The honeymoon period is over and quite frankly, I’m done with Linux Snaps.
I’ve been an intrigued fan of Snaps for about 4 years and have been a Snap developer for about 3. It’s on the development side where love has been lost. Here’s why.
continue reading →Hey everyone! It’s been a little while since I’ve blogged. Recently I got an email from Google Analytics telling me that The Reserve Force (TRF) reached its first little milestone. It also reminded me that just a couple of months ago TRF hit its first birthday!
continue reading →I decided to make an Ubuntu version of the CircleCI winter wallpaper I published earlier today. You’ll find the preview in this post but you can download the full resolution 4K/16:9 version (for normal screens) and a nearly-4K/16:10 version (for Macbook-like screens) from the links below.
continue reading →In continuing with my series of CircleCI desktop wallpapers, here’s another one. People seemed to like the Halloween wallpaper so I decided to make another season themed one, “Northern Winter”.
You’ll find the preview in this post but you can download the full resolution 4K/16:9 version (for normal screens) and a nearly-4K/16:10 version (for Macbook-like screens) from the links below.
continue reading →One of my favorite things about coding is thinking you’re going to have to write some complex code to solve a very specific problem and then discovering an open source library that does that exact thing for you. How great is that!? The thing is, not all open source projects compare the same when it comes to reliability and future proofing. Here’s my quick rundown of what I look for in a Go (golang) open source library before I choose to import it into my code.
continue reading →I have tons of snaps installed on my Ubuntu desktop machine (36 to be exact). A couple of months ago I noticed that they stopped working correctly. It was strange because some things would work, like working with files on the filesystem, but anything involving Internet connectivity was failing. It turns out installing the Tailscale VPN broke Internet connectivity for my snaps. Here’s a quick fix.
continue reading →What’s awesome about Go (golang) is that pretty much everything you need is built into the toolchain.
Running your tests is a simple matter of go test ./....
Creating basic services such as building a web server is included in the standard library.
While the standard library is great, there’s modules out there that provide enhanced features.
GoTestSum does this for go test.
It’s a simple enhancement that provides a great deal of value.
Let’s check it out.