Francisco

Human after all.

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

Rather than “git blame” I would like to see “git I did the best I could with the tools and organizational structure available to me so just give me a little space and time and it will get fixed eventually”

[Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) @andy_pavlo]

My Stonebraker history book arrived. I started reading and it's full of gems. My fav so far:

Wei Hong is an early @PostgreSQL dev. He learned about databases in China by typing in the entire Ingres source code by hand from illegal printout found in random boxes. /cc @mikeolson

[DHH @dhh]

Email is also a great antidote to the exhausting treadmill that group chat programs put you on. Asynchronous should be the default. https://t.co/Nv2IIUW0xG

[Kolja Wilcke @01k]

static vs dynamic #illustration

[James O'Malley @Psythor]

Here's a dystopian vision of the future: A real announcement I recorded on the Beijing-Shanghai bullet train. (I've subtitled it so you can watch in silence.)

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Short, deep, and absolutely true. If you’re going to learn anything this year, learn this. From “The Manual” https://t.co/7EcEcLWArA

[Computer Facts @computerfact]

the computer boys: move fast and break things!
also the computer boys: why is everything bad and broken its a mystery

[Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡 @bigdata]

SQL query optimization meets deep reinforcement learning 💿 new @ucbrise post that shows that join ordering is a natural problem amenable to deep RL https://t.co/7mUgQibLM8

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

No-one tells you that programming is going to be somebody waving a hand in your face until you take your headphones off.

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want."- Niklaus Wirth

[Rookout (Acquired by Dynatrace) @rookoutlabs]

This seems accurate.

[Aaron Patterson @tenderlove]

Microservices are great for turning method calls in to distributed computing problems

[Bureau of Meteorology, Victoria @BOM_Vic]

Great shots of Kelvin-Helmholtz wave clouds over central #Victoria this morning - 📷 thanks @LucyVMayes
They can form when there is suitable instability and wind shear across the cloud layer. Too small a scale to show up from space though! https://t.co/fs6VXhNTTs #VicWeather

[Javier Turégano @setoide]

Great insights into 7 habits that eficient organizations have at scale by @trek1s #reatko19

[John Arundel @bitfield]

The software to create the black hole in the movie 'Interstellar' is a full implementation of Einstein's equations in 40,000 lines of C++, and rendered thousands of 23-megapixel IMAX frames on a 32,000-core render farm at about 20 core-hours per frame https://t.co/6bt87bIR9l

[J̽eͫsͤsͫeͤ R̽eͭbͤeͣlͫ @darkseid4nk]

The sound of dial-up explained.

[Francisco @trek1s]

RetroAhoy: The Secret of Monkey Island https://t.co/GIRIVI6Tqu

[Francisco @trek1s]

@candeira "ASAP as possible"

[labria @labria]

Before writing acceptance tests, take the time to actually write denial, anger, bargaining and depression tests.