Ben Johnson

@benbjohnson

Freelance Go developer. Open source, databases, & distributed systems. Author of BoltDB, The Secret Lives of Data, & Go Walkthrough.

Denver, CO
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Joined March 2008
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    19 hours ago

    It is extraordinarily important to stick to communities that accepts "I don't know, we will try to find out." as an answer.

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  2. Aug 27

    Welcome to Denver, GopherCon friends! Please hit me up if you need any help navigating or are looking for recommendations. Happy to help.

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    Aug 21

    IM CRYING LAUGHING

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    Aug 20

    Attention all Gophers! is nearly sold out! SO, registration is officially closing Tuesday, August 21st at 11p EST! If you're dragging you feet, now's the time! No registrations will be accepted after that time and no sales will take place on site!

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    Aug 18
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    i’ve got one even better! my friend wrote . have a 🦄 fly across your screen when the script finishes!

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    Aug 19

    ahhh... when every command which takes longer than 10s results in 15 min of lost productivity. I might just make this a prompt command so the terminal is always focused when it finishes.

    : If you're executing a long running script in on Mac OS X, add "; open -a Terminal" at the end and your Terminal window will refocus when it's done running. Then you can read your Twitter timeline or watch cat videos without forgetting to check back in on your script.
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  7. Aug 18

    : If you're executing a long running script in on Mac OS X, add "; open -a Terminal" at the end and your Terminal window will refocus when it's done running. Then you can read your Twitter timeline or watch cat videos without forgetting to check back in on your script.

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  8. Aug 18

    I'm on Mastodon too. Come say hi! 👋 

    Mastodon has a lot more going on since the last time I was there. It feels like it's hitting an inflection point. Join me?
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  9. Aug 14

    I wish incremental search would die in a fire.

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  10. Aug 14

    I used to work in a room with my boss and I mentioned that she wasn't laughing when she LOL'd in chat. From then on she would look up, stare at me, and loudly say a single "HA" with a deadpan face after every single "LOL".

    downside of open office plan: when someone writes "LOL" to me on slack and I can look over and see them not laughing in real life, my sense of trust in them is eroded
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  11. Jul 26

    I didn’t know Twitter had a brick-and-mortar location.

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    Jul 13

    Hey , if anyone in the Denver/Boulder area is looking for a Sr. SWE role, please let me know!

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    Jul 2

    The signup sheet for the Lightning Talks at this year’s is now open for first come, first serve signups! A GitHub or GitLab login is required (sorry)

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    Jun 28

    Having a fuck-you fund is very important. It will allow you to make calm and well-reasoned decisions about your future, and you will never be held hostage by anyone. It's hard to build one, but if you can put a little bit into it each month, it will give you a lot of power.

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  15. Jun 23

    I just dropped an AirPod ear bud in a bucket of concrete. Will it survive?

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    Jun 21

    Please go developers read this👇🏽

    I wrote up some thoughts on the Go object lifecycle after a Twitter discussion with last month. You wouldn't think I could write 2,000 words on creating objects but, well...here we are.
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  17. Jun 21

    Reading code with "invisibles" turned on makes my OCD go nuts when reading mixed indentation. 😱

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  18. Jun 21

    What kind of monster chooses a tab width of 7? How is this sacrilege allowed!?

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    Jun 20

    A lot of food for thought about instantiation-initialization-initiation of Go objects. Another great write-up by !

    I wrote up some thoughts on the Go object lifecycle after a Twitter discussion with last month. You wouldn't think I could write 2,000 words on creating objects but, well...here we are.
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  20. Jun 20

    Here's a link to the original discussion: Also, a link to the PDF version of the post if that's your jam:

    Replying to @rakyll @juliusvolz
    I've found functional args & option structs to both be problematic/tedious. I know it's not a popular opinion in the Go community but I've found the instantiate/initialize/open flow to be the easiest to work with:
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