Stephen Solka articles - 9 total
Astro Command unlocks the world
Introduction This weekend I built a new Astro component that lets callers use external...
Reddit RSS
A tiny project I have been maintaining since April 2020 is an alternative rss feed for Reddit called...
📰 Bypass paywalls; read your news on the terminal
Last night I built a new go tool to let me read websites on the command line. Readcli readcli http...
Embrace the Pipe
The unix pipe operator is magical. As long as you write your application to read input from standard...
Mocking http clients in Go
If you ever find yourself needing intercept a http client in go, httptest provides a facility to do j...
Testable go with function types
A helpful pattern I've picked up writing test cases for go code is called Ports and Adapters. Skippin...
Go errors.is cool
In 1.13 go introduced a new function on the errors package. Is. This lets you ask if the error you ar...
Managing up through calendar stalking
Working at start-ups can be a pretty crazy experience. When everyone is running hard, one of the firs...
How to ship more points
A lot can impact your velocity number. The kinds of tickets you have been taking, your mood, how you...