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Import 2022-12-04 22:14

A collection of 22 issues

TIL the different behaviors of time.After and time.Sleep in Go

While working on a simple monitoring library, I came across an issue of wanting to cancel a goroutine when it's context is cancelled, but the way I was using time.Sleep in my code meant that it would wait until the next tick of the interval to respect the context

A Tiny Monitoring Library in Go

I wrote a tiny monitoring library in Go over the weekend. The goal was to create something that was extensible to any type of source that I wanted to monitor while remaining simple and easy to test. I messed with a few different approaches and ultimately landed here. The library

ManaCrypt: Developing an Experimental Token Vault in Solidity with Foundry

I have been brushing up my chops with Solidity lately, so I decided to sit down and write a simple token vault implementation. It's going to be a simple holding contract for balances that we can extend with other functionality in the future, like bridging, merkle trees, or decentralized swaps

A Simple Binary Tree in Rust

I'm writing a simple binary tree in Rust as part of my current endeavor to learn this language. I might eventually extend this into a rewrite of some parts of my Orderbook series, but who knows. The day is young. Starting off Make a new cargo package and name it

Automatic Deploys Without a PaaS

I've written at length about a deployment first development style of workflow. I've found this to be particularly useful for side projects where you might just want to occasionally drop in and add a feature without too much hassle. Lowering the bar to first commit in a single work session

Orderbook: an experimental order filling engine written in Go

A first-principles approach to building an order-filling market exchange in Go.

Golang Audit Checklist

These are broad questions I ask and points I check from a security-oriented perspective on each Golang project that I audit. Static analysis * Run code through gosec check * Run golangci-lint against code * Run Docker security checks Linters and style * Are they using a linter? * Are they using a style guide,

MTG Game Analysis

About two years ago I started keeping score of who won our Magic games. I didn't know what I wanted to do with it, but after sitting on it for 2 years I think it's ripe for some initial analysis of my data set. I obviously will keep tracking games,

Quick and dirty full-text search with SQLite3 and Golang

How to implement full text search queries in SQLite3

The Software Engineer's Bullet Journal

My brutalist bullet journal flow geared towards utility and productivity. 4 years ago, I discovered the bullet journal. I was in a code bootcamp at the time, and was looking for a system to organize myself while I went through the program. I dabbled with a variety of setups and