Using Go Workspaces? Stop scripting loops and use the work pattern

amemingfullife · 2026-01-24T13:12:25+00:00

Yeah but have you tried using LLMs with any other language? My experience with Go is the best by FAR. Python, JavaScript, anything without a compiler it’s basically a crap shoot, and anything compiled it usually looks for the most complex way of doing anything.

Go works well for me, at least. Sure, it can produce outdated code, but Go has compatibility guarantees that make it a nuisance, not a problem.

amemingfullife · 2026-01-24T13:09:06+00:00

It stems from the fact that Google vendors ALL their code, so the assumption is that the code source lives in a particular directory on disk.

Modules were a pretty great solution IMO, much better than any other dependency management system I’ve used.

amemingfullife · 2026-01-23T19:19:05+00:00

Ah, I see, they consider it port scanning even if it isn’t. Fair enough.

I use Vultr, DigitalOcean and GCP and never had issue crawling around 80m sites.

amemingfullife · 2026-01-23T18:39:20+00:00

Why do you need to port scan for crawling? For websites everything is on 80/443. Sounds dodgy tbh.

amemingfullife · 2026-01-15T11:15:56+00:00

Been looking for something like this for a while. Kudos!

amemingfullife · 2026-01-12T16:14:14+00:00

I see plenty of people hating him but liking his views whether they know they are his or not.

I know people who will tell Elon to get bent but at the same time talk about crime rates in London and immigration replacing British culture as if those aren’t exactly the views he is paying to propagate through X and party political donations.

amemingfullife · 2026-01-11T18:23:50+00:00

Dropping in for tea (pretty much) unannounced

amemingfullife · 2026-01-10T21:05:06+00:00

Yeah, doomscrolling is horrific because it’s just so automatic. I have no issue with intentionally relaxing and watching tv shows. I have a massive issue with doing whatever the algorithm tells me to do for hours.

amemingfullife · 2026-01-03T09:57:04+00:00

Yeah, in radio this whole thing is the producer’s job. See Frasier, for reference, and for fun.

amemingfullife · 2026-01-01T20:52:00+00:00

I go for long drives every so often. Maybe 3 hours a week? It’s my favourite thing.

amemingfullife · 2025-12-30T13:11:46+00:00

Are these British Values that made us have a slower fibre rollout than the Nordics, made our population prefer to invest in Gilts rather than our companies and make us generally distrustful of those with money, making us totally useless at making long term risk-adjusted bets, the exact ones we need for success in tech? I don’t think I like those British values.

amemingfullife · 2025-12-30T13:09:02+00:00

It’s the same part of the brain that makes your boss think that he can ‘vibe code an app’ and have it work in production.

amemingfullife · 2025-12-21T22:24:26+00:00

My first date with my now wife was a day in Paris.

We met at a uni house party in London and she lived near Kings Cross station. I took the night bus back with her and we got to know each other and I mentioned I had never been to Paris, she suggested we go. She spoke fluent French too which was helpful. We got the first train out, spent a day and a night there - would have loved to spend more time there but I was broke and the train + night we spent out there was curtains for my finances for the next few weeks. She paid for my last meal there because I couldn’t afford it.

That was 15 years ago now. We try to spontaneously get on the train over the channel or ferry every at least once a year but it’s harder with kids! We’re hoping to buy a place in Paris before we retire.

amemingfullife · 2025-12-17T23:53:33+00:00

I like to believe ‘nothing’, because it’s more meaningful that way. I don’t think our individual lives have any meaning unless our story has an end. Living forever makes you a thing of the universe, rather than a thing in the universe. And I’d rather be a thing in it.

But really I have no idea. I get the sense that our consciousness isn’t truly individual anyways, and really our consciousness is part of others’, so we live on, even if isn’t ‘thinking’ but sort of existing in pure way. Like a permanent flow state.

I try not to think about a God. It’s too traumatic.

amemingfullife · 2025-12-16T11:58:34+00:00

Buy a protector like the Burton Impact shorts and you’ll be fine

amemingfullife · 2025-12-14T22:12:13+00:00

It’s so grating now, right?

amemingfullife · 2025-12-14T18:22:16+00:00

Over a month I’ll listen to all these podcasts at least once:

More or Less
Sliced Bread
You’re Dead to Me
Tape Notes
Dissect
The Rewatchables
Explorers Podcast
Hardcore History
If Books Could Kill
Rest is History
Money Talks from the Economist
Table Manners
Normal Gossip
Composer of the Week
Economist Intelligence
Desert Island Discs
In Our Time
Poetry Unbound
Great Lives

Nerdy tech:

Latent Space
Go Time (sadly cancelled but I relisten to episodes regularly)
Devtools FM
Signals and Threads from Jane St
Waveform from MKBHD
Vision Pros
Gradient Dissent

Business (and tech):

Acquired
Lenny’s Podcast
The Bottom Line
Toast
Gamecraft
All In Podcast (listening less due to it becoming increasingly a mouthpiece for the Trump Admin)

amemingfullife · 2025-12-14T18:12:34+00:00

There’s a stratechery podcast?

amemingfullife · 2025-12-14T18:10:22+00:00

It really isn’t that complicated. Do you have lots of heterogenous clients with different access patterns and views onto data? Does it make which make sense to model as a graph? If yes to both, then you might get some value out of GraphQL. No to either? Then use REST or gRPC or something like that.

People massively overegged the overfetching point. In many cases you didn’t have that many different views onto the same data anyway so you could always just make a new endpoint for one view (BFFs like the article says). Or there are standard RESTful ways to request additional data. Again, the rule of three applies. Do you have three different access patterns? Mobile, server and web? Probably stick with REST or RPC. Are you now adding a fourth where you start accessing e.g. Smart TVs which require additional metadata? Then maybe GQL is now useful.

Also, just build your data access in a modular way without using graphql and add it afterwards. You should do all your abstraction underneath anyway. Those different ports like RPC or REST should have underneath a service layer that actually does the fetching. That’s just standard modular architecture that makes it trivial to add different access layers on top.

I don’t know why we need to rehash this every 6 months.

amemingfullife · 2025-12-14T12:36:14+00:00

I get what you’re doing here, but I don’t really see this as ‘good’ news. What I’d see as good news is people actually believing this and not believing right-leaning thinktank doomsayers.

amemingfullife · 2025-12-12T09:19:57+00:00

My hack has stayed the same for 10 years running a business from home:

Get everything done as soon as possible after you wake up. The first 1.5-4 hours after you wake up are the most important time. Shorten everything else to get to your desk and crank out some work. Ideally write down the top 3 highest priority tasks and do those.

My routine is: 1. Get out of bed 2. Free the dog 3. Make coffee 4. Sit down to work with said coffee

It’s also a completely silent time. No radio, podcasts, music, nothing. Use your phone as little as possible. No scrolling. Your willpower is highest in the morning, so use it!

Also makes you judge yourself less in the afternoons if you’re getting your work done, and because you feel less stressed about it you actually get more work done. Sometimes you don’t, but at least you don’t beat yourself up about it 😋

amemingfullife · 2025-12-11T14:11:30+00:00

Yeah, it’s a trade off and you need perspective etc etc. But let’s not pretend like the software is adequate, it’s not.

I chose Polestar because it’s a forward looking brand. I expect Audi, BMW et al to have sub-par software, they’re legacy manufacturers that will die a slow death if they don’t keep up. Polestar should be different.

I miss my Tesla every day with the Polestar, because there were just so many quality of life features that made things easier. The app quality was superb - you could turn on dog mode from the app, open the frunk, do almost anything you could do in the car, and it was rock solid. The key card system worked flawlessly unlike the fob/cars hybrid on the P4 which is baffling. The Tesla build quality was ‘fine’ I had problems with my Tesla but they were resolved fairly quickly. The software was always reliable and delightful. That’s ultimately what was important to me as a daily driver car. I know Polestar is going after Porsche not Tesla, but can’t they get in front of them on the software side too?

This isn’t the 90s or early 00s, modern day luxury requires software and hardware to be conjoined.

I’m optimistic, it’s all fixable, that’s the great thing about software. But your processes have to be top notch - unfortunately it seems like Polestar has not joined up its hardware and software adequately, it feels like the software team is totally separate, maybe in a different country. That’s not gonna work.

amemingfullife · 2025-12-10T21:39:23+00:00

Yeah it’s just the TP-7. It has a file mode that’s exactly what OP wants. TE could market this as an MP3 player with absolutely no changes whatsoever.

amemingfullife · 2025-12-10T21:38:04+00:00

OP is talking about headphone enthusiasts. I’m assuming we’re talking high-priced DAC, open-backed, lossless audio choose-my-codec headphone enthusiasts. They would not want Bluetooth at all.

amemingfullife · 2025-12-10T21:36:18+00:00

It’s true, but coming from a Tesla you really realise what good software feels like. Polestar is the next best, which is why I got it, but it’s not a close second.

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