Pin to commit hashes rather than tag versions, and use tooling to capture when your libs do more things than you expect them to. #GophersUnite

If you need every last drop of performance, you can remove the guard rails Go has. But you probably really really shouldn't because your time is more valuable than the hardware you save on making a great protobuf parser. #GophersUnite

Using LLMs for content generation is occasionally amusing because sometimes the combination of model and prompt will result in hyperfixation on a particular phrase, which is probably not fit for purpose but can be hilarious.

By default, common LLMs don't use current code features, and even higher-power ones are a coin flip. Go analysis tools, and the associated MCP server, helps push back against this so emitted code gets modernized on the way out of the model. #GophersUnite

Expressing API changes as "replace this function with its inlined body" lets Go tooling make codebase upgrades for you. #GophersUnite

It's lightning talk time at Gophercon! First talk is about using SSA and control flow graphs for finding e.g. session leaks in the Cloud Spanner SDK #GophersUnite

Next up: using assertions to make sure that if a program is wrong it doesn't compile. #GophersUnite

Next up: principles of using AI for software dev. For one, don't hand off code for review that you haven't reviewed yourself. For another, exec expectations don't match current reality on what AI can('t) do. #GophersUnite

Next up, it's #neovim demo time! #GophersUnite

Next up at Gophercon lightning talks: building a Git client in Go. #GophersUnite

Next up in lightning talks: making typeaheads fast with Redis #GophersUnite

To wrap up lightning talks, we have an update on TinyGo #GophersUnite

No bad news is very good news on Golang cryptography :) #gophersunite

You can now download more RAM

Campfire is now free! An entire chat system to run on your own server. We are running the official #RailsWorld conference chat on it from a mini PC in my literal closet 😄 github.com/basecamp/once-…

Streisand Effect time

Javier Milei’s party lost the legislative elections in Buenos Aires. He said: “We’re facing a clear defeat. . . To move forward, the first thing to do is to accept the results” and added that “going forward, we’ll correct our mistakes.” He didn’t claim the elections were

Austin is building the most apartments of any city in the country. Now let’s see what’s happening to rent..

Same in colleges. The students are using ChatGPT to write their essays, the professors use ChatGPT to grade them. The AI is talking to itself, nobody’s getting educated, and we have no idea what students actually know. The companies then don’t want to hire them.