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 convert some of our old C++ code to Go and remove a Windows dependency, but after talking with one of my coworkers, we decided to instead create a DNN service for executing a Caffe2 model in Go. We had a third volunteer join us and we set out to achieve our goal.

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 I really like it. It seems to be an integral part of the Go ecosystem and open source software at large. I actually like Microsoft, but I’m not happy about this turn of events. The design and user experience currently present in GitHub are in line with what I want from my version control hoster.

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 on what the project had to be or what technologies it needed to use, so I decided to go solo and recreate Conway’s Game of Life in Go. I’ve been fascinated with the Game of Life ever since I first heard of it several years back.

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 was to use Amazon AWS for hosting, as it is fairly cheap and dependable. It took some fiddling to get Ghost running and I thought I would share what I did in the hope that it would aid someone else. Please note, these instructions assume the person following them already has an AWS account set up and ready to go.

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. Was it a near miss asteroid? A missile test? Rocket launch? Aliens?! My sister took a short video (I apologize for the portrait mode): There was a pulsing light behind the leading object that eventually fell towards the ground and turned bright red before disappearing.

Back in July of 2017, I attended GopherCon. GopherCon is a conference for Gophers, or rather, people who enjoy programming in Go (or Golang). My company switched me over to Go from C# in January of the same year. Turns out, Go is a nifty little language and I quite enjoy it. So, I found myself at GopherCon and I had a blast. I learned some cool stuff, had fun in Denver, and even turned myself into a Gopher using gopherize.