Woodworking and sewing are really great. If you want to get started with something very easily, I would say try origami which has a very low equipment barrier to entry and quickly yields small and inexpensive but beautiful creations you can gift or keep. Unfortunately I can’t share my own creations.

Pervasive *context.Context arguments to keep things cancellable. Prudent error wrapping with %w depending on whether error is part of public API or not. Structured logging with one of the ~fast libs, like e.g. zerolog. Lots of these little things.

Not sure if it’ll help much with refactorings, but if you haven’t already you might want to set up All Of The Linters. govulncheck, gosec, golangci-lint, etc etc. And generate SBOMs with CycloneDX and scan them with osv-scanner. I really dislike its weak type system, so all help is needed.

As someone who writes Rust and other ML derivatives for fun but a lot of Go (among other things) for my paycheck, I was so overjoyed when I saw Borgo and so incredibly sad when I realized it looked like it never went anywhere.

I (and probably many others) are in the same boat, hoping for Xilem or a similar high level framework to mature out of all the superb Linebender work that @raphlinus.bsky.social and the team are doing. At the same time, I’m grateful for all their amazing ⭐️ foundational work that can’t be rushed…

Never underestimate the number of DT fans out there! 😁 Mangini is great, but I’ve missed Portnoy. I’ve written *insane* amounts of code while looping their old albums.

A life hack that works surprisingly well: number your choices and throw some dice (or flip a coin if only 2). Your gut will tell you immediately if you’re happy with the outcome or not!

I’m sorry, sleep deprivation is just the worst. 😔 Sometimes meditation works, sometimes melatonin, sometimes just picking up the guitar… But everyone’s different, and it usually depends on the cause too. I hope it lets go soon.

Not sure about low maintenance because of manual water refill every day, but I’ve been using the Stadler Form Oskar Big for a few years, and I think I’ve run the same filters for a bit before they needed changing. Both me and my guitars are sure happier than without it.

Milkshake with vanilla ice cream, bananas, cocoa, milk and a double espresso. Life fuel.

Never think you’re not good enough for a bit of jamming with other beginner (or gracious intermediate) musicians. This stops a lot of people from ever trying, and there’s *so much* fun and growth to be found there. Ask around friends/colleagues, look for bars organizing jam sessions, go watch, etc 😊

Xilem (and friends) + WASM

After sporadically playing old childhood memories on regular emulators over the years, I got a Powkiddy RGB30 earlier this year. It’s not perfect (picky with charging) but I like it. Handhelds bring you right back! But like you say, they could do with slowing the hw release pace and focus on quality

On a related note, it surprised me to find out that Atlassian Confluence doesn’t (or didn’t) have turnkey support for it, meaning following links to external sites from a self hosted Confluence instance leaks the internal hostname of the Confluence instance. Not super clean, IMHO.

Superb post. Your writing is always great, but lately it has been simply stellar in clearing the fog on different issues. This post was long, but I think it probably had to be. And it was excellent.