Plurrrr

It's just a grid of data, right? Tables show up everywhere in software, and you probably don't think about them much. Yet modern software packs a surprising amount of functionality into them, accumulated over the past half a century.

In this post, we'll take a high altitude pass over that history. In later installments, we'll dive into how today's software handles the complex requirements of modern tables.

Go 1.18 is set to arrive in February 2021, and with it comes the long-awaited addition of generics to the language. It’s been a long process to find something that works with the current Go ecosystem, but a proposal has been accepted that tries to protect the objectives of the language while adding the largest changes to the language in over a decade. Will developers add more complexity and make things less maintainable with generics? Or will this enable new heights and capabilities for gophers everywhere?

If you write software for long enough you begin to develop instincts about the relative difficulty of different problems and some of those solidify into rules of thumb. The following are some of the guidelines that direct my work on a daily basis.

When you’re physically disconnected from your colleagues, you have to build new skills and adapt your tactics. This is advice I wish I’d had seven years ago when I started working remotely.