So many times dev teams wish they had more logging, but so very often I’ve used the *absence* of logs to diagnose an issue. Tracing through and asking “how can no logs be produced from this method” is just as effective as “how was this log line produced”. Read between the (log) lines.

Great seeing you as well, Ian! Looking forward to meeting up again!

Guy at brewery: “What’s on your shirt?”

Me: “Oh, this is the Go gopher, from the Go programming language. I just got back from…”

Guy: “oh, I thought it was a roast beef sandwich on a surfboard”

The shirt:

Another #GopherCon done! It was so excellent to see many old friends, make some new ones, and learn so many new things along the way too! Looking forward to next year!

TinyGoOS: should the proper pronunciation be “Tiny Goose” #GopherCon

Excited for #GopherCon Day 2!

@gdey.me great talk! Been a user of this platform for a few months (a year maybe?)—now I’m excited to go build something with it!

Time to learn how this AT Proto thing I’m using actually works! #GopherCon

One underrated aspect of this protobuf talk is the configurability of a safe and unsafe path in the library. I like that it makes it possible to optimize with unsafe, but allow users to choose whether they want unsafe in their codebase. #GopherCon

GitHub - google/capslock Contribute to google/capslock development by creating an account on GitHub.

I really can’t wait to check out github.com/google/capsl... #GopherCon

Loving this talk on supply chain attacks at #GopherCon . The original “Reflections on Trusting Trust” rings true even today.

@swtch.com Great to see you last night! Hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did!

For the modern motion-detecting ones, a cheap IR strobe light works well as an addition to a travel kit.

I love that Pivotal was so willing to say no to users—no custom states and no weird estimates. They stuck to their guns.

This reads so much like outie facts from Severance

It baffles me why people can’t spend 10-30s answering the question “why does this commit exist?” Then again, everyone probably uses `-m` so git doesn’t spend the next 5 minutes launching their bloated Electron editor to write a good commit message.

This

I’ve wanted such a thing before, particularly with things like property-based tests. The killer feature would be binding the seed to the one used by `-shuffle`, so you could get complete reproducibility of a CI test run.

That smells of check-the-box security certification

Also, welcome to the club! Here’s our two new boys. They’ve been home from the shelter a week now :)

Having a great pet sitter is a godsend for travel. Many do the friends/family/neighbor route for pet-care while away. We prefer someone with a business so it is literally their job. They spend time with the cats and send daily pics and updates on food/water/litter usage—some even administer meds.

Periodic reminder that the correct type for any field labeled “Port” is “uint16”, not “string”. If you need a string, coerce the stricter type (uint16) to the less strict one (string).

Computers are jerks

Nix has a lot of warts on Mac, and a non-trivial learning curve, but I can say that it is very good at preventing dynamic languages from spreading their crap everywhere and bringing it all into some consistent, isolated form.

Today I framed our poster from the very special Futures 20th Anniversary show we went to in Phoenix back in October—it seemed appropriate on 12.23 😅 It’ll be hanging in my music nook with my piano and guitar.

The TLS Protocol Version 1.0 RFC, January 1999, in ugly meme form. Top text: I am not a toy I am not a Christmas present I am a 30+ years commitment Bottom text: Please think hard before you give someone an Internet standard this Christmas

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?

Network engineer: Packet loss

“Thanks for followup, I hate it”

HomeBox A simple home inventory management software

The closest I have found is homebox.software/en/ . It’s a bit more macro-level than I think you’re looking for, but it’s close.

Obligatory first Bluesky post :) It’s nice to actually see activity here instead of the ghost-town cesspool of Twitter.