Robert Laszczak does a good job defending/explaining many gophers’ position on frameworks:

Go frameworks exist, but none provides a feature set like frameworks from other languages. This won’t change soon.

You may think that it’s because the Go ecosystem is younger. But there is a more important factor. Go is built around the Unix Philosophy…

Multithreaded, cross-platform, reliable & written in Rust.

This looks like an interesting framework for everything error-related. The core handles the usual tasks (wrapping errors, creating classes, etc.) and plugins offer more advanced use cases (serialization, CLI errors, logging, etc.).

Learning C was quite difficult for Tom M. Thankfully for us, along the way he collected summaries, signposts, and advice for these broader points that made his journey with C and other compiled languages easier. So, if you’re on a similar journey, this page will serve you well on your way.

Burnout has reportedly reached a critical point in the software developer circle since the onset of the Covid-19 health crisis. A recent study by Haystack Analytics, a company specializing in productivity of engineers, found that 83% of software developers suffer from burnout. The main reasons given by the latter to explain this exhaustion are high workload (47%), process inefficiency (31%) and lack of clarity of objectives and targets (29%).

That few?! 😏

This awesome list clocs in at ~1500 lines and has been maintained for six years now. It could use some help in the podcasts section, though…

Jake Lazaroff spent the last few months learning Tailwind with an open mind and he’s ready to share his opinion of the popular CSS framework:

Tailwind is commonly described as “utility classes”, but that’s a bit of an understatement. It’s essentially a small language you write in the class attributes of your HTML that compiles to a combination of CSS rules and selectors — an abstraction over CSS. But all abstractions leak, and Tailwind is very leaky.

When an abstraction leaks, it means you still have to be aware of (and sometimes deeply so) the underlying layer that’s being abstracted. In this case, Jake is saying that you still need to know CSS to use Tailwind and lays out a few scenarios in which this is the case.

This might be unfair to Tailwind. To my knowledge, the team has never promoted it as a CSS replacement. At its core, it really is just a set of class names that apply styles. But even after working with it for months, there’s still a mental translation layer between “Tailwind CSS” and “real CSS”.

If you’ve ever had to split a string into sentences, you may have reached for a naive regular expression:

'Hello! How are you?'.split(/[.!?]/);

Instead of giving yourself two problems, Stefan Judis says maybe reach for Intl.Segmenter, which he shows is quite sophisticated and supported everywhere but Firefox.

Ruby 3.1 adds a new core class called Data to represent simple immutable value objects. The Data class helps define simple classes for value-alike objects that can be extended with custom methods.

While the Data class is not meant to be used directly, it can be used as a base class for creating custom value objects. The Data class is similar to Struct, but the key difference being that it is immutable.

In its heyday, most Rubyists wouldn’t touch immutability with a ten-foot pole. Times, they are a changin’…

Mat Ryer has a very particular set of skills… 🤣