Sometimes people ask me what my setup looks like for remote work. I decided to try and keep a more-or-less updated list of the hardware and software I’m using. People call usually call such pages “my /uses page”. So, here’s mine. Hope you’ll find it...
Security, Privacy and Trust will be major themes in 2020. Looking at this arm report, 30% of surveyed folks were more concerned in 2019 over data privacy and security than they were in 2018. Add the elections, legal actions against Google & Facebook, Apple and others pushing...
GoReleaser’s journey begins in December 21, 2016: the day I made its very first commit. It has been a long road since then. I didn’t have big aspirations for it. Just wanted to reliably automate my workflow in another project, so, the first version was pretty hacky,...
Go’s defer keyword allows us to schedule a function to run before a function returns. Multiple functions can be deferred from a function. defer is often used to cleanup resources, finish function-scoped tasks, and similar. Deferring functions are great for maintability. By...
Chances are you should instead be investing in data engineering so you can take a deep look at your properly labeled and processed data instead of throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars in Machine Learning (ML). ML isn’t magical, you need a lot of clean, labeled data. Th...
Looking back at the last 10 years, two specific trends are very clear to me, here they are highlighted by Fred Wilson: “The massive experiment in using capital as a moat to build startups into sustainable businesses has now played out and we can call it a failure for the m...
Huh, what’s a Vugu? Vugu is a Go library that makes it easy to write HTML markup and Go code which is compiled and run in the browser using WebAssembly.
As programmers we use libraries a lot. But library design is hard. In this article, I will walk through some considerations in designing a library.
Series Index Why and What Projects, Dependencies and Gopls Minimal Version Selection Mirrors, Checksums and Athens Gopls Improvements Vendoring Introduction Every dependency management solution has to solve the problem of picking a version of a dependency. Many of the version sel...
Most developers, at one point or another, have either built a web API or have been a consumer of one. An API client is a package that provides a set of tools that can be used to develop software that consumes a specific API.