I watched Neymar tear apart Spain in the Confederations Cup final with the whole roomies in a bar, and when Brazil scored their third I screamed. But the real drama is Man United naming David Moyes as Ferguson’s successor. A banner at Old Trafford already says “The Chosen One.” My coworker who’s a City fan hasn’t stopped grinning since. Football is a distributed system for feelings and I’m fully bought in now.
Google Reader dies this week, July 1st. Six months of grieving and I still hit the bookmark every morning like a phantom limb. My RSS feeds are safely in Feedly but it’s the principle. Every free service I depend on now gets a mental asterisk.
Half-year checkpoint, because a series needs discipline: 12 entries, zero missed. Things I can do now that I couldn’t in January: read a query plan, restore a backup, survive a code review, get paged without crying (mostly).
TIL: the word “idempotent.” Our payment webhook ran twice and charged a user twice, and now I know why every operation should be safe to repeat. Expensive word. Worth it.