Blog

Some of my thoughts on software engineering, building, and tech.

• Understanding Distributed Systems – Book Review

  August 21, 2022

  I recently finished reading Understanding Distributed Systems by Roberto Vitillo. I was quite impressed by the quality of the book. It is one of the best computer science books I’ve read so far. A ...

• Lessons learnt from publishing my programming course

  February 4, 2022

  I’ve been working on my course – Learn Programming with Go, One Game at a Time, for nearly a year & made many mistakes along the way.

• Learn Programming with Go, One Game at a Time

  January 8, 2022

  For nearly a year now, I’ve been building my first online programming course – it’s about learning to program with the Go (Golang) programming language. 👨‍💻

• Thread-Safety in Go – an Overlooked Concern

  December 28, 2020

  When you first start tinkering with concurrency in any language, what’s the most sought after goal is extracting the maximum output from the hardware you have available.

• Your Programming New Year’s Resolution

  December 25, 2020

  So it’s that time of the year when you make your new year’s resolution. As developers, that might revolve around filling some gaps in our understanding of systems we use or perhaps learning a new p...

• My thoughts on Java Concurrency in Practice

  October 5, 2020

  One of my key goals this year was to gain a good understanding of concurrency and multithreading. I’ve always had a tangent understanding of it at best. The book Java Concurrency in Practice was on...

• Eliminate the undocumented TODOs with todocheck

  July 18, 2020

  Yesterday, I released todocheck – a new kind of static code analyser for annotated TODOs.

• Managing Shared Components in Go Microservices with Fx

  April 11, 2020

  This article is part of the series Dependency Injection in Go using Fx

• Dependency Injection in Go using Fx

  April 4, 2020

  This article is part of the series Dependency Injection in Go using Fx

• How to study effectively as a full-time developer

  February 1, 2020

  So you’ve graduated from university/bootcamp and you’ve landed your first job as a professional programmer. Congratulations, this is a huge milestone as it cost you years of perseverance to thoroug...