Since I was a kid, I’ve loved aviation. Being poor and all, I could never dream of pursuing it in real life, so flightsimming has been my “cheap” fix for many years. I put cheap in quotes because this is an expensive hobby, even if you don’t overdo it. Although I spend quite a lot […]

I’ve had a soft spot for mechanical keyboards for a long time. It’s a cliché, I know. I’m not a fan of loud mechanical keyboards, mind you. I’ve had my hands on Cherry MX Blues and found them to be so loud as to be a distraction during calls. And I found the Cherry MX […]

I just checked and it’s been exactly 1,594 days since I posted my last post in this blog. That’s 4 years, 4 months, and 12 days. This was, as is often the case with these, not planned. When I last wrote something here, I was working in a team set up as an R&D lab. […]

I’ve finished the game last night. I haven’t stopped thinking about it ever since. It was, to be very honest, a transformative experience, as far as videogames go. I understand why some people hate it and I’m sorry because I understand how much it sucks when you want to enjoy something but can’t. Art is […]

I’m a big fan of the way Go does zero values, meaning it initializes every variable to a default value. This is in contrast with the way other languages such as, say, C behave. For instance, the printed result of the following C program is unpredictable. #include int main(void) { int i; printf("%d ", i); […]

(This article has been graciously translated to Russian here. Huge thanks to Akhmad Karimov.) I wrote a brief introduction to Go modules and in it I talked briefly about Go modules proxies and now that Go 1.11 is out, I thought I’d play a bit these proxies to figure our how they’re supposed to work. […]

This post is also available in other languages: Russian: Введение в модули Go Uzbek: Go modullariga kirish The upcoming version 1.11 of the Go programming language will bring experimental support for modules, a new dependency management system for Go. A few days ago, I wrote a quick post about it. Since that post went live, things […]

Update: the licence plate application has since been refused. The reason given is that they don’t allow offensive messages. All I can think of is that they misread it as being “GOP HER,” which doesn’t mean anything but they may have assumed it was some code, new slang or something. I live in Quebec and […]

Update: much of this article has been rendered obsolete by changes made to Go modules since. Check this more recent post that’s up to date. Had some free time in my hands, so I decided to check out the new Go modules. For those unaware, the next Go release (1.11) will include a new functionality […]

So we created a concurrency-safe LRU in the last post, but it was too slow when used concurrently because of all the locking. Reducing the amount of time spent waiting on locks is actually not trivial, but not undoable. You can use things like the sync/atomic package to cleverly change pointers back and forth with […]