smashing the monolith @ Grafana labs. Prev. founded @akdevalliance, @playcyclefi, @legalverse
Anchorage, AK
Joined May 2012
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1/x The story of the @akdevalliance and growing up in Alaska. 🧵
I can't count the number of times I got asked whether Alaska was part of the US. It's beautiful, but It can be isolating. Especially if you have a niche hobby. Growing up AK, programming was a niche hobby.
Any sufficiently complex database query with business logic will eventually become a query builder.
Any sufficiently complete query builder becomes an ORM.
Every ORM runs into query specific optimization problems.
And the cycle repeats
I feel like every time a project is waiting on me for documentation it seems to be the thing that ALL of my projects are bottle necked on…. Leading to like a week straight of writing docs.
This happen to anyone else?
@haybytes and I spent 5 days collecting our favorite tools and patterns from the graveyard of projects we’ve built in Go and crafted a web API Toolkit complete with domain scaffolding and observability with @grafana stack.
We call it Go TTL.
Documentation coming this week!
Working on a new Go web API start kit has be re-invigorated to ship some new features for my scaffolding tool. Just shipped some new pluralization functions so we can scaffold endpoints cleaner in the Starter kit
Checkout the starter kit here
github.com/levinologylabs/go…
This clip is wild.
It’s from my home town and local news station and from a time when lack of on-demand meant tv shows were culture. Sometimes I miss the glow of the 90’s
May 14, 1998 Channel 2 (KTUU) of Anchorage segment on a Seinfeld finale viewing party at the downtown Hilton. Includes an Elaine dance contest winner. #alaskahistory #anchoragehistory #alaska
Remember like 2010 when every electronic artist sounded like Pretty Lights and decided to use the same 2 samples for like 5 years. That was weird.
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Hitler reacts to Anchorage's first snowfall of the 2023/2024 season and the ensuing failure to properly plow the roads. #akleg
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RIP left lane of Northern Lights. Lost to an early snowstorm, you will be missed. #akgov
BK(@goinggodotnet) spitting straight golang🔥right now
What day is it? Oh right. The start of #gopherconau . Workshops today, run by @ardanlabs ' Bill Kennedy (Ultimate Go with Kubernetes), @DigIO_au 's Roman Gurevitch (Concurrent Programming in Go) and Leah Garrett's Introduction to Go.
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🤔 Curious about what news will come out of #ObservabilityCON 2023?
CTO @tom_wilkie shares a few hints about what's coming in the opening keynote, which we're live streaming on Nov 14.
Read more here: bit.ly/3skYtM8
Holy smokes! I got my first ever airline status upgrade. Seat 1F on @AlaskaAir. PDX still the best airport with a classy jazz pianist during my minor delay… and to think I almost changed my flight.