Heard joke once: man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him."

being young is when you wonder why don’t old people just defect in a prisoner’s dilemma and growing up is when you realise it’s iterated

In 2023, if your cave system does not have: —crystals —mushrooms (glowing) —glittering serpent-gold —military bunker of a lost civilization —murals painted in maddening colors by inhuman hands —the vast fossil of a god —a computer integrated with the earth's soul You are NGMI!

Olisiko jollakulla linkkiä niihin Purran/käyttäjän "riikka" kirjoituksiin Scriptan vieraskirjassa? Jollakulla oli ne koottuna, mutta hukkasin linkin

only bird people will get this

Saisikohan Helsingistä mistään Paris-Brest-leivosta? Olisi kohta ajankohtainen kun se pyöräilytapahtuma on taas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%E2%…

Tiitisen listan julkaisu on hyvä alku, mutta ei riittävä. Sen jälkeen pitää julkaista lista myös niistä joiden pitäisi olla Tiitisen listalla, vaikka eivät ole.

*huokaus*

I rarely explicitly accuse people of blood on their hands because of their tweets but I think wise readers know that anyone who has ever disagreed with me about anything is a murderer of orphans, nuns, and possibly (probably) 9/11 first responders.

this is my plan for getting you all to have a bayesian awakening. you come to my twitter and i inform you that you are, in fact, a bayesian.

Tyler Glaiel Fortunately you can already use x <= y to denote the logical implication x => y… :)

So, we lost the battle to define observability. You know it, I know it. Observability was supposed to *mean* something, and in the early days, it did. "Observability" once meant the kind of exploratory, open ended investigation our systems increasingly demand.

Given the cost of blocking, asynchronous code reviews, I'm surprised more teams haven't experimented with eliminating them. What bad things would happen if you just integrated changes? Are those bad things happening already? What else could you do to avoid those problems?

I love USING PYTHON i want to FUCKING MANAGE DEPENDENCIES BY HAND

Two of the biggest source of incidents I’ve seen are: 1. Legacy code 2. Migrating away from legacy code The conclusion is clear: you should only write non-legacy code

spent my lunch break today coming up with ways that the Kate Middleton story would turn out if it were being investigated by various fictional detectives

We regret to inform you that the wugs have speciated. There are now bouba wugs and kiki wugs

Just released 0.1.0 version of oksa, a library for generating GraphQL queries using Clojure data structures. New version introduces a way to construct queries using an API. github.com/metosin/oksa

Inspired by Gabriel. launching DC systems, I went ahead and registered helsystems.xyz. If you're interested in attending or speaking, fill out the form there. If there are enough crazy systems people around here, we'll have ourselves a meetup!