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Feature(s) You Wish Existed in Language/Framework/Technology You Are Currently Using

What is a feature, or two, that you wish existed in the language/framework/technology you are currently using? Why do you miss it? Does your current language/framework/technology have the feature but it's just implemented differently than you would like?

Inspired by myself and Omar being newbies with Go and trying not to impose our habits from other languages without a good justification. For example, we recently debated if we should use the Testify testing framework instead of Go's built in way to testing.

Everyone and anyone is welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

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Hosting a MySQL DB on hobby‑scale projects: Costs, Quirks, and Work‑arounds

I’ve been experimenting with MySQL on several cloud platforms including Railway, GCP Compute Engine, and other “free‑tier” services. Compared with PostgreSQL, getting a stable, free MySQL deployment has proven trickier (container-related errors, opaque usage‑based billing).

Have you run into the same hurdles? What are your work‑arounds? Any favourite low‑cost hosts? Any billing horror stories? Your tips could help everyone keep projects alive without breaking the bank.

Everyone and anyone is welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

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Technical Debt

For those new to the term, technical debt is similar to financial debt. A project often starts with clean architecture and the best of intentions. Over time, however, questionable decisions creep in, changes get rushed, processes are undermined, and the codebase gradually becomes harder and harder to work with. Eventually, we reach the point of asking whether a complete rewrite is needed—sort of like declaring bankruptcy.

Have you encountered technical debt in your projects? How do you deal with it? How do you prevent (or at least manage) it?

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Zoom link will be posted at 12pm MDT.

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