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(Note: I'm resurrecting this dormant blog after a long period of inactivity.

The backstory here is that mostly I love the Go programming language.

Folks who follow me may know that Go is one of my favorite programming languages.

(Congressman Duncan Hunter is my Representative in the House.

Over the past several weeks I've learned far more than I ever wanted to about the self publishing process.

(No, this is not about GitHub or Microsoft... lol.)

The developer crowds are swarming off of GitHub in the wake of today's announcement that Microsoft has agreed to purchase GH for $7.5B.

So apparently Microsoft wants to buy GitHub.

There seems to have been some pretty misleading data out on the Internet, indicating that "nanomsg is dead".

Unless you've been living under a rock somewhere, you probably have heard about the crypto currency called "Bitcoin".

I'm so disappointed with the online accounting software options available to me; and I've spent far far too much time in the past couple of days looking for an accounting solution for my new business.

Close-Notify Idiocy?

First off, I'm a developer of open source application libraries, some of which are fairly popular.

Let me start by saying this...

(Maybe my MacOS X expert friends will know the answer.)

Last Friday (October 16, 2016), a major DDoS attack brought down a number of sites across the Internet.

In order to debug nanomsg problems on Windows, I recently installed a copy of Windows 8.1 in a VMWare guest VM, along with Visual Studio 14 and CMake 3.5.2.

(Brief reminder that this represents my own personal opinion, not necessarily that of any employer or larger open source project.)

Updated Nov 9, 2017: When I originally posted this, nearly two years ago, things were different.

Those who know me know that I have little love for Microsoft Windows.

Yesterday there was a flurry of activity on Twitter, and in retrospect, it seems that some have come away with interpretations of what I said that are other than what I intended.

Some of you who follow me may know that I have recently built a pretty nifty framework for working with terminals.

As part of my recent work on Tcell, I've recently added some pretty cool functionality for folks who want to have applications that can work reasonably in many different locales.

Introducing Tcell - Terminal functionality for Pure Go apps As part of the work I've done on govisor, I had a desire for rich terminal functionality so that I could build a portable curses-style management application.

I've been noticing more and more lately that we have a plethora of libraries and programs written for Go, which don't work on one platform or another.