jmoiron plays the blues

"I suspect that what they add to the cost of learning and using the language is not repaid in greater expressiveness."

Check out some programming fonts, "wow these look great!", set it up in vim, "meh.." back to Consolas.

I prefer a 90% solution that is obviously a 90% solution to a 95% solution that thinks it's a 100% solution.

#golang interfaces are implicit because they primarily describe function parameter requirements, not what a type "does"

27f83594 to golz4 upgrade lz4 to r131

forked golz4, Golang interface to LZ4 compression

More thoughts on static & dynamic typing: jmoiron.net/blog/typical/

For once I'd like to write a blog post without going off on a 9 paragraph tangent about the history of programming and programming languages

What's "user"? An integer ID, object, cache result, DB result, protobuf, ..? Enforcing a specific answer is the benefit of static typing.

chrome 51 on linux changed styles significantly and I'm having a crisis

1c79a73d to dotfiles add spl line splitting util

42496bf7 to dmc update with -d and other usages

140a3d08 to dmc add -d to look up hosts via dns (connect to multiple hosts from one dns response)

1cf3ccaf to dotfiles update go-bootstrap to skip installing commands with an optional flag

f654695d to dotfiles import dayle rees colorschemes, update go version switching code, default to 1.5.2, update vimrc pathogen call to happen earlier

797449fa to errors fix bug on 1.4.x with chained imports Chained imports in 1.4 lead to `runtime.Caller` returning a strange error condition where `ok` is true but `file` is improperly left at an initialization value. This checks for that value and bails if it's found.

forked errors, Common juju errors and functions to annotate errors. Based on juju/errgo

b925b0c3 to humanize Merge pull request #28 from martinvw/master Dutch translations

11efa6b9 to humanize Merge pull request #29 from JocelynDelalande/patch-1 add a timedelta humanization example in readme