Steve Layton

Steve Layton @shindakun

About: I've been known to write some code from time to time.

Location:
Portland, OR
Joined:
Oct 6, 2017

Steve Layton
articles - 55 total

Attempting to Learn Go - Ghost to Hugo 4

Intro Here we are once again! If you missed the last couple of posts I suggest reading...

Learn More 5 1Oct 1 '22

Attempting to Learn Go - Ghost to Hugo 3

Intro We’re back once again to continue our work on the ghost2hugo prototype. So far we...

Learn More 0 0Sep 28 '22

Attempting to Learn Go - Ghost to Hugo 2

Intro Welcome back! We are continuing on our journey to make a prototype program that...

Learn More 7 0Sep 23 '22

Attempting to Learn Go - Ghost to Hugo 1

Intro You probably don’t know this but shindakun.net has been effectively offline now for...

Learn More 9 0Sep 19 '22

Adding gcc to git bash

So today I was working on my “main” computer which didn’t have much set up on it. Basically only git...

Learn More 5 0Sep 7 '22

Polywork Poster in Go

A couple of days ago I finally got access to Polywork. Which, for those who don't know, is like a n...

Learn More 5 1May 12 '21

Golang Data Connector Part 2

Intro Last time we started our small data collector. The idea is we want to move data fr...

Learn More 6 0May 2 '21

Golang Data Connector Part 1

Intro There are a handful of tools out there like Zapier (which just hit a $5 billion va...

Learn More 10 0Apr 17 '21

Webmentions are Great (Mostly)

Oh No Why are there two author icons?! We’ll get back to that in a moment. We...

Learn More 5 0Dec 28 '19

Adding an Image Lightbox To micro.blog

Background A day or so ago someone posted in one of the micro.blog slack channels asking h...

Learn More 6 0Dec 7 '19

Attempting to Learn Go - Issuer 04 - Addendum

Whoops Our last Issuer post left out one small bit of code. Let’s fix that and wrap this u...

Learn More 6 0Jul 13 '19

Attempting to Learn Go - Issuer 03 - Cloud Function Go!

Functioning In The Cloud Welcome back! We are just done with our GitHub TODO issue creator...

Learn More 10 0Jun 23 '19

Attempting to Learn Go - Issuer 02

GitHub Issuer Welcome back! Though if you haven’t read the first part, you may want to. We...

Learn More 5 2Jun 15 '19

Roguelikedev Does The Complete Roguelike Tutorial 2019

Starting June 18th, the roguelike development community on Reddit will be going through the roguelike python tutorial! All are welcome to join in!

Learn More 19 0Jun 12 '19

Attempting to Learn Go - Issuer 01

GitHub Issuer If you didn’t happen to read the last post I’ll give you...

Learn More 12 0Jun 8 '19

Working On A New Flow

It's repo madness as I try to create my own GitHub based TODO system. Am I crazy? Maybe. But let's see what we can get done!

Learn More 37 3Jun 4 '19

Launching a New Site, Should I Bother With Google Analytics?

Getting ready to launch a new site. Is it time to leave GA in the dust?

Learn More 7 2Jun 3 '19

Confession Time

This week we're pulling back the curtain again - will there be a twist ending? Or a fake developer?

Learn More 55 25May 25 '19

Going to the Stars With SDL2 and Go

Take to the stars

Learn More 17 0May 12 '19

Current Status 01

Sick. Digging into the source code of NetHack.

Learn More 4 0May 5 '19

A Stab At Roguish Go Part 04

This week we actually add our basic 'creature' code.

Learn More 12 0Apr 28 '19

16 Weeks Later

...with however many there are to go.

Learn More 12 0Apr 21 '19

A Stab At Roguish Go Part 03

Let's go back into the dungeons with Go!

Learn More 13 0Apr 14 '19

A Stab At Roguish Go Part 02

Let's go back into the dungeons with Go!

Learn More 19 0Apr 6 '19

A Stab At Roguish Go Part 01

With Nethack and ADOM on the brain we trip into the dungeons.

Learn More 22 3Mar 30 '19

Interacting with the Dev.to Article API - A Simple Retry System

Let's hack in a simple system to retry grabbing articles.

Learn More 21 0Mar 23 '19

Interacting with the Dev.to Article API - Again Sort Of

A couple of small tweaks on our previous Dev.to API code.

Learn More 5 0Mar 16 '19

Interacting with the Dev.to Article API

Let's take a journey into pulling articles from the Dev.to article API.

Learn More 24 8Mar 9 '19

Attempting to Learn Go - Sorting and Moving Files by Extension

This time we modify our previous code to be able to sort our files into a nice directory structure.

Learn More 13 3Mar 2 '19

Attempting to Learn Go - Listing Files By Extension

This week we create a little `ls` like utility to list files grouped by extension

Learn More 14 11Feb 23 '19