2020-04-10

go-cmp in the Testify library

I like working with Testify as a more ergonomic way to write tests in Go. The problem is that some comparisons it does (as with times) can be incorrect. There’s an issue to use go-cmp instead, but they’re worried about backwards compatibility problems. I hope they make the change in some fashion, though.

Apple and Google are working on “privacy-preserving contact tracing”

There are definitely a lot of privacy concerns around contact tracing, and I know a lot of people are concerned that once you let government people start having access to this information, they will never let it go. I understand that concern, but COVID-19 is a huge issue, and I do believe that Apple genuinely cares about privacy. Here is Apple’s documentation about the privacy-preserving contact tracing.