Learning golang; come across Stringer; theme of the next few hours: The Wire

I have a mantra: don't get too attached to the shit you build

That mantra is about to be thoroughly tested - we might be just about to trash one year worth of work coz the 3rd party we were working with doesn't look like they'll be able handle our load

Thank goodness for Dry Runs!

!rant

I'll just read one chapter

- Biggest lie Harry Potter books fans tell themselves

They're all just file changes

Tip for next time: stop the bleeding first, then stitch

Managing complexity. That's the job

We bring you messages from the future...

Is Apple rounding up timestamps, or have they started using Scala Futures? 😂😂

No love for Nginx, I see

I changed my twitter password on web on the day they discovered the passwords in plaintext in their logs, and till today, I've not been logged out of the mobile client

Code reviews: do it thoroughly or don't do it at all

How does the PagerDuty team get alerted if their systems go down ?

🎶Today was a good day🎶

I finally got around to doing a task I'd had on my list for months

Plus: it's open source too!

https://github.com/muya/...

I foresee a future where every new feature after the original product will require an opt-in

The way we've been waiting for Slack's dark mode, it better be lit! 🔥

I can't get over the fact that Stephen Hawking passed away

"...may you keep flying like superman in microgravity..."

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/...

I get in to the office today, and I'm informed that my ceramic origami swan (https://devrant.com/rants/1231342/...) fell and broke during office cleaning.

I'm now afraid to bring new stuff into the office for my desk

It's always great when developers have a sense of humour!

Phone keyboard just autocorrected gentle to Gentoo 😂

New smaller helper

I did a good thing today, and I feel like only the people here would appreciate it

You see, the thing about bugs... You never know when you're writing them.

I bet whoever wrote this code into Scala REPL didn't know they'd make someone smile during the holidays

Happy holidays everyone!

One thing I appreciate about my team - if someone makes a mistake, the first reaction after fixing it is: How do we prevent it from happening again?

Just loaded the wrong AWS region. Mini heart attack 😂

Literally (or should I say programmatically 😂) !rant

I might have outlasted my gym instructor today 🚴🏾‍♂️💪🏾

Somebody just asked me: "so what's the plan for Monday?"
Me: What's Monday?
...After waiting for a reply for a while, I check the calendar... IT'S MY FREAKING BIRTHDAY!!!

What do you think, does Google just have really good code structure that allows re-use at this level, or are they just coordinating release notes?

When you try lie to the compiler 😁

Either a very tired dev or a really really critical bug fix whose details cannot be revealed

I'll choose the first