Error handling in Go HTTP applications
A scheme for consistent and safe HTTP API errors
joe shaw
Latest posts
Abusing go:linkname to customize TLS 1.3 cipher suites
Don't do this.
Understanding Go panic output
Decoding all those hex values
Testing with os/exec and TestMain
One weird trick to make cleaner tests with os/exec
Don't defer Close() on writable files
It'll bite you some day
Revisiting context and http.Handler for Go 1.7
I forget what I was told by myself
Smaller Docker containers for Go apps
Reducing image sizes by more than 90%
Go's net/context and http.Handler
Two great tastes that taste great together
Contributing to GitHub projects
A beginner's guide to pull requests
Terrible Vagrant/Virtualbox performance on Mac OS X
One weird trick to speed up your virtual machines
Linux input ecosystem
A tour of the kernel, udev, and Xorg
AVCHD to MP4/H.264/AAC conversion
It is surprisingly tricky
Real-time MBTA bus location + Google Maps mashup
This weekend I read that the MBTA and Massachusetts Department of Transportation had released a trial real-time data feed for the positioning of vehicles on five of its bus routes. This is very important data to have, and while obviously everyone would like to see more routes added, it’s a start. I decided to hack together a mashup of this data with Google Maps, to see how easy it would be.…
Python daemon threads considered harmful
Update April 2015 : Reading it again years later, I regret the tone of this post. I was frustrated at the time and it comes across now as just smarmy. Still, I stand by the principal idea: that you should avoid Python’s daemon threads if you can. Update June 2015 : This is Python bug 1856 . It was fixed in Python 3.2.1 and 3.3, but the fix was never backported to 2.x. (An attempt to backport…