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<Section>What I'm reading</Section>

<Books />

• Mastering Delphi Programming: A Complete Reference Guide: Learn all about building fast, scalable, and high performing applications with Delphi

  Started: July 18, 2023

  In my day job I manage a product that is written in Delphi. So I'm trying to level up my Delphi skills.

• Learning Go Programming

  Started: July 03, 2024

  I've been trying to learn go off and on for awhile. Trying to get a more thorough understanding of it.

• Eleventy by Example: Create powerful, performant websites with a static-first strategy

  Started: May 24, 2023 , Finished: May 26, 2023

  I really liked this book. I knew most of the stuff already, but there were a few things that I learned or was able to understand better by going through someone else's example project. I definitely recommend if you are new to 11ty.

<AroundTheWeb />

• How to preserve the player aspect ratio on a responsive page

  Read: September 20, 2023

  See my post about this one: Learning How to Style Video iframes.

• Golang: Go Routines and WaitGroups

  Read: August 05, 2023

  This was great. Long, but really good. Go routines are a huge part of Go and I'm still trying to wrap my head around how they can be used. This post helped a lot with that and is part of a large series of posts on Go, which I will definitely be checking out.

• Why Delphi and Python are All You Will Ever Need to Succeed

  Read: August 04, 2023

  This was a good read with some history of Delphi that I didn't know before. Mainly I think this points out the need for programmers to be familiar with at least 2 types of languages: one that is statically typed and low level enough to be fast and efficient, the other to be easy and fast to develop with. Your choices could be different.

• Writing a very fast cache service with millions of entries in Go

  Read: August 03, 2023

  I've never had to write a cache service so I found this interesting to think through the requirements and challenges of writing one in Go.

• Go lang Docs

  Read: July 15, 2023

  I haven't learned a new programming language in a while and since I do a lot in JavaScript, I wanted to learn a fast statically typed language for contrast. Rust is the current fad, so I'm avoiding it and decided to go with GO.

<Section>What I'm listening to</Section>

<Podcasts />

• Standard Server JavaScript - Deno, Workers, Bun and More

  Listened to: August 13, 2023

• Syntax: Ryan Florence of Remix

  Listened to: August 11, 2023

• Supper Club × Why Netlify bought Gatsby, GraphQL Data Layer, and Headless CMS with Dustin Schau

  Listened to: July 01, 2023

  Syntax is a great web development podcast. In this episode, Wes and Scott talk with Dustin Schau about Netlify Connect, Gatsby, GraphQL, and more.