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The Go-Top Becomes a Homelab
The laptop For years I carried a laptop covered in Golang stickers everywhere I went. The go-top. It was ancient, and it only kept working because I lived in Neovim on NixOS, which asks very little of a machine. It’s finally out of the backpack, and …
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Rebuilding My NixOS Machine With One Command
I moved to a new machine recently and it went badly. A few things were missing, a few things were slightly different, and I spent more time trying to remember what I had configured than I did working. Which is a little embarrassing, since the entire sales …
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Weekly Dev Update July 14th, 2025
Had a baby, attending conferences & meetups, interviews & C Game-Dev
Hello, World! My wife and I brought our second child into the world, marking a major life event. It’s incredibly different having a second in large part, because it’s just …
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Weekly Dev Update 13
Project Muse Finished | Oh Javascript… | Project Muse Finished Project Muse started in January, and finally, I have made the final push I plan to make for a while. The project has grown beyond its original MVP, but I wanted to get it to a …
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Weekly Dev Update 12
7 Days Sick | Muse In Composer Last week I experienced some of the worst influenza I’ve had in several years. I remember being fairly insufferable for my first bout with covid a few years ago, but this was so miserable, for so long, also while having my …
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Weekly Dev Update 11
Mentoring | Pokemon Nuzlocke | Meetups | HTTP Server Presentations This week I began coaching a developer, went to some fun meetups, worked on my next golang presentation, and whited out of a Pokemon Nuzlocke
Nuzlocke Last week, I got a ‘gameboy’ …
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Weekly Dev Update 10
Email Service | gRPC Round 2 | AWS SES TLDR: In project Muse (security-camera project that uses AI to summarize and send alerts from conversations) I created a new service to send me emails based on video details.
Pigeons I said it. Pigeons. Muse has a theme …
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Weekly Dev Update 9
Weekly Dev Update #9 Over the last week, most of my work has been contributing to my Project Muse, out of work, as well as hosting the first Golang meetup in my city, and giving a presentation on the Go programing language!
Project Muse | Docker Compose | …
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Weekly Dev Update 8
RTSP Server | Serverless | Microservices | Go Web Dev More of an update on how the year has gone nearly 3 months in, where projects are at, where they’ve progressed from, and some skills picked up along the way.
Project Pact This is a web development …
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Yearly Dev Update: 2025
Repo Status Updates of The Year SaorsaDev Blog complete This blog was made just this year, believe it or not! I made it to try and draw me away from LinkedIn. But LinkedIn feels so much more casual, I’ve always opted in that direction when able. This …
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Weekly Dev Update 7
More Game-Dev | Vacation | Focus Game Dev Since beginning to work on my game, I haven’t made many posts on the blog. I have been engrossed in the project from head to toe. I haven’t ever found any project quite so fun to build and the challenges …
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Weekly Dev Update 6
GoGameDevDiscord This week I made a Discord Server for Game Developers using Golang:
https://discord.gg/fhDnKr2Q
GoGameDevProgress My own game written in Go is coming along. I plan to make a full post about my experiences so far. I have had a ton of trouble …
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Weekly Dev Update 5
Professional API Research At work, I had been given the opportunity to do a ton of research into what API we plan to use for a service. Never have I been required to go this deep on the documentation of several different API’s, their pricing plans. …
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Weekly Dev Update 4
Templating Blog Post / Completed Templating/Golang/Postgres Work Project / GameBoy Color Development Templating Blog Post As I struggled with a work project that required some midly complex Golang templating, I came up against the reality that I simply …
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Weekly Dev Update 3
Weekly Dev Update 3 Conference / RAG AI Presentation / Developing New Web Server at Work / Closing thoughts Conference This week I went to a local conference. It was a conference that I would assertain is best suited for C-Suite positions. Most of the …
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Making Sense of Golangs Templating
In this article, I want to discuss a flexible approach to templating in Golang. By keeping a flexible approach, I mean my aim is to avoid complicated explanations, in favor of explaining the surface level of the main approaches I see myself, and others take …
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Weekly Dev Update 2
Weekly Dev Update Creating Content & Developing User Registration Registration Form This week, what I spent the most time building was the continued work on my registration form. Returning to a sort of mid-level phase, adding sessions to a database, not …
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Simplifying Middleware in Go
Simplifying Middleware in Go I want to discuss some of the discoveries, and challenges, I ran into while building a Golang http web server, and making the authentication part of the application. Since I have not been using any frameworks, the process does get …
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Weekly Dev Update 1
Weekly Dev Update 1 Arden Labs Golang in AI Webinar
This week I had a chance encounter! I was listening to ‘Cup O’ Go’ podcast, where Bill Kennedy mentioned some of the trainings that Ardan Lab does, which led to me seeing the Ardan Labs was …
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Weekly Dev Update 0
Weekly Dev Update Building a Web Server & Creating This Blog Building a Golang Web Server from the ground up I turned a basic empty Golang project, into my first attempt at building a web server. This has been much harder than I thought. There is so much …
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Prism DevBlog: Creature Fusion the challenge I always had this fun
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