Mihalis Tsoukalos

Excited to announce the release of "Mastering Go, 4th edition"! Dive deep into #GoLang with this comprehensive guide, packed with advanced techniques, best practices, and real-world examples. Get your copy at amazon.com/Mastering-expe… @PacktPublishing @PacktAuthors

@valyala @inerati Too many features is the #1 reason good software turns mediocre. Companies chase wow checkboxes while most of the users just want the core thing done fast and reliably. Learn from UNIX command line tools.

@inerati Because product owners prefer adding a ton of half-baked features instead of improving the usability of the core functionality for the software they develop.

why is all software so horrifically bad

@pilatesgirly Exactly! “The Purpose of Knowledge is Action, not Knowledge” ––Aristotle

ambition without action is just anxiety

Build UNIX classics (wc, tree, dd, etc.), master concurrency, File I/O, build your own interpreter, dive into time series and @TigerBeetleDB, end with a file indexer project. Interested in Practical Systems Programming in Go book? More at mtsoukalos.eu/2026/03/practi… @PacktPublishing

@khaaleel0001 @golang @PacktDataML @PacktPublishing Thank you for your kind words!

@mactsouk @golang @PacktDataML @PacktPublishing Thank you for continuing to push high quality, deepdive Go content. The community is lucky to have you.

Excited to announce my new book: Practical Systems Programming in Go! Find out more at amazon.com/Practical-Syst… and at packtpub.com/en-us/product/… @golang @PacktDataML @PacktPublishing #golang

My latest blog post is about using SIMD in @ziglang! Find out more at mtsoukalos.eu/2026/03/simd-v…. #ZigLang #SIMD #programming

@RickRubin Never thought of that! Good advice!

@sivers I heard another phrase lately "I am not aiming for perfection – I want to make small improvements". This is not a wrong way of working but when I hear that, I understand that they do not want to work hard.

“Purpose” and “passion” are words we use when we’re not working.

A portrait: #streetphotography #Athens #sonya

Ermou street: #streetphotography #Athens #sonya

Earlier today: #streetphotography #Athens #sonya

“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.” ––Carl Jung

@inancgumus Like pointing to an existing GitHub repository?

@mactsouk For ease of debugging, it also helps to tell AI to follow existing codebase conventions and abstractions if any.

AI is good at scaffolding working code that barely works in production at scale unless you know what you're doing.

@avstorm Interactive learning can be one of the best uses of AI.

Interactive learning now in ChatGPT

@ScholarshipfPhd Sometimes I have the feeling that they also skip the "Start new project" phase 😀 I have been there, thinking that the idea is all that matters!

its just me or anyone else do this.?

@SpringerMath Whatever works I guess - personally, I prefer coffee ☕️

Coffee while proving theorems ☕ or tea?

@EssentialMastry "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!"

deep

Excited to share my latest blog post: Compile-Time OS Detection in @ziglang! Find out how at mtsoukalos.eu/2026/03/linux-… #ZigLang #Programming

Not a bad advice: "The whole game for me is to make things as simple as possible, as easy as possible." ––@jasonfried