Writes Go books. Black lives matter.

Cornwall
Joined April 2008
If you feel like you've "made it" in your career, when did you first feel that, and why? If you don't yet feel you've "made it", whatever that means to you, what would make you feel that way? What are you doing to work towards it?
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Functional options: beautifully simple on the surface, baffling under the hood. What could be more Go-like? The Code Club crew discuss options for options in #Golang packages. invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=SPcO06Zx…
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If you're an open-source maintainer deluged with PRs on your project, here's a simple way to clear the logjam. Simply ask for any change to the PR whatosever. I guarantee you'll never hear from the submitter again!
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Iverson's paper 'Notation as a Tool of Thought' is a tour of perhaps the most elegant programming language ever designed. APL is an attempt to make mathematical notation executable, by writing programs like this: c←((0,⍳⍴r)∘.=+⌿~m)+.×(-r)×.*m←T ⍴r jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm
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John Arundel retweeted
Go has become my main go to language. I highly recommend @bitfield for mentoring. His go jokes are way better than mine.
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The best career advice I can give you is to get good at something.
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In this week's 'Let's Code a Lunar Lander in Go', @thiagonache and I get physical with the UpdateWorld method, and we hit a big milestone: the game is running again! invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=_7-IC7cN…
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John Arundel retweeted
General ways to solve computer problems: • Reboot • Be root
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