We’re embarking on a large expansion of our engineering team at ActiveState and hiring for many positions! Note that all of our engineering positions are totally remote-friendly. You can work from anywhere in North America! The positions on my team are the Data Engineer and Senior Backend Engineer positions. Consider yourself warned. Please note that the various Build Engineer positions are not software development roles! Those roles are primarily focused on getting software to build on various platforms (including Linux, macOS, and Windows).

I just wanted to remind my many, many, many readers (all 3 of you) that I will be offering two tutorials at this year’s Perl Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Also, last time I posted about this I got the dates of the courses swapped because I am very smart. You can sign up for these courses at the conference’s Eventbrite ticketing page. On Thursday, June 20 I’m offering my Introduction to Go course.

The CLDR project released a point update to the CLDR dataset, 35.1.0, a week ago. I regenerated the DateTime::Locale distribution using that source data and none of the data that DateTime::Locale cares about has changed. So if you’re wondering why I haven’t released a new DateTime::Locale now you know why.

Once again I’m doing two tutorials at The Perl Conference this year! On Thursday, June 20 I’ll be offering my Introduction to Moose course. This is likely to be the last time I offer this course so sign up now. If you want learn more about using Moose this is a great opportunity. I’d also note that most of what I cover applies to Moo, so what you’ll learn is useful in many situations.

This is a story of how Go’s package management system and GitHub fought a war, and how the war was lost (by me). Go references packages by a repository name, so if you want to important a package you write something like import "github.com/volatiletech/sqlboiler/queries/qm". It’s simple, right? Yes, it is. When you want to submit a proposed patch to a repo on GitHub, you fork, make a new branch (because you’re not a monster who makes a PR from master), and then you submit a PR.

I’ve been playing the heck out of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead lately. It’s a fun and challenging open source post-apocalyptic roguelike turn-based game. It’s in active development but there aren’t regular releases so you need to track the repo’s HEAD if you want to play the latest version (or a recent version). This has been a pain on Linux, and so I ended up just playing on my Windows machine using the excellent CDDA Game Launcher application.

I have not one, but two, count ’em two, piping hot positions open on the Build Engineering team I manage here at ActiveState! The ActiveState Careers page has two Build Engineer positions open, one for Linux and one for Windows. We’re going to hire two people, but we could hire two of one and not the other. That said, I would really love to bring in some Windows build expertise to this team, so if that’s you please apply today.

A while back I posted about a development position on my team. Now I have a new position open for a Build Engineer. If you take a look at the ActiveState Careers page you’ll see that there are actually two Build Engineer positions open, one for Linux and one for Windows. We’re only going to hire one person but we wanted to be open to people with different skillsets and backgrounds.

I just finished up my trip to the U.S. Go Congress in Williamsburg, VA. This was my first Go Congress and I find the comparison between this event and programming conferences interesting. First of all, the Go Congress has nothing to do with Golang the programming language. This is an event for players of Go, the strategy board game, also known as Baduk (Korean) or Weiqi (Chinese). The Go Congress was intense.

A friend recently commented on a Facebook post asking for some reading recommendations, which I then gave him (boy, did I ever!). But I realized that I don’t want it to just disappear down the Facebook memory hole so I’m reposting it here. Blogs (EA/rationalist/politics/philosophy) Slate Star Codex - EA, rationalist, lots of nerdy philosophy/political stuff. Areo Magazine - Liberal Left but not “Progressive” articles, writing quality varies but mostly good.