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"Before starting to work on a problem, it can be helpful to already know more or less how to solve that problem." twitter.com/mitchellh/stat…

Returning early[1] aka Guard Clauses[2] is a very common code review comment of mine. Putting error and edge cases��twitter.com/i/web/status/9…YJ

No level of observability will keep your kafkaesque web of microservices from doing the wrong thing.

in app notifications https://t.co/4cO3RFvipp

The two most important execution contexts for your program are the brains of the people maintaining it and the comp��twitter.com/i/web/status/9…wC

"The youth of America [..] started protesting all the things that they saw wrong with America: racism, environmenta��twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Au

CI support for #golang has come a long way since Jan 2013; from zero to @travisci + @CoverallsApp via @mattn_jp's g��twitter.com/i/web/status/9…pc

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minimum version selection has the potential to be Go's 2nd biggest gift to the wider programming community (after g��twitter.com/i/web/status/9…zk

config format reqs: no parser ambiguities, obvious structure, clear base datatypes (at least json types + integers)��twitter.com/i/web/status/9…Vt

Tracebacks are not error messages and they do not belong in error messages. Do not show tracebacks to your users,��twitter.com/i/web/status/9…lE

every unhappy on-call rotation is unhappy in its own way

the nice thing about eventual consistency is that it can be implemented on top of any datastore

Imagine a world where it is 2017 but this type of replication didn't already exist. Who would be arguing for it to��twitter.com/i/web/status/9…xa

Think about code coverage tools like you would infrastructure observability tools. They provide very specific info��twitter.com/i/web/status/9…4F

809b3737 to dotfiles i like materialtheme and i dont like material so this messes up tab completion for no benefit

new years resolution: fail any change request in code review that features a new type starting with the word "Abstract"

This quote is about water: “It has a vaguely mild sweetness, a nice smooth mouth feel, nothing that overwhelms thetwitter.com/i/web/status/9…knS5

The less context you need to be able to read source code, the easier it is to understand. The more understandable��twitter.com/i/web/status/9…g5

Given an engineer is already capable of solving a problem, how best to teach them to solve it _better_? I often se��twitter.com/i/web/status/9…8V