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Hacker News had a lot to say about my article on securing a server. Oddly, it was one of my more …

Fan-out, fan-in is the work-horse of Go concurrency patterns. This post explains how it works with an example.

Choosing the right tools to write a database model in Go can be overwhelming. This post describes the various approaches.

Fred Brooks published The Mythical Man-Month in 1974. As technology goes, it's ancient. Yet it still has lessons to teach us.

At this company, we are family. And what a family we are.

I don’t exactly hate new things, but I’ve generally had enough of what’s new and …

This guide covers the basics of hardening a new Linux virtual machine when you'd rather be doing something else.

A look at designing clean code interfaces, illustrated with examples.

Do you need to tally numbers from your Apple //e's video memory? No? Well, neither do I. But at least we can have fun with 6502 Assembly.

I have a confession: I don’t think very much about memory when I’m programming. I know …

It seems everyone has a story like this, but I’ll give you mine anyway. I was 6-months into my …

"[,-.]" matches a comma, a dash or a period, but it shouldn't work.

Software design is often reduced to a set of rules and rituals. It's well meaning and sometimes helpful, but it ultimately misses the point.

I once heard about a High School student who thought Europe was the capital of France. Of course …

As I write this, it’s Saturday morning I’m sipping coffee and listening to light rain …

Programmers tend to treat text encoding like the office bore. You weren’t planning on a 2-hour …

I learned recently that the word playwright is unrelated to write. It is, in fact, derived from …

This is a follow-up to an experiment on code structure. To recap, I built two versions of a back-end …

Like it or not, your users depend on you to protect their passwords. Here's a list of the worst things you can do.

Let’s say you want some software built. So you hire a team of smart developers, tell them what …

I recently wrote a Markov chain package which included a random text generator. The generated text …

The first time I ever heard of a Markov chain was overhearing a conversation at work. My coworker …