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John Arundel

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Cornwall, UK

Hi! I'm John Arundel, of Bitfield Consulting, and I like writing, programming, and teaching. I've worked on a few interesting open source projects, including script, which has helped thousands of people use Go to write system administration and DevOps tools. I've also written a few books, including The Deeper Love of Go and The Secrets of Rust: Tools.

My professional work these days is mostly training and teaching Go and Rust, or consulting on codebases and projects. If you'd like to study with me, or get some help with your project, book a session with me via my website.

Current sponsors 1

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Past sponsors 4
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Featured work

  1. bitfield/script

    Making it easy to write shell-like scripts in Go

    Go 7,030
  2. bitfield/gotestdox

    A tool for formatting Go test results as readable documentation

    Go 203
  3. bitfield/go-r8

    A Go project template for an 8-bit CPU emulator.

    Go 70
  4. bitfield/love

    Go code samples and exercises for the book 'The Deeper Love of Go'

    Go 38
  5. bitfield/rx82

    An emulator for the RX82 fantasy retro computer system.

    Rust 11
  6. bitfield/spellbook

    Code examples and listings from “The Rust Spellbook”

    Rust 8

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Elite. This is amazing! Sponsors at this level are not only directly contributing to the open source ecosystem, and the Go and Rust language communities. You're also helping me introduce people of all ages and backgrounds to the joy of programming, and give them high-quality mentoring from someone with decades of experience in the tech industry. Elite sponsors will be prominently featured on my website, and I'll also contribute a guest post to your blog or website explaining exactly how your contribution helps the open source community. Right on, commander!