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Go's reflect.TypeFor() is a generic function that returns the reflect.Type for its type argument. It was added in Go 1.22, and its initial implementation was quite simple but still valuable, because it encapsulated a complicated bit of reflect usage. Here is that implementation: func TypeFor[T any]() Type { return T...

Every so often someone needs to create a more or less permanent internal identifier in their system every person's account. Some of the time they look at how authentication systems like OIDC return email addresses among other data and decide that since pretty much everyone is giving them an email address, they'll us...

I recently read Reminiscing CGI scripts (via), which talked about CGI scripts and in passing mentioned that they fell out of favour for, well, let me quote: CGI scripts have fallen out of favor primarily due to concerns related to performance and security. [...] This is in one sense true. Back in the era when CGIs w...