Writings from Timo Furrer

A couple of weeks ago, Chris Morgan published I've banned query strings.

I've already hinted in Migadu.com CalDav and CardDav auto-discovery that I've moved my personal email, calendar and contacts away from Google to Migadu.

In Go it's very common to see the pattern that after creating a sync.WaitGroup() the Wait() call is immediately defer-red, like this: func f() { var wg sync.WaitGroup defer wg.Wait() // rest of the logic } We need to be careful with this patte…

I started, what turns out to be, a long running journey to migrate away from Google.

I’ve recently had a nerdy discussion with a colleague during a code review about when to use Pythons pass statement vs. the ellipsis literal ....