Oh, Spelling Bee: no TROUBADOR nor RUBATO, but BURRO? This is supposed to be the New York Times, not the Sonoran Agricultural Digest. Come on.

TIL that two Norwegian Americans in 1896 were in fact the first to row the Atlantic, in a tiny (18’) open boat. Without supplies they had to beg passing ships. Insane! bsky.app/profile/dexe...

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 4w ago

A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”

M. Gessen’s piece in the Times today recalled the 1991 stunt in which ACT-UP draped an enormous mock condom over Sen. Jesse Helms house. A brave act no doubt, but it‘s almost inconceivable today due to the grave risk of being shot. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | It’s America’s Birthday. What Are We Celebrating?

Two hundred and fifty years in, Opinion writers offer 16 reasons the national experiment endures.

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“Hockey” does not start with a bird homophone. That’s it, NYT Connections, I quit, even if it means I will miss next week’s soon-to-be-infamous Words I Made Up, Minus The Third Letter.

What's new in gopls 22: go.dev/gopls/release/v0.22.0 Please try it out: $ go install golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest

Gopls release v0.22.0 (May 2026) - The Go Programming Language

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Some people post interesting stuff but... so much. Is there an alternative to “unfollow” such as rate limiting them to n posts per day?

Hearing the logistical coordination involved in operating an Artemis space toilet, I’m reminded that the space opera (Star Wars etc) is really a romance of the Age of Sail. Whaling crews felt safer on board than in port and could happily stay at sea, autonomously, for years at a time.

Find out how the source-level inliner in Go 1.26 can help you with API migrations. go.dev/blog/inliner

//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner - The Go Programming Language

How Go 1.26's source-level inliner works, and how it can help you with self-service API migrations.

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Great essay from Hopkins on managerialism, conflicts of interest, the AI bubble, the decline of faculty governance, and how major donations paradoxically put universities in the red.

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In a new essay for Public Books, François Furstenberg—”the aging history professor”—marvels at the glassy, atria-adorned buildings rising up on the Johns Hopkins campus—funded by donors, costing more than the donors gave.

“Using go fix to modernize Go code” by Alan Donovan — https://go.dev/blog/gofix #golang

“Go 1.26 is released” by Carlos Amedee, on behalf of the Go team — https://go.dev/blog/go1.26 #golang

Idea for innovative new California law: A tech company must work as hard to remove you as a lapsed customer as they did to woo you as a non-customer. I can't want to see invasive pop-up ads on every web page saying "Alan, you haven't watched Hulu for nearly a month... click here to unsubscribe."

I feel obliged to disclose my first-ever success with vibe coding. Yesterday I got Gemini to build this tool to aid comprehension of musical rhythm: morpho.blog/subdiv/subdi... (If on iPhone, be sure your phone is not in silent mode.) Took about 2 hours. Would have taken me a (fun) day.

The folks behind GopherCon 2025 have kindly shared video recordings of our talks; here's mine on modernizer tools for Go. Special thanks to the amazing Stacy Potenza for turning my rapid limey nerd mumbling into comprehensible closed captions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VeP...

GopherCon 2025: Analysis and Transformation Tools for Go Codebase Modernization - Alan Donovan

YouTube video by Gopher Academy

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@davidcrespo.bsky.social I have really been enjoying your posts, BTW, which have forced me to confront many of my AI-hating priors. (Still hate AI but at least now I recognize some of my irrationality and goalpost-mobility!) So thanks.

What's new in gopls 21: go.dev/gopls/releas... Please try it out: $ go install golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest

Gopls release v0.21.0 (expected Dec 2025) - The Go Programming Language

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Act I: Waiter: Is everything ok with your order? Diner: Just one thing. This steak... it's actually a huge shit. Waiter: Oh, I'm so sorry, let me fix that. Diner: Thanks. [...] Wait, this new one is also a huge shit. Waiter: No it's not, it's a steak, just like you asked for.

Hi @erikdmartin.bsky.social 👋. Do you know when videos of this year's GopherCon talks are expected? Thanks.

@mattyglesias.bsky.social you say "movie tickets are in fact cheaper in real terms" after adjusting for inflation. But doesn't that just mean ticket prices grew less than the "basket" average? And if your wages grew even less than the average, then "cheaper, inflation adjusted" is no comfort at all.

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

Gopls release v0.20.0 - The Go Programming Language

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@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.

@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!

Please try out the gopls pre-release and report any problems! $ go install golang.org/x/tools/gopls@v0.19.0-pre.2 Many bugs fixed and lots of new features. (Pre-)release notes can be found here: cs.opensource.google/go/x/tools/+... (click "preview")