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2026 ^{31 posts}

Jun 21 Channel iteration and goroutine leak Go
Jun 18 Accepted proposal: a goroutine leak profile in the Go standard library Shards
Jun 13 Reading your own writes with WAIT FOR LSN in Postgres 19 System
Jun 12 Migrating from GNU stow to chezmoi Misc
Jun 07 Putting this blog on ATProto with standard.site Misc
May 30 If you won't carry the pager, maybe don't push to mainline Zephyr
May 18 Testing Go CLIs with testscript Go
May 10 A tour of txtar Go
May 09 Type-safe slogging Go
May 02 Hoisting wire plumbing out of your Go handlers Go
Apr 25 Go quirks: function closures capturing mutable references Go
Apr 19 Accepted proposal: UUID in the Go standard library Shards
Apr 18 Peeking into Go struct tags Go
Apr 12 Error translation in Go services Go
Apr 11 Dynamo: Amazon's highly available key-value store Paper
Apr 07 Stacked log lines considered harmful Shards
Mar 31 What's the ideal dispatch mechanism? Shards
Mar 28 Background jobs and inherited file descriptors Shards
Mar 23 Testing unary gRPC services in Go Go
Mar 21 Repositories, transactions, and unit of work in Go Go
Mar 20 How do you handle transactions with the repository pattern? Shards
Mar 18 Is passing user ID through context an antipattern? Shards
Mar 17 What belongs in Go's context values? Shards
Mar 16 Do you need a repository layer on top of sqlc? Shards
Mar 15 Wrapping a gRPC client in Go Go
Mar 14 In praise of the etcd codebase Shards
Mar 07 Go errors: to wrap or not to wrap? Go
Mar 05 Mutate your locked state inside a closure Go
Feb 24 What canceled my Go context? Go
Feb 21 Structured concurrency & Go Go
Jan 23 Your Go tests probably don't need a mocking library Go

2025 ^{27 posts}

Dec 13 Tap compare testing for service migration System
Nov 30 Splintered failure modes in Go Go
Nov 16 Re-exec testing Go subprocesses Go
Nov 01 Revisiting interface segregation in Go Go
Oct 22 Avoiding collisions in Go context keys Go
Oct 08 Organizing Go tests Go
Oct 01 Subtest grouping in Go Go
Sep 20 Let the domain guide your application structure Go
Sep 14 Test state, not interactions Go
Sep 07 Early return and goroutine leak Go
Aug 30 Lifecycle management in Go tests Go
Aug 03 Gateway pattern for external service calls Go
Jun 28 Flags for discoverable test config in Go Go
May 24 You probably don't need a DI framework Go
Apr 21 Preventing accidental struct copies in Go Go
Apr 13 Go 1.24's "tool" directive Go
Apr 12 Capturing console output in Go tests Go
Mar 28 Deferred teardown closure in Go testing Go
Mar 22 Three flavors of sorting Go slices Go
Mar 12 Nil comparisons and Go interface Go
Mar 06 Stacked middleware vs embedded delegation in Go Go
Feb 08 Why does Go's io.Reader have such a weird signature? Go
Feb 06 Go slice gotchas Go
Jan 19 The domain knowledge dilemma Zephyr
Jan 12 Hierarchical rate limiting with Redis sorted sets Misc
Jan 11 Dynamic shell variables Misc
Jan 06 Link blog in a static site Misc

2024 ^{40 posts}

Dec 31 Running only a single instance of a process Misc
Dec 22 Function types and single-method interfaces in Go Go
Dec 17 SSH saga Misc
Dec 02 Injecting Pytest fixtures without cluttering test signatures Python
Nov 06 Explicit method overriding with @typing.override Python
Nov 03 Quicker startup with module-level __getattr__ Python
Oct 22 Docker mount revisited Misc
Oct 13 Topological sort Go
Oct 06 Writing a circuit breaker in Go Go
Oct 02 Discovering direnv Misc
Sep 21 Notes on building event-driven systems Misc
Sep 20 Bash namerefs for dynamic variable referencing Misc
Sep 14 Behind the blog Misc
Sep 12 Shell redirection syntax soup Misc
Sep 02 Shades of testing HTTP requests in Python Python
Aug 28 Taming parametrize with pytest.param Python
Aug 08 HTTP requests via /dev/tcp Misc
Aug 06 Log context propagation in Python ASGI apps Python
Aug 03 Please don't hijack my Python root logger Python
Jul 28 The *nix install command Misc
Jul 19 Here-doc headache Misc
Jul 14 The sane pull request Misc
Jun 18 I kind of like rebasing Misc
May 10 Protobuffed contracts Misc
Apr 27 TypeIs does what I thought TypeGuard would do in Python Python
Apr 10 ETag and HTTP caching Misc
Mar 12 Crossing the CORS crossroad Misc
Mar 06 Dysfunctional options pattern in Go Go
Feb 24 Einstellung effect Zephyr
Feb 17 Strategy pattern in Go Go
Feb 10 Anemic stack traces in Go Go
Feb 04 Retry function in Go Go
Jan 31 Type assertion vs type switches in Go Go
Jan 27 Patching pydantic settings in pytest Python
Jan 21 Omitting dev dependencies in Go binaries Go
Jan 15 Eschewing black box API calls Misc
Jan 08 Annotating args and kwargs in Python Python
Jan 06 Rate limiting via Nginx Go
Jan 04 Statically enforcing frozen data classes in Python Python
Jan 01 Planning palooza Zephyr

2023 ^{48 posts}

Dec 25 Reminiscing CGI scripts Go
Dec 22 Debugging dockerized Python apps in VSCode Python
Dec 16 Banish state-mutating methods from data classes Python
Nov 25 Finding flow amid chaos Zephyr
Nov 12 The diminishing half-life of knowledge Zephyr
Nov 05 Oh my poor business logic Zephyr
Oct 29 Pesky little scripts Misc
Oct 07 Footnotes for the win Zephyr
Sep 27 Dotfile stewardship for the indolent Misc
Sep 18 An ode to the neo-grotesque web Zephyr
Sep 14 Self-hosted Google Fonts in Hugo Misc
Sep 05 Configuring options in Go Go
Aug 30 Dummy load balancer in a single Go script Go
Aug 23 Limit goroutines with buffered channels Go
Aug 20 Writing a TOTP client in Go Go
Aug 18 Interface guards in Go Go
Aug 14 Writing on well-trodden topics Zephyr
Aug 10 Go structured logging with slog Go
Aug 07 Notes on exit interviews Zephyr
Jul 29 Taming conditionals with bitmasks Python
Jul 17 Using DNS record to share text data Misc
Jul 16 Memory leakage in Python descriptors Python
Jul 14 Unix-style pipelining with Python's subprocess module Python
Jul 13 Enabling repeatable lazy iterations in Python Python
Jul 09 Descending into the aether Zephyr
Jul 01 Escaping the template pattern hellscape in Python Python
Jun 27 Python dependency management redux Python
Jun 01 Implementing a simple traceroute clone in Python Python
May 26 Bulk request Google search indexing with API JavaScript
May 21 Building a CORS proxy with Cloudflare Workers JavaScript
May 14 Fixed-time job scheduling with UNIX 'at' command Misc
May 09 Sorting a Django queryset by a custom sequence of an attribute Python
May 04 Periodic readme updates with GitHub Actions JavaScript
May 03 Associative arrays in Bash Misc
May 01 Deduplicating iterables while preserving order in Python Python
Apr 30 Process substitution in Bash Misc
Apr 29 Dynamic menu with select statement in Bash Misc
Apr 23 Simple terminal text formatting with tput Misc
Apr 10 Building a web app to display CSV file stats with ChatGPT & Observable JavaScript
Apr 08 Pushing real-time updates to clients with Server-Sent Events (SSEs) Python
Mar 11 Tinkering with Unix domain sockets Misc
Feb 26 Signal handling in a multithreaded socket server Python
Feb 19 Switching between multiple data streams in a single thread Python
Feb 12 Skipping the first part of an iterable in Python Python
Feb 05 Pausing and resuming a socket server in Python Python
Jan 14 Debugging a containerized Django application in Jupyter Notebook Python
Jan 07 Manipulating text with query expressions in Django Python
Jan 06 Using tqdm with concurrent.fututes in Python Python

2022 ^{61 posts}

Dec 23 Colon command in shell scripts Misc
Nov 30 Faster bulk_update in Django Python
Nov 13 Installing Python on macOS with asdf Python
Nov 09 Save models with update_fields for better performance in Django Python
Oct 20 Python logging quirks in AWS Lambda environment Python
Oct 14 Dissecting an outage caused by eager-loading file content Python
Oct 06 Auditing commit messages on GitHub Misc
Oct 05 To quote or not to quote Misc
Sep 25 Returning values from a shell function Misc
Sep 18 Verifying webhook origin via payload hash signing Python
Sep 11 Recipes from Python SQLite docs Python
Sep 10 Prefer urlsplit over urlparse to destructure URLs Python
Sep 02 Pick random values from an array in SQL(ite) System
Aug 27 ExitStack in Python Python
Jul 21 Compose multiple levels of fixtures in pytest Python
Jul 18 Patch where the object is used Python
Jul 17 Partially assert callable arguments with 'unittest.mock.ANY' Python
Jul 14 When to use 'git pull --rebase' Misc
Jul 10 Apply constraints with 'assert' in Python Python
Jul 07 Automerge Dependabot PRs on GitHub Misc
Jul 01 Stream process a CSV file in Python Python
Jun 27 Bulk operations in Django with process pool Python
Jun 26 Read a CSV file from s3 without saving it to the disk Python
Jun 21 Distil git logs attached to a single file Misc
Jun 16 Safer 'operator.itemgetter' in Python Python
May 22 Guard clause and exhaustiveness checking TypeScript
Apr 18 Health check a server with 'nohup $(cmd) &' Misc
Apr 13 Return JSON error payload instead of HTML text in DRF Python
Apr 03 Decoupling producers and consumers of iterables with generators in Python Python
Mar 27 Pre-allocated lists in Python Python
Mar 26 In favor of sentence case Zephyr
Mar 23 Disallow large file download from URLs in Python Python
Mar 20 Declaratively transform data class fields in Python Python
Mar 16 Caching connection objects in Python Python
Mar 16 How not to run a script in Python Python
Mar 16 Mocking chained methods of datetime objects in Python Python
Mar 11 Declarative payloads with TypedDict in Python Python
Mar 10 Parametrized fixtures in pytest Python
Mar 04 Modify iterables while iterating in Python Python
Mar 02 Github action template for Python based projects Python
Feb 28 Self type in Python Python
Feb 27 Patching test dependencies via pytest fixture & unittest mock Python
Feb 23 Narrowing types with TypeGuard in Python Python
Feb 21 Why 'NoReturn' type exists in Python Python
Feb 17 Add extra attributes to enum members in Python Python
Feb 14 Peeking into the internals of Python's 'functools.wraps' decorator Python
Feb 10 Limit concurrency with semaphore in Python asyncio Python
Feb 06 Amphibian decorators in Python Python
Feb 02 Go Rusty with exception handling in Python Python
Jan 31 Variance of generic types in Python Python
Jan 30 Create a sub dictionary with O(K) complexity in Python Python
Jan 27 Gotchas of early-bound function argument defaults in Python Python
Jan 24 Use 'assertIs' to check literal booleans in Python unittest Python
Jan 23 Static typing Python decorators Python
Jan 22 Inspect docstrings with Pydoc Python
Jan 21 Check whether an integer is a power of two in Python Python
Jan 20 Uniform error response in Django Rest Framework Python
Jan 19 Difference between constrained 'TypeVar' and 'Union' in Python Python
Jan 15 Don't wrap instance methods with 'functools.lru_cache' decorator in Python Python
Jan 06 Cropping texts in Python with 'textwrap.shorten' Python
Jan 05 String interning in Python Python