eblog: software articles by efron licht

An investigation into collapse of Github and how the decay of our tech infrastructure is a crime against software.

ALPHA: Third part of a guide to systems programming, covering performance, including computer architecture, architectural design, profiling, benchmarking, and examples of micro-optimizations.

An attempt to communicate wisdom from the engineers and programmers of the past

Gin is a very bad software library.

Second part of a guide to systems programming, covering how to interact with the outside world - syscalls, files, etc.

First part of a guide to systems programming, starting with building the basic tools to examine and manipulate files and binary data

An investigation into the mechanism and performance of Gin's fancy stack traces

Adding autocomplete to our reflection-based debug console

A very fancy way to make a realtime debug console like quake for your go programs

First part of a guide to backend development in go, covering the basics of TCP, DNS, and HTTP

Now that we know how to build it by hand, use the go stdlib to do it the practical way

Third part of a guide to backend development in go, covering testing, middleware, dependencies, routing, and a little bit of databases

The only thing your program does every time is start, so it should start as fast as possible.

part 3 of a grab-bag of go quirks and tricks, covering arrays, validation, and build constraints.

part 2 of a grab-bag of go quirks and tricks, covering concurrency, unsafe, and reflect.

part 1 of a grab-bag of go quirks and tricks, covering declaration, control flow, and the typesystem.

Using the magic technique of "just kind of looking at raw bytes" to solve a problem with UUIDs.