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My name is Jessica Bowen and I am a software developer and engineering manager living in Silicon Valley.
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Hello!
If you are reading this, you are someone with whom I have decided to share some personal news. While it may be a surprise, I am, and have always been, a transgender woman. I am writing the page to help communicate what that means. I am transgender When I was born, my gender was chosen for me based on the outward physical appearance. However, that assigned gender does not match with the person I am…
Starting tmux Sessions via SSH
How to configure ssh to automatically launch tmux with a session name of your choosing
Forwarding remote tcpdump streams to Wireshark
Often times one wants to analyze network traffic on a remote host with Wireshark running locally. One method is to capture the traffic with tcpdump on the remote host and then download the completed capture to your local computer and open it for analysis. This works but is awkward and time consuming. What if, instead, one was able to watch the network capture in Wireshark live? With a combination…
Using Go Vanity URLs with Hugo
Go vanity import URLs are useful tools for maintaining a consistent import path for public Go packages, even if one changes code repository location. In this article, I show how to set up vanity URLs in a website built by Hugo and deployed on Netlify for Go packages hosted on a third-party site such as GitLab or GitHub.
Remote Time Machine for Multiple Macs
Time Machine, the built-in backup tool for MacOS, makes it relatively straightforward to set up a network share to be a backup target for a Mac computer. However, there are difficulties when trying to use the same share to backup multiple Mac systems. In this article, I highlight some of the issues and solutions associated with more than one computer running Time Machine backing up to a single…
Exploring the Synology PhotoStation API
I’ve started to use PhotoStation on my Synology NAS device at home to organize my photos and provide easy means to access remotely. I have been quite pleased overall, especially with the integration with the DS Photo app which can sync photos from an iPhone’s camera roll to the Synology NAS. I was looking for an automated way to sort my photos into a hierarchy of folders by date.…
Bash Command-line Completion with Go
Command-line completion is a helpful feature in many modern shells, providing users with a helpful means of typing potentially complex commands quickly and accurately. In this article I show how to add completion to Go programs when run from the Bash shell.
The Magic of Go Comments
Comments are a valuable tool for documenting and communicating information about code. They are a common feature in nearly every programming language and Go is no exception. However, comments in Go programs can do far more than providing information readers of the code. In this article I will highlight some lesser known uses of comments within Go that have special – almost magical –…
Using SO_PEERCRED in Go
At this year’s GopherCon , Gabbi Fisher ( @gabbifish ) of CloudFlare made a great presentation introducing her audience to the complexities of network socket options in Go (archived video of her presentation here ). In her talk, Gabbi details how to use the network socket option SO_REUSEADDR to allow multiple processes on the same server to listen on the same network port. Gabbi closes by…
Using Page Bundles to Organize Resources
Last year, Hugo introduced the concept of page bundles. Page bundles give website authors a new way to organize all the resources (.md files, images, etc…) of a page together. In this article, I show how I transitioned some of my existing posts to use page bundles without changing the final website layout and appearance.
Using Go Flags in Tests
Many developers are familiar with the flag package from the Go standard library. This package provides an easy method for adding command line options and argument parsing for Go programs. What may not be as well known is that flag can be used in Go unit tests as well.
Starting a Blog - Part 4: Custom Domain
One of the last steps to publishing my blog is to assign my custom domain name to it. I previously acquired the domain jbowen.dev from Google Domains and want to use that for my blog. This is supported easily by Netlify and this post details how it can be set up.
Starting a Blog - Part 3: Deploying
Following part 1 and part 2 of this series, we have now set up hugo locally, created our first post and customized our theme to match our desired appearance. Next step is to deploy our content to a webserver so it is accessible to the outside world.
Starting a Blog - Part 2: Customization
This is the second part of my blog feature on setting up a blog using Hugo and Netlify . In part 1 , I discussed installing Hugo and the Hyde theme and adding an initial post. We then used the hugo server command to create a live version of the website to view locally. This post will discuss various means on how to customize the appearance of the generated blog.
Starting a Blog - Part 1: Hugo
This is the first of several posts that will discuss how to set up a new blog using Hugo and Netlify. I will discuss the steps taken to create this blog and publish it to a custom domain.
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qcon is a pure Go implementation of the Synology QuickConnect protocol. QuickConnect provides a simplified mechanism for accessing a Synology NAS device via a variety of methods (LAN, WAN, tunnel, etc…) depending on the current network connectivity.
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This package provides a pure Go implementation to decode and unmarshal data stored by python programs using the cerealizer library.
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An attempt to document the REST API for Synology PhotoStation REST API. This documentation is not official and is not supported by Synology.