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Detecting Closed Connections in Golang HTTP Handlers
In Go we write handler functions to gather and send out the data we want in the response to an HTTP request. In that handler function, we get a ResponseWriter and we write to it. When we’re done, we return from the function...
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A Better Way to do Standups
Most teams that do a version of SCRUM have a similar format for the Daily Standup Meeting. They last fifteen minutes and each team member takes a turn in explaining what he/she did yesterday and what is in store for the current day...
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Address Book in Aerc With Khard
In line with the Unix philosophy, Aerc does not implement any feature to store mail addresses of contacts. Instead it has an option to retrieve them from an external address book. I already synced my contacts together with my calendar items through Vdirsyncer and Radicale, but this was more for backup purposes...
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Aerc Navigation Shortcuts
As to be expected from such an advanced and versatile terminal program, Aerc comes with a large set of key bindings that can be customized. There is even a separate configuration file for it: ~/.config/aerc/binds.conf...
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Conversions with Iota in Go
iota is a helpful way to enumerate constants in Go: const ( c0 = iota c1 c2 ) func main() { fmt.Println(c0, c1, c2) // "0 1 2" } But it is more flexible than just defining a constant to be an integer...
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Wait_for Script
Docker-compose has the option of making a container depend on another container, so it will not start the former before the latter is running. This is useful for containers with applications that need other infrastructure, for instance a database, present...
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LDAP Basics
Recently I needed to prepare a Go application to accept LDAP as a form of authentication. Knowing absolutely nothing about LDAP, I researched the topic a bit first and I thought it would be helpful to summarize my findings so far...
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Basic Pomodoro Timer in Bash With Termdown and Wmctrl
Like many other systems that aim to add some structure in the chaos of todo-items that we all struggle with, the Pomodoro Technique has some good parts and ideas, but one must be careful not to drive it to far...
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Hugo Markdownify Block Workaround
Like other static site generators, Hugo has an option to pass markdown content though a markdown processor to interpret it and convert it to HTML. Also, like other generators, this has the incredibly confusing name markdownify, as the end result would be something that is converted into markdown, rather than markdown that gets interpreted into something else...
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Quick Go Test Cycle With Reflex
While you are working on some piece of code, it is nice to have some feedback about whether you broke or fixed something by running the relevant unit tests. To automate this I usually have a terminal window open with the following command:..