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https://charlesharri.es/stream/ai-lowers-the-effort-barrier · 31 Jan 2026

What is the value of AI, to me? I am posting this on a Saturday night to keep me off Bluesky where I've been doomscrolling all week.

Rewriting git-pkgs in Go

https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/24/rewriting-git-pkgs-in-go.html · 24 Jan 2026

The dependency history tool is now a single Go binary.

package-managers git tools git-pkgs go

Your Go tests probably don't need a mocking library

https://rednafi.com/go/mocking-libraries-bleh/ · 23 Jan 2026

Practical patterns for mocking in Go without external libraries. Learn to mock functions, methods, interfaces, HTTP calls, and time using only the standard library

go testing api

This blog is on ATProto

https://octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-01-05-this-blog-is-on-atproto.html · 5 Jan 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky

5 January 2026 This blog and its posts are now on ATProto, the data backend that powers Bluesky. To what end, I couldn't say just yet. I'm just playing around. This didn't involve any changes whatsoever to the website that you're looking at[1]. It just m...

atproto go

Cursed Bundler: Using go get to install Ruby Gems

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/25/cursed-bundler-using-go-get-to-install-ruby-gems.html · 25 Dec 2025

Go's module system accidentally created a universal, content-addressed, transparency-logged package CDN. You could abuse this for any language.

package-managers go ruby idea

Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.html · 24 Dec 2025

Git repositories seem like an elegant solution for package registry data. Pull requests for governance, version history for free, distributed by design. But as registries grow, the cracks appear.

package-managers git rust go deep-dive

Tap compare testing for service migration

https://rednafi.com/system/tap-compare-testing/ · 13 Dec 2025

Master shadow testing for large-scale system migrations. Learn to safely rewrite services by comparing outputs between old and new implementations.

distributed systems go testing

Splintered failure modes in Go

https://rednafi.com/go/splintered-failure-modes/ · 30 Nov 2025

Simplify Go error handling by consolidating validation and system errors. Learn when to return boolean vs error for clearer failure modes.

go error handling

Re-exec testing Go subprocesses

https://rednafi.com/go/test-subprocesses/ · 16 Nov 2025

Test Go subprocesses with the re-exec pattern: spawn your test binary as a subprocess to emulate real command behavior reliably.

go testing

Revisiting interface segregation in Go

https://rednafi.com/go/interface-segregation/ · 1 Nov 2025

Apply SOLID's Interface Segregation Principle in Go with consumer-defined contracts. Learn why small interfaces and implicit implementation matter.

go api testing