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The AWS SDK for Go is now 1.0

Earlier this year, my colleague Peter Moon shared our plans to launch an AWS SDK for Go. As you will read in Peter’s guest post below, the SDK is now generally available! — Jeff; At AWS, we work hard to promote and serve the developer community around our products. This is one of the reasons […]

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Programming at the REPL (2018)

Clojure REPLs are used for a broad spectrum of purposes, from learning the language to data exploration to live music performance. This chapter will provide some guiding principles for applying Clojure REPLs to the more common use case of pragmatic software development.

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Useful GitHub patterns

Both my day job and my open-source work involve constant use of git and GitHub. These are some useful patterns that I’ve found myself using regularly. (From this point onwards, I shall abbreviate a “pull request” as PR).

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SourceTree for Windows beta

Today we are deprecating a Sourcetree-specific portion of the Atlassian Account sign-in API and it will be unreachable after 16 Oct 2019. One year ago we shipped an all-new onboarding experience in 3.0 for both Mac and Windows powered by a Bitbucket login in your default browser. Prior to that, in early 2018, we…

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Mental models

Mental models affect how we see problems and people. Depending on how you use them, mental models can be incredibly constructive or destructive.

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The future of Clang-based tooling

Clang is a marvelous compiler; it’s a compiler’s compiler! But it isn’t a toolsmith’s compiler. As a toolsmith, my ideal compiler would be an open book, allowing me to get to everywhere from anywhere. The data on which my ideal compiler would operate (files, macros, tokens), their eventual interpretation…