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Source image by Reiterlied, licensed under Creative Commons Ahoy, maties! Cap'n Long John Arundel here with more tips on sailing the good ship Go. This time, we'll lay aloft to the crow's nest and turn our spyglass on AI tools. Arrr ye ready to vibe-code

Photo by Karl Hedin on Unsplash "Marketing" is everything you do to help people know you, like you, and trust you. -Sam Bennett Are you a self-driving person who wants to run your own business? Great! It's about time you started earning what you're actual

"Perhaps we should not replace the payroll system, the avionics stack, and the office kettle firmware all before lunch."Image by Cady Galleta If you have a very large (millions of lines of code) codebase, written in a memory-unsafe programming language (s

How do you break it to someone that they've wasted most of their life? Well, I worked with a guy who didn't know how to copy and paste. Every time he wanted to move some code, he'd delete it and then grimly re-type the whole thing somewhere else, as I wat

From The Secrets of Rust: Tools Photo by Adrian Siaril on Unsplash I'm goin' where the sun keeps shinin' Through the pourin' rain Goin' where the weather suits my clothes -Fred Neil, "Everybody's Talkin'" The weather is proverbially changeable, and in Tha

From The Deeper Love of Go NIGEL: Don't touch it! MARTY: I wasn't going to touch it, I was just pointing at it. NIGEL: Well, don't point, even. -"This is Spinal Tap" We saw in Racing with disaster that when two goroutines go to war, a data race is all tha

Cover by Cady Galleta I'm thrilled to reveal the cover for my new Rust romance novel "Zero Cost to Love", on sale April 1st. She's an internationally famous high-performance computing architect. He's a rumpled, handsome, yet socially awkward basement code

From Master of Your Domain Your ideal form of influence is first to help people see their world more clearly, and then to let them decide what to do next. -Jerry Weinberg, "Secrets of Consulting" Let's suppose you're a self-driving person, and you want to

Illustration by Cady Galleta Esta página tiene enlaces y recursos en español para aprender el lenguaje de programación Rust. Libros El Lenguaje de Programación Rust - por Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols y Chris Krycho, con contribuciones de la comunidad Rust

Illustration by Cady Galleta Software engineers are ingenious people, and we're particularly clever at avoiding real work by fiddling with our tools, trying new tools, bikeshedding other people's tools, and having internet flame wars about whether using t