Jon Barber

So-called developer. Cash-in-hand ‘whatever’ hydrant. “The universe is alive, and has fire in it, and is full of gods.”

[John Arundel @bitfield]

There's a new v0.23 release of `script`, the Go package that aims to make it easy to write shell-like scripts as #Golang programs. Thanks to all who contributed!

Latest features:

- base64 encoding/decoding
- set environment for spawned commands

https://t.co/hkRgbpUEWi

[The School of Life @TheSchoolOfLife]

The goal should be to densify time rather than to extract more years from Death.

If the goal is to have a longer life, we need to pause, look, and live consciously.

To learn more, click the link.

https://t.co/u0BpXzMhHA

[Joe Lycett @joelycett]

My letter to @Nigel_Farage. Hope the font doesn’t hurt his eyes and brings on a migrant.

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

The question might seem trivial, but give it a moment’s thought:

Why does Venice 🇮🇹 float?

What does it rest on?
And, most importantly, why doesn’t it sink?

A Thread🧵 to explain it to you

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

I just realized that I was so busy on Monday that I forgot to make a donation to @KamalaHarris during the call, so... I'll join in on the trend:

I will donate $.10 for every like on this tweet, $0.50 for every retweet, and $1 for every follow.

(30,757 followers at the start)

#whitedudesforharris

h/t @NateHoward2003

[whitney @its_whitney]

this is the photo. this is the one.

[John Arundel @bitfield]

Breaking the first rule of Rust Club, but I'll say it anyway: Rust Club is a free, fortnightly Zoom class for #rustlang learners, including complete beginners. We read interesting Rust code, puzzle it out together, and talk about what we've learned 🦀
https://t.co/PcFAPs9tuN

[Matt Boyle @MattJamesBoyle]

(Retweets hugely appreciated)
Today I'm proud to announce the launch of my first self-published book Foundations of Debugging for Golang

Being able to debug locally and in production is a critical skill for any #golang engineer, but it is rarely taught explicitly.

It has taken me many years of working with Go in production to get comfortable debugging, and I want to accelerate your learning by teaching you everything I wish I had known when I started out.

What You'll Learn
👉 How to get better at spotting issues by eye.
👉 Logging patterns and how to build an enterprise logging strategy.
👉 What are metrics, how to create them and how to build great dashboards.
👉 What distributed tracing is, and how to set it up in your company.
👉 How to use Go's profiling tools to debug performance issues use and squeeze every ounce of performance out of your application.

For this week only, you can get $10 off using this link:
https://t.co/ELwZ8IaCgM

I can't wait to hear what you think :)

[Jim Robottom @jimrobottom]

I wondered whether I would do this, when the time came. But there don’t seem to be many tales of him as a person going round. And, for reasons that will become apparent, I’ll always be grateful. So anyway here it is:

A 🧵on the personal kindness of @Keir_Starmer

[Keith Burge @carryonkeith]

"Hi Rishi, it's Michelle from Mone Military Uniforms."

[Ben Kentish @BenKentish]

Cost of compulsory national service: £2.5bn a year.

Cost of pay rise for junior doctors that ministers insist is “simply unaffordable”: £2bn a year.

[Jinay Shah @jinayx]

I love to commute 3 hours each day, sit in an open floor office, chat at the water cooler for having breakthrough ideas for my employer. I just love being able to visit the office and still talk with my coworkers on Zoom. I’m truly excited to create shareholder value. What about you?

[Jon Barber @sneakybeaky]

@boyney123 Learn go with tests by @quii is very good

https://t.co/5IyiEvfeTT

[ᗺɹɐʞ Sóʍ, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 ᵣ𝚞𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚖ï𝚜ï𝚌 𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚝. @exileoftza]

elon is taking data theft to a new level, as advised by his russian overlords.

disable in settings now, before you forget.

[evil fujodyke @gatolletaz]

cool fucking website elon now u can doxx urself by default. anyway settings>privacy and safety>direct messages>disable calls if u dont want the world to see ur ip

[Mike Matthews @muscleforlife]

Who else can vividly remember the disappointment of the moment you realized that strength training only burns about 6 calories per minute (including rest intervals)?

[Jon Barber @sneakybeaky]

@edjgeek Unfortunately seems the checkout process for London tickets is broken right now.