I’m hosting this month’s IndieWeb Carnival and I invited everyone with a blog to write a love letter to something or someone they care about. In the turbulent times where the Internet is being bombarded by hate speech and negative news, I want to sparkle more kindness and positivity to comba...

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txtar is a tiny plain-text archive format Russ Cox introduced in 2018 for multi-file test fixtures. The Go Playground, cmd/go's script tests, gopls's marker tests, and rsc.io/rf all reach for it.

The default slog API is loose enough that a careless line ships broken JSON to production. Pin it down with Attr constructors, LogAttrs, a context-borne logger, and sloglint.

My favourite way to discover new things is by other people. I don’t want to find my next game through an algorithm that looks at what I’ve played and what others have played and by making weird conclusions that we must like the same things. I really enjoy reading or watching when other peopl...

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David at Forking Mad asked: Question for the audience: Do you tell people you blog? He talks about his adversity towards sharing their blog with offline friends. I was reflecting on this recently, after I inadvertently mentioned to a colleague that I had blogged about a topic...

Four of the five steps in every unary RPC handler are wire plumbing. Pin the service function signature and they fit in one generic adapter per transport.

Hello internet friend! It’s my time to host IndieWeb Carnival (again) and in these trying times, I want to bring more kindness and positivity into the web and blogosphere. So, my theme for the month is a love letter. You’re free to interpret that as you wish — it’s your blog you’r...

Interesting & joyful things from the previous week