Happy May, Earthlings!

Welcome to the Earthly Blog newsletter, where I share the most popular articles and tutorials from the Earthly blog in the last 30 or so days.

Top Blog Content

​Let’s Learn More About Python Data Classes​

Since their introduction in Python 3.7, data classes have emerged as a popular choice for Python classes that store data. This two part series is a deep dive on data classes.

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​10 Advanced Git Commands​

For many developers, truly harnessing the power of Git can be a daunting task. In this article, Temitope Oyedele discusses ten advanced Git commands every developer should know.

​Five Common Mistakes To Avoid When Learning Golang​

How is your knowledge of pointers, interfaces, and concurrency in Go? In this article, Ubaydah shares 5 common mistakes that people new to Go make and all three of those – plus two more issues –show up.

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​To Understand Pants, Understand Bazel’s History​

This article is an interview with Pants creator Benjy Weinberger and was popular on Reddit's /r/programming community. Read it to get an understanding of the early history at Google that lead to the creation of Google's Blaze. Blaze led to Bazel, Pants and ultimately build tools like Earthly.

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​Misaligned Incentives in Dev Tool Businesses​

How do incentives shape dev tool businesses? This essay dives into my personal software development experiences and how we think about incentives at Earthly.

Blog News

​How to Write a Tutorial About How to Read a CSV in Golang​

Josh wrote this great tutorial on how to write tutorials. If you'd like to get a feel for the process of editing a tutorial, if you'd like to learn how to communicate better in technical writing or if you have any interest in our 'write for us' program then be sure to give this a read.

Product News

Reminder: Earthly is an open-source build tool that makes builds super simple.

​New Feature: LET and SET​

Release v0.73 introduced the LET and SET commands for declaring and setting non-argument variables to help better control your build logic.

The LET command is for declaring a variable and the SET command is for changing the value of a variable declared with LET. Pull Request #2830 details the new feature.

Release Notes

• ​v0.7.4. Released April 12, 2023
• ​v0.7.3 (pre-release). Released April 12, 2023

That's it for this month. If you are interested in using Earthly Satellites, go to our docs and follow the steps to self-serve Satellites. And if you are interested in using Earthly CI, go to our docs and follow the steps to self-serve Earthly CI.

See you next month,

Adam

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