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fteemon Why Elixir? Common misconceptions

I am now super curious which big tech company is betting on Elixir?

fteemon We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails

Preach. I found the whole "just use stdlib" culture in Go so annoying. I love the language (both Go and Ruby actually), but Go's ecosystem and tooling is eons behind.

Maybe I am comparing apples and oranges, not sure.

fteemon Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance

Good.

fteemon Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code

Not bad - horrible.

fteemon Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

https://ieftimov.com

Started it back at the end of 2014. I have been maintaining a twice-a-month publishing schedule (roughly) for the past two years.

In the past year and a bit I've been focused on writing about backend topics from a Go angle. Usually the posts are +3K words, with relevant code examples, explaining a deep technical topic. I always try to I take the reader from first principles and build the knowledge up from there.

Here are a few popular ones:

* 14 articles (and counting) on Testing in Go: https://ieftimov.com/categories/testing-in-go

* Understanding bytes in Go by building a TCP protocol: https://ieftimov.com/post/understanding-bytes-golang-build-t...

* Make resilient Go net/http servers using timeouts, deadlines and context cancellation: https://ieftimov.com/post/make-resilient-golang-net-http-ser...

* Golang Datastructures: Trees: https://ieftimov.com/post/golang-datastructures-trees/

fteemon You can't just rename your IT Ops team and call it DevOps

Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIivdWyY5sqJrKl7D2u-g...

fteemon Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?

By "the appropriate comment" you mean, and I quote:

"// what the fuck? "

fteemon The Cloud

There was never a better time in the history of the internet where "all the IT knowledge" was more available and easy to get.

And the sysadmins are doing pretty well I am sure, they'll pitch in here once they find their way out of Terraform's documentation.

fteemon Go += Package Versioning

Bundler has been out since 2008. Just saying.

fteemon Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Show HN? Other platforms to showcase

Any tips on starting a newsletter? Or resources on landing pages, the newsletter design or mailing platform? Or anything you wished you knew before you started? :)

fteemon Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Show HN? Other platforms to showcase

Kudos on Opps Daily, big fan here, it's great!

fteemon Hammerspoon – Powerful automation of OS X with Lua

Exactly my thoughts.

fteemon Ask HN: What new or hot technology do you recommend learning?

React.js http://facebook.github.io/react/

fteemon Inexperienced doesn't mean stupid

> I don't get this. At all. The guy is in Macedonia, which might be his core problem. switching to the bay area, the situation is vastly different.

Switching to the bay area is NOT an easy thing to do for someone that is not from the USA. There are a lot of open positions across Europe as well, but, most of the countries have really tight immigration rules (visas, work permits, etc). To move from a third world country to an advanced country (USA, Germany, UK, whatever) you have to be exceptionally good. Not Average Joe.

fteemon Ask HN: What will be a good naming strategy for a Server

Planet names (Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn , etc etc) or Chemical elements name (Sulfur, Sodium, etc etc)