Static sites are great. They’re fast, secure, easy to deploy, and scale better than just about anything else. What they don’t do well, though, is anything dynamic that requires a web service. The most ubiquitous example of this is the contact form.
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A recent article titled “Why Developers are Quietly Quitting Golang” has been making the rounds. It highlights a Medium post where a startup founder describes choosing Go (Golang) for their company as “the biggest mistake of [their] life.” That’s a heavy statement. It’s understandably attention-grabbing, and borderline clickbait, but also one that deserves a more careful unpacking.
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After a long week of meetings and shifting priorities, I needed a win—a small, well-scoped feature I could design, implement, and deploy. I chose to focus on the /v1/content/{contentID}/like endpoint from dittos.io, a social collaboration platform I’ve been steadily modernizing over the past year.