Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
I've been doing a lot more programming in Go recently, mostly because it has awesome concurrency primitives but also because it is generally a pretty amazing language. Unlike other languages which have threads, fibres or event-driven frameworks to achieve good concurrency, Go manages to avoid all of these but still remain readable. You can also reason about its behaviour very effectively due to…