Never would have thought hauling that was feasible—cool! Do you need any kind of trailer brake system for that weight? (perhaps with hills involved?)

There’s definitely a lot of people that never learned the correct way to remove snow and ice by hand, and they don’t have decent tools to do it. There’s a lot of memes about “free snow shoveling classes”, but there are honestly folks that could benefit (for their own health if nothing else)

The flag of Greenland. The bottom half is red and the top half white, and offset from the center there is a circular design with the bottom half of the circle white and the top half red. It is meant to symbolize ice caps and the sun setting over the ocean.

The only good thing about all this is that it has brought to my attention that the Greenland flag frickin’ rules. #Erfalasorput

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.

So many electricians just see Cat6 as 4-pair telephone wire and commit horrible cabling crimes with it. It may be in the walls, but it has way too much trauma to deal with when you try to re-terminate it.

Love it when joining video calls and the whole audio path is broken. I remember joining CS 1.6 servers with friends 20 years ago when we had decent audio in Ventrilo, then flawless audio with Mumble+Speex a few years later. But hey, at least we can gesture to each other that audio is broken now.

So many times dev teams wish they had more logging, but so very often I’ve used the *absence* of logs to diagnose an issue. Tracing through and asking “how can no logs be produced from this method” is just as effective as “how was this log line produced”. Read between the (log) lines.

Great seeing you as well, Ian! Looking forward to meeting up again!

Guy at brewery: “What’s on your shirt?”

Me: “Oh, this is the Go gopher, from the Go programming language. I just got back from…”

Guy: “oh, I thought it was a roast beef sandwich on a surfboard”

The shirt:

Another #GopherCon done! It was so excellent to see many old friends, make some new ones, and learn so many new things along the way too! Looking forward to next year!

TinyGoOS: should the proper pronunciation be “Tiny Goose” #GopherCon

Excited for #GopherCon Day 2!

@gdey.me great talk! Been a user of this platform for a few months (a year maybe?)—now I’m excited to go build something with it!

Time to learn how this AT Proto thing I’m using actually works! #GopherCon

One underrated aspect of this protobuf talk is the configurability of a safe and unsafe path in the library. I like that it makes it possible to optimize with unsafe, but allow users to choose whether they want unsafe in their codebase. #GopherCon

GitHub - google/capslock Contribute to google/capslock development by creating an account on GitHub.

I really can’t wait to check out github.com/google/capsl... #GopherCon

Loving this talk on supply chain attacks at #GopherCon . The original “Reflections on Trusting Trust” rings true even today.

@swtch.com Great to see you last night! Hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did!

For the modern motion-detecting ones, a cheap IR strobe light works well as an addition to a travel kit.

I love that Pivotal was so willing to say no to users—no custom states and no weird estimates. They stuck to their guns.

This reads so much like outie facts from Severance

It baffles me why people can’t spend 10-30s answering the question “why does this commit exist?” Then again, everyone probably uses `-m` so git doesn’t spend the next 5 minutes launching their bloated Electron editor to write a good commit message.

This

I’ve wanted such a thing before, particularly with things like property-based tests. The killer feature would be binding the seed to the one used by `-shuffle`, so you could get complete reproducibility of a CI test run.

That smells of check-the-box security certification

Also, welcome to the club! Here’s our two new boys. They’ve been home from the shelter a week now :)

Having a great pet sitter is a godsend for travel. Many do the friends/family/neighbor route for pet-care while away. We prefer someone with a business so it is literally their job. They spend time with the cats and send daily pics and updates on food/water/litter usage—some even administer meds.

Periodic reminder that the correct type for any field labeled “Port” is “uint16”, not “string”. If you need a string, coerce the stricter type (uint16) to the less strict one (string).

Computers are jerks

Nix has a lot of warts on Mac, and a non-trivial learning curve, but I can say that it is very good at preventing dynamic languages from spreading their crap everywhere and bringing it all into some consistent, isolated form.