I’m a Principal Engineer at GitHub based in Boston building Ruby, Go, and React apps at scale. I care deeply about simplicity, multiplying the impact of others, and building the right thing.
This weekend I’ve been updating my dotfiles and noticed that my Code
and go
directories in my home directory were missing icons. This isn’t a huge deal but I enjoy consistency and nice designs so I thought I’d spend 10 minutes and see if I could find some nice icons for them.
For a while I’ve had this idea of a custom browser handler in macOS that would
have configurable rules for determining which browser a URL should open. I
finally got around to building it which led to a lot of learning of what to-do
and what not to-do when it comes to Cocoa apps and Go interop. If that sounds
interesting you can find the code on GitHub, otherwise this post
goes over how the core functionality of the application, macOS http
/https
URL scheme handling was written.
I believe most developers know that code style matters. It helps the code base feel clean and consistent. I’ve worked on a number of projects where teams are working without a style guide due to all of the style debt that’s been accrued. Thanks to Pronto, style guides can be adopted without forcing you to pay off that debt immediately.