Go has a problem. Go modules place a strange naming requirement on modules version 2 or greater. Module names on modules v2+ must end in the major version ala …/v2, and communication of this rule has been weak. It's non-obvious, and the community at large does not understand it.
I have seen many ve…
CoffeeScript is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. Its mission is to "expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way". I've heard a lot of interest in it lately from various channels.
After a coworkers departure, I inherited maintenance on our deployment bot, and it was writ…
In my professional work, we have a system that utilizes __call and __callStatic for caching of certain method calls. We have been running into a problem where calling an undefined method via :: within the class itself will trigger __call rather than the expected __callStatic.
The Problem
The follo…
Working on a class in our application, I discovered that it was being included before a number of constants it used for its members were even defined. Puzzled on how this had never been a problem I started to experiment; echoing the member at the bottom of the class file after the class closed show…
