Krzysztof Kowalczyk – Programming Blog

I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in under a second.
It might surprise you that I spent more time on things that are not related to core functionality. Let's call it a tax of shipping desktop software....

I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go.
The code in question is a Java client for RavenDB, a NoSQL JSON document database. Code with tests was around 50 thousand lines.
The result of the port is a Go client.

This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and trade offs abound.
I wanted to log events to a file. I had several requirements for my design:
it should be simple and therefore easy to implement

Why Oembed Proxy for GitHub
I'm writing a programming book Essential Go in Notion and I need to include code snippets.
Notion has support for code blocks but it's not good enough for my use case. I want to make sure the code compiles so all code lives in files in GitHub repository and my custom book building script compiles and runs the code to ensure it works....