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Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
Humans aren't great at multitasking. You can focus on just about one thing at a time. This doesn't mean that you can only do one thing at a time, because not all things you do require your full attention. For example, try walking around, but before taking each step, really …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
Over the past couple of years, I've half-heartedly tried to keep up with the bar I set for open source contributions back when I was in university. It has not been easy, and ultimately I haven't been able to align my current projects with where I'm taking my career. I's …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
The world of cybersecurity is full of perils. Many of those perils stem from misconceptions about the nature of cybersecurity. If you come to the insight that perfect security is unachievable, you may reach the conclusion that being concerned with cybersecurity at all is a waste of your time. After …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
If you've only dabbled briefly in Go, you might think that its nil is
analogous to the good ol' "billion dollar mistake"
known as null. I thought so, too, up until just a few weeks ago when I
decided to make a pass through Thorsten Ball's neat little book
Writing …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Reviews
I love programming languages, both using them and implementing them. As such, I found the concept of learning Go by creating a programming language to be just delightful. And, to put it briefly, it was. Let's talk about Thorsten Ball's book on interpreters. In Go.
Writing an Interpreter in Go …