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I recently participated in 2020 Emacs User Survey.

I recently got a Logitec Razer Kiyo for my Zoom meetings.

How to hire for your organization A three-part series from 9/21/20 to 10/5/20 on how to hire for your organization.

This Feburary, I ordered a Dell XPS-13 Developer Edition.

I briefly worked on a workflow system at $past_job, implemented using AWS Step Functions.

The Ultimate Guide to GPT3 from Twilio A step-by-step walk through of what it is like to the the GUI to GPT3 from OpenAI A Columnist Makes Sense of Wall Stree Like None Other (See Footnote) Mr.

Even an old dog like me learns something new every day.

Software engineers find it natural to talk about abstractions.

Author: Gene Kim Expectations I expect to learn what a badly project looks like – what are the symptoms?

Author: Rachel Simmons Notes It’s not always about your child.

I want to love DynamoDB.

The Empathy Gap from Effectiviology.com For example, if a person is currently feeling calm, the empathy gap can cause them to struggle to predict how they will act when they’re angry.

I finished Managing Humans from Michael Lopp today.

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As usual, LWN has a good write up on what’s going on in the Go community.

The big thing from this week is the launch of the Perseverance Rover to Mars.

I spent too much time Saturday getting the Go S3 SDK to work with LocalStack..

I still find it hard to believe how easy it is to run your own infrastructure in the cloud.

I’ve been using mock/Gomock to write tests in my personal project.

It took me way to long to learn this.

Here’s a rough layout of how I organize my Go project.

Some past self version of me is saying, every class and function should be explicit about their dependencies, so that they are easily testable.

In a previous post, I talked about Gomock.

As promised, a few thoughts about Go that is annoying.

Today I want to talk a little about the testify and gomock packages and doing mocks in Go.

I have a few side projects, published and unpublished.

One thing about job hopping is that you get to experience new perspectives on how people work.

Viper is a configuration library fo Go.

For me, Go 1.13 arrived with anticipation of better error handling.

Code review can be an important part of a team’s culture, so it is worth thinking about.

Good technical interview questions are hard to find.

I previously wrote about owning my own data.

A little more than a year ago, I moved my blog from Blogger to Medium.