Dan Goslen

Team Driven Developer | Sharing tips and tools to build great software teams

Jesus follower | husband | software engineer

Coffee, cloud-native, and outdoors

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A code review is not a performance review

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Locale access forced us to rethink our auth model.

Locale isn’t just another resource. It qualifies access to every other resource.

That led to a few shifts:
- Treat it as a dimension
- Compute context, don’t persist it
- Compose checks in one policy call

https://t.co/DmBoKBxoFh

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My companies make over $2 million per year combined.

Copywriting is a huge part of their success.

I recently recorded a 45-minute copywriting masterclass.

Now I’m gonna give it to you for free.

Like, retweet, and reply "send", and I'll DM it to you.

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@Gehan_Mendis Thanks for sharing!

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@burgessdryan Two things I've seen

- Make it easy to change (like good code)
- Celebrate when they add or update it (just like a first deploy to production)

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@codewithvoid Code reviews

Not using ORMs

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@nat_snacks C?

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@dinkydani21 Just finished @tommycaldwell1's "The Push" and really enjoyed it!

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@kelseyhightower Or at least, the questions everyone else thinks aren't worth asking

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@curtiseinsmann We had an architect join our team a few years ago that did this well.

During the first few weeks, he read and re-read every doc. ever put together on our system.

When he finished, he understood our system better than we did.

He earned our trust and respect almost instantly.

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@kelseyhightower golang.

It isn't verbose, has good conventions and style guides, is strongly typed, and has a lot of power as you get more and more comfortable with it.

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Enjoying the day off today.

Reflecting on the year, proofreading some chapters for my book on code reviews, climbing, and trying to slow down for the holiday break.

I hope you can find time to slow down in the next week too.

See you in 2023! Excited about what's in store. 🎉

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4⃣ Build for an audience

Don't build for just your own team.

Hold a daily demo and invite other teams to see what you're building.

The "pressure" to show something "cool" will be a good litmus test for what to build. And it might spark other ideas for other teams.

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Spent this past week building a proof-of-concept application around a rules engine.

And we had a blast! So much fun coding and experimenting.

If you are wanting to build a PoC app anytime soon, here are my top takeaways from building one. 🧵

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3⃣ Prefer fast feedback

Find some way to start an action and show output easily.

Even if you don't need an API, build a simple (and even broken) API just to show "something happened". Logs can even be useful if done correctly

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@trashh_dev in which direction?

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