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In my previous post I explained the basic steps of building a CI pipeline for a Go library with Dagger. Let’s move onto the next level: Go CLI applications.

I’ve been playing with Dagger for months now using it in various projects. In this post, I’ll share my experience with using Dagger to build CI pipelines for Go libraries.

I’m a huge fan of Developer Experience and I continuously chase The Perfect Development Environment every day. Not just for my sake, but to make the development process as painless as possible for my peers. But after pursuing the dream environment for years, I had to realize it’s a moving target: technology evolves every day and development processes have to evolve as well.

Recently, I bought a HiFiBerry DAC2 HD and a compatible steel case.

Although the assembly guide for the case is quite decent, I made a couple of changes and I thought I’d share my version.

A frequently requested feature for Viper is adding more value formats and decoders. For example, parsing character (dot, comma, semicolon, etc) separated strings into slices. What most people don’t know is that Viper can already be extended with custom decoders without adding any more code to the core.

Make and I were good friends for years, building software together, and while I value our friendship a lot, it’s time we move on.

Functional options is a paradigm in Go for clean and extensible APIs popularized by Dave Cheney and Rob Pike. This post is about the practices that appeared around the pattern since it was first introduced.

Go kit is often accused of being too complicated, at least compared to other libraries used for building applications. This post ought to explain the differences between them and demonstrate the thought process of building an application with Go kit.

Recently I migrated one of my libraries (Emperror) to a vanity import path. Although the migration itself was easy (took less than one day), making the decision, thinking it through from every angle to make sure existing applications don’t break, wasn’t. I did a lot of research to find the right migration path, URL, tooling and I decided to share my experience in this post.

In the last couple years RPC started to become popular again as a communication mechanism for web-based APIs. It’s not a new concept at all, but it changed a lot over the years: the technology evolved, new IDLs and frameworks (like protobuf and gRPC) appeared. TwirPHP tries to bring this new tech to PHP by porting Twirp, Twitch’s “simple RPC framework built on protobuf”.