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🛡️ Security releasesgolang.org/x/crypto v0.35.0golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.27.0ProposalsAccepted: net/http: support content negotiation🧮 Likely accept: math/stats: new package with Mean, Median, moreConferences🇨🇿 Gophercamp, April 25 @ Brno, Czech RepublicCFP open until ??🇨🇠Go blog: Faster Go maps...

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In this heartfelt episode of 99 Dev Problems, Tessa Kriesel sits down with Alex C. Berk, a seasoned front-end developer at Shipium, to explore his journey through tech, the challenges of scaling systems, and how faith and family shape his career.Alex shares his story of growing from a self-taught coder to a pivotal member of a reunited team of Zulily and Amazon alumni. He dives into his work with modern tools like TypeScript, React, and Node.js, and the collaborative culture at Shipium that fuels innovation in supply chain optimization. From solving complex database scaling issues to building a supportive remote-first environment, Alex offers insights into thriving as a developer in today's dynamic tech landscape.Key themes include:Mentorship and the value of building relationships in tech.Strategies for balancing family life and career in a remote-first world.Tackling large-scale technical challenges with creativity and teamwork.How faith influences decisions and impacts community building.Whether you're navigating your early career or leading teams, Alex's thoughtful reflections provide inspiration for every stage of your journey.Where to Find Alex C. Berk: LinkedIn: Alex C. Berk X: @alexcberkGitHub: alexcberkDon’t miss this engaging conversation packed with practical advice and heartfelt stories from the world of tech!

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You’ve been taught to conference by @tristanlombard.bsky.social and @elchefe.me when half your suit case is a full size skin care and a bottle of rose water. Talk outfit has been approved by the tech besties.
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Most of what we call "tech" is about getting the right information into a database and trying to prevent the wrong person from reading or updating it.
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Every time I’m forced to see Trump’s or Musk’s face I deserve compensation.
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Dream: now that I left Google, no more performance reviews! Reality: writing the CFP submission for “The Go Cryptography State of the Union” every year.
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can't overthink if u don’t think at all
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Jerod and Adam use Chris Kiehl's post on development topics he's changed his mind on (over the last 10 years) as a proxy for discussion on dev things they HAVE and HAVE NOT changed their minds on.
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Sometimes, executive dysfunction/ADHD lies to you about a task that will only take an hour at best to make it seem like a huge, multi hour thing Today, I am finally cleaning/organizing my desk. ADHD was not lying 🥲
Week Notes 25#08 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-02-24?
Folks may be interested to see that I've now got an RSS feed for my salary page, which is also on the Fediverse via @www.jvt.me.salary in case y'all wanna know when there are any updates to it đź‘€
Creating single-purpose RSS feeds with Hugo (2 mins read).

How to create a new RSS feed in Hugo for a single page's updates.
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Ngl I hate that "build this from scratch" is common as part of interviewing. In 5 years of working as a software eng all I ever did was contribute to large codebases and build on top of existing code. Closest to that is prototyping for a tech design but even then you're not building in isolation...
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A reminder for these times.
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I was… probably not gonna last much longer at NPM. I was doing really poorly just trying to do what was apparently needed. I wasn’t on a PIP but I was very close to it. And then I was just… given free rein and that’s when cacache/pacote/NPM5 & 6 happened It was kind of incredible [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Hey did you know that the two most productive people I have ever had on my teams have been people I was told to fire for performance reasons? This is why it’s so important to: 1) hear context from previous managers but not anchor to it 2) give people clear feedback and give them a chance
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To those who are also looking for engineering roles, what websites are you using? I know I've been relying on DiversifyTech, LinkedIn & TechLadies. Any other notable ones I should add to my list?
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For the past year, David Crawshaw has intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming, in order to learn about them. He now regularly use LLMs while working and considers their benefits a net-positive on his productivity. David wrote down his experience, which we found both practical and insightful. Hopefully y...
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Apparently my model of dishwasher goes on strike if you neglect it and refuses to run any cycle but Machine Care until you descale and put salt in it And you know what? I respect that
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Heather Meeker joined the show to talk about open source licensing, why open source licenses are historically significant, how much developers really need to know, and how much developers think they know. We also talk about mixing commercial and open source licenses, and how lawyers keep up with an ever-changing landsc...
Creating a test harness for validating Renovate Custom Datasource configuration (4 mins read).

How to set up a test harness to make it eaiser to modify scary looking JSONata transformations in your Renovate configuration.
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Not since Prohibition have so many Americans wanted to commit the same crime at once
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Jessie Frazelle joins us this week to talk about being an open source maintainer, Docker's pull request acceptance workflow, dotfiles, getting started with public speaking.
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As I sit home with a terrible cold, I can’t help but be pissed that we decided as a society that we’re just cool with getting sick. We applied technology to water-borne and food-borne illness, and you generally don’t get sick that way anymore. But airborne? Nah, let’s keep getting sick.
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I’m really happy to see companies starting to open source more games that they’ve ~sunset. between this and Valve open sourcing the code for TF2… I’m weirdly hopeful [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Yup. Its pretty easy to put dots together when the meeting labels arent hidden for calendars of others
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The hardest part of rewriting the Go map implementation was getting the tables in this blog post to render correctly. [contains quote post or other embedded content]