Regarding programming in types & Go:

This is a restriction expressed in the type system. Go intentionally has a weak type system, and there are many restrictions that can be expressed in other languages but cannot be expressed in Go. Go in general encourages programming by writing code rather than programming by writing types.
(c) Ian Lance Taylor

(src https://www.tg-me.com/oleg_log/786)

https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033
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Well, nothing super-duper but with a good coffee can be an interesting reading (and telling yourself "oh, people are dumb on too many things").

Lang war. Lang war never changes.

(PS: HN thread is 900+ comments and growing)

Secure Messaging Apps Comparison

https://www.securemessagingapps.com/

Did you know that Github can be used as a public key wallet?

See https://github.com/<username>.keys

This also reminds me of https://github.com/FiloSottile/whoami.filippo.io

I'm strongly suggesting to check README ^^^ good intro to how SSH behaves.

Go if's with init statement #monran

We all know such expression:

if ok := foo(); !ok {
    // ...
}

However, some big-brains prefer to squeeze as much as possible in it:

if err := foo(ctx, logger,
        user, &pb.MetaData{...},
        &payload, whatever..., 
       ); err != nil {
    // ...
}

To be honest, I'm jealous. I want to read this code as easily as the author. I have a bad time trying to understand the point of pushing everything inside if and complicated things.

Is the following version not good enough?

err := foo(ctx, logger,
        user, &pb.MetaData{...},
        &payload, whatever..., 
       );
if err != nil {
    // ...
}

Argh.

> Unable to find Go version '1.15' for platform darwin and architecture arm64.

Has something changed recently? Looks like week ago everything was fine https://github.com/gobwas/ws/actions

I also don't get this:
> We didn't promote darwin/arm64 to be a primary port until Go 1.16. Since Go 1.15 and Go 1.16 are no longer supported, we don't plan to backfill older binary releases.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63626

Anyway, why everything was ok week ago. Github CI cache or wut?

A Cloud-Scale Characterization of Remote Procedure Calls

https://foci.uw.edu/papers/sosp23-rpc.pdf

Guess what, -shuffle=on saved my life today.

1 cleanup routine were missing in a test. So, as a result it was flaky due to conflicts in DB.

Yay 🎉

HTTP/3 is alive https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/net/quic

Nice https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2021/12/03/tips-on-adding-json-output-to-your-cli-app/

Post in 2021, but still cool. Also, I didn't know about the jc tool to make famous commands aware of JSON (to be precise, convert text output to JSON).

JSON is a lingua franca in the IT world, whether you like it or not.

🔥 https://www.youtube.com/@PortnikovPost

As promised https://go.dev/blog/chacha8rand

#lang #history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB8KwiiUGy0

O KURWA https://medium.com/@anastasia.bizyayeva/every-map-of-china-is-wrong-bc2bce145db2

BTW, Openstreetmap is illegal(-ish?) in China, see HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40220072

At least this garbage is deobfuscated https://github.com/googollee/eviltransform/blob/master/go/transform.go

(EvilTransform 😂)

>Opens up flight sim
>Goes into a trance
>Proceeds to say he is the smartest programmer to have ever lived

What a legend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQEfLaR4Pg

Large Text Compression Benchmark (Jan. 17, 2024)

https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html

25 метрів . Glock 17 . Є ще порох в порохівницях.