NASA Collage
One of the most popular websites at NASA is the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Bringing Sanity to your Dependencies with Go Modules and Athens
As many of us know, Go version 1.11 introduced Go Modules, a brand new dependency management system. A Little Bit About Modules Before 1.11, our dependencies were a collection of Go packages with a single version number attached to all of them.
Automatic Semantic Versioning in GitLab CI
In the previous post I showed how to keep all the scripts used in the CI in one repository. Let’s see what more advanced scripts you could put in there. This time I’d like to show how to add automatic versioning to your pipeline. You will also see how to push commits...
gpython: a Python interpreter written in Go "batteries not included"
Gpython is a Python 3.4 interpreter written in Go. This is the story of how it came to be, how it works and where it is going.
Improve Your Breadmaking Skills with Go and Open-Source Monitoring
I have many different interests, including baking, open-source software, and more recently, systems monitoring and learning Go. As a way for me to expand my practical knowledge on each item, I devised a fun little project that leverages sensors, Raspberry Pis, and Prometheus to i...
How to Hash and Verify Passwords With Argon2 in Go
Thanks to Andreas Auernhammer, author of the golang.org/x/crypto/argon2 package, for checking over this post before publication. If you're planning to store user passwords it's good practice (essential really) to hash them using a computationally expensive key-derivation functi...
Creating WebGL apps with Go
TL;DR In this article I’ll share my experience building an interactive 3D WebGL-based application for peer-to-peer messaging protocol simulation without writing any single line in JS.
Building a CI/CD Bot with Slack and Kubernetes.
This article is about an experiment at Africa’s Talking on using Slack to manage our deployment process. Like many companies, we use Kubernetes to manage our deployments, and Slack for internal communications.
A Dive Into the `fmt` Package
We usually use the fmt package without giving it much thought. A fmt.Printf here, a fmt.Sprintf there and on we go. However, if you’ll take a closer look, you’ll be able to get much more out of it.
Go and WebAssembly: running Go programs in your browser
For a long time, Javascript was the lingua franca amongst web developers. If you wanted to write a stable, mature web app, writing in javascript was pretty much the only way to go.