I don't care about anything you guys are saying, and I know you feel the same way about me. It's great that we're on the same page about this stuff.
John Arundel
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TIL the garbage "stack frame" the 6502 pushes on reset is not a good source of randomness. Nor is the magic constant created by some invalid opcodes. What IS a good entropy source is racing a free-running timer against the CRT electron beam. This stuff makes me happy chatgpt.com/share/696cad...
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How does the Rule of Clarity from The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond, apply to Go, particularly in the context of writing tests? I have included numerous examples in the book I just launched. #Go #Golang #Testing #SoftwareDesign store.jarosz.dev
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Hi, I'm Jakub Jarosz. I've been building networks, automation systems and writing software for over 25 years. I've built industrial and IT automations for Coca-Cola, Kawiks, Kotlin, XSIL, T-Mobile, AT...
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The fake me has more followers on here than the real me does, and that's without even posting anything. THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS!
An open letter to the Go community. Stop getting Go wrong! blog.jetbrains.com/go/2025/10/1...
The “10x” Commandments of Highly Effective Go | The GoLand Blog
What makes Go developers truly effective? In this guest post, John Arundel shares ten practical “commandments” of Go excellence – timeless lessons for writing cleaner, safer, and more maintainable Go ...
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Talk to me about your Rust dev setup. What's your editor, shell, coding agent? What tools bring genuine value and which are just hype?
cargo-testdox 0.4.0 is released! Turn your Rust tests into documentation... it's a simple, but powerful idea. crates.io/crates/cargo...
I'm a thought leader! It might be time to start thinking a bit more carefully about the random stuff I say on podcasts. OR IT MIGHT NOT thenewstack.io/go-experts-i...
Go Experts: 'I Don't Want to Maintain AI-Generated Code'
Two Go programming experts discuss the rise of AI-generated code, exploring its impact on Go's popularity, the challenges of low-quality code, and the future.
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Right then! 🚨 To celebrate publication of my new book Household Lore on 11 November, I'm doing a special Folklore Agony household edition! Are you experiencing a problem in your house that conventional wisdom (and cleaning solutions) have failed to solve? Why not ask the Folklore Agony Aunt? 1/2
”The attempted build command was not executed due to human rejection“ is probably about as close as an AI agent comes to getting snippy.
This was a fun conversation. I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords, and would remind them that, as a trusted Go educator, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their gigawatt datacenters. Dom isn't so keen.
Dominic St-Pierre@dominicstpierre.com · 12mo ago🎙️go podcast() ep.59 is live, I'm joined by John Arundle and we talk about the maturity of Go, is it's hype over, some AI here and there, and some other things, I hope you enjoy, I took a summer break of the pod, it's coming back. To whom I should talk to next? #golang gopodcast.dev/episodes/059...
To all my former bosses and team leads, an apology: I sucked as an employee (you probably noticed). Sorry about that. I was actually okay at the work. I just didn't like being managed. It wasn't you, it was me. Now, at last, I have a diagnosis. bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/self-d...
Self-driving people — Bitfield Consulting
Your car may be self-driving (up to a point), but are you? Independent-minded people sooner or later reach a point where they can’t rise higher without becoming the boss. Should you go it alone and st...
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