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  • Adding Live Reload to a Static Site Generator Written in Go

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  • I'd say fsnotify is the least interesting part

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    Programming.dev instance: Sponsors needed

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  • It’s Lemmy.

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    Programming.dev instance: Sponsors needed

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  • Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good

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  • I have used and enjoyed lawnchair for the past year. It's quite minimal and I've found it very stable.

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    Permanently Deleted

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  • This should have been posted in programming.dev/c/meta. I'm leaving it up here as the question has been answered.

  • Programming @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    My Software Bookshelf

    olano.dev /blog/my-software-bookshelf/

  • Good software development habits

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  • Totally agree. Like most "rules", it just needs treating with nuance and context.

  • Programming @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    Good software development habits

    zarar.dev /good-software-development-habits/
  • Golang @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    Go Enums Still Suck

    www.zarl.dev /articles/enums-take-two
  • Golang @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    What even is “Dependency Injection”? (a practical example using Go)

    medium.com /@LittleLeverages/what-even-is-dependency-injection-using-go-7f85724bbdb2
  • Programming @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    Parse, don’t validate

    lexi-lambda.github.io /blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/

  • Why do programmers need private offices with doors? (Do Not Disturb)

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  • I particularly enjoyed a recent company meeting that spent considerable time talking about the importance of flow state. It had an awkward pregnant pause when someone (usually very quiet) unmuted to ask, "is the policy to increase the number of days we must spend in our open-plan office kind of undermining this?". Literally all of our directors just shifted on their seats hoping another would answer that.

    Eventually, HR director stated "Not at all, that's what headphones are for!"

    Which was particularly delightful, as our tech director had only 20 minutes before stated how he would like to discourage people sitting in the office in silos with their headphones on.

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    bugsmith @programming.dev

    I'm just at home heating up my no-code offering in the microwave...

  • Kagi search has improved their ultimate plan

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  • Well, the reality is, search costs money. Quite a lot of money it seems.

    So that is either paid for by you, or by someone else. Nobody is going to run search as a charity. So it's going to be paid for by parties interested in paying for your attention.

    Even if you run ad blockers or use meta search engines like searx, you are going to be finding results by companies that have paid to be there.

    I am a heavy search user. My search quantity is reasonably large just from personal use (I'm a curious dude, what can I say?) but my professional use of search as a software developer is staggering some days. My anecdotal experience is that that Google search has been declining in quality for years, and especially over the last two or three. DuckDuckGo is a nice alternative for privacy (potentially), but I while I find myself feeling less in a walled garden with them, I don't actually find their results to be any better than Google's.

    I have tried Kagi recently. So far, I really like it. I genuinely feel like I get good results (read: find something quickly that is relevant to what I searched). I love their lensed searches that let you search the indie-web, and I love that they let you add weightings to websites that you trust.

    It is expensive, no doubt. But for a certain audience that relies on quality web search, prefers to not be walled in by paying search engine optimizers and values paying for a product rather than opting to be the product, Kagi offers a solution.

    Having said that, I would love to see the cost come down and make it more accessible to the many and I appreciate that for most people, the "free" search engines are good enough.

  • In the Google antitrust trial, defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing

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  • I default to DuckDuckGo as well. I don't really like it, and I certainly don't trust it any more than I do any other for-profit organization. I just wanted something that isn't Google, Amazon or Microsoft.

    It's really quite fruitless though. Maybe 80% of my searches end up having a !s or !g (really just for variety...) thrown in, as Google's results are just better.

    DDG image search spits out porn as often as it does something relevant. I can change content moderation options if I want to reduce it, but I don't have to do that with Google.

    Kagi has caught my attention lately. I'm going to try it and see if it feels good value for the money. I'm not opposed to paying for search, but this does feel expensive (I say that having no idea of the true cost of running a search company). Obviously, privacy is out the window as it's paid for and linked to an account. But as I feel I'm not really getting that anywhere else either, I'm more hoping that it will just provide good search results.