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Here’s a quick snippet you can use to create a custom type that maps an UUID to a Binary(16) representation in MySQL. I assume this is not present in gofrs/uuid since it’s database specific, but having NullUUID available is an easy ‘inspiration’ opportunity ;). 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 import ( "database/sql/driver" "github....

TLDR: Maybe, but it's still a bit clunky. What are Dev Containers you might ask? Elementary, my dear Watson* / fellow developer. It’s a fancy way of using container images as a full blown development environment. You can read containers.dev for more details, but the key IMHO that is missing on the homepage, is that it can run actual compose.yaml (popularised by docker-compose) as an entry point. You can consider this post a follow up A Go(lang) journey in live reload and pretty panics....

TLDR: Read it, it's good. I never did a book review, but since I wanted to improve my writing skills, there is no better time to start than now. Thanks to a lovely co-worker setting up a book club (Hi Max), my reading of programming books became a bit more structured. This is the second book of the year, the first one being The Staff Engineer’s Path, but I’ll pretend my array’s start at 1....

TLDR: Use docker + cosmtrek/air + panicparse One of my passions is DX, and while I’m not always getting it right, the enjoyment is there to make people’s lives a little bit more productive. Some context Coming from a predominantly PHP background, at least in my bubble, having “pretty” error messages when doing development is pretty much a given. Regardless of the framework you might be using all of them use php....

While I was working on yet another secret project that will probably never see the light of day, I wanted to blog about the experience of bootstrapping the project. As any developer, that means that instead of writing that blog post, I had to dust off my website theme, update hugo, and do other fixes. I’ve settled on PaperMod as the theme, since it’s simple and to the point, and it also changes the style based on the preferred color scheme....

I’ve noticed that a few articles are arguing about how useful standups are or aren’t on a day-by-day basis, making it a white or black decision. But the situation is a bit more complicated than that. To make it clear, I 100% agree that if your standup is a quick recap of Alex is working on feature X and Bob the sailor man is working on feature Y, tasks that are in your task management system then it brings zero value to the table....

When I initially started working with Go the time format it seemed a bit clunky. Maybe it’s because it’s a departure from the normal strftime, but also maybe it’s also because there’s no simple cheatsheet for the various date formatting options like you would see for example in the PHP documentation or in the Python documentation or to use the fancy language of the day, the Rust Chrono crate documentation....