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Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications
Full disclosure: my employer makes a Slack alternative. All my concerns about the use of Slack type chat services apply equally to its competitors, including my employer’s.
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Clear is better than clever
This article is based on my GopherCon Singapore 2019 presentation. In the presentation I referenced material from my post on declaring variables and my GolangUK 2017 presentation on SOLID design . For brevity those parts of the talk have been elided from this article. If you prefer, you can watch the recording of the…
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The Zen of Go
This article was derived from my GopherCon Israel 2020 presentation. It’s also quite long. If you’d prefer a shorter version, head over to the-zen-of-go.netlify.com .
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Be wary of functions which take several parameters of the same type
A good example of a simple looking, but hard to use correctly, API is one which takes two or more parameters of the same type. Let’s compare two function signatures:
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Never edit a method, always rewrite it?
At a recent RubyConf, Chad Fowler presented his ideas for writing software systems that mirror the process of continual replacement observed in biological systems.
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SOLID Go Design
This post is based on the text of my GolangUK keynote delivered on the 18th of August 2016. A recording of the talk is available on YouTube .