Gunnar

"Nevertheless, a lock service has some advantages over a client library. First, our developers sometimes do not plan for high availability in the way one would wish." The rage that went into that sentence is visible from space.

Reading @aphyr's notes for a distributed systems class and saw: "Distributed queues: ... The only one I know that won't lose data in a partition is Kafka." Queue flashback to when Kafka rm'd one of my topic partitions when the Zookeeper is was using went down.

I just described Medium posts as the fantasy football of software engineering, and I like it and will bring it up more in conversation.

A critical review of every tweet storm: The many follow-up tweets failed to support the thesis stated in the opening.

I got carried away by boundless ambition; now I have no place to hang all this laundry. Oh Icarus, fly not so near the sun lest thy waxy wings should melt.

There should be a C stdlib implementation that uses British English. We could call it libcuk.

Spotify: "Frank Zappa: Bobby Brown (Explicit)" Me: No shit?

Ég sagði konunni minni (sem er frá Mexíkó) að segja "Flott, gott að heyra" við íslenskan vinnufélaga sinn. Vinnufélaginn hafði aldrei heyrt þennan frasa. Kynslóðarbilið er greinilega þarna. #fóstbræður4ever

What do Go vendoring and Nazis have in common? They both think you should own the libs.

You ever wonder how bug reports are reports of symptoms and bug fixes target causes and how a symptom can have more than one cause and how that makes commits that say 'this fixes issue X' very optimistic about what they claim?

I’ve been on the fucking idiot side of that exchange, and have been slapped down so hard I took a few days to think about what I was doing with my life. It was for the best.

I struggle with the idea that I need to give time and politeness to people’s questions, because doing so opens me up to DOS attacks by fucking idiots who haven’t thought about their questions at all.