I don't know how many times I've watched this video. Best live demo ever, see an industry change in an instant. youtu.be/wW9CAH9nSLs

This is not convincing me to give JavaScript another chance.

Slack at a global company! 🌎🌍🌏

It was great to play my first chess game against an International Master 🥳 Of course I lost, but I was proud John Bartholomew called it a battle afterwards! lichess.org/1SVKbIQ2

Goddamit I miss Swift

I hit 2100 rating on #lichess rapid!! Huge thanks to Daniel Naroditsky and Kostya Kavutskiy for their amazing YouTube videos - they have improved my play so much. What next?! (don't say OTB, I've never played OTB and it sounds terrifying) 😁

When you manage to remember that line you analysed months ago... 😀 #chess lichess.org/BNS5zWPB/white

How to ruin a developer's day? I'll go first: CORS error.

"Not sure why you don't have this yet. It's very simple code; I'll send a PR"

Decent performance in tonight's local #chess tournament 🏆😎

Dress rehearsal tonight!

Neat library for defining and running abstract state machines in Go. cc: Cory Benfield who loves a good state machine and I haven't spoken to in far too long 😀 developers.redhat.com/articles/2021/…

RT if you were part of that tiny 1993 bar. (via Rendle Has Left The Dumpster Fire)

What is the most mind-blowing AWS service, you ask? It's not EC2. It's not S3. It's IAM. 500 million API calls EVERY SECOND 🤯... Imagine that.

As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career. How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader. 🧵 1/

Fantastic deep dive on the UK Covid Dashboard! techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-datab…

One of the things that surprised me following last week's Jepsen report on Radix DLT (jepsen.io/analyses/radix…) was seeing both blockchain/DLT people *and* the database community go "Hang on, 16 transactions per second can't be right"--and expecting wildly different figures.

With few exceptions, you should NEVER start generating new ideas in a group - always start with people writing ideas alone and only then move to a group setting. (We've known starting with groups is worse for 50 years, but people still keep doing it since it feels more creative)

I'm very excited to be conducting this fabulous production of the iconic musical CHESS in a few weeks 🎶