After publishing Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years a couple of weeks ago, a few commenters pointed me to the other massive thing that was coming in the Go 1.24 release: the omitzero JSON struct tag, and I was pretty gutted to realise I'd mis … | Continue reading

I had originally intended to write this on Sunday, to coincide with the two year anniversary since the first commit to dependency-management-data (DMD), but haven't had a chance to, with being this week at the excellent State of Open Con - more on that in a separate post I'm stil … | Continue reading

Reposted OpenUK (@openuk.bsky.social) Post details State of Open Con 25 speaker @www.jvt.me.web.brid.gy of jvt.me will be in Open Source Software and Security track! 🎤 Join to hear about I inherited this project, and all I got was all these angry users 💡 https://b … | Continue reading

Reposted Just Kidding (@internethippo.bsky.social) Post details The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing … | Continue reading

Listened to Fork Around And Find Out | Making the World a More Secure Place with Yasmin Abdi Post details Data and security breaches are a dime a dozen nowadays, and despite their frequency, they’re still just as dangerous. That’s where Yasmin Abdi, the CEO of noHack, comes in. D … | Continue reading

Listened to The Business of Open Source | Building an Open Source Company for Long-Term Sustainability with John O'Nolan Post details This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with John O’Nolan, the co-founder of ghost.org. Before further ado, John is going to be one of s … | Continue reading

For those that aren't aware, one of the big changes in February's upcoming Go 1.24 release is the new go tool command, and tool directive in the go.mod to manage any tools your project uses. I'm incredibly excited about this, and in my opinion, this is one of the best changes we' … | Continue reading

I've recently noticed that i.e. on Slack, if I right click a channel and click "Copy name", and then paste that into a Slack message, I get the name of the channel, but if I paste it into GitHub or Google Docs, I get a rich text link, with the name of the channel, and a link to t … | Continue reading

Listened to From open source to acquired with Ashley Jeffs (Changelog Interviews #625) Post details Ashley Jeffs shares his journey with Benthos, an open source stream processor that was acquired by Redpanda. We talk about the evolution of data streaming technologies, the challen … | Continue reading

Listened to Cup o' Go | 🌲🌳🌲 If an error falls in forest, and there's no variable around to see it... ? Post details Go 1.24RC2 releasedGo 1.23.5 & 1.22.11 released🇺🇸 GopherCon, Aug 26-28 @ New York, New YorkCFS open through March 3Proposals … | Continue reading

Listened to Fallthrough | Do We Think You Should Learn To Code? Post details For years we've been told that everyone needs to learn to code. As career software people, what are our thoughts on this? Should you learn to code? Is coding the right career for you? In this first episo … | Continue reading

Reposted Carlana :v_trans: (@carlana@tech.lgbt) Post details From the Carlana blog archive, Don't Write Code that Hurts People https://blog.carlana.net/post/2016-11-17-dont-hurt-people/ https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/113866093397576803 | Continue reading

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On my first day back in the office, I noticed something odd with my zsh setup, where new terminal sessions weren't having their history saved 🤔 Interestingly, my dotfiles specify the HISTSIZE variable to a reasonably high amount, but it seems to not be working: export HIS … | Continue reading

Reposted Phil Sturgeon (@Philsturgeon@mastodon.green) Post details DHH is a gigabrain fascist and everyone with any sense is long since tired of his shit. I hope the Rails community can wrestle it away from being that muppets fiefdom. https://ruby.social/@getajobmike/113868764027 … | Continue reading

Reposted Alistair Davidson (@moh_kohn@mastodon.scot) Post details Attached: 1 image The annoying nerds who said you should install Linux, use decentralised social media, use Signal secure messenger were right. Control of our own computing is a prerequisite for freedom. The intern … | Continue reading

Listened to Cup o' Go | 🎤 A nil microphone won't keep us away from the 1.24 Interactive Tour or trying Hugo's new features Post details 🛡️ Security updatesGo 1.23.5, 1.22.11, and 1.24RC2 coming Jan 16github.com/golang/glog v1.2.4 released last weekGo 1.24 interact … | Continue reading

Reposted Rob W is reticulating splines (@RobW@iosdev.space) Post details My thoughts are with my American friends for today, and the next four years. Stay strong. 💪 💜 | Continue reading

Batch Bunch on Monday was good 🚀 Was good to see folks, and there seemed to be some work done which was good it was a bit noisier than I'd expected in Dice Cup so a little harder to hear Ended up making a good bit of progress on looking into using ObservableHQ for DMD vis … | Continue reading

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Reposted Batch Bunch (@batchbunch.dev) Post details 📅 Mark your calendar: batchbunch.dev/events BATCH BUNCH #0002 is locked in for Monday, Feb 10th—spaces are limited (up to 15), so, register today 🫡 | Continue reading

Listened to Platform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby Bangser by Software Defined Talk Post details Sure, we talk about platform engineering, but more importantly, business cards. | Continue reading

Bookmarked My month of rest and relaxation - localghost Post details Over the last three and a half weeks I’ve become such a potato that I’m considering changing my name to Maris Piper | Continue reading