Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.
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The joke writes itself, at least for Aussies. npub16s49cyez927vm69a3vrfckav2pmulculhrzz95cgl82p8r4hd8eq2mpvtz rob pike 45 years ago today I flew to New Jersey to start my job at Bell Labs Research. npub16s49cyez927vm69a3vrfckav2pmulculhrzz95cgl82p8r4hd8eq2mpvtz rob pike A happy Japanese pun from npub16s49cyez927vm69a3vrfckav2pmulculhrzz95cgl82p8r4hd8eq2mpvtz rob pike A few years ago I wrote a blog about the need to make prints in the digital era: npub16s49cyez927vm69a3vrfckav2pmulculhrzz95cgl82p8r4hd8eq2mpvtz rob pike Here are some historical drawings by @nprofile…gnf0 we coincidentally uncovered today. The original drawing that inspired the version that became Glenda (and was also philw's vismon icon, not that he approved), the drawing that became the Glenda image for Plan 9, and the hamster drawing for WFMU that mutated into the Go Gopher. npub16s49cyez927vm69a3vrfckav2pmulculhrzz95cgl82p8r4hd8eq2mpvtz rob pike Glenda has joined the family. 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We started with a compiler in C for a number of reasons, mostly for ease of bootstrapping but also to avoid making a compiler-optimized language instead of a general purpose one. Once the language was designed, we ported the code to Go for ease of maintenance and development. npub16s49cyez927vm69a3vrfckav2pmulculhrzz95cgl82p8r4hd8eq2mpvtz rob pike @nprofile…36ju Soon cars will not allowed to have transmissions. npub16s49cyez927vm69a3vrfckav2pmulculhrzz95cgl82p8r4hd8eq2mpvtz rob pike The slides from a talk I never managed to turn into a non-slide form. npub16s49cyez927vm69a3vrfckav2pmulculhrzz95cgl82p8r4hd8eq2mpvtz rob pike Seeking a little guidance. I suspect there is absolutely nothing that can be done about it, but it's at least worth asking. Renee French, mother of Gophers, woke up today to discover that, completely without her knowledge or approval, someone is using her art for a memecoin. It's even identifying her by name as the artist, again without her knowledge. 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Also it has not once corrupted my archive after several years of use, a roughly annual occurrence I had with Lightroom. npub16s49cyez927vm69a3vrfckav2pmulculhrzz95cgl82p8r4hd8eq2mpvtz rob pike Correlation is not causation, but it does suggest an excellent place to start looking for the cause. npub16s49cyez927vm69a3vrfckav2pmulculhrzz95cgl82p8r4hd8eq2mpvtz rob pike A numerically interesting year. 2025 is the sum of all cubes 1 through 9. npub16s49cyez927vm69a3vrfckav2pmulculhrzz95cgl82p8r4hd8eq2mpvtz rob pike What are we now, like, 35 years on from the first web browser? 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I understand it might upset some, but I like to think it honors the old service before it became.... something else. npub16s49cyez927vm69a3vrfckav2pmulculhrzz95cgl82p8r4hd8eq2mpvtz rob pike Attention app designers: If I have disabled notifications, my intent is that the set of notifications that are disabled includes notifications that I have disabled notifications every time I interact with your app. Please give it a rest. npub16s49cyez927vm69a3vrfckav2pmulculhrzz95cgl82p8r4hd8eq2mpvtz rob pike USB-C is a fantastic "standard" if you are a cable manufacturer. My latest dance required trying three different cables, all unlabeled with anything other than manufacturer name, before my devices would talk to each other. npub16s49cyez927vm69a3vrfckav2pmulculhrzz95cgl82p8r4hd8eq2mpvtz rob pike You'd think by now they would have identified all the images with motorcycles. 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