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Using Go Modules

Go Modules is the official dependency management solution for the Go programming language. Recently, I finally converted over my personal projects. I had been putting it off for some time, since I was

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Golang

Hackathon: Training a Blackjack AI

When I attended AWS re:Invent at the end of 2019, I attended a workshop for using machine learning via Amazon SageMaker to teach an AI how to play blackjack. Seeing as re:

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AWS

AWS re:Invent 2019

Another late post, but that's just how it goes. I attended AWS re:Invent with some collegues back in December of 2019 in Las Vegas. The conference spans multiple hotels on the main

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Golang

Hackathon: Using Go on an Arduino

This is waaaay overdue, but we had another hackathon at work back in September of last year and even though I'm waaaay behind on blog posts, I wanted to make sure I did

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Golang

Graceful Shutdown of a Go Service

I recently spent some time figuring out how to gracefully shut down a Go service. The goal was to allow in-flight transactions to complete successfully before shutting down, but return Unavailable for any

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Golang

Gophercon 2019

Another year and another Gophercon, this time in sunny San Diego! As usual, there were a lot of high quality talks across a breadth of subjects. I highly recommend browsing through the Gophercon

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GameDev

Tiled in Unity using SuperTiled2Unity

My brother and I are in the early stages of development and design for a game we are making together. He's the genius artist and I'm the programmer guy. Everything in-between we share,

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Python

Hackathon: Generating Fake Test Data with Python

We had yet another hackathon at work. This time around, I wanted to do something with Python. Since we have a gap in test data at work, I decided to create a script

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Golang

Hackathon: Tello Drone, Go, and Lua

When the theme for our latest company hackathon was revealed to be "Need for Speed", I went straight to Best Buy after work and picked up a DJI Tello drone. I

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Golang

Multi-platform Makefile for Go

Something that Go does very well is multi-platform support. You can build a binary for just about any system without much hassle. On a single build machine, you can build binaries for Windows,

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Golang

Worker Pool to Limit Concurrent Goroutines

Recently, I had the need to process a near infinite number of messages asynchronously. You can't just throw all the messages into separate goroutines when there are that many of them and more

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Golang

Gophercon 2018

I had the privilege again this year to fly out to Denver and attend Gophercon, the premier gathering of "gophers" (people who program in Go). It's a lot of fun and

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Python

Hackathon: DNN Service

A couple weeks ago, we had another hackathon at work. This time, I wanted to create something useful that could potentially be adapted by one of our teams. My initial thought was to

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Programming

Microsoft Acquires GitHub

Earlier today, Microsoft announced they are acquiring GitHub, the popular git hosting solution that everyone uses. At least, it feels like everyone uses it. Here's the announcement from GitHub. I use GitHub and

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Golang

Hackathon: Conway's Game of Life

Recently, I had the pleasure of participating in an internal hackathon at work. They gave us two days to create whatever we wanted with whatever group of coworkers. There were no specific guidelines

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AWS

Setting up a Ghost blog on Amazon AWS

If it wasn't immediately evident, I created this blog fairly recently. After much deliberation and research, I chose Ghost as my blogging platform. I like its simplicity and focus on content. My desire

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Technology

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...SpaceX?

Last Friday, I was on my way home from a road trip with my sister when we saw something extraordinary in the night sky. We had no idea what it was at first.

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Programming

The Beginning of the Blog

Back in July of 2017, I attended Gophercon. Gophercon is a con for Gophers, or rather, people who enjoy programming in Go (or Golang). My company switched me over to Go from C#

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