Wandering Thoughts archives

2024-12-16:	Some notes on "closed interfaces" in Go
2024-12-15:	I think Go union type proposals should start with their objectives
2024-12-02:	Good union types in Go would probably need types without a zero value
2024-12-01:	Union types ('enum types') would be complicated in Go
2024-11-19:	Two API styles of doing special things involving text in UIs
2024-11-16:	The missing text focused programming environment
2024-11-13:	Implementing some Git aliases indirectly, in shell scripts
2024-11-08:	Maybe skipping 'Dependabot' commits when using '`git log`'
2024-10-21:	Quoting and not quoting command substitution in the Bourne shell
2024-10-18:	The Go module proxy and forcing Go to actually update module versions
2024-10-02:	Go's new small language features from 1.22 and 1.23 are nice
2024-09-24:	Go and my realization about what I'll call the 'Promises' pattern
2024-09-18:	Open source maintainers with little time and changes
2024-08-30:	Mercurial's extdiff extension and reporting filenames in diffs
2024-08-19:	It's not simple to add function keyword arguments to Go
2024-08-18:	A downside or two of function keyword arguments (and default values)
2024-08-07:	Maybe understanding Crowdstrike's argument arity problem
2024-07-27:	Backward compatibility, even for settings, has real costs
2024-07-13:	That software forges are often better than email is unfortunate
2024-07-07:	I think (GNU) Emacs bankruptcy is inevitable in the longer term
2024-06-24:	(GNU) Emacs wants personal customization in practice
2024-06-17:	Go's 'range over functions' iterators and avoiding iteration errors
2024-05-25:	Reasons to not expose Go's choice of default TLS ciphers
2024-05-24:	The long-overdue problem coming for some people in Go 1.23
2024-05-21:	Go's old `$GOPATH` story for development and dependencies
2024-05-19:	My GNU Emacs MH mail folder completion in MH-E
2024-04-14:	(Probably) forcing Git to never prompt for authentication
2024-04-08:	Don't require people to change 'source code' to configure your programs
2024-04-06:	GNU Autoconf is not replaceable in any practical sense
2024-04-03:	GNU Emacs and the case of special space characters
2024-03-20:	When I reimplement one of my programs, I often wind up polishing it too
2024-03-08:	A realization about shell pipeline steps on multi-core machines
2024-02-26:	How to make your GNU Emacs commands 'relevant' for M-X
2024-02-24:	The Go 'range over functions' proposal and user-written container types
2024-02-14:	Understanding a recent optimization to Go's `reflect.TypeFor`
2024-02-11:	Go 1.22's go/types Alias type shows the challenge of API compatibility
2024-02-02:	One of my MH-E customizations: 'narrow-to-pending' (refiles and deletes)
2024-01-25:	In Go, I'm going to avoid using '`any`' as an actual type
2024-01-14:	Git branches as a social construct
2024-01-04:	'Unmaintained' (open source) code represents a huge amount of value

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