Wandering Thoughts archives

2014-12-22:	Why Go's big virtual size for 64-bit programs makes sense
2014-12-15:	Why your 64-bit Go programs may have a huge virtual size
2014-12-09:	Why I do unit tests from inside my modules, not outside them
2014-11-26:	Using `go get` alone is a bad way to keep track of interesting packages
2014-11-21:	Lisp and data structures: one reason it hasn't attracted me
2014-11-16:	States in a state machine aren't your only representation of state
2014-11-02:	A drawback in how DWiki parses its wikitext
2014-10-24:	In Go I've given up and I'm now using standard packages
2014-10-17:	My experience doing relatively low level X stuff in Go
2014-10-11:	Thinking about how to create flexible aggregations from causes
2014-09-30:	Don't split up error messages in your source code
2014-09-22:	Go is mostly easy to cross-compile (with notes)
2014-09-21:	One reason why Go can have methods on nil pointers
2014-09-13:	What can go wrong with polling for writability on blocking sockets
2014-09-12:	How not to do IO multiplexing, as illustrated by Amanda
2014-08-29:	A hazard of using synthetic data in tests, illustrated by me
2014-08-20:	Explicit error checking and the broad exception catching problem
2014-08-18:	The potential issue with Go's strings
2014-07-27:	Go is still a young language
2014-07-11:	Some notes on bisecting a modified Firefox source base with Mercurial
2014-07-06:	Goroutines versus other concurrency handling options in Go The problem with filenames in IO exceptions and errors
2014-07-04:	An interesting Go concurrency bug that I inflicted on myself
2014-06-22:	Things I like about Go
2014-06-19:	Some notes on Go's godoc and what it formats how
2014-06-13:	Undoing an errant '`git commit --amend`'
2014-06-11:	Some thoughts on testing parsers
2014-06-09:	A challenge in new languages: learning to design good APIs
2014-06-07:	Some ways to do sleazy duck typing in Go (from a Python perspective)
2014-06-03:	My just-used Go logging idiom and why it is in fact wrong
2014-05-31:	One of my test based development imperfections: use driven testing
2014-05-30:	In Go, sometimes a `nil` is not a `nil`
2014-05-27:	Some things for enumerated constants in Go
2014-05-23:	Why Java is a compiled language and Python is not
2014-05-12:	The advantages of editors over database programs for modifying your data
2014-05-11:	Why I don't use relational databases in practice
2014-04-28:	How dynamic language code gets optimized
2014-04-21:	The question of language longevity for new languages Thinking about how to split logging up in multiple categories et al
2014-03-31:	Why I sometimes reject patches for my own software
2014-03-05:	A bit more about the various levels of IPC: whether or not they're necessary
2014-03-03:	The multiple levels of interprocess communication
2014-02-28:	Arguments for explicit block delimiters in programming languages
2014-02-23:	The problem with indentation in programming languages
2014-02-19:	The reasoning problem with describing things with a programming language
2014-02-03:	The big attraction of SQLite
2014-01-26:	Why writing sysadmin tools in Go is getting attractive
2014-01-20:	A thought about the popularity of server-side JavaScript
2014-01-19:	Some thoughts on structured logging, especially in and for databases
2014-01-18:	Your web application should have an audit log

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