How to safely store and use your env values in production using Infisical

Securing environment variables in production

how to populate your integration tests with data to make them useful

Testfixtures for your database in Golang

Errors in http handlers in Go are ridiculously complex to handler. Depending on how simple or complex your handler is, you can always fail to return an error somewhere after sending the response. Here is how I handle it

http.Handlers and error handling in Golang

Don't want to download a script online to run and execute?

Alternative guide to selfhosting Writebook

Selfhosting is all the rage in 2024. Here is how to auto deploy Go services to your machine

Deploying Go on a VPS with Github actions

random notes on Crypto and the shitcoin craze

Crypto, shitcoins and casinos

Notes on SSH

No comments and that is fine too

Stick a widget anywhere on the web, have your customers send you feedback and the feedback goes directly to your Notion database

Fotion: Feedbacks on the internet + your Notion database

Thoughts on the Go team entering userland libraries

Maybe all you need isn't the standard library?

A few useful things you might want to know when using Postgresql

Postgresql tricks

Tinkering with Whisper, ChatGPT and prompting for personal usage

OpenAI, voice notes and a micro SaaS

How to verify a supabase user without the JS sdk

Verifying a supabase user on your backend without the SDK

Removing bloatware, excessive tracking from the web

Just got rid of Google analytics

Responding to responses about my earlier thoughts on overlogging

On actionable and actually useful logs

How to safely revoke JWTs without compromising user's security

JWT revocation

Implementing migrations in Go the sane way

Database migrations in Golang

Continous integration to deploy static websites

Automagically build and deploy your Jekyll site with Drone CI

Introduction to using consul for service registration

Service discovery and loadbalancing with Consul and Fabio

Custom implementation of a buffered scanner

A custom split function for bufio#Scanner

Learn how not to leak production configurations. 12 factor configuration?

Managing configuration values in production sanely

Interfaces should ideally be small and focused. Learn how to make smaller and concised interfaces in Go

On composable interfaces in Go

So I switched fully to (Neo)vim, here is what I think

Musings on switching to Vim

Diving deep into net/http : A look at http.RoundTripper

Isolating and mocking the database in Go tests

Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) in Golang

Writing Expressive tests in Go with Ginkgo and Gomega

What package name do I give my Golang tests ?

On package names for Go tests

Exploring public API for your libraries: Convenience or type safety?

Type safety or convenience

Middleware in Go

An introduction to testing Golang's web services

Testing HTTP handlers in Go

The ultimate primer to understanding web development in Go

Getting started with HTTP in Go

Testing packages integration with Laravel

Tips on writing more maintainable code in Laravel

Improving maintainability in Laravel apps

How to extend the gbowo library for paystack

Extending the Gbowo library via plugins

Elementary OS, beauty and the beast

Broken test suites don't lie. They never do.

Never under estimate the power of a broken testsuite

Building your own simple and reusable validation library in PHP

Build your own validation library

So I have been taking a look at ___Ruby___.

ATM Simulator in Ruby

A subtle introduction to Mocking (2)

An introduction to Mocking

It all began when i decided to avoid all the ugly parts of my chosen framework, Laravel. Laravel "Facades", global helper functions et al. Little did i know it was more than what meets the eyes.

Note to self, KISS is a way of life

One of my favorite questions on Quora is What is a coder's worst Nightmare.

On Development and Production environment parity

I only recently completed building a project i was extremely keen on

Deploying PHP web apps with Capistrano

In my previous post, I discussed the benefits a template engine could bring to a project and why major frameworks have native support for them.

Building a simplistic MVC framework with AuraPHP and Twig

Why you should use a template engine ( PHP )

The Archive

Securing environment variables in production

Testfixtures for your database in Golang

http.Handlers and error handling in Golang

Alternative guide to selfhosting Writebook

Deploying Go on a VPS with Github actions