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  • 2025-01-06

    Engineering arrogance

    Explore how engineering arrogance impacts team innovation and technical growth. Learn to identify toxic patterns in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and team dynamics, plus practical strategies to build collaborative engineering cultures
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  • 2025-01-05

    Building with the Google Sheets API in Go

    A comprehensive guide to integrating Google Sheets API with Go, covering batch operations, error handling, and practical patterns for efficient data syncing.
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  • 2025-01-03

    Building Stria to streamline payment data integrations

    Discover Stria: A reliable service that automatically syncs Stripe payment data to Google Sheets. Simplify your data integration without code from $5/month.
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  • 2024-12-18

    PostgreSQL table partitioning with Go

    Practical guide to PostgreSQL table partitioning using date-based range partitions. Covers partition creation, automatic routing, query performance, and automating partition management with Go.
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  • 2024-12-09

    YAML configuration: an unexpected bug

    How an unexpected bug slipped into my YAML configuration library and the debugging process that uncovered it.
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  • 2024-11-23

    YAML configuration: the best of a bad bunch

    Why YAML remains the least painful option for application configuration, despite its quirks. A look at the alternatives and why they're all worse in different ways.
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  • 2024-10-26

    Deploying NixOS on Proxmox as an LXC container

    Step-by-step guide to running NixOS on Proxmox using LXC containers. Covers loading the NixOS container image, initial configuration, and getting a declarative NixOS setup running on your home server.
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  • 2024-06-24

    Why Go uses composition over inheritance

    Go doesn't have class inheritance, and that's by design. Learn how Go's structs, embedding, and implicit interfaces give you the flexibility of inheritance without the fragile base class problems.
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  • 2024-06-01

    Devlog 2 - Eventbus and SaaS model

    In this second post I cover the custom eventbus library that I've built and pivoting or changing your mind on the saas business model.
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  • 2024-05-27

    wip: wifi-qr Zig Rewrite

    work in progress rewrite of my wifi-qr project in Zig.
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