The ICQ universe will formally end on June 26th, 2024. Originally developed in 1996, that makes it 28 years old. What an incredible run.

Not a dark mode tutorial, but a few notes on some specific refinements of a good dark mode implementation like tri-state instead of bi-state toggle, avoiding page flicker, and responding to theme changes from other tabs or the OS.

A more elegant way to sort on multiple fields using Go 1.22’s cmp.Or helper.

A pair of helper functions ValOrDefault and ValOrDefaultFunc that can help significantly to clean up Go code around assigning default values.

Contemplating whether the Heroku platform would fit on two standard 512 MB dynos if it could be ported from Ruby to Go.