Last time, I started talking about why some of Go‘s time-saving features are actually false economy. Today, I want to go through our first example: short variable declarations.
In Go, you can declare a variable inside a function with an initial value using the syntax
x := 5
This is …
When I first started learning Go, I was excited about the ideas of what the language is supposed to be. Built-in concurrency primitives that aren’t just a wrapper around threads! A statically typed, compiled language without the C preprocessor or page-long compiler errors from C++ templates! And it compiles …
What would a vegetarian witch do about spell ingredients? Could you replace eye of newt and crocodile hearts with eye of potato and artichoke hearts? Is it cheating to replace bat wings with vegan tempeh buffalo wings? And do water caltrops count as horns? Google doesn’t turn up any …
Here we are at the start of 2017, with a new week, new month, and new year all starting on the same day. That seems auspicious for whatever reason.
My goal of writing a blog entry every week in 2016 didn’t happen, although I did manage to write almost …
Sometimes you just want spaghetti with meatballs. These are no Swedish meatballs, but they do work nicely with pasta. I haven’t tried it yet, but they seem like they might also work out as a meatball sandwich.
This soup originally came from What’s Cooking America. We didn’t follow the recipe very well and liked our version better, so here it is.
Some nice vegetable soup is just the thing for a chilly day. This version has plenty of vegetables, and you can add anything else you like. Aside from being delicious, it’s a great way to use up vegetables from your fridge to avoid food waste.
These vegan spring rolls are filled with fresh, light ingredients. This recipe serves 2 but is easily scaled up for more people.
This bean salad is based on the original from Vegetarian Times, but we’ve fiddled with it enough to merit a separate recipe. If you have the time to make fresh beans, this salad is amazing, but it’s still tasty with canned beans.
We had a bunch of hard apple cider lying around, and I thought this might be an interesting variation on the typical applesauce recipes you find online. It turned out well, so here it is.