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My name is Kazuyoshi Kato. I'm a software developer in Seattle. I have blogs, some notes and even Now page. I may need to clean up them a bit.

Projects

Random Maze Generator

A simple client-side maze generator for kids.

No web3

I'm still skeptical about blockchain. Blockchain has been a solution looking for a problem and "building the next web" wouldn't be the problem it could solve.

Please read Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy (I signed) and/or watch Line Goes Up if you haven't.

From the internet

Inspired by Foundations of a Tiny Directory, I'm collecting the good parts of the internet.

Software development

• Simple, correct, fast: in that order - It is really hard to do that though
• Computers can be understood
• TestDouble - Dummy objects, fake objects, stubs, spies and mocks.
• Error Handling in Node.js - Operational errors vs. programmer errors.
• Python Packaging Is Good Now

Go

• Effective Go
• Practical Go (2019)
• Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful (2018) - Mostly addressed by context and errgroup today though. See this issue as well.

Unix

• Bash Strict Mode
• The Tragedy of systemd
• Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD - Especially Why should I care what color the bikeshed is? and How many FreeBSD hackers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Team

• On Code Review - Code review should probably always be your top priority
• World Time Buddy - Seattle, New York and Tokyo

Communication patterns

It is valuable to understand the patterns. Sending these links to individuals seems like a trolling though.

• Recurse Center's social rules
• no hello
• Don't ask to ask, just ask
• The XY Problem

Open Source

• The Developer Certificate of Origin is a great alternative to a CLA

Internationalization

• Your Code Displays Japanese Wrong - About Unicode's Han Unification
• What Is Mojibake? - Not that relevant in this Unicode era though.

Laws

• Betteridge's law of headlines - Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
• Cunningham's Law - The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
• Godwin's law - As an online discussion grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the probability of a comparison to Nazis or Adolf Hitler approaches 1.
• Postel's law - Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept.

Web

• A Complete Guide to Flexbox
• A Quite Biased History of HTML5

Podcasts

• Planet Money - About economics.
• CoRecursive - Good well-edited tech interviews.
• Your Undivided Attention

Food

• The Ultimate V60 Technique

Coloring pages / Worksheets

• パウパトロールとおうちで学ぼう

xkcd

• Duty Calls
• Standards
• Perl Problems
• Dependency
• Backpack Decisions - aka bikeshedding.

Minimalism

I'm not a minimalist, but I'd like to be.

• The Distraction-Free iPhone
• Matt D'Avella

Personal Computing

• Hundred Rabbits - They are living in a sailboat and making own personal computing stack.
• Ink & Switch

Devs who draw

• Ivan Velichko - Containers and Kubernetes
• Julia Evans / wizard zines
• Lin Clark

People

• Adrian Colyer - the morning paper
• Baku Hashimoto
• Bryan Cantrill
• 小関悠 [ja]
• 山形浩生 / 山形浩生の「経済のトリセツ」 [ja]

People I know

People I know, but including people I saw in Amazon's big meetings.

• Marc Brooker - One of few AWS super senior engineers who blog regularly.
• Colm MacCárthaigh - Another super senior engineer, not regularly updated though.
• Samuel Karp - Sam was the face of AWS containers in the open-source world. He works for Google now but I still can work with him because of open-source!
• cho45 [ja]
• karino2 [ja]
• Hajime Morrita / steps to phantasien / Morrita Notes [ja]
• Jun Mukai [ja] - Hajime and Jun are hosting a paper-reading podcast, Misreading Chat.