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Go'ing Insane Part One: Endless Error Handling

Published: 13 September 2021
Tags: go

Sometimes I feel like Go is trying to be sold to me like the fix all solution for any backend application. Why use X, Y, or Z when you can just use Go? Well it's not all ladi-da in Go land, as Jesse Duffield highlights in the article. Jesse covers issues with error handling, order dependence, trailing returns, loops, zrero values, and named returns.

Shulman’s Practical Type Theory for Symmetric Monoidal Categories

Published: 14 September 2021
Tags: type theory

A substantial part of computer science theory is rooted in mathematics, and is in pursuit of perfect mathematical "purity". This is especially evident in the type theory branch. Nuiok Dicaire's and Paul Lessard's theoretically dense article dives into the world of symmetric monoidal categories, which are monoidal categories that are coherent and inversible.

Ship / Show / Ask

Published: 8 September 2021
Tags: ci/cd

How you deploy code is almost as important as how you write it. Well, maybe that's stretching it, but it can definitely sculpt the ethos of your development team. In this concise article, Rouan Wilsenach presents an alternative method ofr using PRs to deploy code, that promises faster code deployment with less staleness.