Thoughts of a grumpy geek on technology and probably a few other things.

Who doesn’t love fully controllable asynchronous APIs? This post is about crafting asynchronous functions using Golang’s Context, Channels, and Goroutines. Introduction For the purpose of this post, let’s consider a user who is searching for a few flights…

Update On 19.07.01 there was a firmware update, now OP-Z can sample from usb or the mic making half of this article deprecated.
Intro It began in the summer of 2018, when I’ve been playing with my PO-20 “Arcade” wondering if it’s hackable, maybe there’s a…

Jayaganesh KalyanasundaramJun 5 · 3 min read

Lock and Mutex are very basic ideas in every language and OS.Recently, I think for a while about Lock / Mutex/ SpinLock / Reentrant Lock / Distributed Lock, and find something interesting.

A guide to understanding the

Testing your code is an essential part of software engineering. Whether you write code first and then tests or the other way around, there should be no discussion about writing tests. The expectation of testing should not be to find bugs but to have a stable…

Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware tests.

A short overview of the testing package The testing package from Golang’s standard library provides support for automated testing of Go packages. It is intended to be used in combination with the go test command. In combination with go test, this package…

So you enjoy go and are ready to take your go-application to production standards. Here is a listing of some tricks on how to get your application production-ready. Not all these advices will apply to …

Learn five things about VS Code with Amanda Silver and John Papa

It’s been a long time since I wrote about the bot I’m building. Life happened. A lot of it. Now, when things are settling down, I might have again the time and the energy to program the bot some more and write about it in the process.
Last time the bot learned…

While the stdlib of Go is incredibly capable, not everything is baked into it. Here are 6 well-liked Go frameworks that extend the functionality of Go.

LiteIDE is a simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE. - GitHub - visualfc/liteide: LiteIDE is a simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE.

[Archived] See https://github.com/goava/di. Contribute to defval/inject development by creating an account on GitHub.

A Go (golang) package for building frictionless command-line interfaces - GitHub - jpillora/opts: A Go (golang) package for building frictionless command-line interfaces

With all of these development tutorials and courses on the internet, how do we make sure we are retaining what we read? In this post I discuss different techniques that help improve how fast you learn, how much info is retained, and even ways to expand beyond…

Speechmatics welcomed the Cambridge programming community to its offices in Cambridge where we host our monthly Go Meetups. Speechmatics’ Go Meetup is a chan...