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Niall Young
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Software Engineer; Sceptical Scientist; Bitcoin Maximalist; Carnivore; Suspicious0bserver; Freedom Patriot. Protected Political Speech. goNDK #golang

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Walking Away from a Rigged System – A Physician’s Stand for Medical Integrity

DAVID NIXON

MAR 21, 2025

“This case is not about me. It is about the survival of medicine as a profession.

If ethical physicians are criminalised for practising evidence-based, patient-centred care, then medicine ceases to be a profession—it becomes an arm of political enforcement.

If informed consent is discarded, and dissent is punished, then there is no medical ethics left to defend.”

“What’s Next … 👉 The Journal of Bionanotechnocracy

Coming soon at: http://www.journalbnt.org

https://davidnixon.substack.com/p/walking-away-from-a-rigged-system

it’s all automated, right? 🤣

GM

git diff; git show; ☕️

GM

Yesterday I rewrote 80% of this code in Go in just a few hours, deployed and functional, ready to finish today.

VS. months of TypeScript/JS shenanigans using and testing string.replace() in tsc and jest, then deno and esbuild … 😭 tests pass locally but once transpired into JS and deployed it’s non-functional, even with the literal same input, even though the JS looks good …. 🤷‍♂️

Suspect runtimes, definite path ahead to finish isolating this but … my concern here is the investment in time required to diagnose and investigate what should be simple issues to replicate and solve.

Do I need separate tests for the TS and also the resulting JS? 😆

I deliberately stuck with this, as it’s a long-running concern and I wanted to really explore this - WTH am I missing?!? Iterated all through the toolchain, different transpilers and runtimes, the latest IaC and shiny modern frameworks, Promises, tests .. all looked great until it hit prod 💥 🤬

deno is a start, but the entire ecosystem is just too risky to invest in IMHO

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ 🤣

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Day 243 of TypeScript/JS Only:

switching back to #Golang 🤦‍♂️

I explored the toolchain, gave everything a good workout, compared alternatives, runtimes, potential CICD workflows… tsc, esbuild, deno..

When it all works, it’s ok. Janky and kludgy, but it works. When it doesn’t work: GOOD FUCKING LUCK OMFG 🤡 🌎

Good to have types, and not be working in JS, but there’s so much indirection it’s a house of cards with more hidden cost and risk than my 🧠 can tolerate