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Never use a dependency that you could replace with an afternoon of programming
Never use a dependency that you could replace with an afternoon of programming.
Carl M. Johnson
“It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a `DestroyBaghdad` procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a `DestroyCity` procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.” — [Nathaniel…
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Major standard library changes in Go 1.20
The second part of a three part look at new features in Go 1.20.
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Three Minor Features in Go 1.18
Okay, but apart from generics and fuzzing, what has Go 1.18 ever done for us?
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Ten years of “Go: The good, the bad, and the meh”
I wrote a blog post ten years ago. How do I feel about it now?
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The 2,500 year old history of why Python’s all([]) returns True
How a Python function relates to a two thousand year old debate in philosophy