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Does the future web need trademarks?
This thought crossed my mind while reading a story about a founder who lost their Twitter handle to a competitor and essentially had no recourse…
Finding the dominant colour in logo images: the why and the how
Figure out the accent colour so your customer doesn't need to worry about it! We can use simple math and some Go code to analyse an image that contains…
Moving from Ghost to Substack
On the phenomenon of caring less and less about walled gardens.
Details that matter: Direct file download errors
How to properl handle 500 internal server errors for file downloads. A well-designed unhappy path can make all the difference.
Wrapping errors in Go: A new approach
I've changed all error wrapping in two production codebases from this: if err != nil { return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to do a thing") } And this: if…
Structured errors in Go
This post documents a catalogue of experiments on the topic of error management in medium-sized Go programs, specifically HTTP APIs, with certain end…
The Stockholm Syndrome of SQL: Why Relational Databases Need a Diverse Competitive Ecosystem of Query Interfaces
This is part 1 of a series analysing the relational database landscape and criticising the design of Structured Query Language. This article Our…
Mauve fast and break things
Mauve fast and break things
Technology, creativity, culture and how they facilitate each other.
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