jmoiron plays the blues

@jmoiron Many early adopters valued the transparency that Go's limitations enforced, because they form the foundations of its readability. At a glance, you not only know what most code is doing, but you can be reasonably sure how it's doing it.

@jmoiron The for/range loop in Go used to have limited ambiguity; the return type of maps.Values here could be a slice, map, or channel. These are similar enough that you could even make reasonable assumptions about performance. With iterators, there will be unlimited ambiguity. https:...

@jmoiron Why are there gamer style tech influencer youtubers now

@jmoiron @polypocketknife @Rattlinchains they do angry too https://t.co/nfYOydbovv

@jmoiron @felixge I've heard this referred to as homesteading or a gold rush. Being early to a community that grows a lot has a lot of growth advantages. It's certainly why sqlx has a lot of stars.

@jmoiron @satnam6502 No order: 1. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain, beautiful, painful, raw emotion 2. Jimi Hendrix - Killing Floor (BBC Sessions), epitome of blues rock, guitar like a freight train 3. Django Reinhardt - I'll see you in my dreams / Night and Day (1953), playful/inventive/virtuos...

@jmoiron @JackMurphyRGR @BeijingPalmer How are these two things related?

@jmoiron @ian_sportsdev The flip side is that outcome requirements can stifle innovation by making everyone risk averse. Since promotions are so individualized, I think it's fine to have a nuanced approach.

@jmoiron https://t.co/CeJAzxUMaT https://t.co/0NBGIHyKzk

@jmoiron This is patronizing, but I think it's also wrong? Product failures are complicated. Was it a bad idea, bad execution, bad marketing, bad timing? Judging outcomes is a cross-org process, like looking at outages. Promotion is scoped to one person's impact. https://t.co/kSw6MWQ5bK

@jmoiron The eclipse from NYC https://t.co/bBz2GBNZXw

@jmoiron @bryanl @bria_sullivan People (relatives) always ask me why I don't start my own business, and I just can't figure out how I could come out ahead of a good tech salary out there on the open ocean. That said, 200k in the bank every year gives you a long runway to find success.

@jmoiron I think Python is very good within its niche, and its value as a way to get non-software professionals into programming (eg. biologists, etc) is very under-appreciated by SWE. But perf matters! That niche is vulnerable; modern Python tooling is increasingly written in rust.

@jmoiron I think about this when I see perf come up in the Python community; it's always downplayed. It's circular logic. Python is too slow for eg. a db implementation, so you write that in something else. Then they look around and think "look, nobody is writing databases these days." ...

@jmoiron He still had so much more to give. https://t.co/45mapy25p9

@jmoiron That said, delivering the rugpull+layoff message with the tact and humility of Lord Farquaad is optional. Surely they could have ditched hobby and pivoted their awesome team toward profitable use cases ages ago.

@jmoiron For saas infra products w/o direct network effects, free tier traction is fool's gold. Most free tier use cases can't justify $500 ARR, but they will anchor your pricing at 0 and skew support/feature reqs, potentially leading to feature dev that doesn't affect your bottom line.

@jmoiron @buckwilson got a bunch of thoughts on this particular layoff, but yeah there are some unsettling parllels in the messaging

@jmoiron @jasonhevans @tenzin_rose Good thing about TCP/IP jokes is they reliably deliver.

@jmoiron @stephxsher let me recommend to you some better restaurants

@jmoiron.bsky.social After a month away, first thing I hear in America is an announcement on the proper procedure for transporting your firearm on a plane.

@jmoiron @elithrar without the bunnings i would totally believe this was america somewhere

@jmoiron @ibuildthecloud @adamhjk I'd love to never touch k8s again, but even when that's a goal it's difficult to achieve because at the end of the day there is no environment where logic can be expressed; you're forced to declare everything the way k8s expects.

@jmoiron @eatonphil Went to this area 2 years ago and highly recommend it.

@jmoiron Great thread on perf. Very relevant to Charlie's work, if go fmt was not fast, we probably would not have code formatters in every major language's toolbox today. https://t.co/QDTHJFBfFM