jmoiron plays the blues

Going to the #golang hackfest at @yext this evening... what should I work on?

"hard to get wrong" isn't the same as "easy to get right"

People have scoffed at the cmd line for years now, yet still ask ignorant of the irony "How do I resize a folder of 3000 vacation pics?"

4cfb6649 to dotfiles ft=less on *.less

0d09ebd1 to dotfiles some dotfile updates

525c4920 to modl use sqlx.NameMapper instead of strings.ToLower to map struct names to column names

Another #golang blog post, urging use of built-in interfaces, explaining sql.Scanner & driver.Valuer jmoiron.net/blog/built-in-…

Conrad Smith is the Claude Makelele of rugby. His seemingly unremarkable steadiness will only be fully appreciated later.

Wrote an interactive test based on @jitbit's great SQL Interview questions post: test: wts.jmoiron.net post: jitbit.com/news/181-jitbi…

It's crazy modern PHP programmers find that old FB code abysmal "spaghetti" but live in a perpetual java-inspired DI class-only clusterfuck

Making code look like English is really just the addition of an English->Code obfuscation translation step that adds no value whatsoever

377aa9ca to modl don't swallow useful postgresql errors when INSERT fails, zsombor upstream 947c742d04edf30b295e34a77676eee2c609dbeb

f6730bd4 to modl add tracing for begin/commit/rollback, 047aa496231b62db778d98cc2fdb9dfda17ccbb4, from jeo shaw upstream on gorp

e3bb9d17 to modl add time.Time support, use timestamp w/ time zone, abc01bc429c1b1c264087711b823e578ba666d3b and e5a6512ec776ecc8373e11165f992a8a91ac4ae4 from gorp upstream

Graphic illustration of focal length "pulling in" the background on the deep end and "pushing it" in the shallow end photokaboom.com/photography/le…

OH: @aramh If the brace style drives away people who care about brace styles beyond everything else, then it's working as intended. #golang

Computer languages should balance expressiveness with transparency.

TypeError: __init__() takes at least 17 arguments. Gonna be a long day #Python (cookielib.Cookie)

Unexpected influx of py/rubyists to #golang cited by @rob_pike seems to be down to modern build system + execution speed + easy deployment

ccebd2ea to django-db-pool version bump

1d7457db to django-db-pool add USE_GEVENT option, use it to set the connection pool to the GeventConnectionPool, clean up settings a bit, auto-retry after a given time (20msec) to get cursors if the pool is full

e8444db5 to django-db-pool update README for reason for fork