opinion What part of your app is your app? Your entire app is not your entire app. Here's how I think about the different parts of an app, and how to separate the core from the accessories.
go On interfaces and composition Abstractions are good. Golang has interfaces. The article talks about how to use interfaces to make code more maintainable and flexible.
go Work in a team? Have 4 groups of imports in your go files Do you want to organise your Go imports into 4 groups instead of 3? Here's how you can do it with a new version of gci and golangci-lint
stripe Integrate Stripe dashboard from your site Stripe's customer portal is awesome, but you need to give them a link to click on to get there. This walks you through what you need to make that happen.
go Golang style linters, multiline statements, and blocks with whitespace The golang ci lint linters whitespace, lll, and wsl can put you in a cycle of warnings about your code quality. By adding a comment to the right place you can appease all three.
Should I pay for that SaaS? You’re looking for a way to do something, and you find multiple solutions to the problem. Let’s take blogging as an example You find Ghost [https://ghost.org], and to your delight, it’s available open source. You can download it and host it wherever you want it
go Use gci in Goland as a file watcher gci is an amazing tool. It takes the guesswork out of organising your go file’s imports, and the command line version works as expected. Here's how to set it up in Goland.
opinion The projects that don’t get built Before working on projects, there are a few questions that we should all ask: can it be abused, how can it be made safe, and does it need to be built in the first place?
go how parseTime in sql connections work with time.Time in Go Working with time values in Go is not straightforward, and using a database to store them with automatic parsing can be even more fun! Here are my thoughts on it.
review Book review: 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth In mid-2019 I was given the book "15 invaluable laws of growth" to read. I reviewed it then. I post my review now.
hr Should remote companies pay differently based on where you live? Reasons why remote companies should not pay people differently based on where they live.
terminal Customize your ZSH prompt with this one weird trick! I like having the last commit's sha in the command line. Gives me instant access to the info. I'll walk you through how I made zsh to show it to me.
stripe Stripe Connect, and what it means for you! Stripe Connect is a convenient way to set up plugins with a few clicks. It also lets the account you're connecting to see all your data.
advanced Password managers, password rules, and an idea What if we had a standard that password fields could tell you whether the input conforms to the ruleset?
advanced Building a no-js eCommerce store I want to make an ecommerce site and not use javascript at all as an experiment.
ssl Get Firefox to trust your self signed certificates How to get Firefox to trust all self signed certificates you use locally to serve your development sites over https and not complain about them.
seo Growth hacking gone wrong: ”You rejected me, so I told the authorities!!1!” If you're a growth hacker, and you ask website owners to please place your links in their own content, you might want to remember you're the one asking.
diversity & inclusion Dear white people, we need to talk about diversity and inclusion A longread where you can read what some of the things white people should pay attention to when it comes to diversity according to a fellow white person.
wordpress Hosting: gotcha with multiple WP installs, one Redis If you're using one Redis instance to keep multiple WordPress sites' data, you need to make sure different sites don't bleed over to others. Read how and why.
laravel Updating Laravel Valet: sorry, you’re not allowed to preserve environment Laravel valet might tell you that you are not allowed to preserve the environment. This article details what that means, why that happens, and how to fix it.
nginx ETag, If-Match, NGINX, and you! If you set an ETag response header, and it's missing, NGINX might be removing it. This article explains what causes it and how to fix it so ETags show up again.
phpcs PHPCS on Codeship as CI test Use Codeship to test the changed files in your pull request against PHPCS. Find working code, and explanation on why it works.
git Set up Circle CI to run phpcs on only changed files in a PR Configure CircleCI so you can run phpcs on only changed files for a pull request.
go Testing and mocking - what clicked for me Rundown on how to transform untestable code to testable, mockable code in Go using interfaces and mocking
health Recap for 2018 My recap of 2018, and what I expect to happen in 2019. Long story short, got my British Citizenship, had some health issues. Read to find out more.
