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(Allowing me to start on one part of the surface and work inwards without breaking everything. Wayyyyy too many hours spent refactoring to get here.) https://t.co/4HVZvVMBqf14 days

Now building "firebreaks" so changes in one place don't cascade into everything.

https://www.andrewdenty.com/blog/2020/07/01/a-visu… https://t.co/4WShCzvhT115 days

Privacy aside, I like the idea of sites hosting their own assets — just seems simpler.

I start intending to write 20 words. Before I know it, the project's ballooned into a high caloric word salad of 2,000+ words, most uninteresting, but none of which I want to cut.about 1 month

On Digital Ocean App Platform:

Original footage of the exclusion zone in Chernobyl, vintage video of Attenborough’s exploits over the last ~70 years, ultra-modern agricultural farms in the Netherlands, concept art of future sustainable, green cities.about 1 month

Recommend Attenborough’s “A Life on Our Planet” (Netflix). Same sublime cinematography, but with sobering facts attached. https://t.co/VlDpCJwhzVabout 1 month

$ dropdb --force

https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/015-ruby-typing https://t.co/AjcbfwQarAabout 1 month

Sad/awful. We need better monetization models.about 1 month

https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/014-local-first https://t.co/YuY4wvg3uMabout 1 month

(1) even a single street closed to vehicular traffic is one too many, and (2) in the vanishingly rare case that city leadership accidentally makes a good decision, it’s reverted posthaste.about 1 month

I haven't tried it yet, but this could be the biggest win in internet infrastructure that hobbyists have had in years.

(Knew it was hard. Didn't know it was this hard.)

Imagine if the original PCs disallowed user-installable software, and IBM/Apple demanded 30%. Modern computing wouldn’t exist.

They're an automated way to prune old data, which as it turns out, is something a lot of people need.

https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/013-remote https://t.co/au1UGuO71Y3 months

Convincing, but still a bit sad. With the diminished API of WebExtensions, Firefox lost its only major edge over Chrome.

This seems to be one of the most successful non-ad monetization models for independent publishers in the history of the internet.3 months

I was hoping/expecting the $ discount to be greater, but AWS claims an r6g is ~40% more performant than its m5 counterpart, at ~20% cheaper.

For my money, there's never been another show in the history of TV that's been as consistent in quality.

Didn't recognize the name of the new owner, but immediately knew him as the "guy with the fish drawing on his blog who writes about Antarctica".

I'm _inexpressibly_ happy that it still has a reasonable `max-width` to limit line lengths rather than going full GitLab.5 months

https://brandur.org/sequences/2020-light/006 https://t.co/jMaw9f9dIC5 months

All of Canon, Fuji, Leica, Nikon, and Sony are doing their best work ever in cameras/optics, and there's still plenty of interest.

https://brandur.org/sequences/2020-light/005 https://t.co/9PbfUcYEmv6 months

My grandfather using Dictaphone "Time-Master" circa '50s. It used new "Dictabelt" tech to store audio to plastic belts instead of wax cylinders. Magnetic tape would come ~10 years later. https://t.co/P4RobzI9G57 months

Downloads page: Here are RPMs, Homebrew invocation, some other stuff. Not using those? Here's a pre-built binary that you can dump onto any Linux system and be up and running in 3 seconds.

Throw against the wall, throw against the wall, throw against the wall.

Throw quickly against the wall until MVP. Refactor. Harden. Refactor. Harden.7 months

(If you like horror) but it's practically in a genre of its own: Almost entirely in daylight, ~zero jump scares, no monster. Clever, subtle dialog, amazing scene and costume design. Stress just keeps escalating.

sig { params(io: T.any(IO, StringIO, Tempfile)).void }

Gets me every time:

(I wrote my own version for Nanoglyph a few weeks back, but this is better.)

It goes all in on Go Modules (we held off a long time in the hopes Dep would build in basic Modules awareness).

And in general: Very worthwhile putting something like this into your site's toolchain. MozJPEG shrunk my images to an average of 40% their original size!

I cut ~half a minute off build times by realizing there was a pre-installed `awscli` and using that instead of fetching it via `apt`.

Leaves a useful trail for colleagues and/or your own reference, but prevents review-writing from turning into a major project.8 months

• Open app (e.g. Notes, iA Writer) on target device.

Only 100+ chapters to go. https://t.co/CuCG8cy7L68 months

I've recently taken to copying backtraces into Vim buffers to make them searchable.8 months

This sort of standalone push of independent content embodies the most aspirational aspects of the early web.

Pleasantly surprised so far: EXIF information in Finder _alone_ is such a killer feature to easily have made it worthwhile. https://t.co/VFWd9BXTl18 months

https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/010-monterey https://t.co/QR4PT7gp8n10 months

First impressions: Cloud Build is awesome (totally avoided installing local Docker), excellent custom domain setup/TLS, way too expensive but may work for tiny projects, GCP TUI/GUI both underwhelming but functional.11 months

Copy the current path in a focused Finder window with ⌥ Option + ⌘ Command + C.

Yep I'm boring, but practically a perfect day off.11 months

This week going out in ~1 hour.

Me: The present is so stylistically unremarkable that we're like an elderly generation reminiscing on a more vibrant past. Also me: sign me up. https://t.co/4cxRHoD9oY11 months

Last week's: an old Heroku eggnog recipe, and a dive into GitHub Actions.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-20… https://t.co/hxZHIAHbsb12 months

The logo is a little homely, but it's a *great* story.

Thankful that Apple didn't lay it on _too thick_ with superlative rhetorical bullsh*t about "reinventing the keyboard" or anything like that after the new variant is clearly a revert of a Really, Truly, Worst-of-Apple-hubristic-design Bad Idea. https://t.co/pn8ax4a18Sabout 1 year

(And if enough of us do it, it'll significantly dilute the value of these dark techniques.) https://t.co/T63KePsIZZabout 1 year

I get an inordinate amount of pleasure examining tracking pixels from recruiters (in source) and knowing that they can no longer trust their surreptitious telemetry. https://t.co/GDwCWBn5aYabout 1 year

All in all, not too different, but really like the formalized build steps — output is a lot easier to read. Also, access to more modern packages via Docker.

e.g. If Apache Struts as disclosed three major remote execution vulnerabilities in four years, consider avoiding it.

Near Bunaken, Indonesia. https://t.co/RAt3803Seoabout 1 year

Highlights: eagle rays, sea turtles, mantis shrimp (!!), clouds of silversides, seahorse, lionfish (invasive species) hunting, diving 300 ft wreck. https://t.co/oF6n6LJpPSabout 1 year

3 years ago, not worth spending one second thinking about taking an iPhone photo in the dark. A year ago: possible, with bad results. Now: good. https://t.co/coiYnNh0yGabout 1 year

Apple knocked it out of the park. In including it, but also the new Camera app design, which subtly shows what 0.5x might look like from the 1x view. https://t.co/NY4ESUgwmZabout 1 year

One of the most airtight models in software design: ORMs for basic fetches and persistence. SQL for the complicated stuff.

We could stand to have more information on how to build code and patterns to work with limiting, so if anyone has specific requests, I'll try to integrate them over the next week or so.

Tried VS Code + LSP in Go, Rust, and C — they all worked without me writing a single line of configuration. We're finally close.about 1 year

Took 3 hours to get a setup better than a vimrc/plugin config curated over 10+ years, with the 80% of Vim people actually use, functional completion, jump to def, and "hover" docs.about 1 year

This is now the best long walk that I know of in the Bay Area. https://t.co/XtvulyZc87about 1 year

Should I stop? Are there any other great format tricks I'm missing?about 1 year

Stopping at crosswalks, red lights, and stop signs is informally not required in San Francisco — dangerous norms blessed by the SFPD by comprehensive non-enforcement. https://twitter.com/hknightsf/status/1167442617031…over 1 year

(Especially in California) Owning only one pair of raw denim is more than enough, but the feel/weight/heft on these is pretty satisfying. https://t.co/3Xd8JvkyXrover 1 year

Luckily I have no skin in the game, but it's amazing that language designers made this mistake after the hard lesson of Python 2 to 3 — a division that will have taken 12 years to resolve (if the 2020 sunset works this time).over 1 year

However, one limitation only raised given a thorough read of the docs is that because indexes are partition-local, there's no easy way to enforce a unique constraint across all of them, which hurts many use cases.over 1 year

We'd love it if you gave it a try!

With nice Markdown rendering, good typography, code rendering, and linkable headers, it's more pragmatic than most dedicated blogs.over 1 year

And in case you missed it: await was implemented postfix (`x.await` instead of `await(x)`) for chainability. Contentious at the time, but so obviously the right decision now.

Working in high-level languages almost all the time, it's been a _really_ long time since I had to think about pointer widths and re-arranging bits with shifts and masks.

Metrics and dashboards are great, but despite its inefficiencies, logging will always have a place in operations — it gets you insight in tight spots that you'd never have otherwise.

“You're crying,” Herb said.over 1 year

Alameda’s view of SF is wonderful too. https://t.co/8DdbE0n7sIover 1 year

> “As a matter of principle, RE2 does not support constructs for which only backtracking solutions are known to exist. Thus, backreferences and look-around assertions are not supported.”

(But ~none in Go or Rust, which don't backtrack.)

Stabilizing straps are so good and the pack so light/breathable that commuting down/up the mountain to/from work with a 13” MBP feels like no trouble at all. Should’ve gotten one years ago. https://t.co/WLHb6Dkfaeover 1 year

It was underpowered, but it turns out that was fine for 95% of what I actually want to do on a computer. And a form factor so tiny that you could throw it in your bag and forget it was even there.over 1 year

It’s apparently even worse in South Korea — they’re now experimenting with ground traffic signals to save smombies (“SMartphone zOMBIES”) from walking into traffic.

Original implementation assumed that most requests aren't blocked, but found that on 250k reqs across top 500 domains, _39%_ were. Almost half going to ads/tracking!

* A gov’t that rivals SF in dysfunction. Defies physics.

https://brandur.org/sequences/berlin/007 https://t.co/7XXyHcktDgover 1 year

https://brandur.org/sequences/berlin/004 https://t.co/mvHshkJqe3over 1 year

https://brandur.org/sequences/berlin/003 https://t.co/cpQkZUF35Zover 1 year

https://brandur.org/sequences/berlin/002 https://t.co/a99VOAr2Pjover 1 year

(Not very original, but a good place to start.)

One of Rust's best-maintained projects, and just as importantly, targets stable instead of nightly (unlike most alternatives).

(And if you have ideas for amazing things to see while I'm here — send them my way!)

Also: Vim file saving trivia including unusual case of file “4913”.

So many great points — I'm 100% convinced. Most important talk of the year. Maybe the decade.

I now have a recurring urban fantasy that the navy finishes radiological cleanup and turns it over as a national park with ~no redevelopment — San Francisco's Tempelhof. https://t.co/lqNoLwoxOEover 1 year

It's in Swedish, but luckily, there are no lyrics.

This morning I wondered how difficult it would be to implement graceful restart with exec on usr2. Went from idea to refined impl in < 30 min.over 1 year

By setting Gmail on Vimium's exclude list, but then excluding almost every key, you can have get both Gmail shortcuts *and* Vimium's "F" function.

Especially for large/complex projects, the opposite is true. Without human care, most would last days, or with luck, weeks.over 1 year

The format may have started as a joke, but this site goes above and beyond by providing the ultimate executive summary, and linking relevant PRs, RFCs, and projects. Excellent way of staying apprised.over 1 year

(Admittedly, mostly just self-satisfying complaining, but trivial flaws amplified by constant, around-the-clock use compound into slightly-less-trivial flaws.)

Here are a few of mine: Tron Legacy, Oblivion, Casino Royale, Mission: Impossible (the good one). https://t.co/IdWh8Nlaxgover 1 year

More off-Twitter tiny indy web content please! Playing with some ideas of my own for future trips.

Finally did a course there last night, and although compact and aged in very SF ways, it’s a delight. https://t.co/CPeWitJZBCover 1 year

This is something the team's been wanting to do this for *years*. More info and migration guide: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-java/wiki/Migrati… https://t.co/TgtVdTu2Zaover 1 year

Speaking as a somewhat colour-impaired person, the old/current map (2nd image) has always been borderline unintelligible because of heavy reliance on adjacent colours. https://t.co/etECeq6CARover 1 year

So soon after the end of winter the province is a monochrome landscape of lifeless brown, and these little splashes of colour are a delight. https://t.co/xapPkgtxfHover 1 year

The update to http://isairpoweroutyet.com was expedient, accurate, and definitive. https://t.co/lYzcuimOwUover 1 year

It's *so* good to see innovation on that front. The traditional serverless model of "1 request = 1 container" is grossly inefficient. Memory use and startup times are important.over 1 year

So much positive signal even from just the initial list of supported languages: Rust, C, TypeScript. Someone there has good taste :)

https://logicmag.io/07-the-chinese-burner/ https://t.co/gV16e85jqWover 1 year

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/0… https://t.co/Du7mraoPCFover 1 year

Why are we supposed to be using this thing again? https://t.co/AyeaaugxMaover 1 year

It's one of the best known classics and Joyce gave interviews after publication, but still, not even the most pre-eminent literary critics have a clue what happened in this book.

I'm a die-hard terminal person for life, but it's so much better. Especially during the duress of an incident, there's nothing like being able to click boxes to resolution instead of looking up obscure CLI flags.over 1 year

(And looking forward to experiencing this myself when the 2022 MacBook refresh brings in an all-Touch Bar keyboard.)

One line of code in your app and CA valid HTTPS just works. No magic load balancers, no Nginx. We should hope that the future of all server-side programming is this simple.

Excellent writing, and better than fiction. Worth hoisting to the top of your read list.

But is there a point where a game pulls in too much real life? This one was a few design calls from having me brush Arthur’s teeth before bed, trim toenails weekly, and do 45 min/day on the elliptical.almost 2 years

(Context: it's really coming down in SF right now.) https://t.co/Bo3VxiQhgXalmost 2 years

SortSupport is a really neat optimization in Postgres that makes sorting fast even for data types that are large or arbitrarily-sized. Here we take a look at the details.

Wasted literally 45 minutes debugging because unlike any sane language, the bitwise `&` operator has lower precedence than comparisons like `==` (so guess what happens when you evaluate `a & b == 1`). Fuuuu.almost 2 years

With more dangerous pointer casts than lines of code, C is terrifying, but there's also satisfaction working so close to the metal. Before this, I hadn't had to think about how values look in binary or endianness since university.almost 2 years

Also comes with uncomfortable levels of insight: “That is the thing about the present, Emily Prime. You only appreciate it when it is the past.”

Fortunately, ripping out and reinstalling the entire toolchain including nightly, rustfmt, and clippy took < 5 min (there's even `rustup self uninstall`). If only all software were so well behaved!almost 2 years

Pause for a moment. Turn up the volume (not generally, but for some temporary extra detail). Listen.

Did the vault bar and push ups. https://t.co/rKSIeUcgRgalmost 2 years

Here’s a novel take on them:

iOS is designed to be inflexible, unconfigurable, and unyielding. Over time it will be corrected minutely, but can't fundamentally change.almost 2 years

(Normally, Safari chooses a URL for you even if you're at the exact location you want.)

I can't think of a better time to set some more ambitious goals for 2019.almost 2 years

Built by a small shop, but more refined, flexible, reliable, and beautiful than competing products from ~trillion dollar companies, despite having a much broader problem to solve.almost 2 years

“Rain is the natural element for romanticism. A dripping fir is a thousand times more sexy than a sunburnt palm, and more primal and contemplative, too.”

We most often talk about what features a programming language has, but just as important are what features it *doesn't* have. It is possible to write good C++, but the odds are way against you.

Given the nature of the hardware (wireless, tiny batteries), I'm **astonished** at how reliable and durable they've been over that lifespan. Quite possibly the best product Apple's ever shipped.almost 2 years

Contains, amongst other things, the most peaceful redwood grove within city limits. (And it's always free with proof of a local address). https://t.co/ybZK5Dqw5galmost 2 years

Fast unit tests and a suite that runs in minutes locally (or less!) is productivity manifest. Making CI the dev feedback loop embraces the opposite.

And to be clear, this is a smart move — their Yahoo-era free tier was too generous and unsustainable.

The new implementation is a YAML file + Dropbox. Good for fewer moving parts, but still a little sad — Flickr must have been my oldest still-in-use internet service.almost 2 years

My favourite part is how new futures return just a single type so you can use `Result` and all its furnishings like `?`.

The wealthy maximize ROI (and housing is a great asset). Land owners maximize rent (and that's AirBnB).

Unsanforized (sanforized = treated to minimize shrinking) and not prewashed, they're expected to shrink on 1st soak. These shrunk ~2 sizes and from baggy to slim. https://t.co/I0XC28v2Ft2 years

Its only mistake in not being considered a sci-fi classic was that it wasn't made in the 80s. https://t.co/PWO2hacwXm2 years

Surreal how much of 2018 has been defined by forest fires.2 years

By the time I've ⌘-Tab'ed back to my browser, the page is already re-rendered there without even a ⌘-R necessary. It's beautiful.2 years

Like compiled over interpreted, it'd be harder to learn, but more reliable once you finish learning.2 years

It's been surprisingly painful. Hugo's core is Go, but all user-space coding is done via markup/tags, so that nice compile-time checking vanishes. When you do something wrong, it's rarely obvious what it is.2 years

(Or, duct tape is more expensive than you think.)2 years

These days (since 4k?) buying new technology is step 0. The next week is guessing at problems by reading underinformed arcana online, non-deterministically troubleshooting, and upgrading cables.2 years

(Maybe noteworthy if you've never heard of a forbidden header before.)

I like paper better, but read ~entirely digitally these days for usability: size, portability, one-handed use. For 10+ years now, US paperbacks have been optimizing shape for the most exotic/awkward.

The number in the upper right on the sign on the huge barrel in the last photo is the holding capacity. 32,275 litres (with the largest being ~50k). https://t.co/VOUEVEsvOz2 years

Relatedly though, I’ve been charmed by Portugal’s population of feral cats. Here’s one sunning himself in the alleys of Coimbra. https://t.co/SrdWPActtX2 years

Naturally, in the first shot he slowly walked up to the bobcat until he was at ~3m distance. As you do, (in Canada). https://t.co/LEkwVn7rSJ2 years

With Postgres' current MVCC design, the cost of old data is borne by ALL transactions, while a Zheap UNDO model pushes expense to old snapshots, having the effect of optimizing for current data. Very exciting for production.

Postgres is a database, but also a runtime (fully custom memory management infrastructure), a standard library (custom string builder, linked list, hash map, sorting, ...), and even language (custom longjmp-based try/catch/raise mechanisms).2 years

Stop romanticizing Make/old Unix commands/shell scripts, and help make them die.2 years

This piece covers a few ways to make efficient use of available connections through techniques like pools and minimum viable checkouts.

Never even consider using one outside of an incognito window.

Today, it's still not clear if it was a documentary or mockumentary, or who Banksy is.

Apple knocked it out of the park with dark mode — just beautiful, and being integrated into all the default apps makes it real this time (as opposed to the idea's long history of hacks). The double night and day default wallpapers are such a nice touch too.2 years

(And he's right on this one too.)

Green threads might not be as fast as a perfectly implemented async model, and they need a runtime, but they're still the right compromise between speed and usability.

More integrations is generally good, but Jira is the exception. When software is this irredeemably bad, don't integrate with it, replace it. Remember GitHub Projects? Good idea. Now finish the other 50%.

Editorial: In practice Postgres w/ JIT + partitioning may outperform traditional data warehouses for those willing to keep data size in check. Hope to one day ditch Redshift.

Staggering dedication, and a reminder of what's possible without organizational overhead. This guy ships more than entire departments of some companies.

I love this kind of language nicety. It'll save ten seconds at a time, and thousands of hours in aggregate.

Our urban planners should be replaced. We need new blood.

There are two paths in data architecture: use a relational database, or build a pale shadow of one in your app layer as you desperately try to shore up data integrity on your non-relational store.

It seems silly on the surface, but she was absolutely right. In the age of text we speak with more people, but at lower fidelity.2 years

Amen. The Achilles heel of the developer/author.

Light text on black rendered poorly on screens for decades, which was frustrating because it looks *incredible* in print. Retina has since improved things a lot, even if I still wouldn't push it for long text pieces. https://t.co/BSfpNIVzwo2 years

GitHub's integration with it is impressive, but the subtleties around its magic ended up causing a lot of trouble by the end. I also burnt through GitHub's meager/not-well-advertised data quota in < 1h of use.2 years

e.g. Intersection Observer for lazy loading images. After a copy/paste I had this working in 10s flat.

I put together some background on why it's important here —

I like when I'm not the only saying this stuff. Here's FoundationDB's transaction manifesto:

Prior to this, services like SSH on Windows servers would spawn off-screen consoles which were fed keystrokes and scraped for output to send back to clients. Crazy!

A key problem in software is that as it grows absent strong controls, interfaces widen until everything is exposed to everything.2 years

The quality of work produced by solo artists these days is a little terrifying because I don't completely understand how it's possible.

Shared tooling is nice, but there is no stronger downward force on software quality than tragedy of the commons, and a pervasive nihilism that stems from it.2 years

In San Francisco, we have exactly zero streets that are safe for walking/biking/play, and precious few places to escape traffic noise. We could stand to learn from Europe.

Next time you use it, know that you're in the good company of Fitzgerald, Joyce, and Dickens: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misu…2 years

At one time I saw them as common values, but now know well they're not, so I'm glad to help nudge them along, even if just a little.2 years

Here's an example of moving stripe-go's test suite over to use it: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-go/pull/6282 years

Go integrations on 1.6+ will start using HTTP/2 automatically. Upgrade stripe-php to get it. Support in other languages is more complex, but coming.2 years

I’ve never felt that as strongly as reading this thread on the Metreon.

Test suites are slow because their progenitors were sloppy, not because they have to be.2 years

“Do one for me,” Yossarian requested.

(And very excited to say that we'll have full support for Issuing across Stripe client libraries in seven languages and in stripe-mock on day one.) https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/10225435243344…2 years

Good: used credit card fringe benefit for phone damage, and after some bureaucracic navigation, they paid. Apple botched repair, so I ended up with a new phone ~8 months after purchase.

Excellent end user experience — 10x better than anything else and 100x better than most.2 years

As per Dan Carlin's usual, it's excellent work.

(Seen through the smoke kicked up by yet another wildfire raging through California.) https://t.co/hzVaF29bih2 years

I miss email.2 years

Other books on the subject tend to contain (1) too much mysticism, and (2) too many words (more is said than necessary to reach book length). This short book is neither; it's practical and concise.

Four different mechanisms for authentication, none general. OAuth 2 supported, but only for appearance's sake — OAuth 1 still needed to say, post a tweet. Kafka would be proud. https://t.co/CLDZumY6Ax2 years

“This is design anorexia: making a product slimmer and slimmer at the cost of usefulness, functionality, serviceability, and the environment.”

(Bash (or sh, zsh, etc.) is objective garbage as a programming language, but it’s garbage that’s ubiquitous, and that’s valuable. Just don’t let a Bash program grow beyond trivial size or you’ll pay for that low bar to entry later — in blood and tears.) https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/101183526…2 years

Miyamoto attributes his creativity to being surrounded with nature when he was young. The story begins and ends with stumbling on a cave.

Reading between the lines, I suspect that if there were a lot of large serverless deployments out there, we'd be seeing many more data points, and more notable ones too.

I'm still thinking about "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" months after finishing it — surely the sign of a great book.2 years

Still, I thought it was cool. https://t.co/qWu7DoWfQq2 years

Migration guide: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-go/blob/master/v3…2 years

Tools like this exist, and yet companies pay real money for Confluence. Enterprise software is total madness.2 years

The boring facades you see along a street often don’t give you a feel for the quiet oases out back. https://t.co/9Z9S0IILT62 years

Sometimes the venue really helps make a show, and Leipzig is full of big, old, interesting places. Seeing one here is like what it would have felt like to hold a rock concert in an ancient Roman temple (but with a sound system from 2018). https://t.co/C0yaezMTtz3 years

Calling DataLoader (the usual implementation) just “inelegant” is generous. This looks to be much better.

This is really close to what an optimal city should look like: dense residential surrounded by lots of natural space. Minimal roads. No parking lots. https://t.co/KZ0xE2NcS73 years

Not pictured: piglets scurrying around in the background. Boss boar so big that he might know a thing of two about the assassination of Robert Baratheon. https://t.co/fq79Q3Ixr23 years

(Morning runs here are a little more interesting than home.) https://t.co/KQrPbq8QUo3 years

(And imagine how many hundreds of editions of this book have been printed since it was published in ‘49.) https://t.co/gfTfKFSiJy3 years

Between that, Result from main, 128 bit integers, and async/await in sight, Rust stays the most exciting happening in software, by far.3 years

Be a good citizen: don't throw half-baked software over the fence.3 years

These “Forest of Liars” renderings are some of them. Absolutely gorgeous. https://twitter.com/sylvainsarrailh/status/9938374…3 years

There’s still many advances to be made in interface design, and they’re closer to home than we expect.3 years

A lot of thought has gone into this feature — not just in algorithmic efficiency, but space efficiency (radix tree + only one bit is used if an item's fields match its predecessor's), usability (consumer groups), and testing.3 years

All content online gets mixed together, and the asymptote of its perceived value is zero. 280 characters will be ever more normal as target content length.

With `time`, if user > real, you're seeing time spent on multiple cores.

For a big project, incremental is on par with a fast Ruby test suite, a fraction of a normal one, or an infinitesimal slice of a degenerate megasuite (found at Big Ruby shops).3 years

1. Dr…3 years

(Probably don't use interpreted languages beyond scripting, but) Python is really moving.

Here’s a tiny spark of a thought on baking resilience into online services. The 500 test: https://brandur.org/fragments/the-500-test3 years

Strong conventions, introspection (GraphiQL is amazing), and improved change resilience (explicit field requests). You can still design great APIs minus the mystique/dogmatism of REST.3 years

Any code that ossifies after being first written is almost certainly bad code.3 years

It’s the most minute luxury in life. When you have access to it, you think nothing of it. When you don’t, you miss it dearly.3 years

No project gets everything right, but Rust (and its great core + community) has consistently been more right than anything else.3 years

Database contraints are the only way to move from hoping data is valid to *knowing* it is. Use them. Don't use a database without them.

You see countless of these in a day:

There's nothing quite like tests that are 90% mocks and succeed at nothing but testing a specific internal implementation.3 years

The only service I miss is ACM — zero-hassle HTTPS is *such* a killer feature. A Kubernetes/Let's Encrypt Rube Goldberg machine just isn't the same.3 years

Tragedy of the commons plays a big part — it’s easier to slather on a new layer of mud than to go back and apply a fix to the core, and future maintenance is everybody’s problem.3 years

(And wow, what a beautiful game.)3 years

Languages need a user space that lets them be used effectively even without understand every nuance of the type and concurrency systems along with all other implementation details.3 years

Docs are rich in type annotations, but useless. `examples` dirs are a great idea, but almost always trivial.3 years

Bad habits are on autopilot, but good ones, even if you have them going for weeks, easily turn one missed day turns into two, then three, and before you know it, are gone.3 years

Input is received, parsed and validated, *then* you acquire a conn. DB ops are run, and it's released before encoding and sending a response.3 years

N workers can plausibly share << N connections. https://github.com/sfackler/r2d23 years

(Don't put too much stock in benchmarks, but this is pretty cool.)

This is what I like about Go — you don't need a flashy new language feature to cut a release.

Here's my Rust service's memory use over ~5 hours running a periodic workload. The footprint is tiny, and baseline so flat that you could us it as a level. https://t.co/3mvXJu8LGC3 years

1. Cross-compiling is still hard because of OpenSSL and libpq (good for Go for jettisoning them).

Lots of cool technologies to get there including cross-compilation to a musl target, multi-stage Docker build with a final tiny ~12 MB Alpine-based image, and binary-embedded Diesel migrations. https://t.co/2hxkdve1Hy3 years

The old model of buying a CD for a few songs was pretty broken, but the new one seems to be too.

It's a new idea to offer integrated package and SDK version management as a core part of a language's distribution. When you've seen the light (e.g., Rust), it's hard to go back.3 years

I am so spoiled by `rustup`.3 years

With stylistic concerns automated away with Rustfmt, the linter's job becomes one to catch real problems. Clippy is so good at it that I was actually learning better Rust by fixing its warnings.

Many, many before them, didn't.3 years

Reading someone else's code, or your own a year from now, you *always* wish that they/you'd taken the time to type a few extra characters.3 years

The former slows you down and latter exhausts you. This reason alone is why public APIs with non-negligible users should have only one version.3 years

Sustained use pricing is also more user-friendly than reserved instances — true elastic computing minus capital costs and math.

This is exactly how styling tools should be built: strong default conventions, but changeable via a conf file that's checked in with the project. https://t.co/0AQrPhkRFl3 years

I’m happy with how it ended up, but what a great concept!

Congrats @petervgeoghegan! https://twitter.com/petervgeoghegan/status/9595127…3 years

(PCI providers need to start shedding requests come June to stay compliant, so it's for real this time.)

(It’s also really nice to see hard science-fiction bubble to the top of the popular culture every once in a while.) https://t.co/v9kmwITDtb3 years

Used correctly, they convey superhuman ability to climb stairs at double speed. In reality, people stand on them. Getting between floors is half as fast, but we can be five times as lazy.3 years

There’s an argument for “responsible” Ruby, but a programming language that lets this happen is not a good one.3 years

My mistake. By way of apology, I've attached some beautiful Pascal syntax for admiration. https://t.co/yi8CkXd2za3 years

What will the end of cryptomania look like?3 years

Maybe it's just me, but supporting a custom PHP-like lang/VM forever, ~alone, is such a morose idea, even if you're Facebook. OSS is good. Shared community effort is even better.

The Rust philosophy would be “no”, but the more pragmatic answer (and embodied by the likes of Go and Swift) is “yes”.3 years

So much is amazing, but my god, I spent two hours today trying to figure out how to make a trait imply cloneable (and failed — see E0038). This is pretty normal, with huge swaths of time getting sunk into problems that are appallingly uninteresting.3 years

(Rust) A control thread injects work and workers receive it by channel. Control waits for them to join after it finishes sending work and the channel closes automatically (and safely) as it `Drop`s from scope.

(Pictured: Salesforce Tower and the Financial District from Tank Hill.) https://t.co/plQKPi2D3P3 years

(Unfortunately, it'll be hard to prove.)3 years

Every line is a new death struggle with the compiler, but once that's done, you're done — the runtime confidence is freeing, even compared to other compiled languages like C#/C++/Go (Haskell is comparable, but less sane).3 years

(Calgary, hovering between -25C and -33C, has reached a special kind of cold.) https://t.co/UvvvCr1Szb3 years

Totally beautiful. https://t.co/DZuHBmYRYy3 years

Excellent so far — especially the configurable background noise. You’re not always in a quiet environment, and ambient noise can be a big help for focus. https://t.co/HQ3NhPebr93 years

I’ll explain the concept of data types and typed schemas right after I’m through explaining the concept of irony.3 years

Better for big projects, _way_ better for small and medium-sized projects.3 years

Especially the tags.3 years

120,000+ employees at Apple and no one jogs?3 years

Flying cars, a moon base, and world peace have been frustratingly elusive, but the future has yielded amazing lighting technology beyond what anyone could have dreamt even as late as the 80s. https://t.co/j1MtONmLos3 years

Despite Docker, containers, and Kubernetes, the world is still looking for a deployment and operational experience on par with Heroku in mid-2011. There's lots of room to grow.3 years

It seems to land in the bucket of features that many designers like, but which is strictly worse for legibility; another example being low contrast font colors.3 years

Some blame the programmer and/or QA, but the problem was an unchecked pass-by-ref in a function that looks like it should return its result. Once again, the real culprit is a dangerous programming language.3 years

My first camera phone, a Motorola Krzr, took 2 megapixel images and they were *terrible*. These days, my dedicated camera is harder to justify every year.3 years

If you have a lot of users on Macs, this ~2 line change might be easiest design win you ever make. https://t.co/qXyuQT7Z1F3 years

The iPhone X’s OLED and bigger screen makes it even better. iBooks night theme looks amazing.3 years

Seriously though. I thought it’d be cheap, but the build quality and attention to detail on this thing is amazing. Half expecting it to step off the lot. https://t.co/znDecXwBVx3 years

In these “Lucky Yebisus” the lucky god has an extra fish: look for the tail in the basket on the very left.

Located on Tokyo’s artificial island Odaiba, also notable for having a 1:1 scale model of a Gundam. https://t.co/TZKwBmxl9A3 years

So much to look at. Downloading talks for the flight back to SF (and on that note, still love `youtube-dl`).3 years

In Tokyo, you walk into a bookstore and pick any one of them up off a shelf. The sheer variety of products available in brick and mortar is hard to believe. https://t.co/y3zM2HBLnT3 years

(Tweeting just in case I’m not the only one because I’ve been wanting this for years.) https://t.co/g87IC92KmS3 years

2nd image: Tsuboyu, an ancient (and quite modest) bath house carved into bedrock. 3rd: eggs for sale to cook in the 90C water bubbling out of the ground. https://t.co/RJ6I38TO2W3 years

Pretty amazing watching these guys in action. I’d be happy to be half this good at anything. https://t.co/R7ludmUbFJ3 years

The tower’s going to fall, but with so many incentivized in keeping it standing, it’ll take a sizeable tremor to start the cascade. One day this is going to make history’s greatest case study.3 years

I’ve seen academic papers…3 years

In places like Japan, they can go on for kilometers. Here's the area around where I'm staying in Osaka. https://t.co/1SfkN9yS853 years

For example, here's Valencia/Mission in San Francisco. https://t.co/Jf9jgjY1WI3 years

There are ~100 of these guys, and they run by just inches from you — by far the most personal wild experience I’ve had in recent memory. https://t.co/lxh0H9CgPn3 years

(And the piece is by James Turrell who did the skyscape at the de Young in SF.) https://t.co/pbL0bcxkVH3 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasmo https://t.co/K1eUKX0KT63 years

There’s some pretty interesting history lying around the parks of California. https://t.co/TaTgGc0gDv3 years

(Having enough expensive vices already I have no intention of picking up any of them, but it's fascinating talking to passionate people who have.)3 years

It's titled "Passages & Glass": https://passages-signup.herokuapp.com/3 years

You can now benefit from the whole OpenA…3 years

The Redis download + unzip + make takes < 1 minute:

A little commentary and a unified log demo built on the prerelease branch: https://brandur.org/redis-streams3 years

On the importance of nature for mental wellness with Florence Williams: http://hurryslowly.co/002-florence-williams/

Lesson: know how to find every setting on your camera.3 years

SF is slipping under and wishful thinking isn't going to save it — a serious congestion tax is the only way out.3 years

Design and quality is good on any continent, but in Japan, prices are good too — making it a smart place to shop. https://t.co/g9DSymi2oT3 years

One of the few books I’ve ever seen that can’t be had for a good price from Amazon, with a range of offers from $120 to $200+. Our trusty local Japanese bookseller has it for $55. https://t.co/pjd4TVPvMn3 years

Currently soliciting ideas for a George Bluth Sr. "And *that's* why — you *always* leave a note" lesson.3 years

All very simple improvements, but infinitely better.3 years

After a year, it's moved to a new log. When complete, the trio will be an archive of three years of sun and weather. https://t.co/ttaNIG4Ot33 years

Today, I use a dongle like Ives Himself intended.3 years

What is surprising is that with its low-res display it also *looks* bad. Given their aesthetics-trumps-all mentality, quite out of character for Apple to ship this.3 years

Humanity will eventually take its environmental impact seriously, but it'll be far too late.3 years

(By their own admission, the city's progress on Vision Zero is ... zero http://visionzerosf.org/about/how-are-we-doing/.)3 years

Abolishing all inheritance is a hallmark of a great modern language. Nice one Go and Rust :)3 years

Perfect for modestly-sized apps who don’t want to shell out $100+ for basic Kafka.3 years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15356641 https://t.co/A5LZHKZkf63 years

This totally nails it. https://twitter.com/poniewozik/status/912787813069…3 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk https://t.co/Vw37xqdPHA3 years

Languages with self-implemented stdlibs are the only future we should want.3 years

As if the button wasn’t removed to make it look cooler.3 years

Possibly why people have trouble with Go dogmatists ...3 years

Async/await is a better model than callbacks or promises, but still forces code to be designed around it.3 years

Let the marketing prowess of Bitcoin people never be in doubt.3 years

https://www.mongodb.com/scale/relational-vs-non-re… https://t.co/pVISVIlt3P3 years

Turns out the people talking about database atomicity in the 70s were onto something.4 years

`..` vs `…` was always unintuitive at best, and dangerous at worst.

@brandur https:…4 years

In practice: configuration nightmare.4 years

But then someone fact checked.

Total catastrophe isn’t a question of if, but when.4 years

(I went with Ctrl+C after all.)4 years

But seriously, I hope good alternatives appear before I end up rolling my own NaCL-based vault.4 years

Features a great new design, fast XHR loading, rich code snippets, and contextual API keys.4 years

Who could’ve known that putting up “we live here” ads in SOMA wouldn’t be an effective speed deterrent!4 years

Vision Zero is just a hair’s breadth out of reach!4 years

Next up Apple will be announcing the revival of the <marquee> tag.4 years

Brought to you by @michaelvillar and @romainhuet.5 years

King of Kings, episode II. http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-57-kings…5 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette_(wa… https://www.flickr.com/photos/brandurleach/2327408…5 years

(via @muyfine)5 years

Meanwhile we’re fighting to raise two blocks of bike lane on Market by two inches.5 years

(Have Tmux windows keep the same name you set for them.)5 years

@ here @ here ^^^5 years

Hello again Midgar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ4_t_GqGAM&noredi…5 years

Uniqlo → J. Crew.6 years

“A Generation Lost in the Bazaar”

Imagine trying to sell that one in North America.6 years

[OSX UI performance regressions.]6 years

(I kind of like it.)6 years

Wins: Nice background photo.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!6 years

Introducing NY pedestrian etiquette: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/16/nyregion/think-y…6 years

“Why Docker? Why Not Chef?” http://blog.relateiq.com/why-docker-why-not-chef7 years

As a technologist, I wish they hadn't dragged computers into it, but what can you do.7 years

You won't hear me complaining that Mulholland Drive is too weird again anytime soon.7 years

git checkout `git rev-list -n 1 --before="2010-12-07 13:37" master`7 years

`curl http://mtgapi.com/api/v1/fetch/id/159092`7 years

(For non-Calgarians, it's fast city-wide wifi)8 years

Spoilers! http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/04/09/ups…8 years

-- The Diamond Age8 years

But now I'll never know whether I would've taken the top stop on that Strava segment.8 years

SYMBOLS = %i[conditions limit offset]8 years

VPN + Irssi + Perl plugin + SSH RemoteForward + Growl.8 years

SoT down. WoT down. Now all I can do is hope that GoT will get an ending.8 years

- Doctorow8 years

A great answer for anyone who doesn't install Flash or use Chrome. Works on Vimeo too.8 years

(Had to use Mail.app for something. It was frustrating.)8 years

(via Know I Know)8 years

I laughed.8 years

Makes sense, Rdio.8 years

(because apparently nothing in Runkeeper has improved in the last three years)8 years

(Thanks for organizing @demonbane + @danishkhan!)8 years

You could do all that, or go a bit further and learn Mutt, and you've got a good mail client for life.8 years

> Over the last thirty days we've answered about eighty thousand requests.8 years

Absolutely love it.8 years

Caps lock as Tmux prefix: https://mutelight.org/caps-lock8 years

(warning: metal)8 years

FYI Canadians, Nexus also qualifies you for Global Entry for quick access from countries that are not Canada.8 years

I’ll be proud to own an API that no longer returns XML.8 years

TIMEFMT=$'\nreal\t%E\nuser\t%U\nsys\t%S'

BBQ Dev Ops: http://www.flickr.com/photos/miekd/7532412420/in/p…8 years

ctrlp.vim >> Command-T.

The important part involving a `git rebase --no-ff` is near the end.8 years

Now I can tell exactly when Firefox starts chugging/devouring battery and kill it. Not so on i5/i7.8 years

But, lambdas + method chains in Java 8 are a perfect recreation of a product that has worked well for 5 years.8 years

+1 this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41491308 years

(via @exdevlin)8 years