Barry Jones

Fractional CTO and @CodesCarolina Organizer.

Also, a huge Clemson fan.

[Barry Jones @brightball]

Almost 20 years ago, God changed my life in a very direct way. I considered myself agnostic at the time. I was at my lowest point. I was angrier than I knew I was capable of being and was like this for months. I kept trying to find ways to fix it myself but nothing worked. My chest physically hurt all the time from it.

My wife asked me if I’d asked God for help and I had not. I didn’t think it would do any good. I didn’t know.

So I quickly bowed my head and simply said, “God, please help me forgive.” Then I went to bed.

I woke up in the middle of the night and the pain was gone. The anger was gone. I felt like a completely different person. It was as if a switch flipped inside me and it was permanent.

At that moment, my doubts were erased. That was the moment that I went from acting like a Christian, knowing what to say to fit in…to being one.

I will always have work to do to get better and things that I will discover I cannot change without the help of God. I have said things today for which I’m deeply ashamed and hope to earn forgiveness. What I have discovered is that God often answers prayers when those prayers align with what God would want for you.

I also believe that I needed to reach my low point and to realize that I could not get out alone to truly appreciate what God had done for me.

I don’t know why I feel compelled to share this testimony tonight, but I hope that it provides comfort to someone who reads it.

May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart, be pleasing and acceptable in thy sight, oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer.

[Evil Martians @evilmartians]

It's 4 AM. Your app is down.

The payment processor started responding slowly, checkout requests timed out, users started refreshing. And now… your entire Rails app is unresponsive.

Cascading failures like this are more common than you think, and even early-stage projects can benefit from protection from day one.

Circuit breakers are the best defense as they wrap calls to external services, count failures, and trip when they hit a threshold of consecutive failures to block further calls before they exhaust your threads and memory.

Traditionally, these work through three states: 🧵

[The Free Press @TheFP]

After years of nightly fights over YouTube and Netflix with my 8-year-old daughter, I decided to hide every screen in our house for the summer. It worked, writes Michaeleen Doucleff. https://t.co/njhEo5zpeY

[Barry Jones @brightball]

@RaminNasibov Privateer.

There’s a mobile game called Galaxy on Fire that is sort of a spiritual successor.

[Barry Jones @brightball]

@imidaily Going with D I think. That slice of Italy is worth it.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Always remember that you are the engineer. Useful as the AI’s are, they are tools, and they are not accountable.

[bluemontauk @bluemontauk]

British kids taste Southern food for the first time. 🔥Biscuits and gravy, fried chicken, and sweet tea. They will be begging their parents to move to the U.S. 🤣😂🤣

[Barry Jones @brightball]

@CrazyVibes_1 It was great :)

[Augustus @AugustusDelano]

Underrated life hacks:
- pray first thing every morning, last thing every night
- always keep an open notebook and pen within sight
- halve the amount time you allot yourself to read books & do your work
- extend your vision out by 5-10 years, then reverse engineer to present
- every time you catch yourself worrying, immediately surrender it to God
- never stop learning, ever, no matter what
- recognize no one is stopping you more than yourself

[Clemson Athletics @ClemsonTigers]

We are saddened to share that former Director of Athletics Terry Don Phillips has passed away.

[Carolina Code Conference @CodesCarolina]

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[Barry Jones @brightball]

@fxn Great book!

[Barry Jones @brightball]

It’s gong to be an incredible 2026!

[Carolina Code Conference @CodesCarolina]

Announcing our 2026 Speakers!: 30 incredible speakers & a special Memorial Day opportunity! https://t.co/qT77X0CK9h

[Barry Jones @brightball]

@BigBrainBizness @BreneBrown Fwiw, they said “Philosophy and the stoics” not liberal arts. Formal Philosophy is logical proofs. Programming and physics are math and logic within defined systems of rules. These go hand in hand.

[Barry Jones @brightball]

@NextRoundLive Brent!

[Ben Dukes @BenDukes]

Unpopular Opinion:

There was absolutely nothing wrong with College Football being an outlier in how it chose its champions, and the changes have not improved the sport.

[Barry Jones @brightball]

@dhh @railsonmaui @jasonfried @rjs I find that the 6 week window still works well for general company pacing. The biggest difference is how much fits in.

[Barry Jones @brightball]

@TheHerdBros Two well matched teams playing an appropriate post season game, rather than #24 losing by 60 to #1.

It’s one of the ways that CFB has managed to be fun for 130 teams for a century despite only a fraction of them having a chance to build what it takes for a title.

[Barry Jones @brightball]

@flatland_sports It absolutely does. All the stakes are lower. The only concern about late November games keeping a team out of the playoff are reserved for teams hovering around 20+. The teams around 10+ are locks. The kick 6 game would have had zero consequences.

[Barry Jones @brightball]

@BudElliott3 Yes it is. It just requires a max of one team per conference due to the smaller field.

[PsikoBilim @Psikobilim_]

Bir insan ne kadar zekiyse o kadar çok yardımsever olma eğilimindedir.
Çünkü zeki kişiler, iş birliğinin uzun vadeli toplumsal faydalarını daha iyi g��rebilirler.