jmoiron plays the blues

"I'm sorry I hurt you but I stand by all the hurtful things I said" aint no apology I ever heard of.

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It's real cool that they get to talk about this kinda stuff at CPPcon and it's thoughtful and informative and not aā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦mN

Next Tuesday (Oct 8) I'm going to talk about some of the lessons we've learned building and running @datadoghq's meā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦pV

Citing xkcd 927 is getting a bit old, I think it's time we developed a new reference for this phenomenon.

Great talk by @jimkxa on the continuing march of transistor density youtube.com/watch?v=oIG9ztā€¦ Lots of fascinating teā€twitter.com/i/web/status/1ā€¦4i

The phrase "order of magnitude" is "literally" for smart people. twitter.com/copyconstruct/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

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€¦