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Software/Product leader based in Australia.
Good at web, likes embedded, loves Linux, builds for speed and scale with Postgres, Go, Tailwind and either Vue or React (depending on who lands the first PR!).
Builder of Jogly, Tagmail, QuickaPay, FeeWise and now MatchBox
find me as `nick` at curiola.com and see my stuff at http://www.github.com/17twenty
- any sort of web tech based development.
Frontend, backend, animations, design, infra, distributed systems engineering, networking.
- I'd say he's wanting to lock in those gains. Diamond hands are different when you're up 100s of millions on a single stock.
- isn't Kafka old news at this point?
LinkedIn have moved onto Northguard... but no GitHub yet
- and what if they leak? how do you cycle those creds?
- > Rust is a lot nicer to work with than C
What? How??
- yeah damn, i guess that's it.
That's the dichotomy. You're either an elitist snobs or a normies. No nuance, no qualification.
- Oh, you're one of those blinkered types...
"Golang is C with garbage collection" I mean, Go isn’t C with GC - it’s C with:
- first-class concurrency (goroutines, channels)
- structural typing via interfaces
- a memory model safe enough for large-scale concurrent programs
- and tooling (formatter, linter, race detector, profiler) built in from day one.
That’s not just "C with GC." That’s decades of language design evolution deliberately integrated into a cohesive, batteries-included ecosystem that others have failed at (Typescript) or just haven't reached in their lifecycle (like Kotlin).
The Pike quote you’re half-remembering is about teams btw, not about "dumbing down" - Google had (and still has) thousands of engineers working on massive distributed systems. Go’s tradeoff wasn’t "let’s design for idiots" - it was “let’s design for readability, maintainability, and concurrency at scale.”
That’s why Go codebases from 2011 still compile cleanly today with minimal changes. Try that with your "ergonomic" TypeScript stack where half your dependencies are deprecated next quarter.
- What do you recommend instead of Go?
Feels like a skills issue but happy to be wrong.
- how do you mean?
I go from pixel to pixel and it's exactly as I left it - wallpaper, call logs, messages, whatsapp, chrome.
- it's good! you don't need a pkg folder btw - they're not a go standard. check out `internal` as it's recognised by the tool chain and may be what you want
- It's fine, it sounds like you're an enterprise programmer and that suits your role/use case.
I use zed with the inbuilt terminal, additional terminals + tools like pgcli and docker. I would feel trapped/impotent using an IDE, esp combined with the lack of snappiness a java app gives you.
- how so?
- Can you do that on Windows/mac?
Gnome devs not withstanding, you have access to the source to change it if you want or put up a PR?
- it's just an example of providing a hyper tuned tool for a given usecase. In this case, for hacking on the 37signals codebase.
- I put this together after hearing how people were using n8n for the magical AI thinking blob and realising that was the only valuable bit I needed.
I extracted my code into a fairly basic CLI so you can specify the system prompt, the schema and the input and you can then pipe to another bash/shell command or use the output to drive a script.
- paywalled. got a link?
- Yeah - not rendering on MacOS Chrome or Firefox.
- 2 points
Is that a bad thing? I've got friends in the UK crying out for something like ICE so keen to understand why it's viewed as rapid decline.