🎢 This week: Light weeknote—off to Disney/Universal! But still found great free game assets from Kenney and a cool $15 ESP32 display project. 🧵

This guide is absolute gold from @mitchellh.com (creator of Terraform) on how he started to use AI agents, step-by-step.

It's practical, step by step & how he changed how he works (without getting overloaded or anxious.)

mitchellh.com/writing/my-a...

I wrote about my new daily game: Peaklet. I don't know why I've always enjoyed top lists, but here we are and I made a game about putting things in the right order.

And it's ultimately not about the right order _factually_, but rather figuring out what people think is right.

The week of Jan 19th: GitHub Copilot SDK launch, Go 1.26 preview, cross-platform Swift with Skip, WebGPU charting, and cool macOS productivity tools. Let's go!

This week: new open source TTS, macOS audio management, SQLite replication, a LAN party house design, and more!

If you'd like to see my complete weeknote, go to
www.kevindangoor.com/posts/2026-01

Dear Bluesky tech folks,

I have a potentially unpopular opinion. What if #AI could actually be used to reduce tech debt? 👀

brittanyellich.com/agentic-soft...

Assign GitHub Copilot to an issue and watch the magic happen ✨

Introducing the new coding agent. Try it out today.

Just needed to change a Go data structure from a map[sometype]map[string]FooStruct to a []FooStruct where the new structure contains the keys from that map.

Described what I needed and @GitHub Copilot Edits did all of the work for me.

The Onion buying Infowars is hilarious: theonion.com/heres-why-i-...

A free plan to help get you started. No overages, no strings. Deploy your personal sites, or other creative explorations and grow when ready. www.netlify.com/blog/introdu...

Happy birthday, Go! 🎂
go.dev/blog/15years

Hello 🦋

Happy to see many familiar faces around. Wasn't easy to find all of you (I probably missed many), so I created a starter pack to make it easier to (re)connect and nerd out about distributed systems, programming languages, and container stuff. Let me know who I missed!

go.bsky.app/U1hZhum

Which is funnier: the proposal to add .ʕ◔ϖ◔ʔ as a new, alternate extension for .go files, or the fact that some people took it seriously?

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/59968

Mine was a TRS-80 Model III. I had so much fun with that computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80#modeliii

Congrats to my pal @rmondello.com who not only gave us 2FA autofill on iOS but has also championed brining passkeys to the world. Google rolling this out is huge. https://www.wired.com/story/google-passkey-password-replacement/amp

I’ve been working on understanding and building technology that empowers users my whole career, so bluesky is designed that if you don’t like it, you can leave with your connections and data. I encourage you to try one of the 3P clients and self-organize to run your own server soon.

Oh no. A new social network and now I need a catchy first post.

Dammit, I've already blown it, haven't I?