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Steve Francia, technologist

GoSoftware / engineering practiceDev tools / editors / IDEsEngineering management / careers

’10’15’20’25
Posts
128 from 3 Jul 2008 to 27 Oct 2026
Posting
monthly (6 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 4

  1. Game Boy Color on My Conference Badge
  2. Zelda on My Conference Badge
  3. Why TypeScript 7.0 Was Rewritten in Go (and what it means for your dev stack)
  4. The Maintainer's Dilemma

2025 4

  1. The 9 Cost Factors
  2. Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages
  3. Benjamin Franklin Pioneered Machine Learning in 1720
  4. Cobra & Viper Fortify Security as Part of GitHub Secure Open Source Fund

2022 2

  1. spf13 Google -->
  2. The New spf13.com

2021 4

  1. InfoQ interview - Go Language at 13 Years
  2. Gophers Say GopherCon Edition
  3. Rust vs Go: Better Together
  4. Break things on purpose podcast

2020 1

  1. Grokking Go.dev - Go Time Podcast

2018 3

  1. Go – On The Shoulders of Giants | spf13
  2. New Go Branding Strategy
  3. Drupal and the secret of my success | spf13

2017 1

  1. Go Developer Survey

2016 2

  1. Hugo goes global
  2. I’m joining the Go team at Google

2015 1

  1. How To Be A Good Open Source Community Member

2014 7

  1. Hugo Summer 2014 Update
  2. Evangelism is NOT Sales
  3. Pointers vs References
  4. Is Go an Object Oriented language?
  5. 9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released
  6. Cross Compiling with Go
  7. Why I use spf13-vim

2013 3

  1. A modern CLI Commander for go
  2. Refactoring with go fmt
  3. Go Go Hugo blog

2012 13

  1. MongoDB Driver days hackathon round up
  2. The Biggest Myths Surrounding Disaster Recovery | spf13
  3. Protecting Intellectual Property on Your Blog | spf13
  4. Giving the most viewed presentation on slideshare ever at OSCON | spf13
  5. How to deliver a great conference tutorial | spf13
  6. Add PhotoshopCS5 support to Picasa | spf13
  7. Getting Started with MongoDB and PHP | spf13
  8. Don't look now, I'm on DZone | spf13
  9. New personal site powered by GitHub Pages | spf13
  10. spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website | spf13
  11. Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB | spf13
  12. MongoDB and PHP, The Book | spf13
  13. Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery | spf13

2011 17

  1. Windows Power User Tools | spf13
  2. LDS SORT Tech Conference 2011 | spf13
  3. Hybrid Cloud Computing | spf13
  4. Where have all the good databases gone? | spf13
  5. Easy bash scripting with shflags | spf13
  6. Competition for the Cloud Heats Up | spf13
  7. Creating a Symfony2 Console Command | spf13
  8. Pandora's IPO ... a sign of the times | spf13
  9. The Browser as an application platform | spf13
  10. Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle | spf13
  11. Release early, release often to minimize risk | spf13
  12. My Favorite Rands Posts | spf13
  13. Announcing Projects & Presentations | spf13
  14. Getting Started with Symfony2 | spf13
  15. On Symfony2 | spf13
  16. The perfect .vimrc vim config file | spf13
  17. The most productive 20 minutes of my day | spf13

2010 18

  1. Software Development's Magic Triangle | spf13
  2. 16 lessons from 16 years | spf13
  3. Selling on OpenSky | spf13
  4. Watch what you say | spf13
  5. Ultimate Vim Config | spf13
  6. Moving to WordPress | spf13
  7. The Golden Hammer | spf13
  8. NoSQL Databases | spf13
  9. Next Gen PHP Frameworks | spf13
  10. Finding the Right People | spf13
  11. Transitions | spf13
  12. VIM Crash Course | spf13
  13. Unix Jobs Management | spf13
  14. Human readable du sorted by size | spf13
  15. Using the right keys | spf13
  16. Benchmarking Cloudfront (and S3) | spf13
  17. REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest | spf13
  18. My Online Business Card (Vcard) | spf13

2009 34

  1. 7 security practices you need to follow | spf13
  2. Secure Automated, Key Based SSH | spf13
  3. The Importance of Focus | spf13
  4. Fascinating interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates | spf13
  5. Getting Started With Drupal | spf13
  6. Vim Plugins: snipMate | spf13
  7. Checking Vendor References | spf13
  8. A Better Follow Friday | spf13
  9. Engaging Employees | spf13
  10. Installing Git on a Shared Host | spf13
  11. Apple's iconic presentations | spf13
  12. Vim Plugins: NERD Commenter | spf13
  13. Mastering the Command Line | spf13
  14. Conclusion of the Blog-a-thon | spf13
  15. Take Time to Help Others | spf13
  16. Windows 7 launch notes | spf13
  17. 54% US Companies Ban Social Media... and That's Fine | spf13
  18. Managing Your Social Media Presence | spf13
  19. The Death of Search | spf13
  20. How I Blog | spf13
  21. Analyzing and Improving Conversion | spf13
  22. Ranking Social Media | spf13
  23. My Own Private Blogathon | spf13
  24. Using Nginx as a Load Balancer | spf13
  25. Featured in CIO Magazine! | spf13
  26. Choosing a Hosting Partner | spf13
  27. Social Media Recognition | spf13
  28. New Facebook in Depth Review | spf13
  29. Setting up Subversion with multiple access methods | spf13
  30. Scaling Web Sites (LAMP) : Top Resources | spf13
  31. How to Fix a Broken Marketplace (eBay) | spf13
  32. Stop Twitter from Becoming the next MySpace | spf13
  33. Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed | spf13
  34. Growing in a Down Economy | spf13

2008 14

  1. Backup Your Files | spf13
  2. Portero Raises 6.6 Million | spf13
  3. Backing up MySQL | spf13
  4. One Hundred Pushups | spf13
  5. How RIM handed the mobile market over to Apple | spf13
  6. Hire Your Next Consultant Using Twitter | spf13
  7. Promotion | spf13
  8. Why are you still shopping offline? | spf13
  9. Managing Multiple Firefox Profiles in OS X | spf13
  10. Using SVK to Increase Productivity | spf13
  11. The 15 Best Vim Plugins | spf13
  12. Implementing a Corporate Wiki | spf13
  13. Why are you not on Twitter | spf13
  14. Be more productive using GNU Screen | spf13