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Jeff Hodges

Distributed systems engineer. Writes about systems design, debugging, and software engineering culture.

https://www.somethingsimilar.com

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Code to Read When Learning Go

Learn Go by taking the Tour, reading Effective Go, then studying clear codebases like pat to see idiomatic patterns in action.

A Story About a Photograph

During a NYT photo shoot about Twitter's security work, the authors got so absorbed in actual coding they ignored the photographer, making for an authentically candid shot.

Monorail (n., jargon)

A monorail is a web app that grew into a messy codebase by taking on too many responsibilities beyond serving HTTP traffic.