My Irish proposal

We celebrated our love in a magical place...

An English Literary Interpretation of Pablo Neruda

I take a crack at interpreting/translating a Spanish poem in English...

I turned a lunchbox into a nightstand light controller

Making a smart button box...

Paroxetine Withdrawals

My second time experiencing SSRI withdrawal symptoms...

I tried Cupping

Alternative medicine that makes you look like an “Alien” extra...

"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy

A few thoughts about “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy...

Spotify Stats NextJS app

I haven’t posted here in a while, so I thought, what better way to start back up then to post something I did over a year ago...

Setting up Go's pgx package with docker-compose

Go’s pgx package goes above being a postgres driver and actually implements its own interface that boasts better performance than the standard database/sql package. That, along with it being a well-maintained and actively developed project, make it an attractive option for using postgres in your next Go project. This guide will hopefully help you get up and running with pgx and docker-compose. 1. Go Project Create a new Go project according to pgx’s Getting Started guide ....

Thorough API Documentation and Client Code Generation

Thoroughly document your API. Please. That is all. Thorough API documentation allows consumers of your API to more easily generate clients for, and test against, your service. REST API Client generation Recently, while working on a Go project at work, I needed a REST API client for an external API. Having written a couple of API clients in the past, I wasn’t necessarily looking forward to the repetitiveness that came with implementing endpoint after endpoint after endpoint after… so I took some time to looking for anything that would get me off the hook....

Reflection over ‘To Pimp a Butterfly`

Five years later, I look back at an album that offers commentary on the past and present social climate in America...

The 11th Floor Kegerator

In the year 2017, a team was formed at a company hackathon in downtown Austin, Texas. A team with a dream of beer and technology mingling and interweaving in a way never seen before. This dream manifested itself into an award-winning kegerator. This kegerator could tell you how many pints you’ve had, how much beer was left in the keg, light up with pretty lights, and probably even tell you the time....