I built an Open-Source "Tactical" Ping Monitor to track my Starlink micro-dropouts vs my 4G/5G backup.
Hey guys! I was getting frustrated with invisible lag spikes and micro-disconnections, so I decided to build a native desktop tool (in Go & Fyne) to m
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Mar 31, 2026
Test Post from My Go Script
Hello from my Go posting script!
This is a test post published directly from my VS Code terminal using a Go script I built while learning G
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Mar 31, 2026
Your Package Manager's Installer Doesn't Know Fish Exists
You find a new CLI tool on GitHub. The README looks good. You scroll to "Installation" and see the magic one-liner: curl -sSL https://... | sh. You ru
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Mar 31, 2026
Backup Is Not Enough: A PostgreSQL Recovery Story
This experiment is designed to test and validate the pgrwl tool in
real conditions: https://github.com/pgrwl/pgrwl
Instead of synthetic examples, we
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Mar 31, 2026
Wrapping Long-Running Go Functions with a Single Call
Every CLI tool eventually needs the same thing: show the user that something is happening, print progress, and clean up the output when it's done. The
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Mar 31, 2026
How a “Kind of Working” Payment Gateway Made Me Write This Circuit Breaker
I got bored and wrote a circuit breaker
A few years ago I was working at a fintech company. We had an integration with a payment gateway. C
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Mar 31, 2026
Building a Domain-Driven Go REST API (And Why It Scales Better Than Flat Structure)
Most Go backend projects start the same way. A main.go, a router, a database connection, and then a slow drift into a structure that technically works
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Mar 31, 2026
I built 59 scrapers for US government data and most of them were a waste of time
I've spent the last few months building web scrapers for US government databases. Secretary of State business filings, SEC EDGAR, FDA clearances, OSHA
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Mar 31, 2026
You probably want to disable cgo: Go's stdlib has pure-Go implementations
CGO_ENABLED defaults to 1. That means a standard go build produces a binary that links against C libraries (e.g., glibc) at runtime. For many parts of
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Mar 31, 2026
I built an open source LLM proxy as a single Go binary — here's why
About 18 months ago I started building Stockyard. It's an LLM proxy: you point your apps at it instead of directly at OpenAI or Anthropic or Gemini, a
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Mar 31, 2026
Product Mindset Is the Skill Vibe Coding Can't Replace
Everyone Can Ship Now. That's the Problem.
A few weeks ago, I built a full quiz app in three hours. Peaky Blinders on one window, Claude on
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Mar 31, 2026
How We Built an AI Screenplay-to-Storyboard Pipeline in Go
We built StoryBirdie — a tool that takes a screenplay file and turns it into a complete storyboard with shot lists, camera angles, and AI-generated fr
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Mar 31, 2026
AI-powered PostgreSQL observability
pg-collector streams live PostgreSQL telemetry into a 7-dimension state machine that predicts failures, detects query regressions, and answers the 5 q
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Mar 31, 2026
Building a Firecracker VM Orchestrator in Go - Part 2: API Server
Introduction
If you missed the first post in this series, start here. It covers the foundation: five provider interfaces that decouple the
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Mar 31, 2026
Efficient, Scalable Concurrency in Go: Implementing Promise/Future Pattern for High-Volume Operations
Introduction & Problem Statement
In the world of high-performance Go applications, the choice of concurrency pattern can make or break your
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Mar 30, 2026
Integrating my AVR with Home Assistant
I was tired of digging through tiny on-device menus just to turn Zone 2 on and off on my AVR.
So I built a small Go CLI (zone2) that talks directly t
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Mar 30, 2026
Building a Vector Database That Never Decompresses Your Vectors
Preamble: What vector search is all about
If you've spent any time near an LLM in the last couple of years, you've heard the term "embedd
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Mar 30, 2026
A simple api gateway from scratch written in golang
Building an API Gateway From Scratch in Go
API gateways are one of those infrastructure components that feel intimidating from the outside.
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Mar 30, 2026
kubectl-prof: Profile Your Kubernetes Applications with Zero Overhead and Zero Modifications
🔥 kubectl-prof: Profile Your Kubernetes Apps Without Touching Them
Have you ever needed to debug a performance issue in a production Kubern
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Mar 30, 2026
The Blackwall Between Your AI Agent and Your Filesystem
Every AI coding agent you run has the same permissions you do. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider. They can read your SSH keys, write to your shell con
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Mar 30, 2026