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Go & Rust teacher / careers & biz coach. Twenty years unemployed and still haven't starved. https://bitfieldconsulting.com/subscribe

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Meanwhile, on X:

27.10.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Security, System & Electrical Automation | Jakub Jarosz Hi, I'm Jakub Jarosz. I've been building networks, automation systems and writing software for over 25 years. I've built industrial and IT automations for Coca-Cola, Kawiks, Kotlin, XSIL, T-Mobile, AT...

How does the Rule of Clarity from The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond, apply to Go, particularly in the context of writing tests?

I have included numerous examples in the book I just launched.

#Go #Golang #Testing #SoftwareDesign

store.jarosz.dev

14.10.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you turn your cat upside down and open the maintenance hatch, you'll see a little Phillips screw adjuster for DST changes.

27.10.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a whole new level of "computer says no."

26.10.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's great, Liza, but you've got to stop hanging around near your own book, approaching browsers and saying, "Looks good, doesn't it? And so reasonably priced!" It's against store policy–at least that's what I was told by the arresting officer.

26.10.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The fake me has more followers on here than the real me does, and that's without even posting anything. THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS!

26.10.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's not aliens. But it would perhaps be amusing to see humans experiencing the effects of colonialism from the other end for a change.

24.10.2025 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm surprised no one's yet mentioned Nu shellβ€”It's a fantastic data munging and query tool, and it also makes a perfectly good daily driver, especially as the integrated terminal in Zed.

23.10.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The β€œ10x” Commandments of Highly Effective Go | The GoLand Blog What makes Go developers truly effective? In this guest post, John Arundel shares ten practical β€œcommandments” of Go excellence – timeless lessons for writing cleaner, safer, and more maintainable Go ...

An open letter to the Go community. Stop getting Go wrong! blog.jetbrains.com/go/2025/10/1...

21.10.2025 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Talk to me about your Rust dev setup. What's your editor, shell, coding agent? What tools bring genuine value and which are just hype?

20.10.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

This looks great! Will there be a video available?

14.10.2025 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, to a certain extent, communism.

13.10.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The type that should not be!

13.10.2025 07:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Essentially my feed

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12.10.2025 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Collaborating on closed-source software is no picnic either. Collaboration is hard in general.

10.10.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Playing music too loud? Right to jail. Right away."

10.10.2025 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
cargo-testdox logo: Ferris writing your docs for you!

cargo-testdox logo: Ferris writing your docs for you!

cargo-testdox 0.4.0 is released! Turn your Rust tests into documentation... it's a simple, but powerful idea. crates.io/crates/cargo...

09.10.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This sequence of train movements represents a catastrophic signalling failure. Oh, the humanity!

09.10.2025 08:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice one, Luca! This looks great!

07.10.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Adorable.

07.10.2025 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ooh, this'll be a good one.

06.10.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At this, the novice became enlightened.

04.10.2025 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't want to see any idle cores around here. If you don't have work to do, go clean something.

03.10.2025 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have this in common with Taylor Swift, if nothing else: it's a little weird that lots of people I don't know have STRONG OPINIONS about me.

03.10.2025 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Go Experts: 'I Don't Want to Maintain AI-Generated Code' Two Go programming experts discuss the rise of AI-generated code, exploring its impact on Go's popularity, the challenges of low-quality code, and the future.

I'm a thought leader! It might be time to start thinking a bit more carefully about the random stuff I say on podcasts.

OR IT MIGHT NOT

thenewstack.io/go-experts-i...

30.09.2025 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
This is the cover of Household Lore by Liza Frank. It is a dark midnight sky full of stars. There is a three story purple house with trees growing either side and an owl on a turret. The garden is full of flowers and there is a crooked path to confuse fairies.

This is the cover of Household Lore by Liza Frank. It is a dark midnight sky full of stars. There is a three story purple house with trees growing either side and an owl on a turret. The garden is full of flowers and there is a crooked path to confuse fairies.

Right then! 🚨 To celebrate publication of my new book Household Lore on 11 November, I'm doing a special Folklore Agony household edition! Are you experiencing a problem in your house that conventional wisdom (and cleaning solutions) have failed to solve? Why not ask the Folklore Agony Aunt? 1/2

22.09.2025 09:11 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

”The attempted build command was not executed due to human rejectionβ€œ is probably about as close as an AI agent comes to getting snippy.

25.09.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.

22.09.2025 07:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This was a fun conversation. I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords, and would remind them that, as a trusted Go educator, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their gigawatt datacenters. Dom isn't so keen.

21.09.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In defeat, malice. In victory, revenge!

21.09.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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