Happy April Fool's Day

I’ll be streaming some live coding again, on this April Fool’s day. No joke. I hope you’ll join me.

It’s April Fool’s day. And I also recently learned of #AprilCools – the idea of doing something off-topic, but serious, rather than cringey on April first.

So this year, I, eh… extended my “Learn Go” book review series to review a book about learning Go…. the game, not the language.

Have a watch.

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Today I want to share a trick I stumbled upon. It won’t matter to most of you. If it does matter to you, it will probably save you a bunch of headaches! First, some background. Have you ever had to use an outdated dependency for $REASONS? If not, you can skip today’s email, unless you’re just curious. One of my clients is still using MongoDB 3.2. MongoDB was EOLed more than a year before anyone had ever heard the term “COVID”.

Why is context.TODO not just a comment?

I’ve been on vacation for the last week, so haven’t written much. Let’s finally finish up the context package series with some reader feedback and questions! Joost Helberg wrote in with an interesting observation about context.TODO. In his own words: With regards to context.TODO, back in my early Go days, I thought the TODO was about the intent of this context. Like context.Background is for a background task and context.WithCancel for a job that can be canceled.

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This is it! The last of the context package functions that we will cover in this series. Well, almost. I actually have a couple reader feedback and question emails to respond to, which I’ll do next, before startinga a new series. Speak of a new series: I’m still looking for suggestions! I have a couple ideas, but I’d rather do something you’re itching to learn about, than whatever random idea I come up with.

Happy April Fool's Day

April 1, 2024

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