GoReleaser: 1k repositories and beyond

When first announced GoReleaser roughly 1 year ago, on January 2017, I never thought it would be somewhat famous.

On being an effective developer

Over the years I read several articles on how to be effective, and how the 10x engineer thing is or is not a lie and all that.

Building Google Home Action in Go

This is a text version of this video: packagemain #10: Building Google Home Action in Go. Google Home is a voice Assistant, similar to Amazon Alexa, but working with Google services. It has a lot of built-in integrations, but what is interesting for us developers is that we can...

Detect fake news by building your own classifier

Detect fake news by building your own classifier

Automatic TLS certificate distribution with Vault

It’s often recommended that microservice communications are encrypted, especially if they cross the public internet. Even when you control the network, whether virtually or physically, encrypting traffic can still be valuable. Lets Encrypt has revolutionized the distributio...

Interface Values Are Valueless

Introduction I’ve been seeing a lot of question about interfaces lately on Slack. Most of the time the answers are technical and focus on implementation details. Implementation is important to help with debugging, but implementation doesn’t help with design. When it comes to...

Moving to Hugo

After some time, I finally decided to move my blog from Jekyll to Hugo.

Advanced gRPC Error Usage

How to best handle errors in Go is a divisive issue, leading to opinion pieces by illustrious bloggers such as Dave Cheney, the commander himself Rob Pike as well as the official Go blog. I’m not going to tackle those opinions here, instead I’m going to talk about bes...

Using Machine Learning to help us communicate better