I was skeptical at first (uh, another one of these?) but the small algorithm illustrations charmed me enough to look at the repo and I think I like it. Well organized repo, straightforward code and a good example_test.go, something package authors often neglect. If nothing else it can be a useful source of ideas if you decide to roll your own version of one of these operations.

I’d add the language specification. It is well written and Go is a relatively small language so the spec is not difficult to digest:

https://go.dev/ref/spec

And pretty much everything from the official documentation page is a good read:

https://go.dev/doc/

I personally welcome this decision. I am fairly happy with the current syntax and I enjoy the explicit “does what it says” nature of Go code. None of the proposed alternatives would have made error handling more robust, they were pure syntactic sugar with no nutritional value.

Saying no to multiple proposals when you feel that the status quo is better can be difficult to do and I am happy that the Go team is able to make these kinds of decisions.

If you have an email workflow that you like then something like rss2email might be an option. You simply feed your incoming rss into your email. You’ll want to auto-tag (or otherwise organize) these emails to keep them separate from regular emails. Then you use your usual email tools to organize them further.

I’ve been using such a setup for the past 15 years.

Imagine the person (or more likely a whole group) who has spent weeks designing and iterating over those arrows.

Interesting that they went with the possessed teletubby look.

After typing in a bunch of programs on my 1KB Sinclair ZX-81 I wanted to understand how they worked and wanted to make some of my own.

Go with the frontend kept as simple as possible.

Personally I am comfortable with that as long as there is a public git repo. An issue tracker is the one thing I’d miss the most. I think how well this goes down will greatly depend on the project’s target audience.
notmuch is a project that I follow closely and very occasionally contribute to that works this way.

Already moved in the sense that I am not creating any new projects on GH. I am rehosting old projects opportunistically. No plans to get rid of the account unless GH does something really messed up.

The linked post has some analysis of Reddit’s loss off traffic based on SubredditStats data. I noticed the same trends when I was looking earlier but some of the drop-offs look so dire that it made me think that maybe the data collection broke. Any idea how they get their data?

Edit: there is some discussion of this over at !RedditMigration@kbin.social too. lemmy.world link to that thread.

I think the reason you are getting downvoted is that Go is not at all like your characterization of Java and .NET. In fact Go was developed as a reaction to some of those problems and it’s very well suited for developing things like CLI programs on Linux. Can you imagine tools like fzf, restic or rclone written in Java?

Also, in many ways Go is arguably closer to the spirit of C (despite the GC). A small, pragmatic language that you can keep in your head, little magic, the code does what it says. Rust is more akin to the C++ kitchen sink approach. Neither is inherently better than the other though and I am glad that we have several decent options with different trade-offs for different use cases.

Fedilab is #1 in the “Top Paid” category! (US)

Fedilab is an open source client for Mastodon and some other fediverse protocols (no Lemmy yet). The Google Play paid version is a way to support the developers.

• It’s stupid if:
  • you do it without understanding the possible consequences
  • you do it in a way that can be detected
• It’s not stupid if:
  • you are aware of the potential consequences and you consider it an acceptable risk
  • you are very confident that it won’t be detected

For example I use a similar method to access Discord and I am aware that my account might get banned if this is detected. It’s a calculated risk that I am ok with.

To clarify these are not bots but users expressing their opinion in this fashion. The r/modcoord thread where I saw this has some comments with the background. /r/ModCoord/comments/15rvzb0/mod_team_for_rthingsforants_just_got_removed/

15 years. I haven’t deleted my account yet but I haven’t logged in since API day. I have a redirect in place to go through a libreddit proxy in case I end up on the site through a web search or something.

I am pretty commited to never contribute to the site again and I am planning to delete my account at some point. I want to make sure that I can reliably delete my full comment history before I do that and I haven’t bothered researching that yet. I am hoping that there will be a way to do it through a GDPR or CCPA request at some point rather than me having to do the work. (yeah I know there are tools but it’s still an effort)

Reddit had been my greatest online addiction by far. It’s kinda nice that they made it so easy to kick it. A bit like finding an unexpected out from a bad relationship. Good luck with the rest of your life Reddit!