after 12 months. OK. cloud.google.com/free/