jmoiron plays the blues

Microservices: a real solution to a real problem, but not the only solution to the only problem.

There's been a slow removal of Hong Kong (and at times, Taiwan) from western stats on the Covid-19 outbreak. Politā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦ZF

It should be noted, this has been an additional source of racist hostility against Asian Americans. twitter.com/balajis/statusā€¦

I get that "YAML is assembly" in the sense that it's a low level representation that we want to abstract away, butā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦6k

A big difference between remote and in-person is the way groups work. A 6 person group can be 1 large conversationā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦Da

Makes me wish I was still temporarily displaced into Avalon Bay Clinton. Support your locals, they make your neighā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦BI

Looks like Turntable Live was 7 years ahead of its time, @billychasen

Great, now in a few elections time we're gonna have Cuomo running for president of COVID-19.

the squeaky wheel ruins the cart

Well, looks like not everyone agreed with my blog post on iterators :3 blog.golang.org/a-new-go-api-fā€¦

I wrote about different approaches to iterator types in Go jmoiron.net/blog/breaking-ā€¦

Engineers discovering the benefits of mechanical sympathy should give human sympathy a shot.

.@billychasen has had a lot of great ideas... and @startbotnet (startbotnet.com) is definitely one of my faā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦RU

This has been an oft cited and very elegant example of composition/embedding in Go since forever, but I've come toā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦eQ

Friends in the #MozillaLifeboat, if you're interested in a position at @datadoghq my DMs are open. We do a lot ofā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦TA

That payphone... I watched a video in Japanese class ~12y ago and we had to describe the scene. Someone had alreaā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦sK

Blanket statements about programming are always wrong for some subset of programmers. twitter.com/Atrix256/statuā€¦

Overwatch fandom is full of people I love, and most of the boycott energy comes from a shitty place, but I supportā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦7M

iFixit designed their own carbon fibre blend and called it Fixite, which is charming, and as a side effect, you canā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦iq

The sunsets from the office this week have been pretty great. https://t.co/YBhQWYjSj3

"A dedicated Escape key allows quick switching between modes and views." It's just one innovation after another with this company.

When you're digging into a system during an incident/outage, share the commands you're using + the output, not justā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦gL

Finally debugged an autocompletion issue I was having with vim-go today where <c-x><c-o> was removing partial textā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦0p