Today, my kid told me that he doesn't have so many friends these days because all his old friends turned out to be homophobic, transphobic, and just generally shitty human beings. This is apparently what it feels like to be so proud and sad at the same time
I love how tech startups are built on imaginary valuations that have no actual meaning. So that's the magic, be delulu.
#morning #coffee #startup #tech #infosec
A former colleague left his job to become a clown a few years ago. I’m not one of those people who has an aversion to clowns, but I’ve come to realise that my acceptable Instagram clown rate is actually quite small.
TIL: “Blob” stands for “Binary Large Object”.
Which means I am now a member of the “People who say PIN Number” group by having frequently used “binary blob”…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_large_object
For more content like this, buy my in-progress eBook, Data Serialization in Go, and get updates immediately as they are added! This post contains links and notes for the presentation I gave on March 5, 2020, for the Golang Rotterdam meetup group.
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Previous blog posts on related topics:
“Slightly” custom marshaling JSON Arrays as Go structs
I'm looking forward to speaking at my first #conference in a while - @dddem@mastodon.me.uk in October (also it's the keynote I'm giving and aaaaaaaaaaahhhh)
Also looking forward to meeting people that I've interacted with and followed online, but never met in person before!
Edit: and also people that I already knew and met in person too! <3
Ok, I lied, there's no weird trick. However, you can easily reduce a Go binary
size by more than 6 times with some flags and common tools.
Note: I don't actually believe a 30MB static binary is a problem in this day and
age, and I would not trade (build
The year is 2038. Craigslist still uses its 1998-era HTML and Perl CGI script. It is the fastest, most usable, and most accessible web site on the planet. The New York Times front page is 6 TiB. Gmail UI elements have 17 distinct border radii.
Tantrum director Bennett Johnson thinks watching a certain old film would make us all happier, got into advertising due to a specific Christmas campaign, and admits that a recent rodent-starring spot lives in his head 'rent free'.