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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · 10h

Lamborghini was originally a tractor maker, as Ferrari delighted to point out.

Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · 1d

For his next piece, I think he should write 20,000 words in 24 hours on a typewriter with a continuous paper roll, drinking nothing but tea made from a Benzedrine inhaler.

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · 3d

LSP could use a decent command-line client. (gopls' CLI is not it. Rob and I often talk about turning it into that, but we don't have any evidence that people other than ourselves actually want to use it.)

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · 3d

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa” legallegacy.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · 6d

This was the ad campaign that finally made me carry the Sharpie I always wanted in my commute bag.

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · 17d

Airline or Filippo?

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · 18d

I have a tranche of premium collateralized GPU default swaps to sell you.

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · 19d

"I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." -- Blaise Pascal

;-)

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · 21d

Is that an accidental schlieren image?

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · 22d

It’s a caption that fits at least every day since January!

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Sep 10

The reason it is this way is that the user’s installed version of the go command is the only correct implementation of the complex algorithm that returns the metadata of the build.

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sure, I can think of many examples in our work on Go tools in which we have actively resisted desirable features to prevent us, Google as a whole, or arbitrary users, from accessing information that we or they shouldn’t have.

Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ed needs an Ed.

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Sep 5

I love his shtick, but he's almost daring his longtime readers to ask an LLM to summarize the new information in each massive missive, which is ironic.

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Aug 5

Ha, my reply post was intended for Sean Carroll, but because I’m a social media noob I sent it… to everyone but him?

Long time no see. Hope you’re well!

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Jul 31

I've noticed I can always tell myself an accurate story about whether a person is good or bad based on just a photo and my a priori knowledge of whether they are good or bad. But it is rarely better than random with just the photo.

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Jul 28

Gopls v0.20.0 is released: go.dev/gopls/releas...
$ go install golang.org/x/tools/[email protected]
Docs at go.dev/gopls.
Thanks to all who contributed!

Gopls release v0.20.0 - The Go Programming Language

go.dev

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Jul 21

@jmmv.dev I liked your Bazel reproducibility post. I wonder: does Bazel have an option to try each build action twice and check consistency? This would make it easy to diagnose nondeterminism when you suspect it. CI systems could do it with some nonzero probability too.

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Jul 13

On occasion I used to use the Gramercy NY showroom as a comfortable air conditioned place to sit and read or work for a spare hour. When the staff asked if I needed help I said no, I’m test driving this couch, an answer they seemed to respect.

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Jul 5

In matters linguistic children know the rules unwritten!

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Jul 3

Publishers say each equation halves readership. Very curious: was that true? What audience were you aiming for? Did you succeed?

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Jul 3

@seanmcarroll.bsky.social Enjoyed your 2 books on GR, QFT. Steep climb! In final third of both, had to get comfortable with only the loosest grasp. (I have only 1990s A-level + lay reading of Feynmann lectures.) But left with impression of how physics is done. Many thanks!

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Jun 26

$ go run golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest mcp -listen=localhost:3000
But it's a work in (very active) progress.

The Go Programming Language

golang.org

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Jun 21

Ooooh. That will sit on my shelf next to Umberto Eco’s Book of Legendary Lands, once I have acquired and ingested it.

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Alan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · Jun 16

Gopls v0.19.0 is released!
$ go install golang.org/x/tools/[email protected]

Release notes:
github.com/golang/tools...

Release gopls/v0.19.0 · golang/tools

Complete list of issues closed: gopls/v0.19.0 milestone Configuration Changes The gopls check subcommand now accepts a -severity flag to set a minimum severity for the diagnostics it reports. By d...

github.com

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