programming

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.

A small pattern to add stacktraces to errors.

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

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.