I had to go through an “AI” course recently for work, which included a couple of homework assignments. The intent was that these would be company-specific, but because 1 of these had to be posted on GitHub, I have a version without internal data. That was the RAG assignment (probably […]
Category: Go
The curious case of the unrun defer
Over the course of learning Go, I’ve come to like some aspects of the language. 1 of those is the defer statement. For those that aren’t familiar with the language, defer queues up a function call for just before your current function exits. I’ve found it similar in purpose to […]
Simple and easy HTML validation in Go
I didn’t spend as much time in 2025 working on my gift registry, so all I really have is a login flow and profile management. I am building out a test suite that seems to do a pretty good job of validating the code works (I’ve only had a couple […]
If you’re going to just run the code, just run the code
I’m very pro “just running the code” when it comes to testing software. But while just spinning up containers does actually “work” – in the sense that the test runs and completes without error. But you very quickly realize that’s clearly not how these things are supposed to work. I’ve […]
You can just run the code
So I haven’t made as much progress on the actual gift registry I wanted to write this year, although I do have a Go web application that connects to a Postgres database, with an endpoint that gets the database stats, collects telemetry data, pipes it all to an OpenTelemetry stack, […]