Mat Ryer
@matryer
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Building things at @grafana • Indoor enthusiast • Comedy • Music • Podcaster • Author • Opensourcer
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I got a knife for Christmas so I’ve been going around finding out what’s cake or not. Most things aren’t cake so far.
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Unpopular opinion: Debugging with a debugger is much slower than just printing out the values and thinking.
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When GitHub goes down, we all get to go home early. When Google goes down, we don't know how to even get home.
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@randonrosen
And a lot of people don’t realise that Christmas tree lights are meant to keep Christmas trees warm.
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I practice 'disagree and commit'.
I disagree with the failing tests and commit the code anyway.
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This is the best PR I've ever opened. Someone has a PDF of my book in their GitHub repo.
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A quick reminder that nobody in software has any idea how long anything is going to take.
Set an optimistic goal, limit the hell out of the scope, and get going.
And forgive yourselves when targets slip.
Send this tweet to your manager.
#coding
#software
#projectmanagement
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Thinking of leaving Go because generics is now officially coming to the language?
I broke out my guitar, and my pale face and channeled my inner Lin-Manuel Miranda. With lyrics from
@_rsc
,
@FiloSottile
and even
@golang
.
(I'm as embarrassed as you are.)
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AI? This is a dot matrix printer with cheese.
This AI powered pizza robot from a Seattle startup named Picnic can assemble 300 perfect pizzas an hour
#CES2020
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I agree with
@ScribblingOn
It's time to get rid of estimates in software engineering. They don't work, do more harm than good, and drive people to act in dishonest ways.
Buckle up people, it's a thread.
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Q: How do senior devs remember all those pesky functions, methods, and types?
Here's Sweet Filepath O' Mine.
If you like it, you know what to do:
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The best thing about having no computer science education whatsoever is that you get to invent basic stuff that everyone else learned in their first year.
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Unpopular opinion: I have no problem whatsoever repeating ‘if err != nil’ all the time in
#golang
. In fact, the pattern becomes a glanceable way to see the places where your code can error. I can usually see, quite quickly, if errors are being ignored because of the shape of code
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Finally, an alternative to trees.
Scientists create Liquid Trees; a tank full of water and micro-algae that could be an alternative to trees in urban areas.
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Don’t waste your money on these. I’ve taken four and I can still hear everything.
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@simey
@Andevrs
@meyerweb
@zh0ux1ang
@liatrisbian
@CodePen
Or you can set a background image of a monkey on the phone gif to find divs.
background-image: url(monkey.gif)
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Instead of sudo, we should just use ALL CAPS:
$ Delete that directory
You don't have permission
$ DELETE THAT DIRECTORY
Woah, ok, ok - it's deleted.
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@RhonddaBryant
“A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.”
All’s Well that Ends Well 🤞
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“Can you transfer your knowledge to another employee before you leave?”
Sure, I just need a good internet connection, a few hours and for The Matrix to be true.
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To improve testability in my
#golang
programs, the only thing I do in func main is call out to another function, passing in the ‘global’ things it needs.
I can call run in test code like a normal function, and use a buffer for stdout (to make assertions about what it outputs.)
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We're thrilled to have joined
@grafana
at such an exciting time. We're already working on some things that I can't wait to talk about.
All the
#golang
around doesn't hurt, either.
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This is cool. You can see the code that relates to a flame graph by connecting
@github
to
@grafana
Written in
#typescript
and
#golang
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I don’t have a CS degree, nor any formal education of any kind.
I got to where I am by doing what I love, with people I like, and a tiny little sprinkle of centuries of privilege.
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People probably don’t realise how much
@goinggodotnet
Bill does for the Go community. Last night he missed a dinner because he was driving back and forth to the airport to make sure the diversity scholarship peeps didn’t feel abandoned.
If you see him, please say thanks :)
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I’m very pleased that try() is dead. This really feels like the right decision.
Thanks to the
#golang
team and the community for engaging on this issue.
The Go team declined an infamous proposal to make error handling less verbose:
It's a sign that their process is working and that there is a large community caring a lot about the future of the language!
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Managers: “let’s do Hackathons, we’ll see amazing innovations and useful new features.”
Devs:
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If I do live stream coding, which service is best? Twitch or OnlyFans?
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At the start of a new
#golang
project, consider just putting everything into one folder. It might be all you ever need. If things do start to get difficult later, you’ll be in a much better position to do something about it (move code into packages or design a robust abstraction)
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This is by far my most favourite talk I've ever given... stuff I don't use in
#golang
- join me in not using them too :)
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Compression is like Sudoku. You only transmit a few bits of information (it starts with a few numbers already filled in) and based on agreed rules (the rules of the game) you are able to reconstruct the whole thing.
What's the most difficult programming concept you can explain in a tweet?
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I don’t want to sit in a pub in England at the cost of someone’s life in India.
#ShareTheVaccine
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I get my vitamin D from using a light mode theme for an hour a day.
I'm iterating this joke in public.
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I've never really been convinced by /pkg and /cmd folders in Go projects. If the main thing is a tool, have package main at the root with packages nested. If it's primarily imported and doesn't have a command, then the root can be the package?
Please share your thoughts.
#golang
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Leaders claiming things "should be easy" because they don't understand it is one of the most damaging things I've witnessed in tech. Once it's asserted that it's easy, anything less looks and feels like failure. It's idiotic.
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Here’s my Gophercon 2019 talk about How I Build HTTP Services after eight years.
#golang
@GopherCon
#gophercon
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Bill’s the hard man of Go. If you abstract something too early, he’ll come and get you.
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You are supposed to be getting compiler errors and seeing failing tests continuously throughout your day. That’s what coding looks like. You’re doing it right.
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This book is hilarious.
Criticising your country is an act of patriotism. It’s the first step in making it better.
52 times Britain was a Bellend is in a special 99p deal thingy, if you fancy a copy while it’s cheap.
Get it while it’s still legal for me to talk Britain down etc.
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It's good that these expire. It catches the case where you aren't a robot initially, but become one while the page is left open.
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Our new minimalist project management tool is available in Public preview.
We were sick of how complicated JIRA was, and how Slack interrupts you all the time - so we built Pace.
DMs are open for your feedback/comments :)
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Excellent use of
@grafana
- monitoring humidity and temperature of hen houses.
One of the best demos I’ve seen in a while. 😂
@doniacld
👏
#gopherconeu
#golang
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The NHS saved my brother’s life last night. Absolutely amazing people. Technical skill, compassionate, pragmatic thinking and problem solving, all under such extreme pressure.
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I don’t use func main In
#golang
😂
But seriously, I always make a new little “run” function and then immediately call that, passing in args and io.Writer for stdout etc.
It’s the easiest way I’ve found to make func main testable.
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@SadiqKhan
At a time when our air is poisonous and our planet is in trouble, “business as usual” is not what we need.
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1. Open editor
2. Start working on something
3. Notice there are changes I need to pull
4. Pull changes
5. Anxiety for a second while it updates
6. If no conflicts, it's a good day
7. If conflicts, frisbee laptop into river Thames
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Yeah, but running all those platforms locally takes up a lot of RAM.
this is my best productivity tip
`sudo vim etc/hosts` and add:
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