Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Go wishlist (2022)

Go 1.19 has shipped. A few things I’d love to see next.

READMEs are a great idea, still

An ode to well-written READMEs. Detailed, but not overly so, and scannable with examples.

Operational convergence, for REPL-less languages like Go

Life without a REPL, and how to still be able to manipulate production which even has quite a few benefits over more one-off REPL-driven operations..

The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions

On how software that survives first encounter with production tends to live longer than we think it should.

Idempotency: The `is_transient` property

Tweaking error handling in our idempotency layer with a new transience flag.