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The modern web, broadly, consists of two distinct innovations: The technology for rendering and interacting with web pages (also known as the trifecta of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) The client-server deployment model, which allows a single desktop application (your web browser) to alter its behavior using instructions sent over the network by a web server Whether you love it or hate it, web…
Uno While playing around with Microsoft’s Uno Platform, I discovered its super-neat XAML Hot Reload feature. It basically does exactly what you think it would; while the app is running, changes made to any XAML file will be reflected automatically, without needing to re-build anything. This is basically the desktop development equivalent of LiveReload, and is a great way to tighten the…
Table of Contents Preface Getting Started Safety First: TLS Behind the Firewall Provisioning With Terraform Running a Website Final Thoughts Preface “Hashistack” refers to a network cluster based on HashiCorp tools, and after off-and-on spending a considerable amount of time on it, the architecture of my own cluster (on which this blog is running, among other personal projects) has…
In an attempt to consolidate my various personal projects, and to be efficient about how much money I spend on VPS hosting, this blog is now running on my tiny Nomad cluster. The ID for this allocation is: The components involved are: Nomad Consul Vault Fabio multirootca The Nomad deployment guide recommends either three or five servers, but I’m not really running business-critical…
GopherJS enables web development using Go for both the backend server code and frontend browser code. One of the neat things this allows you to do, which the NodeJS community is all too happy to tell you, is share code between the frontend and backend. However, JavaScript is a dynamic language, and lacks many of the static analysis tools that Go provides. By taking advantage of Go’s static…
As an avid openSUSE user and fan, I wish more VPS providers supported openSUSE images. Linode and Amazon both do, and there’s nothing wrong with them, but I recently learned about Vultr’s custom ISO feature and decided to try to bring openSUSE to Vultr! Vultr provides guides for installing CoreOS and Gentoo, after all, so why not openSUSE?
Lately I’ve been playing around with a lot of HashiCorp tools including Nomad, their solution to application scheduling. Despite its relative immaturity, there are a few things I really like about it: straightforward, readable configuration syntax; ease of integration with other HashiCorp tools; and flexible runtime drivers, including raw execution, meaning you’re not tied down to…
Introduction The CoreOS project is doing some very interesting work on how to build, deploy, and scale web applications. Their big focus is to keep the platform as minimal as possible, which means that everything must be run as a container. That in turn means that the stock OS doesn’t have to worry about any language runtimes or compilers, since those will be bundled with the app itself.…
This post is going to be a variation of the famous pipelines and cancellation Go blog post, modified for crawling a website, and updated using net/http’s native support for request contexts introduced in Go 1.7. Downloading Beer Recipes My motivation for building a concurrent website crawler was to be able to download a catalog of all public recipes on Brewtoad. Each recipe can be…
Introduction One of my favorite things that I’ve learned so far from Casey Muratori’s excellent Handmade Hero series of videos is his demonstration of how to load game code dynamically. This allows you to make changes to the running game without having to close the existing process, which enables very rapid iteration during development. However, Casey only shows you how to do it in C…
One of my favorite packages in the Go standard library is html/template . Not only does it provide a solid templating language equivalent to text/template , but it ensures its safety of any HTML or JavaScript you throw at it. Unfortunately, it can be a little limiting when working with external JavaScript resources, but there are a couple options for working around those limitations.
Web applications get all the hype these days, so why not buck the trend and build a desktop application instead? In this post I’m going to use Vala and GTK+ to build a simple desktop program for searching Giphy, the popular GIF database.
Why use an official Java or .NET-based algorithm when you can write your own in Bash? This script uses the AWS CLI tool to back up a file to an Amazon Glacier vault, without the need for a heavy runtime.
About a year ago I started working on an initial batch of Go bindings to the Allegro 5 game library, and while I like the idea of producing a fully-functional foreign-interface library, I didn’t finish during the initial period of development, and the project lay dormant for months. Recently I began to revive it, but as soon as I did, I ran into a problem: how much had I already done?
Welcome to my blog! I’m Damien, a software developer based in Chicago. This website is my place for occasionally writing blog posts, usually around programming. They’re not always interesting or useful, but hey, it’s about the journey, right? My programming interests lately include Go and Rust Networking infrastructure Desktop application development with GTK Because I like to…
Information Email me@damienradtke.com Website https://damienradtke.com Phone (651) 245-3382 Location Chicago, IL Repositories github.com/dradtke — git.sr.ht/~damien Education BS in Math & Computer Science from DePaul University Career Experience April 2016 - present | Software Engineer @ Braintree/PayPal Current group tech lead for the Reporting Platform team Develops new features and bug fixes…