Eduardo Piorini

Developer and Computer Engineer in Italy. Father of a beautiful baby girl

[Lyes @Chikor_Zi]

Go's most underrated superpower is its parser packages: go/parser, go/token, and go/ast.

It's actually crazy how under-used and under-discussed these packages are.

Basically, your Go code is tokenized and parsed by the compiler to generate something called an abstract syntax tree (AST), so that it can compile into IR which is then translated into machine code.

The go/parser package parses Go code and allows you to correctly identify everything about a Go file: imports, comments, functions, types, variables, and more.

The beauty of this is that it allows for incredible boilerplate automation since you literally have the language's parser built in!

For example, you can generate DTO structs from models with JSON tags. If you tried to do this manually using only if statements and loops, your code would be full of bugs, and a robust implementation would require building an actual Go code parser. Fortunately, in Go, you can use the standard library to parse Go files, extract all types, and generate the DTOs

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

BRAZIL SHOULD TERRIFY YOU

Just a day and a half ago, it seemed like things were calming in Brazil. The Folha de São Paulo, the New York Times of Brazil, editorialized against censorship. The head of the Brazilian Bar Association gave a strong statement in support of freedom of expression. And the President of Brazil’s Supreme Court said the conflict between Brazil and X, formerly known as Twitter, was over. “People talk a big game but don’t act on their words,” he said

All of that has once again changed. Yesterday, Brazil’s President Lula called for criminalizing lying. Given that everybody lies, Lula is proposing to give the government the power to arrest anyone he wants. Thousands of Workers Party activists took to X yesterday to demand that I be arrested for things I said during my testimony before the Brazilian Senate. And today, the head of X in Brazil announced they have quit out fear for their safety.

I am not afraid for myself. As I said on X a few days ago, I fear neither the devil nor de Moraes, the Supreme Court justice rapidly turning himself into Brazil’s dictator. I am taking all necessary precautions to ensure that I can leave Brazil safely and without being arrested. You can help by sharing this video and spreading the word about what is happening here.

And yet, what is happening in Brazil terrifies me nonetheless. I love this country and its people and fear that it is on the cusp of totalitarianism. A significant share of the Left wants to incarcerate their political enemies. Respected Brazilian journalists say with a straight face that the government must engage in mass censorship in order to protect democracy. Brazil is everything that George Orwell feared and worse. The Brazilian government appears to view “1984” not as a dystopia to avoid but rather as a guide to a better future.

I would be less worried if Brazil were small and irrelevant, but it’s not. Brazil is the largest and most important nation in Latin America. Just this week, top Brazilian government representatives were in China talking about how China, one of the most totalitarian nations in the world, is a model for Brazil. Brazil is an inspiration for European totalitarians who have weaponized government intelligence agencies to spread disinformation about their political enemies and are implementing a censorship system to control the entire Internet.

The most terrifying part of all of this is the marriage of psychopathic government leaders like Lula and de Moraes with totalitarian activists and voters. Governments have successfully brainwashed a significant percentage of the population into supporting mass censorship. Young adults raised on social media are today more intolerant than the students in China’s Cultural Revolution in China who denounced their teachers and sent them off to work camps to be tortured.

At the same time, people with a mentality no different from the people who ran the Stasi and the Gestapo are in charge of intelligence agencies in Europe and the United States.

Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives renewed legislation that gives the US government the right to spy on Americans suspected of collaborating with foreign governments. The result will be McCarthyism on steroids. The FBI will be able to spy on any American citizen who dares to criticize the war in Ukraine. The US government will label people who oppose endless wars in Eurasia as “political extremists,” ruining their careers, or worse.

During the rise of Communism and fascism in Europe, many Jews and other persecuted people could flee to the United States. Where will we flee if the United States continues down the road to totalitarianism? Not Europe. Not Brazil. Is any country safe in a world where every movement, transaction, and thought is being monitored?

I keep waiting for the downward spiral to hit bottom, and it never does. I am naturally optimistic, but sometimes, that means I have tended toward wishful thinking. Such wishful thinking is dangerous and irresponsible in moments like this one. So, too, is passivity.

We must act. That starts with standing up to the bullies, all of whom are cowards on the inside. Elon Musk stood up to the bully de Moraes last week and appears to be holding strong. Tonight, he will hold a Spaces with the controversial former president of Brazil, whom the Supreme Court has prevented from running for office again for another eight years.

My colleagues and I are building a new free-speech movement. All of the organizations we used to rely upon to defend human rights, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and ACLU, have been taken over by totalitarians demanding censorship. We are gathering in London in June. We are starting our own free-speech NGOs around the world.

We can’t do this alone. Please share this post, consider subscribing to my publication, Public, and make a donation. People are risking their lives to defend free speech for all human beings. You don’t need to risk yours, but we desperately need your help. Things won’t calm down until we stand up to the tyrants and remove every one of them from power.

[Eduardo Piorini @EPiorini]

@GopherCon Rust or Elixir

[Raphael Amorim @raphamorims]

Slides for my talk in the @rustlab_conf

Bring Game Boy Alive in the Web with Rust and WebAssembly

https://t.co/QfqSAb6RY5

[Eduardo Piorini @EPiorini]

@peterjordan Feijão por cima do arroz

[Eduardo Piorini @EPiorini]

End of @golab_conf and @rustlab_conf! Now let’s take all this huge ‘bag’ of knowledge and make great things with my team, starting now! Thanks to @develer and all the team for this amazing event! We from Stevanato Group simply loved it!

That said, gopher over.
#GoLab2023

[Eduardo Piorini @EPiorini]

So happy I found this fellow from my homeland (🇧🇷) in Italy as a @rustlab_conf speaker! @raphamorims passed so much knowledge in a so clear way! This guy is a monster 🦀!

Let’s play gameboy with webassembly!
#rustlab2023 #golab2023

[🦀 RustLab @rustlab_conf]

Smiles all around during the coffee breaks. A perfect opportunity to make new connections and engage in conversations. 😊☕
#GoLab2023 #RustLab2023 #Networking #CoffeeBreak

[Eduardo Piorini @EPiorini]

Well, end of day two on @golab_conf @rustlab_conf . We got State of Go/Rust, web assembly , runtime, code generation, tokio, etc. It has been a dividing point in my career, I must be honest. So let’s take a rest, cuz today it’s going to be insane(again)
#GoLab2023 #RustLab2023

[Eduardo Piorini @EPiorini]

@_CONEJO @golab_conf @TinyGolang Will there be more badges tomorrow?

[Eduardo Piorini @EPiorini]

Alter an amazing first day of overwhelming workshops, let’s head for another day full of knowledge transmitted by great people!
#rustlab #golab #golang

[GoLab @golab_conf]

🌐 Florence will be the epicenter of tech brilliance as #GoLab unfold in a matter of days.
Prepare for inspiring keynotes, engaging workshops, and an atmosphere buzzing with innovation.
Are you ready to be part of it?

🚀 #TechInFlorence #TechConference #GoLab2023 #GoLang

[Eduardo Piorini @EPiorini]

@rustlab_conf Can’t wait to begin!

[STEPN GO @Stepnofficial]

Wanna find out how GMT will work in STEPN? We'll share a peek of GMT earning mechanics at 150k followers, and GMT use-cases at 200k followers!🧐
🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️Follow and retweet! 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️

[Eduardo Piorini @EPiorini]

@peterjordan Eu prefiro quando tem sexo

[Eduardo Piorini @EPiorini]

@Michael_Santii @tatavosk @ThiagoNigro Sempre tem um zé crítica

[Eduardo Piorini @EPiorini]

@francidellamora Tudo não! A outra parte é O QUE ele quer comer 😹

[Eduardo Piorini @EPiorini]

@C6Bank Partiu Itália! Hora de estrear a conta global!

[Eduardo Piorini @EPiorini]

Agora tenho que elogiar! Depois de perceber o problema, o pessoal da @tapairportugal resolveu tudo muuuuito rápido e tranquilo. Muito obrigado à equipe que me atendeu super bem e me ajudou a ficar mais calmo!

[Eduardo Piorini @EPiorini]

@tapairportugal Exatamente! Quando confirmado! Eu não confirmei a solicita nem mesmo a alteração.
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