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• Refactoring: Preventing a copy-pasta nightmare Aug 25, 2025 - 9 min read
  An example of how I go about extracting generic usable functionality from existing code
• Resume as code Aug 19, 2025 - 2 min read
  Treating my resume with the same respect I give my code.
• Common Go Footguns: Debug Logging Jul 28, 2025 - 3 min read
  This is the third post in a series on common go footguns about how debug logging can have surprising performance impacts
• Home Assistant: Generating Dashboard Graphs From Sensors Jul 27, 2025 - 3 min read
  Generating a dashboard full of graphs from all sensors with given attributes
• Home Network TLS Certificates Jan 5, 2025 - 5 min read
  How I managed certs for all the things in my home network
• Securing simple web services behind caddy with SSO Dec 7, 2024 - 3 min read
  Adding SSO with OIDC to simple webapps proxied by Caddy
• Common Go Footguns: Appending to slices Aug 25, 2024 - 3 min read
  This is the second post in a series on common Go footguns. This post demonstrates the performance impacts of appending a known number of elements to a slice without doing any pre-allocation. This is one of the most common and easily fixed performance issues I see in pull requests on a regular basis.
• Common Go Footguns: Interface Nility Aug 24, 2024 - 3 min read
  Describing the common footgun of checking an interface for nil
• Excluding Generated Mocks From Coverage May 29, 2024 - 1 min read
  Some projects make rather heavy use of gomock for testing, and I’ve noticed the command that I had been using to run all tests and generate coverage included the mocks in coverage and brought the numbers down.
• Kubernetes Postgres Backups Mar 24, 2024 - 6 min read
  Automatic backups of PostgreSQL hosted in kubernetes

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