Go Toolchain Versions
How Go's toolchain versioning actually works, from the go directive to automatic downloads.
Michael Dwan
Thoughts on software engineering and technology
Latest posts
Talk: Rebuilding Highrise from the Inside Out
My talk at Windy City Rails 2016 about taking over a ten-year-old Rails app, rebuilding momentum, and making users happy.
Talk: MongoDB Data Modeling for Performance
Migrating a massive business directory from Postgres to MongoDB and the strategies that made it work.
Customize Your Heroku Deployment
A simple Rake task that wraps git push with hooks for multi-environment deploys.
Definition of an Entrepreneur
What it really means to be an entrepreneur.
Coding Is Not a Spectator Sport
What happens when your laptop dies mid-demo in front of a hundred people.
What can you build with 600 lines of code?
37signals shipped a production app in under 600 lines of Ruby. A case for simplicity.