Back in June, my wife and I were driving back from an outdoor birthday party. It was a lovely summer night, and we were happily tired after all the physical activities we did there. We were getting close to home when I got an email pop up on my phone:

Last month, I wanted to figure out the nicest way to make my Go package import URL look nice and short. First thing was to change the go.mod file and set the name. But then I had to figure out how to make go get respect that, so that…

About a week ago I got seriously bothered to figure out whether it is possible to run BPXE (a workflow automation engine I am developing) in a browser. I mean, theoretically it was always a possibility (Rust can target wasm32-unknown-unknown after all), but how does this translate to having something…

(One service at a time) — Have you ever noticed that the discourse is often about slicing and dicing the hardware, power and networking resources data centers have? Whatever you need — you can get it from multiple vendors, with excellent support and exciting features —…

Two months ago, after a lot of contemplation, doubt and internal resistance, I’ve started a small project to address some of the problems I had with how most of us do issue tracking in our projects. A range of things bothered me. For example, weak offline operations support —…

A few days ago, I posted this tweet after discovering that yet another open source project I am using has that funny Heroku app to join their chat: Thanks to a few lucky mentions I got down the road, it got liked and retweeted handsomely. Nothing spectacular but it…

I remember that about 20 years ago, when I was just a bit more naive and a lot more confident in my opinions, I thought that code is the ultimate source of truth. Documentation was secondary to me. I was living and breathing code to that degree when it comes…

tl;dr: In an ideal world, maybe. Contracts essentially act as middlemen gate-keepers, reducing the value of decentralization. Tokens as smart contracts add layers of complexity that are far more likely to fail and that requires contracts to have “administrative” backdoors. One of the foundations (or, rather, promises) of cryptocurrencies that…

Last month, while sifting through my inbox, I discovered that I got charged for another year of about.me — a service that I didn’t intend to continue paying for, but forgot to cancel. Sure enough, as it is a common procedure for me, I e-mailed the support to tell that…