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When it comes to writing, I only used AI for smaller requests for a long time: fixing a typo, or smoothing over a clumsy sentence – the sort of thing a spellchecker does.

I have a mild habit of building my own version of things that surely already exist.

This blog post is a silly adaptation of the tale of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” and tells it as if the equivalent of passkeys were used instead of the (rather insecure) password “open sesame”.

Have you ever reviewed a pull request (PR) with a diff of a few hundred lines of code, for which the PR description merely said something like: “Add CSV export for messages”?

Do you remember $GOPATH?

Today, I finally got around to fixing a fundamental issue with klog (my command line tool for time tracking): if someone were to use klog on a daily basis for a few trillion years, there would be an increased risk of incorrect computations due to integer…

Boolean types represent binary state: true↔false, 1↔0, on↔off.

There are two ways to register custom subcommands for the git CLI tool.

Docker is one of my daily drivers in my local development toolchain.

Keeping track of database migrations in SQlite DB files can generally be done in the same way as with any other database.

When using small icons on a web page, it sometimes can be convenient to embed the respective image into the HTML code directly, instead of providing it as static image file and then fetching it via its URL in a separate HTTP request.

hurl is a command line tool for running HTTP requests.

IIFEs (immediately invoked function expressions) are a neat code pattern originally popularised by JavaScript, which, however, seem to be less common of in other languages.

10 years ago to the day, on 21st February 2014, I published my first article on this blog.

I periodically create snapshots of large directory trees for backup purposes.

Self-hosting is a fun and cost-efficient way to run web services, be it for some silly side-projects, or for miscellaneous third-party services that you want to host for personal usage.

I love LinkedIn.

Warning: the following post explores crazy ideas around error handling syntax in the Go programming language.

What is good code?

Did you know that computers existed way before the mid 20th century?