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Golang , Programming
August 21, 2023
Distributed Locking With PostgreSQL
Learn how to use Postgres native feature to coordinate work across several processes, acting as a mutex.
3 Minute Read
Golang , Programming
May 5, 2023
Writing Generic Mappers in Go
In this short post, we’ll look at a generic implementation of a mapper functions, and how to extend it to support some common use cases.
4 Minute Read
Self Hosted , Programming , DevOps
February 25, 2023
Self Hosted Developers Guide - Part 1: Infrastructure
In this series, I’ll be documenting my journey to self hosting my core development tools and infrastructure from git hosting, CI/CD, backups, container orchestration, and more. This article will cover the infrastructure I’ve set up for my development environment and continues integration.
4 Minute Read
Golang , Programming
January 18, 2023
Reduce Boilerplate in Go Http Handlers with Go Generics
In this article I’m going to walk through how I’ve been able to reduce boilerplate code and ensure that my handlers have consistent behavior across my application.
9 Minute Read
Programming , Git
March 26, 2022
Deep Work, PR Review, and Git Hashes
This week I’m starting a new practice to capture my weekly thoughts and notes and write them up in a weekly blog post. We’ll see how it goes!
3 Minute Read
Programming , Golang
February 2, 2022
TIL: Testing Parametrized URLs with Chi Router
Today I learned that it’s possible to slightly decouple your http handler tests from your chi router. Well sort of…
1 Minute Read
Programming
January 22, 2022
2022 Dotfiles Highlights
What’s new in my 2022 dotfiles? Mac on utilities, capturing aliases in functions and more!
2 Minute Read
Python , FastAPI , Programming
August 20, 2021
How to Improve The Jinja2 Experience with FastAPI
While FastAPI is a great first choice for any API development in Python, it’s often not considered when your primary goal is to use Jinja2 templates to return HTML to the user. It’’s hard to match the Ecosystem and support that comes with Flask, but it’s easy to get started.
3 Minute Read
Python , Programming
August 5, 2021
Generating Blog Frontmatter
I recently began the process of migrating my small blog from Ghost to a static site build with Nuxt. As apart of the process I wanted to create a small script that would automate some of the basic metadata creation the Nuxt can use to generate cards and sort content. Luckily, frontmatter in markdown is just yaml, making it easy to parse and manipulate.
3 Minute Read
Programming , Home Automation
August 5, 2021
SSH Login Notifications in Home Assistant With Node-Red
This article will go over a basic setup on integrating SSH login notifications into Home Assistant using Webhooks and Node-Red.
2 Minute Read