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alienspaces

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About alienspaces

Software engineer, game system enthusiast, nerd, husband and father to three of the world's most wonderful daughters.

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    Comment #40551510

    This is cool, for binaries that provide a web interface, for admin purposes, maybe a blog, or whatever, keeping it simple with some styling to make it a little more swish, this is …

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    Comment #32798395

    When all you need for the UI is a text area to input text and a button to render the markdown, I am at a loss as to what would contribute to a beautiful UI. Is the question correct…

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    Comment #32171117

    Agreed! A useful comment would only be present to describe an edge case, a related business rule, a future change that might affect this code, virtually anything another engineer m…

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    Comment #28409925

    The only reason I have a mac is for work, developing iPhone applications. For home and hobby development I run Ubuntu Linux which satisfies all of my requirements and needs very li…

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    Comment #26163938

    "Go is pretty good for almost anything server-side." Absolutely! REST API servers, data processing jobs, messaging servers, etc etc. I use Go now for virtually everything server si…

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    Comment #25898686

    Essentially identifying the usefulness of a layered architecture with abstractions between each layer.

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    Comment #25601737

    SpaceX announces a one way mission: "...to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!" Jurassic Park will ac…

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    Comment #25523602

    Music without words for programming

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    Comment #25053428

    I can second this. From being proficient in multiple languages to then picking up Go for primarily API service's I'm not looking back. It has taken a little while to level up to ex…

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    Comment #24339809

    "Most of my daily tools are Windows based, so I’ve been spending a lot of time getting Windows Subsystem for Linux working alongside the rest of my daily workflow, which comes with…

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    Comment #23910521

    Build something that exercises the gaps you want to fill and you'll learn from it. Make your code open source and there's your proof of knowledge. Unless the thing you build is in …

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    Comment #23270231

    Yes please!

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    Comment #23177068

    Go dependency management is quite good now with "go mod", plus your dependency tree isn't going to look anything like your typical JavaScript dependencies, otherwise you're doing i…

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    Comment #22976385

    Two first thing in the very early morning, one after the other. Maybe one in the afternoon... Or a nap

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    Comment #21811955

    Couldn't actually read the article as the font colour is too close to the background colour.. sorry, the title was interesting!

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    Comment #21024686

    Frontend: Quasar / viewjs Backend: Go / Postgres / Elasticsearch Infrastructure: Google Cloud / GKE

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    Comment #19918002

    Don't forget! Have fun!

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    Comment #19039667

    Completely agree! Quality is poor and content is often entry level, I only ever navigate to medium if it's a post on Hacker News.

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    Comment #17787635

    This is cool, thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #16955105

    Fantastic! Great job faking faking!

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    Comment #15056047

    Agreed, the learning curve to build more complex, larger applications in vuejs was considerably less than with react.

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    Comment #14927239

    Good introduction!