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clraon Golang: Don't be afraid of makefiles

Quite a few current Go programmers will have something set other than `~/go` because that default only came in very recently, but you'll probably find that almost everyone uses `~/go` or `$GOPATH`.

One thing that you learn quickly when starting Go is that fighting the language's idioms (even where they're questionable) isn't going to be a good time.

clraon Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

I also deploy to S3 largely for operational reasons — it costs nothing unless it's getting pretty significant traffic, and it easily scales up to handle ~infinite volume in case I'm not (unlike say running on Digital Ocean or something).

Another very nice piece of the puzzle is TLS certificate management using Amazon's ACM. It's no cheaper than Let's Encrypt, but it's a lot more convenient. You put it in place once, and you never have to touch it again — Amazon's engineers will deal with hiccups and bugs instead of you. It's no more convenient than CloudFlare, but I like to minimize the number of services my dependency graph.

clraon Equifax Lobbied to Kill Rule Protecting Victims of Data Breaches

I also find it pretty hard to believe that a company like Equifax didn't just have everything hooked up to one big database, but I still don't think it's likely the breach is going to take the whole company down.

Most people aren't going to be tuned into the leak the same way that we are on HN, they've still got their special place in a government-sponsored near-monopoly, and big companies have the resources to deflect blame and hunker down to weather the storm.

Remember the Deepwater Horizon spill and how angry people were at the time? These days, a large majority probably don't remember the details or even the name of the bigco responsible.

clraon Ask HN: How do you manage your notes?

This may be oversimplistic for many people's use cases, but personally I write my notes in Markdown and store them all as plain text in a Dropbox folder. I search them the same way I search code with The Silver Searcher (`ag`) [1].

It works well for me and I don't run into any problems with being locked into software that's either not interoperable with anything else, or which is no longer maintained a few years from now.

[1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher