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Mat Ryer Profile picture
@matryer
Apr 30, 2020 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 2 min read β€’ Read on X
This is the best PR I've ever opened. Someone has a PDF of my book in their GitHub repo. Image
UPDATE: the PR got merged πŸ˜‚πŸ₯³

To celebrate I am going to BUY five copies of my own book (Go Programming Blueprints: Second Edition) for anyone who wants, it but can’t get it themselves.

Reply if interested and I’ll abuse a Go map to randomly pick five winners. Image
@goinggodotnet @ellenkorbes remember when we did this to pick lightning speakers? πŸ˜‚
I’ll do the draw on Friday. 🎲

Please RT and share, I want to make sure as many underrepresented people are included as possible.

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Mat Ryer Profile picture
Oct 4, 2021
How I write HTTP services in #golang has changed over the years... here's my current style.

(Please consider sharing this with somebody you know who's learning Go.)

It's a yarn... 🧢

1/13
I make a server type that holds the dependencies.

2/13
all routing goes in routes.go (makes it easy to find stuff, given a URL)

3/13
Read 13 tweets
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Oct 5, 2020
I agree with @ScribblingOn

It's time to get rid of estimates in software engineering. They don't work, do more harm than good, and drive people to act in dishonest ways.

Buckle up people, it's a thread.
"How long is this going to take?" feels like a completely reasonable question, but how come "I don't know" isn't a
reasonable answer?

"We just need a ballpark figure, you won't be held to it," they lie.

Well how come we just had to work the weekend?
Estimates are an effort to try and predict _when_ something is going to be ready. This is necessary so the rest of the business (sales, other dev teams, cult leaders, etc.) can line up and coordinate their efforts.

The reason for estimates is entirely respectable.
Read 19 tweets
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Sep 15, 2020
I always call into a run function from main in #golang passing in any system dependencies as arguments.

If I am going to parse flags, use arguments, and write to stdout, my run func looks like this:

func run(args []string, stdout io.Writer) error

pace.dev/blog/2020/02/1…

1/6
This means I can write normal Go tests that can call the run function, and there's no global state to mess around with.

func Test(t *testing.T) {
args := []string{"tool", "--debug=true", "./testdata"}
var stdout bytes.Buffer
err := run(args, stdout)
//...

2/6
This is nice because I can use any `io.Writer` as the `stdout`. In my tests, I use bytes.Buffer - which allows me to capture (and make assertions about) what the tool outputs.

I can also play around with any flags or arguments without having to do anything weird :)

3/6
Read 6 tweets
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Sep 13, 2020
A bit more context on how we organise our #golang services at Pace.
Oto has a very simple definition format:

type Service interface {
Method(Request) Response
}

Which turns into:

func (s *Service) Method(context.Context, Request) (*Response, error) {
// todo: implementation
}
The pointer return is simply because I like returning nil in the error case:

return nil, errors.New("not today mate")
Read 8 tweets
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Mar 20, 2020
#golang tip

You can use documented consts for simple values (like bools) to make code much easier to read and understand AT A GLANCE.

I wouldn't do this _all_ the time, but when I notice code is tricky to read, I do it.

Example follows... 1/4
Consider this:

Greet("Mat", true)

I'd have to look up the method signature to figure out what that 'true' was for.

2/4
If we had these consts:

const (
// AnimationOn will greet with a flourish.
AnimationOn = true

// AnimationOff will greet without animations.
AnimationOff = false
)

Glanceability goes up:

Greet("Mat", AnimationOn)

3/4
Read 5 tweets

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