Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying to look at the back of your own head, but there's a knack to it.

The secret of being a great coder is to write terrible code. Wait, wait. Hear me out: I’m going somewhere with this.

Thou shalt not suffer a flaky test to live, because it’s annoying, counterproductive, and dangerous: one day it might fail for real, and you won’t notice. Here’s what to do.

Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when it’s time, it’s time. Here’s how to escape the comfort trap, and take the next step in your career.

How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is easy: you use them! Let’s build a simple Rust CLI tool using what I call the “magic function” approach.

What are the best Go books this year? Read my (relatively) unbiased recommendations for the Go books you should absolutely buy and read right now, whether you’re a beginner or expert Gopher.

Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency?

You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special cushion. But you can start to gently train your brain to stop craving distraction and overstimulation. In this excerpt from Monk Mode , we'll see how.

Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests too optimistic (assuming the code already works), or too persnickety (testing the irrelevant)?

Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages make perfect partners.

Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a powerful way to build polymorphic types and functions constrained by type sets . Let’s geek out.