Bookmarks of @devploit

The best debugging advice I ever got: before you change anything, write down what you expect to see. Then look.

Half the time the bug is in the expectation.

We migrated 400 services off the old queue in six weeks. Thread on what worked, what did not, and the one decision I would reverse. 🧵

Typography tip: your line length is probably too long. 60 to 75 characters. Measure it. Fix it. Everything else gets easier.

Reminder that "we'll add tests later" is a decision to never add tests, made by someone who does not want to say it out loud.

Published: a plain-English walkthrough of how TLS certificate validation actually works, with every failure mode I have seen in the wild. Link below.

I built a small tool that turns my bookmarks into a searchable page. Turns out I have bookmarked the same three articles nine times.

Unpopular opinion: most dashboards should be a single number and a sentence explaining whether it is good or bad.

Coffee brewing is just a distributed systems problem with better failure modes.