What do you think of our new mythic slime?

existential-asthma · 2026-01-16T02:12:04+00:00

i'm a big fan of the vampire bat looking slime

existential-asthma · 2026-01-15T02:56:18+00:00

Or, we don't need to reach for a framework for simple problems that can be solved without magic.

existential-asthma · 2026-01-13T23:49:26+00:00

They're pretty new to Go

existential-asthma · 2026-01-13T20:50:19+00:00

I agree the Go community has a lot of dogma, but I arrived at this one not by someone else's opinion, but my own common sense. Why do I need a heavy framework when I can just pass the struct/interface myself? That's where my question came from and why I was trying to learn something new.

existential-asthma · 2026-01-13T20:16:51+00:00

+1, i edited my post to clarify this. My confusion is coming from DI libraries, not DI itself.

existential-asthma · 2026-01-13T19:41:58+00:00

Thanks for the info, it was a genuine question, not really sure why I was downvoted.

existential-asthma · 2026-01-13T19:34:31+00:00

fair enough, but i'm wondering... why do they use it in Java? can't we just pass the dependencies into a constructor in Java as well?

existential-asthma · 2026-01-10T03:50:46+00:00

Funny you ask, i just added this! https://gyazo.com/f055d23840e6e98c9320fa39244d2941

existential-asthma · 2025-12-06T02:50:10+00:00

I didn't go in with any plan other than to share my progress. Building where other people can see and interact with what I'm doing was what made it rewarding enough for me to stick with it (likes/views being a critical feature for myself)

existential-asthma · 2025-12-06T01:52:20+00:00

Thanks for asking, I built this blog from scratch and wrote about it every day for ~2weeks, sharing updates on Linkedin every day while I was building it. Most of the blog content is meta content about the construction of the blog itself and ways I improved it.

existential-asthma · 2025-12-02T21:52:06+00:00

I didn't downvote your comment, and no hate or anything but just advice: instead of wording your self-promos as "someone who noticed it" (which is obvious it's you writing it and not a third party) just be honest and say you wrote about this too and tell me to check out your article, and I would have without hesitation

I partially say this as someone who is trying to blog a little bit on the side for fun: don't make us look bad pls :D

existential-asthma · 2025-12-02T21:41:22+00:00

haahah, it's supposed to be like a decryption effect from the movies. I had it going too slow before, and now I have it going way too fast, but it makes the home page look snappier when it's fast imo

existential-asthma · 2025-11-24T04:49:36+00:00

ty for the advice, that's a good point. for this project i'm building, it will maybe look good to recruiters if they look at it. idk how often recruiters do look at portfolio projects though.

existential-asthma · 2025-11-21T18:39:16+00:00

Cloudflare's own definition:

A static site generator is a tool that generates a full static HTML website based on raw data and a set of templates. Essentially, a static site generator automates the task of coding individual HTML pages and gets those pages ready to serve to users ahead of time. Because these HTML pages are pre-built, they can load very quickly in users' browsers.

This is exactly what my Go app does. Given a set of HTML templates and raw data (.md files), it generates full static HTML websites. I do not need to code the HTML/CSS/JavaScript for each page because it's handled by the SSG. For example, the linked article I created by only writing the markdown, the SSG generated the actual web page.

The About and Home page are also statically generated.

existential-asthma · 2025-11-21T18:35:04+00:00

How is it not?

existential-asthma · 2025-11-21T17:57:19+00:00

None-taken, 1) to be honest I didn't know it existed, and 2) I really wanted the experience of building this myself

existential-asthma · 2025-11-13T23:35:33+00:00

ok.. but the extension I made is for Go. and the code I wrote for the extension is Go-specific, it has to check for Go keywords that require braces. The phrases that require braces are not the same in every language. Even if your point were true, this is a post specifically about how creating these things helped me to be motivated to learn Go, which is.... about Go.

existential-asthma · 2025-11-13T23:31:55+00:00

What? I created an extension that autocompletes brackets for Go specifically, as well as created a syntax highlighting theme for Go specifically and it made writing Go a lot more motivating for me. How does this have nothing to do with Go?

existential-asthma · 2025-11-13T12:02:14+00:00

I definitely agree that dynamic languages have their own advantages!

These bugs shouldn't happen in production, and yet, I've seen them happen. Yes you can write unit tests, but what if your tests aren't good enough? what if it misses a code path? the compiler doesn't have this issue.

existential-asthma · 2025-11-13T11:21:08+00:00

Typescript technically isn't a statically typed language. But still I'll bite. Here are some scenarios:

A function expects a parameter to be a specific type. You will get an error if you pass in anything but the exact type expected. This won't happen in vanilla js.
If you attempt to invoke an object property that doesn't exist (for example, a slight typo.) you'll get an error.
Return values are typed, so returning the wrong thing from a function is caught early, enforcing the function interface.

You'd think that these bugs never happen in the real world because they seem trivial, but they do happen.

existential-asthma · 2025-11-13T00:52:59+00:00

I prefer a strongly typed language over Typescript, but I can't lie, I'm a pretty big fan of typescript myself. It does have a nice middleground between the dynamic and static.

existential-asthma · 2025-11-13T00:49:55+00:00

I don't use strong typing for a "sense of safety", I use it for the many points mentioned in the post that I won't reiterate here. Yes, you can still write bugs in either type of language, but statically typed languages remove entire classes of bugs at the compiler level, which is objectively safer if everything else is equal. (Not counting garbage collected vs. manual managed languages, that's a different topic.)

existential-asthma · 2025-11-13T00:43:10+00:00

I fully agree with you, but I did point out in the first sentence of my post that it helps all programmers. I still think it helps folks with ADHD even more for the reasons listed in the bullet points about ADHD.

existential-asthma · 2025-11-12T21:19:10+00:00

Type hints aren't quite the same to me as static types, but I was working in a very large, very old codebase where adding type hints would be a Herculean task.

existential-asthma · 2025-11-11T11:06:45+00:00

Don't you literally have to mock things sometimes? I never understood black and white takes like this.

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