Found a nice tmux theme and programming font combination. The Theme Using Catppuccin theme for tmux: catppuccin/tmux Clean pastel colors, easy on the eyes. Setup Add to .tmux.conf: # Using ...

Discovered Atlas today. It’s a database schema management tool that actually makes sense. What It Does Instead of writing manual migration files, you declare your desired schema and Atlas figur...

Grafana was feeling sluggish. Enabled SQLite WAL mode and noticed immediate improvement. The Change In Grafana config, enable WAL (Write-Ahead Logging) for SQLite: [database] wal = true Rest...

Hit a concurrency bug with gRPC streams. Turns out they’re not thread-safe for concurrent writes. The Issue Was trying to write to a gRPC stream from multiple goroutines. Got strange errors and...

Discovered dumb-init for handling process signals properly in Docker containers. The Problem Docker containers often run a single process as PID 1. But PID 1 has special responsibilities in Uni...

Was researching Go project layouts. Found an interesting debate about golang-standards/project-layout. The Repository golang-standards/project-layout is a popular repo showing a “standard” Go p...

Hit an issue creating multiple Chrome browser instances with chromedp in Go. Same user data directory was the problem. The Problem Tried to create multiple browser instances: ctx1, cancel1 := ...

Found Swagger Editor useful for quickly visualizing and testing API specs. What It Does Swagger Editor converts OpenAPI YAML definitions into interactive API documentation. Write your API spec...

Finally learned tmux properly. Game changer for remote work and managing multiple terminal sessions. Why Tmux? Main benefit: Detach from sessions without killing processes. # SSH into server s...

Needed to disable my laptop’s built-in keyboard when using an external one. Found a simple xinput solution. The Problem Using external keyboard but laptop keys still register. Accidental keypre...