How an unexpected bug slipped into my YAML configuration library and the debugging process that uncovered it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This is the first in a series of posts about the stria side project I am working on.

yamlcfg is a Go library that merges YAML configuration files with environment variables. Supports default values, type coercion, and nested configuration structures.

A practical walkthrough of Go's crypto/aes and crypto/cipher packages. Covers AES-GCM encryption, key sizing, NewCipher usage, and common pitfalls with working code examples.

Go's testing tools are powerful enough that mocking is often unnecessary. Learn when to skip mocks and use real implementations, httptest, and integration tests instead.