This opinion has changed twice over the last four years for me, it started out as re-invent wheels, don't use packages, then changed to don't re-invent anything. It's settled to a happy medium, leaning more towards reinvention. I've realized through mine and…
The last 13 months have been quite interesting, to say the least. Last August I was let go from my job, it was quite unexpected, even more so because the reason I was given was incompetence. After a year and a half of working at the company, it was quite…
A few days ago, I wrote this post on testing more. So I started off with some integration testing my http handlers. There was one huge flaw in the way I was testing, it's the eternal elephant in the name of, mocks. Long story short, mocks are garbage.…
There are quite a few reasons, but by far my most favorite feature is Executable binaries Want to a quick CLI for your application, include a folder in your cmd/ folder and just like that you have a binary with all dependencies and files in a single file. There is…
How i write UI components with HTML, Go and Templ after one year of using HTMX.…
Practical go compiler optimizations. Article covers map lookup, function inlining and optimized memclr…
A deep dive into understanding what happens when you call the server.ListenAndServe method from the http standard go library…
Over the last few weeks I have been reading What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory by Ulrich Drepper and the chapter on Optimizations from 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them, this is a summary of what I've learned from them. I would highly recommend you…