I’m a big fan of Fathom Analytics. It’s the perfect alternative to Google Analytics and something I’ve been using since early 2018. One thing Fathom lacks is an official API which lead me to do some pretty crazy monkey patching in order to extract data from…

We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.15, our second release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.15 consists of 25 enhancements: 2 moving to stable, 13 in beta, and 10 in alpha. The main themes of this release are:
Continuous Improvement Project sustainability…

A suite of gRPC debugging tools. Like Fiddler/Charles but for gRPC. - bradleyjkemp/grpc-tools

tryhard finds and rewrites code suitable for try. Contribute to griesemer/tryhard development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I've published an updated and re-edited version of this article on the Stack
Overflow blog - check it out
[https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/09/30/how-to-make-good-code-reviews-better/]!

I have been doing day to day code reviews for over a decade now. The…

On May 22nd, I received a message on twitter telling me that my blog was down. I tried to open the website on my phone and saw that it was in fact down. I was on my way to work and I had to wait until

We're going to write a custom linter using the new go/analysis framework which dramatically speeds up creating new linters.

Compile-time Dependency Injection for Go. Contribute to google/wire development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Sensibo Sky improved the temperature control in my office, and almost worked the way I wanted. This is the story of getting it the rest of the way, with a little extra help from Go and Serverless technologies.

Static websites are a great way to recapture some of the best parts of the history of the web. They provide low overhead and simple deployments. One of the things that a static website loses, however, is the ability to use your backend to handle form data.…

Go has the benefit of hindsight, and basics are well done: it has a garbage collection, a package system, first class functions, lexical scope, a system call interface and immutable strings in which text are generally encoded in UTF-8. But it has com...

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