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Even using staticcheck directly is slow. Just very surprising- do all other Go writers not use a 3rd party linter (and just use `go vet`)?

> Linting is really good as well. Maybe we are using different tools (or we've set it up wrong) but I'm consistently surprised at how slow Go's linting is (using golangci-lint). Ta…

Bummer. Airtable's a killer product and I've been using and evangelizing it for nearly 10 years at this point. Built whole side projects around it (and its API), plus organized a t…

Unfortunately it's a hard requirement. Apologies- you sound great on paper!

Stripe | Hybrid (50% of time in Toronto office) | Senior Go developer We're looking for a senior-level Go developer who can design and ship idiomatic code our users love to work wi…

> People will claim real harms but the connections are spotty at best. This is a wild claim because it's trivially provable. There's been tons of reporting around the effect they h…

There's a sign next to a bridge that says "Weight Limit: 10 tons". Calvin asks how they know the limit and his dad says they build the bridge, then drive progressively heavier truc…

If my cloud provider brings my startup down, it's my problem. If they bring all the startups down, that's their problem.

Stripe publishes a very similar doc: https://support.stripe.com/questions/stripe-shares-or-stock-...

Sure, where you draw the line will vary between projects. As long as its exact placement doesn't matter too much. For me personally, I tend to draw the line at write operations. So…

Yes, but it depends on the context. For little scripts, I'm not writing unit tests- running it is the test. But I want to be able to iterate without side effects, so it's important…

I like this pattern a lot, but it's important that the code in the dry path is representative. I've been bitten a few too many times by dry code that just runs `print("would have u…

We recently welcomed a new baby and have been discussing whether she'll ever learn to drive. I love bets with long time horizons, so we put together a survey so friends and family …

Not all the way down to 4KB, but https://512kb.club/ matches this vibe

This was originated (or at least popularized) in an episode of Archer from season 1. It remains maybe my favorite 5 minutes of comedy ever out to screen. It's just so tight! https:…

Ah, these are great! f-strings are so powerful, but I can never remember the arcane little syntax. Definitely bookmarking this.

that's fascinating - I've definitely been saying "you've" and "tie". I assumed this was "picks"

If you're interested in some (light) science behind rivalry and/or the Michigan/OSU rivalry, I highly recommend the documentary "Rivals: Ohio State vs. Michigan". It's a fun look i…

I don't remember if it links to it, but this pairs well with https://cryptopals.com/ , which are practical examples of many of these theories.

I found this to be an interesting new direction from Airtable, a product I've really enjoyed. I hope it doesn't muck up the core functionality too much.

I mean, there are 3 equally valid ways to write an if statement: `test`, `[`, and `[[`. In the case of the latter two, there are a mess of single-letter flags to test things about …

My rule of thumb is that as soon as I write a conditional, it's time to upgrade bash to Python/Node/etc. I shouldn't have to search for the nuances of `if` statements every time I …

I've been a happy starship user for a few years at this point (after a long time with oh-my-zsh). For me, it's killer feature is the `starship.toml` file. Gone are the days of arca…