When talking about static type systems, we often tend to focus on one side of the equation. I'm trying to make explicit how I view the question as a tradeoff and why I neither agree with “more is always better”, nor with “a little is enough”.

Some marbles, apparently, have a gender. And they seem to be overwhelmingly male.

In light of recent discussions about its removal, I try to discuss what kinds of problems context.Value tries to solve. I then try to describe a design which would address most (but not all) of the criticism surrounding it.

Logging in Go is a notoriously lacking topic in the standard library. There are 3rd-party libraries trying to work around this. I'm trying to explain, why I find them still lacking

I take a look at the pattern of optional interfaces in Go: what they are used for, why they are bad and what we can do about it.

Using math, I made it a lot easier to find the last undiscovered parts of my Zelda - Breath Of The Wild map.

Trying to provide some advice on how to do easy, readable, scalable routing in go, without relying on any muxers/routers (or writing your own).

I've been diagnosed with ADHD. I ramble incoherently for a while and I might do some less rambling posts about it in the future.

There are next to no "backwards compatible API changes" in go. You should explicitely name your compatibility-guarantees.

I did lazy evaluation in go.

It is surprisingly hard to make SQL-based authentication immune to timing side-channels, if you want to prevent enumeration of users.

A short list of four things that I might want to add to go (but probably wouldn't).

A mildly interesting algorithmic problem and my solution to it.

We made a gamejam-game.

An unexpected behavior of python that surprised me today.

Updating my TLS-certificates due to Heartbleed.

A small pattern to add stacktraces to errors.

I sign my blog posts.

I hate software-engineering as it is teached in Heidelberg. Really.

ext4 has a feature called dir_index enabled by default, which is quite susceptible to hash-collisions

Put a terminal with a vim-instance in an i3-scratchpad, combine it with autosave-when-idle and you got the perfect note keeping workflow."

I wrote a simple Tic Tac Toe AI as an exercise. You can get it on github.

Using gdb to manipulate a running process is fun and just the right amount of danger to be exiting

We had a codegolf challenge recently. My C-solution was 246 byte, the perl-winner was 191. I decided to give notes for C-golf beginners.

I put up a small script to automate creating blog-posts in jekyll

I gave a very introductory programming course and saw once again how the basic ideas underlying the modernization of teaching just work when implemented right.

The (n+1)th launch of my blog