Doug Tangren ๐
@softprops
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slowgrammer, comin in jwt๐ฒ ๐
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Joined May 2007
I'm on a curiosity voyage and these keys are my paddles ๐จโ๐ป
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โWe cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.โ - Albert Einstein
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6 years of thinking I can make a better portfolio. 1 year of actually building it. My new portfolio is LIVE ๐ Please, don't break anything! ๐ https://t.co/rVPv9oWkjL
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Zig tip: `errdefer comptime unreachable;` will ensure at compile time that from that point forward nothing can fail. This is an extremely important pattern since `errdefer` (cleanup on error) often depends on a particular state of the world and this asserts it. Example use case:
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> github's UI transitions to react > i find myself hitting refresh more & more
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Setting some 2026 goals. I used to shred with emacs but slid backwards to into other text editors over the years and since lost all muscle memory for never having to leave the keyboard. Iโm miss that magical feeling. It feels like the right time to invest in quality time with vim
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If we were able to rewind history a bit and there was a movement to get zig into linux instead of rust (and I'm saying this with the love of rust I still have), zig would have have made more sense from a cultural and technical perspective.
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I'm working on the final chapter of the Go Concurrency book, and I'm rethinking the cover. Which one do you like better?
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Most problems most web engineers work on in a typical day are far less interesting than a typical #adventofcode problem on any aoc day
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The #htmx 2 to 4 migration guide is the only migration guide Iโve ever seen with official upgrade music included https://t.co/GtatYr9HGd htmx is my jam
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happy thanksgiving folks! happy to announce the release of htmx 4.0 alpha 4, including an all new web socket extension by the inimitable @stukennedydev
https://t.co/BTCcvnFnB4
github.com
htmx - high power tools for HTML. Contribute to bigskysoftware/htmx development by creating an account on GitHub.
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein
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Rewrite it inโฆ a better algorithm. Most of the performance gains what fall from rewrites arenโt due changing a language but instead to changing the algorithm or architecture of a solution. Attributing it plainly to a language choice is just plain sleazy marketing
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Channels in Go are easy to get wrong unless you know the rules: - Sending to a channel panics if the channel is closed at any time before the send actually completes, even if the close happens "after" the send was started but before it has finished. - Receiving from a closed
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Let's play Unpopular Opinions! ๐ธ @htmx_org thinks too many tech decisions are driven by people's "fear of looking dumb" ๐ฅ (โ๏ธ from https://t.co/AuCJMTD4fk)
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