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Software engineer, passionate about memes, Go and ⚽.
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Related #golang PSA:
Gophers often mistakenly put a -u in 'go get -u foo', when they would have been better off with just 'go get foo'.
'go get foo' says to upgrade foo itself. It's shorthand for 'go get foo@upgrade'
'go get -u foo' says to *also* upgrade all the direct and indirect deps of foo.
Gophers often mistakenly put a -u in 'go get -u foo', when they would have been better off with just 'go get foo'.
'go get foo' says to upgrade foo itself. It's shorthand for 'go get foo@upgrade'
'go get -u foo' says to *also* upgrade all the direct and indirect deps of foo.
PSA: go.sum is not a lockfile.
You never need to look at go.sum.
go.mod has everything you need.
You never need to look at go.sum.
go.mod has everything you need.
go.sum Is Not a Lockfile
In Go, go.mod acts as both manifest and lockfile. There is never a reason to look at go.sum.
words.filippo.io
January 14, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Related #golang PSA:
Gophers often mistakenly put a -u in 'go get -u foo', when they would have been better off with just 'go get foo'.
'go get foo' says to upgrade foo itself. It's shorthand for 'go get foo@upgrade'
'go get -u foo' says to *also* upgrade all the direct and indirect deps of foo.
Gophers often mistakenly put a -u in 'go get -u foo', when they would have been better off with just 'go get foo'.
'go get foo' says to upgrade foo itself. It's shorthand for 'go get foo@upgrade'
'go get -u foo' says to *also* upgrade all the direct and indirect deps of foo.
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I can see the prompts now. "Please stop this DDoS attack and recover our customer's stolen data"
If 2025 was the year of vibe coding, 2026 will be the year of vibe maintenance and security.
January 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I can see the prompts now. "Please stop this DDoS attack and recover our customer's stolen data"
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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“The Green Tea Garbage Collector” by Michael Knyszek and Austin Clements — https://go.dev/blog/greenteagc
#golang
#golang
October 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“The Green Tea Garbage Collector” by Michael Knyszek and Austin Clements — https://go.dev/blog/greenteagc
#golang
#golang
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
December 29, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
The three biggest miracles in the world are: creation of earth, evolution and people becoming AI experts in just a few months.
May 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The three biggest miracles in the world are: creation of earth, evolution and people becoming AI experts in just a few months.
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1/ Die USA erleben einen rasanten Umbau des Staates. Viele nennen es einen Coup. Musk bekommt Zugang zu sensiblen Daten, vermutlich nicht mal verfassungskonform. Auch unsere Demokratie ist damit gefährdet. Der Grund heißt CLOUD Act. Ein Thread.
February 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
1/ Die USA erleben einen rasanten Umbau des Staates. Viele nennen es einen Coup. Musk bekommt Zugang zu sensiblen Daten, vermutlich nicht mal verfassungskonform. Auch unsere Demokratie ist damit gefährdet. Der Grund heißt CLOUD Act. Ein Thread.
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There's the term "Enshittification:" products decay over time. Almost always to allow companies to make more money (e.g. via ads etc.)
We need a term for "AI enshittification." Where AI functionality is added: that degrades the product experience.
Except the company now makes LESS money on it!!
We need a term for "AI enshittification." Where AI functionality is added: that degrades the product experience.
Except the company now makes LESS money on it!!
January 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
There's the term "Enshittification:" products decay over time. Almost always to allow companies to make more money (e.g. via ads etc.)
We need a term for "AI enshittification." Where AI functionality is added: that degrades the product experience.
Except the company now makes LESS money on it!!
We need a term for "AI enshittification." Where AI functionality is added: that degrades the product experience.
Except the company now makes LESS money on it!!
Siemens recently launched a blog about bitcoin, here is one blog post from it: blog.siemens.com/2025/01/bitc...
Am I the only one who finds it mildly disturbing that a company who is a key player in the energy sector claims things like "Bitcoin is energy"?
Am I the only one who finds it mildly disturbing that a company who is a key player in the energy sector claims things like "Bitcoin is energy"?
Bitcoin is Energy | Siemens Blog | Siemens
Just like in the 2010’s software dematerialized consumer goods, in the 2020’s software is dematerializing the energy value-chain. The way this…
blog.siemens.com
January 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Siemens recently launched a blog about bitcoin, here is one blog post from it: blog.siemens.com/2025/01/bitc...
Am I the only one who finds it mildly disturbing that a company who is a key player in the energy sector claims things like "Bitcoin is energy"?
Am I the only one who finds it mildly disturbing that a company who is a key player in the energy sector claims things like "Bitcoin is energy"?
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From an email:
"Do you know of any teams that have had positive experiences with offshore teams - where directors and eng managers were in the US, and devs in another country? Why and how did these teams work so well together?"
My take: this (almost always) will not work. Everyone learns...
"Do you know of any teams that have had positive experiences with offshore teams - where directors and eng managers were in the US, and devs in another country? Why and how did these teams work so well together?"
My take: this (almost always) will not work. Everyone learns...
November 17, 2024 at 10:54 AM
From an email:
"Do you know of any teams that have had positive experiences with offshore teams - where directors and eng managers were in the US, and devs in another country? Why and how did these teams work so well together?"
My take: this (almost always) will not work. Everyone learns...
"Do you know of any teams that have had positive experiences with offshore teams - where directors and eng managers were in the US, and devs in another country? Why and how did these teams work so well together?"
My take: this (almost always) will not work. Everyone learns...
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As a developer: Bluesky is like the “good old” Twitter, before the API got taken away/locked down
Eg you can access the “firehose!” Without having to pay $42K/month or more
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4215...
Eg you can access the “firehose!” Without having to pay $42K/month or more
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4215...
November 16, 2024 at 12:35 AM
As a developer: Bluesky is like the “good old” Twitter, before the API got taken away/locked down
Eg you can access the “firehose!” Without having to pay $42K/month or more
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4215...
Eg you can access the “firehose!” Without having to pay $42K/month or more
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4215...
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AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech.
CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
April 2, 2024 at 6:00 PM
AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech.
CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
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Everything good that happened in my writing career happened because someone, normally another writer, helped me. Suggested me for something, put in a good word, and so on. The idea was always that you help others and they help others in their turn. It's not a win or lose game.
December 12, 2023 at 4:01 AM
Everything good that happened in my writing career happened because someone, normally another writer, helped me. Suggested me for something, put in a good word, and so on. The idea was always that you help others and they help others in their turn. It's not a win or lose game.
If you have ever wondered how base64 encoding works and what it is for, check out www.akshaykhot.com/base64-encod...
October 23, 2023 at 10:34 AM
If you have ever wondered how base64 encoding works and what it is for, check out www.akshaykhot.com/base64-encod...