Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler

Ken Thompson’s Turing award lecture, running in your browser.

Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler

Ken Thompson’s Turing award lecture, running in your browser.

ES Module imports in Node.js and the browser

For a recent project, I wanted to have some JS code (in multiple files) available for testing from the command-line with Node.js, but also to be able to load the same code into a web page to be invoked directly from a browser. I've encountered this same issue before …

Wishing the 'if err != nil's away..

#​481 — October 24, 2023 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly ! 'Bang'-ing Errors in Go? — Criticisms of the verbosity of error handling in Go are common, but proposed solutions? Much less so. Ted suggests a syntax initially using excl...

How we reduced oapi-codegen's dependency overhead by ~84%

As I announced recently, oapi-codegen, the OpenAPI to Go code generator that I co-maintain, will soon release a v2 release to allow us to reduce the size of the library's dependencies by roughly ~84%. This is a pretty good saving, and has resulted in the following changes: B...

Understanding dynamic menubar menus in GNU Emacs

Changing the menu bar order of Emacs easy-menu menus

(Minibuffer) completion categories in GNU Emacs and forcing them

Continuous refresh, or: how to keep your API client authorized

An access token should be initialized and refreshed from a central place, yet be available to umpteenth of client sessions. Dynamic futures to the rescue.

Go 1.22's improved HTTP routing capabilities

#​480 — October 17, 2023 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly Better HTTP Server Routing in Go 1.22 — Back in May, we linked to a discussion about enhancing http.ServeMux’s routing capabilities. In July, it became a proposal, and now...