0xDEAD — a.k.a. Marlon Rando ✅ @arturovm@mastodon.social

New package 🎉

Hop — An #AMQP client wrapper that provides easy work queue semantics

v0.1.0: https://github.com/mazingstudio/hop

Check it out and let me know if it's missing anything! 🙌

#golang #RabbitMQ

He also has this habit of coding first and asking questions later. It gets in the way of our architectural plans, plus he produces a huge volume of code very quickly, so fixing those types of things takes a lot of time, and it makes us late.

He's a good person, and he gave me my first "serious" job after uni, so I feel bad about this. But man… his technical skills leave a lot to be desired.

I have to work with my boss' code and it's really, really messy. I'm having to make architectural changes to make it work. Lot's of bad practices everywhere: globals, hard-coded service addresses, pulling code from another project instead of abstracting that away into a common package…

In general, don't use the `init` function unless absolutely necessary (it almost never is). It obscures parts of your program.

Friendly #golang tip: Don't use the `init` function to do stuff that might fail because of outside factors (dead DB or service). It creates an implicit call chain that's a pain in the ass to untangle.

Do the proper thing and design a type that acts as a service manager.

Forget "decent." There's plenty of room to shoot yourself in the foot.

Also its strings are UTF-16? I mean...?

Dart has a really interesting ecosystem but its type system is... decent.

How had I not discovered Electric Youth before?! ✨😌🖤

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNvFBfTve_k

I shot a thing 📷

https://500px.com/photo/274747107/light-cube-by-arturo-vergara

analog musicians: "piece"
electronic musicians: "track"

Gophers of Mastodon: What's the most elegant/ergonomic/user-friendly connection recovery method you've seen in a client that manages long-lived connections (say, a DB client, for example)? What's your favorite?
#golang

We just got bitten by a stringly typed variable. And this is why—say it with me—Go needs algebraic types.

(I love Rust).

Rust is very indenty and shouty.

this is said with the utmost respect for the master